
More Bad News for the Labor Market
More bad news for the labor market. Nearly 1-in-10 companies are planning layoffs in the next three months. That’s on top of the more than a quarter of US companies that have already let workers go in Q4.
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More bad news for the labor market. Nearly 1-in-10 companies are planning layoffs in the next three months. That’s on top of the more than a quarter of US companies that have already let workers go in Q4.
How will the outcome of the US election impact the price of gold moving forward? Of course, there is no way to know for sure. US politics is just one of the myriad factors that influence the gold market and you never know how things will play out. But there are reasons to believe the […]
Silver investment demand surged through the first three quarters of 2020, according to the latest issue of Silver News published by the Silver Institute. Global silver Exchange Traded Product (ETP) holdings rose by 297 million ounces through the third quarter of this year, nearly tripling the growth in the comparable period last year.
The Federal Reserve balance sheet could be heading to $40-50 trillion or higher as the central bank continues to monetize US debt. To borrow a phrase from the movie “Pretty Woman,” this is the fork they know. If the economy turns sour, the government borrows money and the Fed backstops it by buying Treasuries. The […]
The debt monster is loose. S&P Global Ratings projects the global debt-to-GDP level will swell to a record 265% this year. It also expects insolvencies and defaults to rise to levels not seen since the 2009 crisis.
The US stock market is coming off its worst week since March. It was also the worst pre-election stock market in history. In his latest podcast, Peter talked about the market, the election and what’s likely ahead.
Halloween tomorrow. Seems like a good time for a spooky gold story.
Gold and silver have had a tough week. So have stocks. In a lot of ways, it looked like March all over again, with worries about increasing COVID-19 cases and new lockdowns. But then we got the Q3 GDP number and that injected a dose of optimism. In this episode of the Friday Gold Wrap […]
It looks like March all over again. Pretty much everything except dollars sold off yesterday. The Dow Jones was down 943 points. The S&P 500 dropped by 3.53%. The Nasdaq plummeted by 426 points. It was panic selling as markets fretted about the rise in COVID-19 cases, new lockdowns in Europe, and the lack of […]
Peter Schiff delivered a key-note speech at the Virtual Investor Day Conference. He walked through the history of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy over the last several decades and explained the inevitable outcome. Peter’s recap of Fed history leads you to an undeniable conclusion: the Federal Reserve has never been right. And it has set […]