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Everybody is blaming coronavirus for the collapsing financial markets. This is not the reason. The reason is the reckless Federal Reserve. Imagine a situation when an individual has AIDS and he/she dies from a light cold. It is not the cold that killed the person. It is AIDS that caused the ...

The close price relationship between silver and gold is nothing new. The silver/gold ratio dates back to 3000 BC when the first Egyptian pharaoh Menes declared that tow and one-half parts silver equal one-part gold. Silver and gold began trading on the futures exchange in the 1970s. Until rece...

This is a historic day, just as it was last week. It is 7 am PST and silver is down $1.93, last at $12.56. Gold is at $467.50, down $49. This is obviously unprecedented. We are witnessing the biggest transfer of wealth in history. No one expected that the coronavirus was going to be the straw ...

US economic growth caused the Federal Reserve to tighten credit from December 2015 until mid-2019. Last year, the trade war between the US and China and a sharp correction in US stocks and other markets in the final quarter of 2018 caused the Fed to pivot to a policy of monetary policy easing....

Risk-off periods in markets are nothing new. The first significant case was the stock market crash of 1929 that heralded in the Great Depression. Since markets reflect the global economic and political landscapes, there have been many examples of times when the stock market and other asset pri...

Gold investors need to be prepared for this upcoming week as it has the potential to change gold market sentiment significantly. Source: US Global Investors While we were writing this article, the Federal Reserve made an emergency rate cut and introduced QE5 to try and add liquidity to...

On Sunday night, March 8, when all hell was breaking loose in markets across all asset classes, a flight to quality wave took the price of two assets higher. US bonds rose along with the price of gold. Gold broke out to the upside in June 2019 when it rose above the July 2016 high and level of...

Fundamentals Most markets have an equilibrium based on supply and demand. What drives the market to extremes is speculation. Recently, that speculation has been driven by fear based on the coronavirus. People who have been in the market for a long time, who just got into the market recen...

Russ discusses the reasons why gold can be an effective hedge going forward. The point of owning insurance is that it will pay when needed. For investors suffering through one of the most abrupt corrections on record, their insurance policies have had a mixed record. In early February I ...

Overview: An informal Wall Street definition of a bear market is down 20% from the highs. As of now, that’s what we’ve entered. Yes, it’s been brutal for the longs and in many respects unprecedented. But by and large, the markets always confront an array of similar...