Euro zone inflation surged to a four-year high last month, zooming past the European Central Bank's target and piling pressure on rate setters to open talks about when and how extraordinary stimulus measures will be scaled back. Inflation in the 19 countries sharing the euro rose to 2.0 percent from 1.8 percent in January, Eurostat data showed on Thursday, the highest since the start of 2013 a... read more
Chief executives may profess loving a pro-business president in the White House, but they are saying something else with their money, and that could be a worrisome sign. Chief executives and other corporate insiders are selling stock hand over fist now that the quarterly earnings season is over, a report from Vickers Weekly Insider shows. Transactions by insiders are restricted around a compan... read more
Robert Kiyosaki, author of the “Rich Dad” series of books, has for years predicted an epic market crash when baby boomers, forced by law, start drawing from retirement funds in large numbers. That meltdown was supposed to happen last year. Instead, the bull market raged on: It will be eight years old in March, if measured by the 2009 bottom. Kiyosaki has drawn some flak along the way.... read more
Analyst Rob Kirby of KirbyAnalytics.com  believes the world will witness much higher inflation going forward. He does not believe there is a dollar shortage as some say but rather the world is flush with currency.  Rob goes on to say that he starting to see limited supplies in precious metals and scarcity could become an issue. He leaves us with the bottom line of physical gold and silver is... read more
Gold futures pulled back Tuesday from the 3 ½-month highs scored a day earlier, but the precious metal marked a second straight monthly gain ”Safety” demand recently lifted gold to its highest prices since November as concerns about geopolitics and President Donald Trump’s ability to enact economy-growing tax policies, and more, rise. Trump’s upcoming address to Congress late Tuesday... read more
Every economy around the world still finds itself in a pickle. For some countries, important deadlines are on the horizon. The US economy is just over two weeks away from its debt ceiling deadline. Depending on how this event plays out, the US economy may effectively grind to a halt. David Stockman warns for a “fiscal bloodbath”, which does not bode all that well. Now that the debt ceil... read more
Please Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with financial expert and best-selling author David Stockman as he tells us that the magnitude of the problem is so large that Gold and Silver will rise on the Fiscal bloodbath coming and a tsunami of debt. Former White House Budget Director David Stockman drops a bomb in his latest interview by saying, “I think what people are missing is thi... read more
This is really starting to get out of control. No doubt you’re familiar with the S&P 500, the stock index that measures the performance of the largest US companies. And as we’ve discussed before, one of the most important benchmarks in measuring whether stocks are overvalued or undervalued is the Price/Earnings, or P/E ratio. Looking back through more than a century of financial data... read more
Hedge Fund Billionaire David Einhorn is back and even more bullish on Gold, he's also shorting government debt. Other hedge fund billionaires that have been stealthily accumulating the precious metal are Stanley Druckenmiller, John Paulson, Ray Dalio, Paul Singer and recently Doug Kass.  Einhorn Shorts Sovereigns, Affirms Gold on Trump Uncertainty Hedge fund manager David Einhorn is... read more
Fed's Mester Sees a Lot of Geopolitical Uncertainty Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President and CEO Loretta Mester discusses the impact on Fed policy of an economy and uncertainty. Bloomberg 2/23/2017