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Recession ante Portas: Which Assets Perform Well in Recessions?
It is considered the most anticipated recession of all time – the one looming in the US. And although countless indicators ranging from the yield curve, the Leading Economic Index (LEI) and PMIs to pr...
Ronnie Stoeferle / July 4, 2023
Read MoreMAJOR REVALUATION OF GOLD & PRECIOUS METALS IS IMMINENT
The time has now come for the 99.5% of financial assets which are not invested in gold silver or precious metals mining stocks to grab both the investment and wealth preservation opportunity of a life...
Egon von Greyerz / July 2, 2023
Read MoreModern Currency Policy: Nations Compete, Citizens Suffer
Below we consider how modern currency policy may not be so good for, well, the people... This is why gold inevitably enters the conversation, for unlike policy makers, this old pet rock garners more...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 25, 2023
Read MoreSolid Gold In a Broken World
Below, we look at gold in a broke(n) world of hubris, debt, Realpolitik and a rising east. For well over a year, we’ve openly declared that the Fed is cornered. That is, Powell knows he needs higher...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 18, 2023
Read MoreStories for Children: The US Economic Fairytale
When Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and took a big fall, “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not put Humpty-Dumpty together again.” I see a similar fate for the US debt egg, whose cr...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 11, 2023
Read MoreFront-Running the Fed: How Gold & Chess-Players Beat a Rigged Market
We have hardly been the first nor the last to realize that rising rates “break things.” We’ve all seen the disastrous credit events in the repo crisis of late 2019, the UST debacle in March of 2020,...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 4, 2023
Read MoreFacts vs. Fed-Speak: A Comical History with Tragic Consequences
Below, we look at simple facts in the context of complex markets to underscore the dangerous direction of Fed-Speak and Fed policy. Keep It Simple, Stupid. The simple facts are clear to almost anyon...
Matthew Piepenburg / May 28, 2023
Read MoreDollar Woes to Debt Denial: The USA Is Screwed
Below, we see why the USA is screwed. De-Dollarization: Downplaying the Obvious De-Dollarization is a real, all too real trend, though it is both fascinating and disturbing to see what is otherwise...
Matthew Piepenburg / May 21, 2023
Read MoreA DISORDERLY RESET WITH GOLD REVALUED BY MULTIPLES
Tectonic shifts lie ahead. These will involve a US and European debt crisis ending in a debt collapse, a precipitous fall of the dollar and the Euro with Gold emerging as a reserve asset but at multip...
Egon von Greyerz / May 15, 2023
Read MoreGold, Oil & Global Currencies Entering a Watershed Moment
Below we look at the math, history and current oil environment in the backdrop of a global debt crisis to better predict currency and gold market direction without the need of tarot cards.
Matthew Piepenburg / May 4, 2023
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