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While the United States has long been off the gold standard, the relationship between the US dollar and gold remains. The strength of the dollar is one factor that many investors take into account when making their investments, particularly when they decide to make investments in gold. Gold plays an...
Unless you follow market news really closely, you’re probably unaware of how large the corporate debt bubble in the United States is. Even if you follow mainstream financial media, very few people are talking about it because they don’t want to upset the apple cart. For many American investors,...
Every day brings more and more news that market participants are warning of the risk of a severe recession. Experienced traders from both stock and bond markets are positioning themselves to protect themselves against the downturn, which they universally agree will be catastrophic. The only question now is, with...
There has been a lot of criticism of stock markets this year, particularly when the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 reach new highs based solely on expectations of a resolution of the trade war with China. It seems that every time President Trump, or anyone in the administration,...
Every day seems to bring more and more news of headwinds facing the economy. Now international organizations are warning that global trade growth is slowing, an ominous indicator that the world economy continues to slow. Earlier this year, analysts at the World Trade Organization (WTO) forecast a 2.6% increase in...
World reserve currencies don’t remain reserve currencies forever. The British pound and its gold standard once ruled international finance, but after abandoning the gold standard during World War I and unsuccessfully attempting to reintroduce it after the war, the pound ceded its reserve currency status to the US dollar. Since...
Ray Dalio is one of the world’s richest men, one of its most prominent investors, and the founder of one of the world’s largest hedge funds. He’s also bearish on the future of the economy, betting $1.5 billion that the economy will turn south before then. If stocks turn...
A key component to the surge in stock prices over the past several years has been the record high level of corporate stock buybacks. Corporations have been issuing trillions of dollars in debt in order to buy back shares of their stock. That boosts earnings per share, a key...
For years, market analysts have wondered when the fourth round of quantitative easing (QE) would occur. We all remember QE1, QE2, and QE3, which mainstream economic analysts praise as having saved the financial system from ruin in 2008 and afterwards. But the trillions of dollars created during those bouts...
With manufacturing activity slowing, job postings declining, and manufacturing activity grinding to a halt, the economy is obviously headed toward recession. Yet stock markets seem oblivious to all of that, reaching new highs in the past few days and confounding everyone who sees the next recession just around the...