Dear Reader, Governments have backed themselves into a corner with fiat money, which is why they print it in massive quantities. They’re the cards they have to play and it’s why they cheerlead the dollar and berate anything that directly or indirectly competes with it...
Dear Reader, If you add up the market capitalizations of just four stocks — Google (Alphabet), Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon — their combined market caps exceed $5 trillion. Add Facebook to this list and you get the top 5 biggest firms by market valuation,...
Dear Reader, When investing feels “easy” because every participant is winning, being a voice of sense and sanity is an unrewarded job. Few will listen and fewer will take action, but that’s what market tops look and feel like: caution and reason are thrown to the wind...
Dear Reader, You won’t hear Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell jawboning for gold or silver in your lifetime, but right now America’s central bank is inadvertently ensuring much higher prices for “alternative” assets, including precious metals – and even Bitcoin....
Dear Reader, After the eleventh-hour announcement of a Phase 1 U.S.-China trade agreement to roll back some tariffs, market participants have hardly had time to breathe or digest the data. There’s already talk of a sequel, Phase 2, but don’t assume that the outcome...