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Inflation shot up to 8.6% last month, the highest the CPI has been in over 40 years. As consumers and wage earners, our purchasing and earning power is eroding by the day—and the markets have certainly noticed.  It’s a bloodbath…

Another month, another bloodbath in the alternative assets market. While the S&P 500 Index held relatively steady with a (-0.04%) return over the 30-day period ending June 6th, U.S. equities saw considerable volatility and the SPX saw periods of erratic…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced interest rate hikes by 50 basis points in light of generationally high inflation levels. In response, the stock market spiked briefly while the alternative asset market declined by a considerable margin—likely because a steeper…

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has disrupted global markets, and gold has once again found itself at the center of the story.  In response to Western sanctions, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation has effectively created a price floor…

Global markets have been deeply affected by recent events.  Amid senseless turmoil and violence, our primary concern is usually not our pocketbooks or account balances. However, it’s only natural to not make a bad situation worse by having your wealth…

What a year it was for alternative investors. Silver took a loss following an erratic year marked by a Reddit-led pump on the news of a “short squeeze” in February. Its price fell from about $27 to $23.25 per ounce…

Black Friday sales have stuck around a little longer this year.  Right now, it’s a buyer’s market for alternative investors. As we roll into December, gold, silver, and Bitcoin are all currently priced at a discount.  Gold is trading at…

September proved that the stock market is no longer on stable ground. Even worse, there’s no telling when the market will stabilize again. The Buffett Indicator, named after Warren Buffett, is a ratio of the entire U.S. stock market’s valuation…

Yet again, August proved to be another month of strong stability for gold.  The price of gold opened at $1,813 per troy ounce on August 1st and closed at approximately $1,816 on August 31st. While stocks and riskier assets have…

Inflation is coming.  A recent survey of the nation’s top economists found that inflation is here to stay, and that it’ll reach levels unseen since the early 1990s. Rising prices and fewer jobs are going to not only take its…

Big changes are coming to our economy.  As the economy heats up, the Federal Reserve Chairs have acknowledged that they intend to hike interest rates by the latter half of 2023. Previously, they had announced their intention to keep rates…

It’s a good time to get in on gold and silver.  As investment funds pour into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, precious metals are available at a discount.  At the time of writing, the spot price of gold is hovering around…

We live in strange times, full of both insecurity and opportunity. The Fed is printing free money and the repo market is lending free money with reckless abandon—with all this free capital going around, it’s a small wonder why the…

We might be trending toward recovery, but, make no mistake, the economy is in rough shape. The retail sector was already struggling, but the pandemic has really turned the heat up. Best Buy just announced 5,000 layoffs and more store…

Every day, it feels like the market’s getting weirder. Gold demand hit an 11-year low in 2020, despite its price breaking all-time highs. In fact, worldwide demand for gold fell to 3,700 tonnes, down 14% from 2019, which marks the…

Although it just started, it looks as though 2021 is off to a horrible start for the economy. Global debt is at a record high of $277 trillion.  The debt-to-GDP ratio is 50 percentage points higher among developed nations than…

We’re headed for big trouble.  The economic problems we’re facing now are bigger than the pandemic. Even bigger than the Fed. We’re staring down complete insolvency of the Social Security system in the next decade. The coronavirus is only expediting…

The G20 nations have announced over $11 trillion in stimulus to keep their zombified economies afloat. The end result? A public-debt-to-GDP ratio in excess of 140% is expected across the world’s developed nations. This spells doom for the sustainability of…

We’re living in truly unprecedented times. Social unrest has reached a fever pitch in many parts of the country. Domestic agitation and politically-motivated mass protests and street violence are rampant in cities such as Portland.  In the east, Azerbaijan and…