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Every week seems to bring more and more bad news about the Chinese coronavirus. While new cases and new deaths seem not to be accelerating, much of the country remains completely shut down. With about 30% of the US semiconductor sector dependent on products from China, that could put...
The decade of near-zero interest rates in the aftermath of the financial crisis has helped fuel the creation of one of the largest debt bubbles in history. But while the corporate debt bubble gets much of the attention, as well as the $23+ trillion national debt, household debt grows...
Millions of investors realize that a market crash is coming, they just don’t know when. The “everything bubble” has been building up for years, with prices of assets throughout the economy losing touch with reality and underlying economic fundamentals. And despite more and more negative news coming out of...
In yet more confirmation that monetary policy normalization will never occur, Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell stated in his recent testimony before Congress that “low rates are not really a choice anymore.” The mountain of debt incentivized by the past decade of abnormally low interest rates has grown so...
With so many headwinds affecting the world economy, 2020 is looking like it could be a very dangerous year for many investors. Stock markets may have gained 30% last year, but that was only due to the collapse of markets in late 2018. A 30% rise this year would...
Now that we’re into February, tax season is well underway. W-2s and 1099s have been mailed, and many Americans are feverishly getting their paperwork in order so that they can get their tax refund as soon as possible. Millions of Americans pay tax preparers to do their taxes for...
Stock market investors are notorious for using ratios of various types to determine the proper valuation of a stock. The use of ratios extends to analyses of the overall stock market. And one of the ratios that many investors look at is flashing major warning signals that stock markets...
Holdings of gold in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hit record highs this week as investors sought to move their assets to safety. Total ETF holdings rose to over 2,570 tonnes, eclipsing the previous high set in 2012. This comes at a time when stock markets are still near their all-time...
The silver price, unlike the gold price, can be heavily influenced by industrial demand. For a number of years that weighed on the silver price, as demand from the photography industry waned. It seems hard to remember, in the age of digital photography, that we once used cameras with...
Total world gold mine production decreased last year for the first time since 2008. That’s sure to put upward pressure on world gold prices, as increased demand and decreased supply will work together to send gold skyward, perhaps even taking out its all-time high prices in 2020. Production from gold...