Credit risk out of China and debt ceiling drama in Washington are driving precious metals markets this week.
Gold and silver attracted some significant safe-haven...
Silver’s near-term price trajectory remains uncertain amid choppy market conditions.
Its future, however, looks bright.
In addition to the white metal’s growing uses in high-tech and...
Mega investors have been talking up the merits of gold ownership lately.
For example, the billionaire hedge fund manager who executed the “greatest trade ever”...
Is America becoming a nation of gamblers?
The lure of potential cash windfalls is driving rampant speculation in financial markets and record traffic to casinos.
The...
Afghanistan has fallen.
The U.S. government’s nearly two-decade-long, multi-trillion-dollar “nation building” effort in the troubled, tribal country may now have nothing to show for itself.
“President...
The gold market has no shortage of issues following Sunday evening’s “flash crash” that saw prices drop sharply at the open.
A mysterious $4 billion...
What happens when the debt comes due?
It’s a question millions of Americans are grappling with in their personal finances. It’s also a multi-trillion dollar...
While Olympic athletes in Tokyo are going for the gold, investors are going for anything that might provide positive real returns.
In a yield-starved environment...
President Joe Biden is in denial about inflation.
This week he superficially addressed the problem by admitting the obvious – that prices have been rising...
America faces a retirement crisis.
The chairman of the world’s largest asset management firm is sounding the alarm.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told CNBC last week...
Recent collapses of bridges and a Florida condo building highlight what can go wrong when basic structural and foundational elements are neglected and allowed...
Is the entire financial system currently in a massive bubble?
That is the question that astute investors may now be asking.
According to Nouriel Roubini, CEO...
(Jon Styf, The Center Square) A videotaped encounter between a school resource officer and a parent at James B. Edwards Elementary in Mount Pleasant has...
(Clint Siegner, Money Metals News Service) Washington DC politicians are busy cobbling together yet another bi-partisan bill to raise the federal borrowing limit.
Congress imposed the...
