Will Russian Sanctions Mean Higher Inflation?

Stocks continued their decline last week as metals rallied strongly.  While many analysts blame the rising geopolitical tensions for the decline in stocks and the rise in gold and silver prices, the reality is that stocks went into calendar year 2022 extremely overvalued, and metals were undervalued in light of the massive currency creation that…

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Financial Markets, the Economy and Currency Creation

            My ‘double top’ theory from last week is holding true so far, but we will wait and see.  If you missed last week’s post, a double top is a bearish formation where prior market highs are approximately reached but no new highs are made.             At this point, it’s too early to tell.            …

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Currency Devaluation or Market Crash

          This week, I want to share excerpts from and some of my comments on an insightful article penned by past RLA Radio guest, Mr. Alasdair Macleod.  Undoubtedly, many of you recognize Alasdair as the head of research at Gold Money.            Mr. Macleod’s article is titled “Waypoints on the road to currency destruction –…

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Stocks and the Fed

As I was doing the research this week that I do every week, it struck me as to how tightly correlated the performance of stocks is to the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve.           The chart on this page is a chart of an exchange-traded fund that tracks the performance of the Russell 3000,…

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Higher Education and Hyperinflation

In this week’s update, I’ll look at a couple of topics that I’ve examined in previously.           I’ll begin with my forecast from earlier this year that at least 1/3rd of colleges and universities would close within five years.  While COVID has impacted enrollment at institutions of higher learning, problems existed in the higher education…

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Is Your Currency Going to Change?

Every day that passes we are seeing changes as far as currencies are concerned globally.  Given the rest of the news and the tendency of the mainstream media to report with bias, many of these changes have gone largely unreported and consequently unnoticed.           For a long time, recognizing that the current financial system is…

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Precious Metals Price Manipulation and Looming Inflation

In my October client newsletter, I discussed the recent payment by JP Morgan Chase to settle criminal and civil charges that the company manipulated the precious metals markets.  This is a preview from the October “You May Not Know Report” newsletter that will be mailed next week. JP Morgan Chase agreed to pay $920 million…

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Credit and Currency Realities

As longer-term readers of this blog know, I have long advocated for a “Two-Bucket Approach to managing assets.  Over the past few years, as I have been forecasting the events that are now occurring, other individuals and companies in our industry have begun to promote what they label a two-bucket approach to managing assets. The…

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Gold, Stocks and the Economy

Metals continued their breakout last week.  Gold advanced another 3.85% while silver jumped more than 7.5% on price.  As I stated last week, we expect that this trend will continue over the long term as the Federal Reserve will likely continue its easy money policies. Given the big run up in price in the metals,…

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Slouching Toward 1929?

Here on this blog each week, I like to present evidence as to where the financial markets and economy may be going in light of the extreme economic conditions that now exist. We can learn much about where we are headed economically and financially by studying similar times in history.  That’s the focus of this…

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