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November 2, 2023
By Michael Matulef The threat of hyperinflation has haunted fiat money economies throughout […]
October 31, 2023
By Frank Giustra The mining industry has had its share of abuse over the […]
October 28, 2023
2023.10.28 It must suck to be a bond investor these days. Bond markets […]
October 26, 2023
By Patrick Barron Your ability to hold real cash, not just bank balances […]
October 21, 2023
By Wolf Richter Our recession-watch here started shortly after the Fed kicked off […]
October 12, 2023
By The Economist The bond market is sending a hopeful message about the strength […]
October 12, 2023
By Quoth the Raven There has never been a point in history like […]
October 12, 2023
By Dorothy Neufeld What is the risk of investing in another country? Given […]
October 11, 2023
By Dow Jones A major Wall Street bank is warning about the risk that […]
October 11, 2023
By Daniel Lacalle The Biden administration has signed a stopgap bill to prevent […]
October 10, 2023
By Felix Richter Despite inflation coming down notably from its 2022 highs in recent […]
October 5, 2023
By the Economist It is a brave investor who calls the end of a […]
October 3, 2023
By The Economist For a while, after the end of the cold war, it […]
September 30, 2023
By CARLA NORRLÖF Measuring dollar dominance requires a closer look at the many […]
September 30, 2023
By Ancient Origins In the 1600s, before Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, Europe experienced a […]
September 27, 2023
By Quoth the Raven “Probably the first bond market to crack up will […]
September 16, 2023
By Peter Schiff Most people think everything is fine. The Fed is getting […]
September 15, 2023
By Katharina Buchholz The de-dollarization of the world economy has been thrust back into […]
September 15, 2023
Russia and the Saudis are driving up oil and diesel prices. But these […]
September 14, 2023
By Rich Miller US policymakers led by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have been […]
September 13, 2023
2023.09.13 It was exactly six months ago when the US regional banking crisis […]
September 13, 2023
By Winifred Amase According to the World Bank, global seaport trade traffic reached […]
September 12, 2023
By Barry Eichengreen Whether the dollar retains its global role will depend not […]
September 8, 2023
2023.09.08 A while ago, we insinuated that the Federal Reserve may just be […]
September 8, 2023
By Goehring & Rozencwajg Commodities and related natural resource markets were broadly weak […]
September 6, 2023
2023.07.28 For over a year now, the financial talking heads have been discussing […]
September 6, 2023
2023.09.06 Mining — like any other sector — has experienced its fair share […]
September 5, 2023
By Felix Richter Some of the world’s leading car makers are among the exhibitors […]
September 5, 2023
By Quoth the Raven Yet while mildly “bad news” may be “good news” (or may not be, as stocks […]
September 4, 2023
2023.09.04 Scandals involving industrial metals are becoming a common occurrence, and it appears […]
September 1, 2023
By Goehring & Rozencwajg Gold is no different than any other asset class: […]
August 31, 2023
By Felix Richter The number of job openings in the United States continued […]
August 30, 2023
2023.08.30 The US officially has a debt problem, in the present and in […]
August 28, 2023
By Daniel Lacalle The summit of the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and […]
August 27, 2023
By JIM O’NEILL Now that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South […]
August 27, 2023
By Doug Casey International Man: Since 2020, coups have replaced pro-Western governments in Guinea, […]
August 26, 2023
By Alexander William Salter “Predictions are hard, especially about the future,” the old […]
August 25, 2023
By Schiffgold The national debt has climbed to a staggering $32.7 trillion. In […]
August 23, 2023
By Felix Richter Over the past two decades, the world has witnessed a profound […]
August 17, 2023
2023.08.17 Inequality is one of the most volatile aspects of contemporary society, and […]
August 16, 2023
2023.08.16 Faced with the grim prospect of falling short of our climate targets, […]
August 11, 2023
2023.08.11 The markets for two of agriculture’s staple crops, rice and wheat, are […]
August 10, 2023
2023.08.10 Global warming has raised the economic status and political importance of critical […]
August 10, 2023
By The Economist Latin America is no stranger to supplying the world with […]
August 9, 2023
By David McKay A DECLINE in the copper price since the beginning of the year […]
August 8, 2023
By Niccolo Conte The push towards a more sustainable future requires various key […]
August 6, 2023
By Dorothy Neufeld Total global debt stands at nearly $305 trillion as of the first […]
August 5, 2023
By Goehring & Rozencwajg Are we in a commodity supercycle? In this episode, Adam […]
August 2, 2023
By Dorothy Neufeld Total global debt stands at nearly $305 trillion as of the first […]
July 27, 2023
2023.07.27 By now, we’ve probably surrendered to the fact that food prices will […]
July 24, 2023
By Goehring & Rozencwajg Incredibly, by 2016 commodity prices had sold off to […]
July 20, 2023
2023.07.20 On July 9 the US dollar index (DXY) slipped under 100 for […]
July 20, 2023
By Egon von Greyerz In spite of unprecedented risks in investment markets, for the […]
July 16, 2023
By QUOTH THE RAVEN No better, more reliable forecaster of the US business […]
July 13, 2023
By SCHIFFGOLD One of the singularities of the present time is the American position […]
July 9, 2023
2023.07.09 We are moving into a multipolar reserve-currency world where the dollar will […]
June 18, 2023
Warming temperatures and thawing sea ice could soon allow for the expansion of […]
May 29, 2023
2023.05.29 “How did you go bankrupt?”“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, […]
May 25, 2023
By Goehring & Rozencwajg What are the impacts of rising interest rates on […]
May 25, 2023
By Naomi Rovnick and Libby George Rivalry with China, fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine and […]
May 25, 2023
By The Economist At the end of the cold war America’s president, George H.W. […]
May 24, 2023
2023.05.24 The US national debt is again in the spotlight, as congressional leaders […]
May 24, 2023
By Peter Schiff We saw a big selloff in the gold market last […]
May 24, 2023
By The Economist By failing to raise America’s debt ceiling in time, Congress […]
May 23, 2023
By Felix Richter U.S. consumers are sitting on a historically high pile of debt […]
May 22, 2023
May 18, 2023
By Dorothy Neufeld Every few years the debt ceiling standoff puts the credit […]
May 18, 2023
By Jim O’Neil While investors should never let rules of thumb override financial […]
May 14, 2023
On May 3, Canada’s Parliament passed Bill S-211, the Modern Slavery Act, aimed at […]
May 8, 2023
By Felix Richter Coming off historically low interest rates in the wake of […]
May 5, 2023
2023.05.05 The idea that commodity markets can only yield short-term gains isn’t entirely […]
May 2, 2023
By Bruno Venditti In recent years, commodity prices have reached a 50-year low […]
May 2, 2023
By Quoth the Raven I can sit back and watch those investments hopefully […]
April 30, 2023
By Felix Richter Having proven surprisingly resilient in the face of the Fed’s aggressive […]
April 28, 2023
By Michael Pento First Quarter GDP increased at only a 1.1% seasonally adjusted […]
April 27, 2023
By Paul Joseph Watson With eleven countries having already launched Central Bank Digital […]
April 27, 2023
By James Rickards I’ve said to the military and intelligence community, “I don’t think […]
April 22, 2023
By Julie R. Peasley Can you picture what $31.4 trillion looks like? The […]
April 20, 2023
By Martin Armstrong China’s economy appears to have shaken off the effects of the […]
April 18, 2023
2023.04.18 The days of paying for something with cold, hard cash may be […]
April 14, 2023
By Howard Schneider One more quarter-percentage-point interest rate hike can allow the Federal Reserve […]
April 13, 2023
By Alasdair Macleod Increasing numbers of national governments are abandoning the US sphere […]
April 13, 2023
By Jim O’Neill The fact that a US-excluding group of emerging powers has […]
April 10, 2023
By Patrick Barron The American empire is not enforced by walls with armed […]
April 7, 2023
By Wolf Richter The share of the US-dollar as global reserve currency dropped […]
April 6, 2023
By Katharina Buchholz Bailout amounts provided by China remained quite low in the 2000s […]
April 5, 2023
2023.04.05 According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the value of global […]
April 5, 2023
By James Rickards The combination of a recession and an existential financial crisis is extremely rare. […]
April 5, 2023
By Michael Snyder For decades, the U.S. dollar was the undisputed king of […]
April 3, 2023
By Alasdair Macleod How likely is it that the downturn in broad money […]
March 31, 2023
By Anna Golubova Former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill is calling on […]
March 31, 2023
By Nouriel Roubini In the face of high and persistent inflation, recession risks, […]
March 28, 2023
By Felix Richter If there has been one consistent theme in Jerome Powell’s […]
March 28, 2023
By Bruno Venditti The U.S. dollar has dominated global trade and capital flows […]
March 27, 2023
2023.03.27 Given its role as the world’s primary reserve currency, the importance of […]
March 27, 2023
By Quoth the Raven The fact is that I just don’t care about […]
March 26, 2023
By DAVID P. GOLDMAN The US banking system is broken. That doesn’t portend more […]
March 23, 2023
By Wolf Richter This is the beginning of spring selling season. So let’s […]
March 23, 2023
By macromon Interest payments on the national debt during the current fiscal year (October […]