July 29, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark –  Stock Markets, Gold, Oil, USD, Canadian Dollar
• Victor Adair – (13:24) USD, Central Banks, Gold Backed Currency
• Allan Mark Angell – (44:02) Low Inventory, Low Sales, and High End Properties
• Zarko Meseldzija – (1:23:54) CEO of  RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials Inc. on Company Showcase –  CEO Discusses Munro Live Visit and Demonstration Plant Testing.  Read InsideEVs Article – “Incentives Fuel A Factory Building Boom In The Battery Recycling Industry“.  Read US News Article – “Dead EV Batteries Turn to Gold With U.S. Incentives“.  Read FastMarkets Article – “EU Strengthens Battery Recycling Targets After Government Heads Approve Battery Regulation“.  Read Benchmark Source Article – “Battery Cathode Prices Rise for First Time This Year as Lithium Costs Increase“. 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

July 28, 2023 | The Federal Reserve hikes rates again

The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates again, to 5.25 percent to 5.5 percent. This is the highest Federal Funds rate in 22 years. The Fed has stated that it is determined to wrestle inflation back under control, which means getting to its 2 percent target or lower. Has the Fed gone too far in this […]

July 28, 2023 | Can Bitcoin’s “Whales” Take Over Financial Markets?

Is the biggest fear of Central Bankers a Gold backed currency?

July 28, 2023 | RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials Inc. CEO Discusses Munro Live Visit and Demonstration Plant Testing

Read InsideEVs Article – “Incentives Fuel A Factory Building Boom In The Battery Recycling Industry“. Read US News Article – “Dead EV Batteries Turn to Gold With U.S. Incentives“. Read FastMarkets Article – “EU Strengthens Battery Recycling Targets After Government Heads Approve Battery Regulation“. Read Benchmark Source Article – “Battery Cathode Prices Rise for First […]

July 27, 2023 | Will They Shut Down Gold & Cryptocurrencies with CBDC?

There is no question that the real problem here is that the financial system is collapsing. These morons have been borrowing since World War II with ZERO intention of ever paying off the debt. They are running out of buyers. Attacking Russia and China has divided the world economy, which may be the Neocons’ goal, […]

July 27, 2023 | The Best Way To Get The Price You Want For Your House

Renting vs Owning a Home

July 27, 2023 | What if the BRICS Bring In a Gold Backed Currency?

Could Silver be the best precious metal to invest in?

July 27, 2023 | Painful Impact of Higher Interest Rates Yet to Come

Are generous bonuses at CMHC justified?

July 27, 2023 | Are the BRICS About to Bring In Gold Backed Currency?

Commercial Real Estate going under at a record pace

July 26, 2023 | Fed Hikes by 25 Basis Points, to 5.5% Top of Range, Highest since 2001, More Rate Hikes on the Table. QT Continues

The Fed’s FOMC raised its five policy rates by 25 basis points today, which pushed the upper limit of its policy rates to 5.5%, the highest since January 2001. The Fed had broadly telegraphed this move after the “very hawkish skip” meeting in June, when it projected two more rate hikes this year. The Fed […]

July 26, 2023 | The Bank of Canada Goal is to Crash the Economy

Time for Canada to Ease Up on Mass Immigration

July 25, 2023 | Burning Books in a Brave New 1984 World – The Age of Censorship

In Part 1 of this article, I explored how Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury foretold the use of technology by totalitarians to subjugate and control the masses. Now we move on to a currently hot topic – censorship. “Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Censorship “There was always a […]

July 24, 2023 | Operation Acoustic Kitty

The Central Intelligence Agency has a long history of spying on Americans. People think of the old Soviet Union or North Korea as examples of extreme government surveillance measures, but it happens right here in the Land of the Free. A reader wrote in about this topic, and I can confirm it is not a […]

July 23, 2023 | Housing Hiccups

  While inflation is technically about general price levels, in practice we use it to describe living costs. That’s why the benchmarks measure consumer prices and personal consumption expenditures. These are where higher prices hurt because they apply to everyone. Other measures like the Producer Price Index have valuable information but are less immediately relevant to most people. But […]

July 22, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For July 22, 2023

A turning point in sizzling tech stocks? On Tuesday, MSFT announced plans to invoice corporations for employees using Microsoft AI. Within an hour; the share price rose >$20 to new All-Time Highs, adding ~$100 Billion (~4%) in market cap. By Friday’s close, those gains had evaporated, leaving the weekly chart with an ominous shooting star candlestick pattern. […]

July 22, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Bob Hoye –  Stock Markets, Dow, Gold, Oil, Headlines
• Wolf Richter – (21:43) USD, Recession, Consumer Spending, Electric Vehicles

July 21, 2023 | China Property Market Struggles with Debt Bubble

China began a new stage in its multi-year struggle with insolvency among property developers. One of the biggest, China Evergrande, reported losses of US$81 billion this week. Will massive debts of US$207 billion dollars in the property sector drag China down? The property sector started to contract in 2021, after a brief post-COVID surge.  Recent […]

July 20, 2023 | Housing Market Faces Reckoning: Price of Used Houses now the Same as Price of New Houses

Sales of previously owned single-family houses fell by 3.4% in June from May, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales of 3.72 million houses, the lowest since January, according to the National Association of Realtors today. This is deep-dismal sales territory, even as supply rose to 3.1 months, and inventories to 960,000 houses, both the […]

July 20, 2023 | Inflation Just Pausing?

When the stock markets might top

July 20, 2023 | Signs Markets Are Being Manipulated

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July 20, 2023 | Is High Flying Tech About to Correct?

A weaker US Dollar could be good for Precious Metals

July 20, 2023 | Is the AI Craze About to Go Bust?

Crude and natural gas drilling in Alberta and Texas

July 19, 2023 | Trudeau – A Modern-Day Caligula?

 Nathaniel Pawlowski delivered a powerful speech to the European Parliament, where he called Justin Trudeau a modern-day Caligula. Pawlowski’s father, Artur Pawlowski, has been arrested numerous times for simply speaking out against the tyrannical Canadian government. Artur Pawlowski was a vocal advocate for medical freedom and continued to speak up for the people despite threats from […]

July 18, 2023 | Real Estate Speculators Start to Blink

Nick Gerli, Reventure Consulting Founder and CEO, joins ‘Last Call’ to explain his recent viral tweet claiming AirBnB is seeing declining revenue in several major markets. Here is a direct video link. Also, see Nick’s update on developments in the commercial property sector. Commercial real estate values have already dropped 11% in the last year, with […]