While the economy is a vastly complex and difficult thing to grasp, you can simplify the many moving parts by boiling it down to three basic elements, or touch points, which give you a brief understanding of the health and general direction of where and how things are going.

Below is a huge list of correlations I have discovered over the years with hyperlinks to articles that analyzed each. If I only had some software to get automatic updates of these charts.

The difference between 1) investing and speculating, and 2) understanding risk tolerance are two primary points for any investor seeking to make sound decisions with their money to understand.

While this year has been especially lackluster for gold with its price slumping 8% YTD and down 35% from its high.in 2011 this out-of-favor asset class now deserves a place in investment portfolios. Here's why.

Most people today know at least some things about cryptocurrencies and understand that there is a huge earning potential associated with them. The truth is that we might very well be looking at the future of money. Since the potential is so high, buying cryptocurrency does seem to be a very lucrative long-term investment but there are many things that should be known about this before a purchase is made. If you are a beginner crypto investor and you want to buy, here are some things you absolutely have to do.

There must be a death cross at some point before every bear market, but it’s such an erratic signal that one could get 10 false signals before a meaningful one arrives. If something only works 1 out of 10 times is it really worth monitoring?

People should be careful when applying the word “fiat” to currency/money. The word is routinely used to mean irredeemable or non-physical, but that’s not what it actually means.

If you were given $10,000 tax-free and had the ability to invest all of it in one of the following options, which would you choose?

Recent comments by the following analysts reflect the current uncertainty of the gold & silver markets.

Cryptocurrencies are the biggest Ponzi scheme in modern history. It is very similar to chain letters or pyramid schemes. The issuers make tons of money as well as many of the speculators who get in early. In the end, the whole thing will collapse and late entrants will lose everything.