Gold outperformed bonds and stocks over the last 20 years, and there is a good reason to expect that it will happen again. Stock valuations are still near record highs…
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The American economy is doing great by most measures, but the deepening debt crisis in the emerging markets threatens to drag down the entire world economy. The Fed keeps hiking…
Precious metals and real estate are both real assets that investors can hold directly, but gold has a major advantage during a crisis. You can quickly and easily sell gold…
According to Warren Buffett, “You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” That means that quality is more important than ever near the end of…
Are you ready for the next financial crisis? Another global monetary reset is coming because of the unsustainable debt accumulation over the last ten years. The Fed unleashed over two…
Everyone wants to get their money back into the USA now that interest rates are up, so emerging market debt default risk is rising. It is an old story with…
Whenever Pinocchio told a lie his nose would grow, and it would be very helpful to investors if we could easily see when someone was lying like Pinocchio. We are…
Stocks are overvalued by most historical standards, so it might seem tempting to engage in short selling. The truth is that you should never short stocks because buying gold is…
The European Central Bank (ECB) kept interest rates artificially low for a long time, but financial repression has its limits. The combination of rising US interest rates and increasing political…
So many of the distortions in our economy began with going off the Gold Standard in 1971, and America’s trade deficit is no different. If we look at Census Bureau…