January 24, 2025 | Gold Juniors Carry High Potential

Is it market exuberance or plain insanity?

January 23, 2025 | Could the US Drop Canada as a Trade Partner? Trump Threatens FREE Trade

Donald Trump is prepared to drop Canada as a trade partner based on his recent comments in Davos at the World Economic Forum. “We don’t need them to make our cars, and they make a lot of them. We don’t need their lumber because we have our own forests,” he continued. “We don’t need their […]

January 23, 2025 | Stocks Driven Higher by AI Energy Demand

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January 23, 2025 | The US Definitely Needs Canadian Oil and Gas

Canadian inflation under better control than in the US

January 22, 2025 | Why Biden’s Pardons Are Unconstitutional and VOID

  QUESTION: YOu said that Biden’s pardons are probably unconstitutional. Please explain this since nobody in the press has taken that position. Thank you for your insight LD ANSWER: The only pardon that has any real validity is that for Hunter. All of these “preemptive” pardons are not valid. The Supreme Court made this issue […]

January 21, 2025 | Canada Created its Own Trade Barriers

  Stéfane Marion, chief economist of the National Bank of Canada, has urged the Canadian government to reconsider their own trade barriers amid criticism of Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated in a 2019 study that Canada’s own restrictions are “regarded as the most comprehensive analysis of internal trade barriers.” Rather […]

January 20, 2025 | The Cash Cow

Happy Monday Morning! Highlighting a good piece from the BMO economics team this past week. Per BMO, The Canadian housing market should firm modestly this year, but it’s still a long way back to the 2022 highs. Activity and prices have recently improved alongside Bank of Canada rate cuts, and that moderate upward momentum should […]

January 19, 2025 | Microsoft

Get Microsoft right, as I continue to remind you, and your forecast for the stock market can’t go far wrong. The tech giant is among the most valuable companies in the world, with extraordinary profit margins tied to an 80% market share in operating systems. The subscription-based revenue model the company has put in place […]

January 18, 2025 | The DEEP STATE – Exposed

  

January 18, 2025 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, Gold, Oil, USD, Canadian Dollar.
• Eric Hadik:  (9:46) Market Cycles, Gold, USD, Oil, Nasdaq, Bitcoin, Interest Rates, Lithium.
• Mark Leibovit: (34:36) Inflation, Solar Cycles, Trump, Greenland, Panama Canal, Canada. Receive 50% Off VR Trader Newsletters! Enter Promo Code 2022HALFOFF

January 17, 2025 | Roosevelt Also Confiscated Silver in 1933

QUESTION: I made a bet that a friend was wrong that Roosevelt also confiscated silver. I never heard of that, only gold. He said I should write to you and you will decide who wins. Thanks FD   ANSWER: Sorry, you lose. He must have been at one of my conferences when we discussed that […]

January 17, 2025 | Musk Will Take a Chainsaw To Government Spending

The Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, is headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Elon Musk is well known as the world’s wealthiest entrepreneur, while Ramaswamy was a candidate for the Republican nomination in 2023. The goal of DOGE is to “cut the federal government down to size”. This could have a positive […]

January 17, 2025 | L.A. Fires to Hit More Than Insurance Industry

Even high quality Bonds at risk in a market crash

January 16, 2025 | Volcanic Activity on the Rise

  QUESTION: You have opened my eyes to the fact that volcanoes. I believe your computer was forecasting a rise in volcanic activity starting in 2025. Do you have any data that can suggest the risk from the supervolcano at Yellowstone? Pat ANSWER: The Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming is one of Earth’s most potent volcanic […]

January 16, 2025 | Market Optimism Could be a Trap

What is a safe option if the markets are shaky?

January 15, 2025 | Bidens New Sanctions On Russia Lift Crude Prices >10% In One Week. Expect Reversal Once Trump Takes Office

The Biden administration leaves next week but continues its scorched earth plan to make Trump’s taking over power difficult. The White House continues to spend whatever funds authorized by Congress and that the President can spend under Presidential authority before Inauguration Day. The result may be that the incoming administration comes in with a run […]

January 14, 2025 | Surprise: Financial Conditions Tightening into 2025

While the U.S. Federal Reserve cut overnight rates by 125 basis points since November 2023 (below on the lower right), the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has risen more than a percentage point, touching 4.8% for the first time since October 2023 (on the lower left) and April 2007 before that. Higher rates are the opposite […]

January 13, 2025 | Is the Catalyst For the Next Financial Crisis…Homeowners Insurance?

In October, two brutal hurricanes hit the US southeast. And last week, Los Angeles went up in flames and is still burning as this is written. These natural disasters are, obviously, a nightmare for the people directly impacted. But they might be part of something much bigger and far-reaching. Migration and Inflation   Over the […]

January 13, 2025 | Ellen Brown: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model

North Dakota is staunchly conservative, having voted Republican in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So how is it that the state boasts the only state-owned bank in the nation? Has it secretly gone socialist? No. The Bank of North Dakota (BND) operates on the same principles as any capitalist bank, except that […]

January 12, 2025 | Who Will Insure Us Against the Next Disaster?

Although the major indices were down just 1.6% on Friday, it felt like a big day. Everything that matters to the U.S. economy was moving the wrong way: stocks were falling across the board; interest rates and energy prices were climbing; dollars were growing dearer, especially for debtors; and gold, perhaps imagining a bevy of […]

January 12, 2025 | China – Deflation into 2026 & Beyond

  QUESTION: Thank you so much for your world forecasts. It is very helpful to be able to read you here in China. You said that deflation is in motion into 2028. People are cutting back on spending and your model has been correct here in China. Could you provide a quick overview for 2025? […]

January 11, 2025 | Trading Desk Notes for January 11, 2025

Rising bond yields are weighing on the stock market but have boosted the US dollar 30-year Treasury yields hit a 15-month high of 5% following Friday’s stronger-than-expected employment report. Since September 2024, the Fed has cut short rates by 100 bps, but bond yields have risen ~100 bps on concerns that continuing government deficit spending will sustain […]

January 11, 2025 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Gold, Oil, Soybeans.
• Martin Straith: (9:09) Economic Impact of Justin Trudeau’s Resignation, Trump Presidency.
• Robert Campbell:  (48:31) US Real Estate, Interest Rates, Inflation.

January 10, 2025 | The UK’s Strange Collapse

In theory, the UK dodged a bullet by withdrawing from the EU back in 2020. Once again in control of its borders and budgets, it had the chance to slow immigration to a manageable rate, rationalize its tax, spending, and regulatory regimes, and chart its own course as a free, wealthy financial center and mid-tier geopolitical power. […]