The market has not changed materially over the past many weeks/months and, as long as the market has not changed, expectations that the price of gold and silver should not change, either. Expectations are future hopes/plans that may or may not ever be realized. Present market conditions are the reality of what is, without getting into the mental gymnastics about the degree of reality reflected in the charts. Market activity trumps everything, and one works with that reality or risks substantial loss by favoring opinion/hopes/expectations. Below is what the charts are saying today.
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U.S. Dollar Collapse Will Be Cataclysmic Endgame of Current Fiscal Policy (+3K Views)
Government fiscal policy - profligate spending, leading to debt crisis, leading to currency crisis, leading to…the fall of the U.S. dollar – is the major cataclysmic endgame that is going to befall the U.S.
Read More »The Average Home “Owner” Is Totally Out of Touch With Reality! Here’s Why (+2K Views)
A recent Gallup survey on expected future returns of asset prices shows that most Americans still think that owning a home is the best way to generate a high return in the future. Nothing could be further from the truth! It just shows how totally out of touch with reality the average American is.
Read More »Which of These 6 Actions Will U.S. Gov’t Take to Resolve Country’s Debt Problems?
The U.S. is in a financial debt spiral. What's the Administration to do? This article analyzes 6 alternative courses of action available, presents the consensus view of each, comes to a conclusion as to what will unfold and suggests what the implications are for one's investment portfolio. Let's take a look.
Read More »$17+ Trillion U.S. National Debt Adversely Affects Every American – Here’s Why & How
For the first time in U.S. history, the national debt has risen past $17 trillion. That number is a bit hard to comprehend and means little to Americans when not applied to their everyday lives. So just how does the national debt affect consumers, and why should the average American care about how much this country owes? Here's why and how.
Read More »Noonan: “Gold” War Has Replaced Cold War in China/Russia vs. U.S. Struggle for Economic Dominance (+2K Views)
With the Western central bankers conducting a clearance sale, and depleting their physical holdings in the process, China and Russia are importing gold at cheaper and cheaper price levels. In the war for gold, the East and West are still winning, but for vastly different reasons. Let me explain.
Read More »Media Ignoring Proposed “Inform Act” – Here Are the Implications
It now seems like the U.S. might be getting closer to acknowledging that it has a serious fiscal problem; or at least this is what one might infer from the strong support from Congressmen and Senators from both sides of the aisle, thousands of business leaders and economists from all stripes, as well as from fifteen Nobel Laureates in Economics, for a new bill called the Intergenerational Financial Obligations Reform Act or “Inform Act” - in spite of the fact that the proposal is being totally ignored by the mainstream media and, as evidenced by the case of Detroit, the longer we wait, the worse it gets.
Read More »S&P 500 & Dow 30 Index Performances: Illusion vs.Reality
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a fabricated number that has little relation to the actual average performance of the stock market as a whole. For sure, it is not industrial in nature, and by no means is it an average. It's like creating an all-star team of the very best-performing companies and broadcasting to the world that this is the average of all companies out there.
Read More »These U.S. Gov’t Policies Ensure That An Economic Recovery Is Close to Impossible (+2K Views)
Despite all you hear coming from the government’s media megaphone, there is no economic recovery underway, nor can there be one. The policies in place ensure that one will not happen.
Read More »Why All the Hullabaloo About U.S. Debt?
Is the debt issue phony? It sure sounds like a lot, doesn't it? $17 trillion in federal government debt. Wow. It's a big, scary number, no doubt about it, ...and it's a lot bigger than in years past, but is it really that bad? Could it be that our debt profile has been grossly exaggerated? I think so. Let me explain why I think that is the case.
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