Jim Rickards: The Significance of Wednesday’s Rate Hike

Jim Rickards: The Significance of Wednesday’s Rate Hike

Daily Reckoning, Released on 3/21/18 The Federal Reserve, under new chairman Jerome “Jay” Powell, raised the federal funds target rate 25 basis points today. It was Powell’s first significant move as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. Let me first give my opinion of Jay Powell before weighing on the implications of today’s decision. […]

Andy Hoffman discusses what’s going on with markets lately

Andy Hoffman discusses what’s going on with markets lately

Kerry Lutz, Financial Survival Network, Released on 6/21/17 Topics: Complete dissociation of Fed “rate hike” with market reality – rates near lows Treasury yield curve historic inversion (in China, too!) Plunging commodities, EM currencies, OPEC/Saudi chaos Today’s article, “valuation anomalies suggest historic Precious Metal lows” Andrew (“Andy”) Hoffman, CFA joined Miles Franklin, one of America’s […]

Eric Sprott discusses the rebounding price of gold as well as trends in the global economy and the likelihood of a Fed rate hike

Eric Sprott discusses the rebounding price of gold as well as trends in the global economy and the likelihood of a Fed rate hike

Craig Hemke, Sprott Money, Released on 10/21/16 “There is no economic recovery even though the data might somehow suggest there might be.” Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada’s largest independently owned […]