Are recent market moves normal and within acceptable, technical ranges, or are we about to get a big deleveraging event? Chris Vermeulen explains… by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders As 2018 draws to a close and the global equities markets continue to find pricing and valuation pressures driving prices lower, a few questions come to mind for all investors/traders – Is a deleveraging event about to unfold?  What will it look like if it does happen and how can I protect my investments from...

SD Midweek Update: Silver sure looks like it could break soon, and break hard. To the upside. Here are the details… I think back to my days of working for a company that ran a call center. This was just after the tech bubble burst in the early double-aughts. One day corporate came in with good news! They gathered all of us around to tell us that they weren’t cutting wages! That was the good news, and no, I’m not kidding. Of course, good news is always followed by bad news, so then corporate pull...

The global synchronized slowdown catches up to the world’s largest cleaning company. Here are the details… from Zero Hedge The world is about to get a whole lot dirtier. On Monday, global cleaning giant Denmark’s ISS A/S, which is also one of the world’s largest private employers, pulled a page right out of the Fifth Element when it announced plans to fire about 100,000 workers as it exits 13 countries that were among its least profitable markets. The mass layoff represents about a fifth of the ...

From a history lesson on gold price manipulation, to the current day shenanigans and a whole lot more, you won’t want to miss this important interview… Craig Hemke interviewed on the X22 Report Spotlight Gold price manipulation is NOT conspiracy theory. In fact, it is instead HISTORICAL FACT, and the manipulation has been going on since the 1950s. From a history lesson on gold price manipulation, to the current day shenanigans and a whole lot more, tune in to the interview in its entirety below:...

Palladium shows us the physical market can take control from the paper markets. Here’s what it may foreshadow for gold, silver, and platinum… David Morgan interviewed by Chris Blasi on The Great Reset Opportunity Report Among the highlights of the discussion are David’s observations regarding the booming palladium market, and how this shows that the physical market can take control from the paper markets, as well as how this may foreshadow the future hope for trading in silver, gold and platinu...

11:20p ET Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Today's edition of GATA Board of Directors member Ed Steer's Gold & Silver Digest letter, headlined "The Powers That Be Were Everywhere Yesterday," is posted in the clear at GoldSeek here: http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1544563584.php CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/TreasurerGold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.CPowell@GATA.orgADVERTISEMENT We Are Amid the Biggest Financial Bubble in History;When It Bursts, Bullion Owned in the S...

The US economy looks relatively better than the rest of the world. This has implications for the dollar going forward. Here’s insight from Brent Johnson…  Brent Johnson interviewed by Jason Burack on Wall St For Main St Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, financial industry veteran and CEO of Santiago Capital http://www.santiagocapital.com/, Brent Johnson. Brent has also been covering the gold market as well as studying Austrian School Economics for many years. There...

After the recent meltdown in stocks, it’s not just buy the dip that is dead, buy the really is now dead, too. Buy The Rally Is Dead, TooDecember 11 (King World News) – Here is a portion what Jason Goepfert at SentimenTrader noted today:  In Monday’s report, we saw that buy-the-dip behavior has ceased. More than half the time over the past six months, a decline over the past week led to further losses, instead of gains like we usually see during healthier markets (see chart below). It’s not just...

John & Martin North discuss radical developments in RBA policy. John explodes at the RBA’s sheer insanity! Tune in for the details and a whole lot more… by John Adams from Adams Economics John Adams and Martin North discuss the radical speech given this week by Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Guy Debelle in which he flagged more rate cuts and the coming introduction of quantitative easing! The Deputy Governor goes on to admit that the RBA have no idea on what level of debt...

Robert Kiyosaki explains why people who hold real money (gold & silver), instead of currency (fiat paper), will reap the rewards many times over… by Robert Kiyosaki via Daily Reckoning From the beginning of time many things have been considered currency. Livestock, grains, spices, beads, and paper have all been forms of currency, but only two things have been money. You guessed it: gold and silver. In 1971, the U.S. dollar died because it was no longer money—it became a currency. And there i...

Has Peaked Diesel arrived?  Well, if so, it is terrible news for the automobile and trucking industry as well as the overall economy.  I came across this information from an article written by Antonio Turiel on his The Oil Crash website.  The article provides some sobering data suggesting that the global production of diesel fuel may have peaked.Furthermore, due to the peak of conventional oil in 2005 and the considerable increase of U.S. shale light tight oil, the production of all fuel oil (no...

5:09p ET Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: According to the TF Metals Report's Craig Hemke, writing again at Sprott Money, investors fairly may expect a rally in monetary metals prices around the turn of the year, since that has happened for the last five years. But, Hemke adds, bullion banks will be lying in wait to try to keep prices from breaking above too many moving averages. Hemke's analysis is headlined "Gold and Silver Price Goals for Year-End" and it's posted at ...

Gold & silver dropped in price during the stock market crash of 2008. But gold & silver may not drop in price this time. Keith explains why… by Keith Weiner of Monetary-Metals The Baby Boom generation may be the first generation to leave less to their children than they inherited. Or to leave nothing at all. We hear lots—often from Baby Boomers—about the propensities of their children’s generation. The millennials don’t have good jobs, don’t save, don’t buy houses in the same proportions...

This is one of those truths about pensions and Social Security that we have been talking about. Something has got to give. Here’s some cold, hard truth… by Simon Black of Sovereign Man The thick black smoke… the smell of burning rubber… overturned smoldering cars. Looters smashed out shop windows and took whatever they could carry away. Ancient landmarks were desecrated. Soldiers patrolled the wreckage as tanks are parked on the street corners. Have aliens attacked? Was a third world dictator d...

If things weren’t heated a little earlier this morning, politics in Washington are sure heating up now. Here’s the latest showdown out of the Oval Office… from Zero Hedge In what was perhaps the most entertaining White House press briefing since President Trump’s now-infamous battle with CNN’s Jim Acosta, an impromptu public meeting with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi swiftly devolved into bitter sniping about Trump’s demands for border-wall funding that ended with Trump sayin...

The world’s largest hedge fund is feeling the financial pain of our bubble economy, but it’s not just the hedge fund that should be worried. Here’s more… by John Rubino of Dollar Collapse A few years ago the Swiss National Bank (SNB) – which traditionally held “monetary assets” like government bonds, cash and gold to back up the Swiss franc — decided to branch out into common stocks. This was a departure, but for a while a brilliant one. The SNB loaded up on Big Tech like Apple, Amazon and Micro...

1:57p ET Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Because of GATA's Gold Rush 21 conference in Dawson City in the Yukon Territory in 2005, many GATA supporters have a special feeling for that remote but sensationally beautiful and historic part of Canada, so they may be interested in a five-day promotional offer for a gold coin produced by the Yukon Mint. The coin, called the Kaska Keda, depicts the work of Kaska Nation artist Miranda Lane, one side showing the "keda," the "true ...

Govt shutdown up next? Trump digs in heels and demands that any funding bill set aside at least $5 billion for his promised border wall. Here’s more… from Zero Hedge Lawmakers are furiously negotiating to try and strike a compromise that would avert a partial government shutdown (what would be the third since Trump’s inauguration), but President Trump is digging in his heels and demanding that any funding bill set aside at least $5 billion for his promised border wall in what looks to be a last-...

With investors still reeling from recent volatility in global stock markets, look at what just hit an all-time record high, plus a bonus interview. A New RecordDecember 11 (King World News) – Here is a portion of what Peter Boockvar wrote today as the world awaits the next round of monetary madness:  Here is an updated chart of US net worth as a percent of disposable income after the Fed released its Q3 flow of funds statement last week. We are now at 700% (699.9% to be exact). The late 1990’s b...

Jim says the global financial crisis redux has finally arrived. Jim points to numerous crisis signals, and he breaks down what it means for gold… by Jim Willie of Golden Jackass Gold & Global Financial Crisis Redux by Jim Willie CB home:  Golden Jackass website                   subscribe:  Hat Trick Letter Jim Willie CB, editor of the “HAT TRICK LETTER”   Use the above link to subscribe to the paid research reports, which include coverage of critically important factors at work during the...