December 22, 2023 | Get Ready for Excitement and Surprises in 2024

The year 2024 will be full of surprises and uncertainty. A possible recession, the direction for the stock market, the housing bubble in Canada and changes in interest rates and inflation are all on the agenda for investors as we enter a new year. What are some of the most likely surprises? A surprise cannot […]

December 22, 2023 | Gold Juniors Should Expect a Better New Year

China bans some Rare Earth technology exports

December 21, 2023 | Canadian Resources Should Pick Up in 2024

Trudeau playing Russian roulette with Canadian energy sector

December 21, 2023 | 2024 Will Be Everything AI, Especially in Defense

Will the New Year see a bounce back for Gold Juniors?

December 20, 2023 | The GOP Backs Trump – Kennedy Warns of Civil War

Finally, the Republicans have come together as a party to condemn the absolute tyranny of current administration. The leading GOP candidates have put their criticisms aside to express their absolute disgust at the Colorado’s Supreme Court’s ruling to remove Trump from the ballot. No candidate was more outspoken in his disgust than Vivek Ramaswamy who […]

December 20, 2023 | Going Down

Over the past three years, the growing physical shortage in silver (more demand than supply) has resulted in a dramatic reduction in recorded world inventories. Each week, I highlight the shrinkage in the two largest stockpiles of recorded silver inventories, the COMEX warehouses and in SLV, the largest silver ETF. Together, these two stockpiles represent […]

December 20, 2023 | Here Come the New Listings of Existing Homes, Prices Drop Further, Demand Remains at Collapsed Levels

The national median price of existing single-family houses, condos, and co-ops whose sales closed in November dropped to $387,600, down by 6.3% from the peak in June 2022, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) today. 2023 is the first year since the Housing Bust when the seasonal high in June was below […]

December 19, 2023 | China Offers Warning on Euphoric Asset Prices Elsewhere

China’s economy is struggling through a multi-year downturn in the property market, a slump in manufacturing activity and falling exports. Other countries and markets should take note. A triple whammy of falling real estate and stock prices amid credit defaults has hurt household net worth and consumer confidence. See, China’s real estate meltdown is battering the […]

December 18, 2023 | Brighteon Covers “The Great Taking”

Readers have been asking me to check out and comment on David Webb’s The Great Taking. It’s on the to-do list. But in the meantime, other people have started covering it. Brighteon’s Mike Adams just posted a video that uses Webb’s insights as a launching point for a discussion of real assets and why they’re more crucial than ever. […]

December 17, 2023 | Gold Can’t Pussyfoot Forever

    Most of us had been expecting gold to explode through the $2000 “barrier” and soar into the wild blue yonder. Instead, it spasmed to $2152 for a nanosecond on December 4, then crashed back down below $2000 like an anvil dropped into an elevator shaft. What happened? Gold is most certainly in a […]

December 16, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For December 16, 2023

Powell kicked the Everything Rally into Overdrive! Markets were expecting “some” pushback from Jay, “We’re a long way from neutral” Powell after a sizzling 6-week stock market rally, but he waved the white flag instead, and the Everything Rally ripped higher!   The bullish rip took Dec 2024 SOFR futures to ~9630 at Thursday’s high, effectively pricing in […]

December 16, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Oil, Gold, USD, Canadian Dollar
• Eric Hadik: (8:53) Stock Market Cycles, Gold, Silver, Bonds, Crude Oil, Solar Flares and Sunspots.  Read – Solar, Seismic & Gold Intensity Cycles.
• Robert Campbell: (36:30) Predicting the Real Estate Market, US Real Estate Peaking, Exodus from California

December 16, 2023 | Solar, Seismic & Gold Intensity Cycles

The Golden Canary 11-29-23 – The fulfillment of Middle East War Cycles, in October 2023, was just the latest validation to the outlook for 2023 – 2025. Reinforcing these geopolitical cycles has been the action and analysis for Gold & Silver. In many ways, Gold acts as the proverbial ‘canary in the coal mine’ – […]

December 15, 2023 | Get Ready for a 1986 Repeat of a Real Estate Crash?

Whenever those in Congress mess with real estate, they have ALWAYS, and without exception, caused a major crash. The Entire Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis was a catastrophic disaster that wiped out nearly one-third of all the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995. I previously mentioned that hedge funds were created […]

December 15, 2023 | Opportunities Building in Gold Sector

Adrenaline fueled trades boosting stock market

December 14, 2023 | The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: Toronto -19% from Peak, back to Sept. 2021. Hamilton Area -25%, Back to Feb. 2021. New High in Calgary

Home prices in Canada dropped 1.7% in November from October, after having dropped by 1.6% in October from September, the fifth month in a row of month-to-month declines, according to the Home Price Benchmark Index for single family houses by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) today. These drops whittled down the year-over-year gain to […]

December 14, 2023 | Could Santa Claus Rally Be a Good Sign for the New Year?

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December 14, 2023 | Is the Fed Really Finished Hiking Rates?

Which stock will tell you where the stock market is going?

December 14, 2023 | Weimar 2.0, Satanists, Fear and Denial

Critical Thinking vs. Intelligent People

December 14, 2023 | Even if Interest Rates Fall, Is Recession Likely?

Supply not the problem behind Canada’s housing crisis

December 13, 2023 | Are We Too Dumb To Survive?

CBS News just conducted a poll that paints Americans as too economically illiterate to deserve a future of freedom and prosperity. Here’s how Tom Woods, author of Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania, addressed it in a recent mailing: Sometimes you look around and see signs of hope. And you’re not being […]

December 12, 2023 | Javier Milei’s First Day in Office – Reduce the Size of Government

Argentina’s new President, Javier Milei, is making headlines around the world for vowing to radically change Argentina’s failing political system. Milei campaigned on implementing a “chainsaw plan” that would swiftly cut useless bureaus that drain government resources with no or minimal benefit to the public. Milei stuck to his campaign promises and slashed the number […]

December 11, 2023 | What Happened?

This article was written on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. Of course, I’m referring to the wild price ride in gold and silver from Fridays near all-time price high in gold, to Sunday evening’s initial blast to the upside of as much as $60, to a selloff of $120 and to where gold closed trading yesterday […]

December 10, 2023 | Why Liberals Dump Their Oldest Friends

[This essay originally appeared here in July 2022 and was written by a friend who spends a lot of time thinking outside the box. His provocative thesis is that that there is a physiological basis for our political differences; moreover, he notes, liberals cancel and ghost their conservative friends for reasons that are tied to […]