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Fed Up Friday: August 20-26

The Fed’s been looking for new friends this week, tuning out the haters and struggling to convince the public about potential rate hikes. Check out their follies below! Flip-Flopping Fed Gets No Credibility from Market A market that doesn’t care about the direction the Fed wants to take us can be a recipe for a firestorm. […]

High Gold Prices Driving Jump in Scrap Metal and Recycling

Bloomberg recently reported the safe depository company, Malca-Amit, is seeing a 90% jump in demand for storage of precious metals and stones in its Singapore-based branches. It’s hardly surprising given the 26% increase in gold and 37% rise in silver prices year-to-date. Like the rise in any metal, high prices are spurring many to dig […]

Fed Up Friday: August 12 – 19

The US Federal Reserve Presidents have been busy this week, flexing their speculative muscles and antagonizing the markets. In case you missed it, here’s everything they’ve been up to in the past seven days. Global Banks Abandon US Bonds: Largest Selloff since 1978 In total, $192 billion of US Treasury bonds have been dumped off […]

Dollar Is Down, Gold Is Up, and CPIs Are In

Yesterday was the end of some short-lived rallies as stocks fell back from their record highs and the dollar index retreated back to pre-Brexit lows. In the long term, these changes are showing the dollar continues to lose its purchasing power due to central banking’s bad fiscal policy. As the dollar declines, gold prices are […]

Negative Interest Rates: Bad Policy for European Central Bank

Several economists for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently expressed concerns about moving interest rates into negative territory. They believe it could backfire on the European Central Bank (ECB), making banks less profitable overall and reducing lending.

Fed Up Friday: August 6 – 12

Each week there are plenty of new reasons to get fed up with our beloved central bank. Here’s what they’ve been up to in the past seven days. Ben Bernanke:  Uncertainty Could Lead to No Rate Hike until 2017 On Monday, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke laid out his thoughts on how the rest of […]

High Price of Gold Disrupting International Love

The price of gold is up 26% for the year so far. Overall, the price increase is beginning to change investor portfolios, as more people consider buying gold and other precious metals. However, the hike in gold prices is also starting to influence governments and cultures all over the world, from Japan scouring the ocean […]

Diversifying with Gold New Strategy for Janus Capital’s Bill Gross

Lately, there’s so much gold stockpiled by governments and investors, someone should pitch a new reality TV show called Gold Hoarders. But rather than poor agoraphobics maddeningly piling up old newspapers and canned food, the show would feature smart individuals like Bill Gross who have the foresight to see the writing on the wall. The […]

Fed Up Friday: July 30 – August 5

Your weekly dose of the Fed’s latest antics. Bank of England Slashes Rates, Gold Surges Forward It’s important to remember that it’s not just the US Federal Reserve that launches the price of gold upwards with every misguided decision. As we predicted on Wednesday, the Bank of England dropped their interest rate to record lows […]

Peter Schiff: Next Economic Collapse Will be Worse than 2008 (Video)

At Freedom Fest last month, Peter Schiff appeared on AMTV discussing how the Fed’s monetary policy has created an impending economic crisis to rival the 2008 housing crisis. “The problems were created by the Fed,” he states. “They were created by monetary policy being too loose. Rates were too low when they were at 1%. […]