Palladium Pullback: Bargain Buy or Bubble Bursting?
Gold and silver received the most attention among precious metals traders, but I believe it’s a mistake to ignore other tradable metals like palladium. One interesting thing about palladium right now is that its price against the U.S. dollar is similar to gold’s...
Job Market “Bounces Back”… but Leaves Many Americans Behind
The announcement was loud and proud: March’s nonfarm payrolls expanded by 196,000 and the U.S. unemployment rate held steady at 3.8%. Typically reactive financial media talking heads immediately starting crowing about how their doubts are now dispelled and the...
The New Normal: Expect Index-Fund Investing to Underperform
For everything good in life, there’s always someone out there with a cliché to counter it. “Those who can’t do, teach” is one example – an easy denigration of what might be the world’s most important profession. Another one is “You can’t eat gold,” a lazy way of...
Global Gold Demand in 2019 Will Be the Highest in 4 Years
If you’re in the market to buy gold, you’re in very good company. If 2018 was the year of the dollar, then 2019 is proving to be the year of gold, as the data indicates that global demand will attain its highest point since 2015. According to precious metals...
Core Money: Gold and Silver’s Value Universe
I personally own precious metals because it's the sensible thing to do. With the national debts of all modern nations, from Australia to Japan, the entire continent of Europe, Canada, and the granddaddy of all debtor nations, my native U.S. of A. ballooning into the tens of trillions, it's not even an option to have only fiat digits in your asset portfolio. Educate yourself on the all-important attributes of precious metals investments!