September 19, 2023 | Worst “Rent” Inflation since 1983 & Red-Hot Homeownership CPI Fuel Canada’s CPI Surge. Bank of Canada in a Pickle of its Own Making

In a nasty big surprise of the type that inflation, once it’s running loose, likes to dish out, the Consumer Price Index in Canada re-accelerated in August for the second month in a row, to 4.0% year-over-year, according to Statistics Canada today, up from 3.3% in July, and 2.8% in June (red line in the […]

September 18, 2023 | Gold Is Doing Great — In Other Currencies

Gold’s job is to hold its value while the local currency is inflated away. Which is another way of saying gold goes up when local currencies go down. The most glaring current example is Japan, where a multi-decade experiment in artificially depressed interest rates is finally coming undone. Inflation is rising, the yen is falling versus other […]

September 17, 2023 | A Stroll Down Disinflation Lane

  [Last week’s commentary on the gathering economic storm elicited a light-hearted reminiscence from our friend Richard Charles of Alpine Capital.  You’ll find his recollection of some notable deflationists enlightening, and there’s also a new word — screwflation — he has coined to describe a phenomenon that has yet to gain traction with eggheads at some of […]

September 16, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, AI, Oil, Uranium, Junior Mining Sector.  Special Offer! Receive 25% Off New Annual Subscriptions.
• Rick Ackerman: (12:16) USD, Gold, Recession, Oil, Real Estate
• Eric Hadik:  (43:08) Market Cycles, Oil, USD, Interest Rates, Gold

September 16, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For September 15, 2023

KING Dollar rises for NINE consecutive weeks The USDX hit a 15-month low in mid-July but has rallied >5% since then. (I’ve called mid-July a Key Turn Date as several macro markets reversed course then.) The USD looks attractive as the Eurozone and China/Asia are slowing. American “exceptionalism” draws capital. The Euro traded at a 17-month high in mid-July but […]

September 15, 2023 | The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: Price Drops Spread amid Slowing Sales, Rising Supply, Bank of Canada Tightening

The Canada Home Price Benchmark Index for single family houses fell by 1.1% in August from July, after having already fallen by 0.5% in July, to $825,700 (all prices in Canadian dollars), ending a rambunctious spring selling season that had been further fueled by Bank of Canada rate-cut hopes, which then turned into two additional […]

September 15, 2023 | Foreign Investors Losing Faith in China

Inflation tops 124% in Argentina

September 14, 2023 | Oil Hits $90!

  Crude oil just hit $90/barrel –  a new high for 2023 Oil prices are now up a massive 35% in just 3 months. Inflation always starts with energy.  

September 14, 2023 | $90 Crude May Mean Time to Back Off Oil Stocks

Josef Schachter hosts major energy conference October 14th. Catch The Energy Conference

September 14, 2023 | Does Oil Have Room To Go Higher?

What is driving the demand for Uranium?

September 14, 2023 | Gold Suffering from Strong US Dollar

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September 13, 2023 | More and More Hard Data

Debt payments consume an impossible amount of household income, and the problem is global. Across ten large Canadian cities, mortgage payments alone are eating up about 59% of household earnings, based on mortgages amortized over 25 years. This is with 70% of Canadian mortgages still paying fixed payments based on rates less than 3%. With […]

September 12, 2023 | The Northern Border Has Been Breached

The focus has been on the mass influx of illegals from the open southern border. However, migrants have also found their way into the US by crossing the northern border from Canada. The US Border Patrol declared that more migrants have entered the US via Canada in the past 11 months than in the entire […]

September 11, 2023 | Rents and Home Prices Heading Down

Good news: Big Wall Street Investors like Blackrock, Blackstone, Invitation Homes, and Progress Residential are no longer buying up the housing market. As the rental supply balloons, rents are starting to fall. The next leg of housing downturns typically see for-sale listings surge and prices fall. Nick Gerli explains well in his latest video segment. […]

September 10, 2023 | Becoming Invisible, Part 9: Burner Phones

So let’s say the idiots running the US (or Canada, the UK, or Australia) have finally forced you to join a protest movement. But you saw what happened to the truckers and their contributors in Canada, and you’re aware of the widening surveillance net spreading over the US. So you’d prefer not to end up on some […]

September 9, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For September 9, 2023

  King Dollar: higher for eight consecutive weeks The US Dollar Index touched a 15-month low in mid-July (a Key Turn Date across several markets) and has rallied for eight consecutive weeks. The Euro reached a 17-month high in mid-July, then fell for eight consecutive weeks. The Yen had a counter-trend rally into mid-July but then made lower lows […]

September 9, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, Apple, Gold, Oil, USD, Canadian Dollar.  Special Offer! Receive 25% Off New Annual Subscriptions.
• Danielle Park:  (10:27) Interest Rates, Canada’s Economy, Mortgage Rates.
• Tim Wood:  (31:11) Supply Chain, Inflation, Interest Rates.
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September 8, 2023 | The Bank of Canada Pauses But Rate Cuts Are Not Coming Soon

The Bank of Canada goes on hold, with no rate hike this week. But those expecting significant interest rate cuts any time soon will be disappointed. The end of the multi-decade period of declining rates passed without much fanfare. But rates in Canada are now as high as they were 23 years ago. This happened […]

September 8, 2023 | China’s Economy, US Dollar, Gold, Interest Rates, Bonds

Free Speech

September 8, 2023 | RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials CEO Provides Company Update and What’s Ahead

Fully Charged Show!  Use coupon code ‘FCFIFTY’ to enjoy an exclusive 50% discount on your ticket purchase! Watch – We upcycle cathode scraps and black mass into higher-value battery materials! Video  – The demonstration plant for the RecycLiCo™ Patented Process is now operational in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Questions?  Email or Phone: 778.574.4444

September 7, 2023 | African Leaders Aim to Implement Global Carbon Tax

The Africa Climate Summit hosted in Kenya focused on how the world can manipulate the weather through taxation. In no way due to geography or distance to the equator, African leaders honed in on how Africa faces numerous climate-related challenges such as desertification, drought, rising temperatures, and cyclones. “To achieve the necessary emissions reduction targets […]

September 7, 2023 | Crude Oil, US Dollar, Gold, Interest Rates, Bitcoin

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September 7, 2023 | Cabal, Traitors, Gold Tokens, Dollar Super Nova

Price Inflation, BRICS, Tunnels

September 6, 2023 | Silver: A Sure Thing?

I have contended for the past near-40 years, that silver has been manipulated and suppressed in price by means of excessive short selling on the COMEX, mostly by commercial traders which happen to be mostly banks. As a result of this decades-long price suppression, the law of supply and demand has become artificially distorted. The […]