March 23, 2023 | The World’s Best Chartbook, A Preview

Incrementum (profiled in this post from January) is about to release the 2023 version of its massive chartbook. Click here to download a preview, or scroll down for nine sample charts that point to a great decade for precious metals.  

March 23, 2023 | Gold, The Fed, Bitcoin, Real Estate

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March 23, 2023 | Banking Crisis, Don’t Let Car Dealers Make You Pay Over MSRP

Inflation, Interest Rates, Retail Sales

March 23, 2023 | Gold, Copper, Crude Oil, Lithium, AI, Robots

The Fed and US Treasury sending conflicting messages

March 22, 2023 | Powell Explains the Fed’s New Regime: Rate Hikes & QT to Fight Inflation while Offering Liquidity to Banks to Keep them from Toppling

It makes sense in this era of high inflation, QT, rising policy interest rates, and high financial fragility in the banking system, after years of money printing and interest rate repression. The new regime was already tested successfully by the Bank of England last fall: Tightening through rate hikes and QT while simultaneously providing liquidity […]

March 21, 2023 | Soros – Taking Down America

Alvan Bragg in his vendetta against Donald Trump is clearly not just abusing his power, but he is attempting to interfere in the presidential election of 2024 by harassing Trump and trying to make him so toxic that nobody will donate to him. While I personally thought that Trump had fallen too far to be […]

March 20, 2023 | Interesting Discovery

“Quickly” is a word uppermost in my mind, as I try to fully comprehend the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB). SIVB stock traded at $700 just over a year ago, before, essentially, going worthless. It was the speed of the decline that was so unnerving. Quickly will also come to describe the inevitable […]

March 20, 2023 | Can AI read your mind?

Some of our past articles have discussed Chat GPT & the huge buzz it has created, starting back in about November 2022. Since then, AI technologies have been moving forward rapidly, and we see it making major inroads into commercial applications. Microsoft is prepared to invest $10b as it integrates AI into its MS-OFFICE products, […]

March 19, 2023 | The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: March Update on the Housing Bust

This is the beginning of spring selling season. So let’s see. Home sales in Canada rose by 2.3% in February from January, but that was less of an uptick than it should have been, and on a year-over-year basis, sales plunged 40%, compared to the 37% plunge in January. Prices of single-family houses in February […]

March 19, 2023 | On The Edge

It appears that we are on the threshold of being able to buy silver at prices that will never be lower. Silver prices are set to embark on an upside price journey that will reward those who own it in life-enhancing ways. It only seems logical to buy what is arguably the most undervalued investment […]

March 18, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For March 18, 2023

Things break when interest rates have been near zero for more than a decade and then rise ~5% in less than a year! Today’s blog will focus on price action across markets; I’ll avoid commenting on “what’s wrong with banks;” thousands of new social media experts have already exhausted that subject. Interest rates declined in […]

March 18, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark –  Stock Markets, US Bank Collapse, High Tech
• John Kaiser – (12:48) Junior Mining Companies, Electric Vehicles, Battery Materials, PDAC
• Eric Hadik – (41:40) Market Cycles, Interest Rates, Bonds, Gold, Energy, Weather

March 17, 2023 | Canadian Banks are Different But Not Immune

Several banks made headlines this week. The Silicon Valley Bank of San Francisco was wound up after deposits fled. First Republic Bank, also of San Francisco, got into trouble and was rescued. Credit Suisse received government aid. Are Canadian banks next? These banks are in trouble for a variety of reasons but there’s a common […]

March 17, 2023 | Can US Banking System Weather SVB Collapse?

Risk taking banks going under, nothing new

March 16, 2023 | Darwin Stupidity, Globalists Exposed, Depopulation, Strippers

Gold, USD, Bank Collapses

March 16, 2023 | Maybe You Should Be Doing What Warren Buffet is Doing

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March 16, 2023 | Banking Concerns Should See a Big Boost in Gold

No Need to Panic Over Bank Collapses

March 16, 2023 | There Is No “Real” Money to Back Up Failed Banks

Market obsession with the Fed disconcerting

March 16, 2023 | Cash Not Accepted

There once was a time when cash was the undisputed king. Merchants preferred cash payments over credit, and there were often incentives for paying with paper. I recall receiving lower gas prices when paying with cash, for example. It is increasingly common to see “no cash accepted” signs at establishments as the world moves toward […]

March 15, 2023 | Is The US Banking System Safe? – 15 Years Later

“We’ve got strong financial institutions…Our markets are the envy of the world. They’re resilient, they’re…innovative, they’re flexible. I think we move very quickly to address situations in this country, and, as I said, our financial institutions are strong.” – Henry Paulson – 3/16/08     “I have full confidence in banking regulators to take appropriate actions in response […]

March 15, 2023 | US Bank Collapses Felt Around the World

Protecting yourself in shaky financial times

March 14, 2023 | Services Inflation Rages at Four-Decade High: Fueled by Rents, Auto Insurance, Repairs, Airfares, Hotels, Pet Services, Food Services, Delivery

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February showed once again that inflation rages in services at the worst levels in four decades, while inflation in many goods categories continue to back off: Services without energy services: annual inflation jumped by 7.3%, a four-decade high, driven by housing, food services (food away from home), auto insurance, […]

March 13, 2023 | Gradually, then Suddenly

Happy Monday Morning! Central banks finally broke something. After leaving rates hovering near zero for over a decade and engaging in trillions of dollars worth of QE (Quantitative Easing) you can’t simply raise interest rates by 400bps in less than a year without something going boom in the night. It was never a matter of […]

March 12, 2023 | The Metals Are Not Manipulated

COMMENT: Marty; Two former Merrill Lynch traders were each sentenced to a year and a day in prison Thursday for manipulating the precious metals markets, the US Department of Justice said Thursday. Of course, —- —–, which is forever bullish metals, claims they moved the metals in the “direction they wanted from 2008 to 2014.” […]