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Stock market crashes are easy to see in hindsight, but they’re very difficult to see while they’re occurring. Too many people assume that a stock market crash will manifest itself as a Black Monday or Black Tuesday type of event, with a 10% or 20% loss in a single...
With the prospect of sound fiscal policies at the federal level becoming increasingly unlikely, state-level proposals in the United States are where fiscally-minded conservatives are beginning to focus more and more of their efforts. Increasingly those efforts are taking the form of pushing state government to secure their assets by...
Last week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting made it clear that the Federal Reserve has caved to pressure to bring its gradual tightening of monetary policy to an early and unplanned halt. Between pressure from President Trump and pressure from markets who want to see the stock market...
Gold’s ability to act as a safe haven asset is unparalleled. Experienced investors have known about that for centuries, which is why gold has always performed so well during times of economic crisis. During the 2007-2009 stock market crash stock markets lost over 50% of their value, while gold...
It’s no secret that central banks hate gold. If they could press a button and destroy every last grain of gold that has ever been produced, they would do it. Gold has always been the ultimate restraint on the ability of governments and central banks to create money out...
While the government shutdown may now be over, its effects will likely still linger for a while. But one thing the shutdown really brought to the fore is the fact that many American households will be unprepared for the next recession. We found out that many government employees weren’t...
There’s no denying that 2018 was the year of cryptocurrencies. Fresh off a $20,000 high, cryptocurrency enthusiasts had no doubt that Bitcoin would continue to soar. New products such as Bitcoin futures began to be offered, promising to revolutionize the financial world. Alas, those hopes were a little premature....
The federal government reopened this week after the longest shutdown ever. But while most Americans saw national parks and federal museums shuttered and assumed that the rest of the government was closed in a similar manner, that wasn’t really the case. In fact, despite the hundreds of thousands of...
If someone had told you last August that palladium would one day be more valuable than gold, you probably would have laughed out loud. Yet here we are, with palladium just barely edging out gold as the world’s most valuable precious metal. From a low of $845 last August...
There’s been a lot of talk about how the government shutdown is harming the economy, with millions of dollars of losses piling up each day. The longer the shutdown lasts, the worse it is for the economy according to this point of view. But is that really true? There are...