[This article is part of the Understanding Money Mechanics series, by Robert P. Murphy. The series will be published as a book in 2021.] In chapter 10 we...
Gold Versus The Stock Market Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, More than 3,000 years ago in the early 12th century BC, Greco-Roman legend tells us...
The ‘corona year’ has brought us confusion: a short, sharp recession last winter; a partial recovery last summer; and a pullback during the ‘second wave’ of...
Crude is key to inflation. Here's why has it been going up so much.
Friday, March 19, 2021Volume 2, Issue 19 “Over the course of my career, there have been a handful of times when I felt the logic for calling...
The UK has full confidence in the AstraZeneca vaccine and expects a strong recovery in the economy as the process progresses and the market opens
Is hyperinflation a threat? While I was on vacation this past week, I got into a discussion on the issue. https://twitter.com/HousePriceMania/status/1372347367060553730?s=20 While the discussion ebbed between...
The Sterling pound fell against the dollar following the Bank of England’s dovish interest rate decision despite a unanimous decision to maintain the current rates. The GBP/USD currency pair’s decline was also fueled by the rising...
Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. Today,...
Reading Between the Lines On Wednesday, Jerome Powell was able to deliver a statement that reflected his being in the top job at... Read More... The...
The Australian dollar has posted slight losses in the Thursday session. Currently, the pair is trading at 0.7780, down 0.20% on the day. Australian employment sparkles...
Blain: There Are Always Consequences Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “My wallet is like an onion, opening it makes me cry…” Central Banks are playing...
The US dollar bounced back from Wednesday’s loss, rallying on concerns in the broader financial markets and economy following the latest initial jobless claims. The greenback also jumped on the bump in Treasury yields, with investors...
The US economy remains on track to report an unusually strong increase in output for next month’s first-quarter report on gross domestic product (GDP)
Getting Ready For Gold's Golden Era Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Worried about gold sentiment? Don’t be. The mainstream view of gold right now is...
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve stated that interest rates will continue to stay close to zero, along with a new estimate for the unemployment rate down...
New home prices are climbing higher alongside those of existing residential properties, yet another indication of the kind of frenzied activity that has recently been taking...
Marginal revolution links to a great read on contemporary macroeconomics from J.W. Mason. It's mostly wrong, I think, but very thoughtfully puts together the wrong ideas...
Peter Schiff: We're Adrift In A Sea Of Inflation Via SchiffGold.com, We’ve gotten quite a bit of economic data this week. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell...
Bad news on the health front; volatile economic data; hopes that the US national 4th of July holiday can be celebrated with a BBQ; and further...
Overview: The US dollar and Treasury yields firm ahead of the outcome of the FOMC meeting. The failure of US stocks to hold on to early...
"(There's) a really exciting cocktail for gold that investors I think are missing right now," explained strategic investor Michael Gentile. The post VIDEO — Michael Gentile:...
Inflation-Cagematch: Guggenheim Battles Bridgewater Over Bond Moves From Here The world and their pet rabbit is short bonds right now on growth and inflationary consensus opinions......
Furious China Moves To Counter "Turmoil In Financial Markets" Caused By "Massive" Biden Stimulus For all of the past decade, it was the US that was...
Morgan Stanely's chief US equity strategist Mike Wilson told investors Monday "the extraordinary outperformance of cyclicals and small caps is coming to an end"
The US dollar is trading relatively flat against many of its major currency rivals. Economic data and the looming Federal Reserve meeting were in focus for investors, with Treasury yields taking a breather....
US trading partners can expect an export boom, but that alone will only have muted benefits for them.
The euro rose intraday, boosted by good domestic macroeconomic data. Despite that, the currency has been retreating during the time of writing, trimming gains against some of its rivals and losing them outright...
The Australian dollar fell today, being one of the weakest currencies on the Forex market during Tuesday’s trading. That is despite the relatively upbeat economic outlook of the central bank and better-than-expected housing data. The Reserve...
From David Rosenberg: Then again, there are many indications that inflation is picking up. In the USA, inflation expectations have risen to the highest level in...