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Monetary Madness Brackets

March Madness may be over, but there is no end in sight for the Federal Reserve’s monetary madness. The Fed has been betting that the US economy would continue to recover, but the latest jobs numbers and dismal GDP data have revealed its forecasting to be as terrible as ever. If the Fed’s policies are […]

Don’t Expect a Rate Hike, because the Fed Is Clueless (Video)

Marc Faber told Kitco News the same thing Peter Schiff has been warning — the United States economy is too weak for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in June. Faber believes that eventually the markets will wake up to just how ignorant and powerless global central banks are. When that happens, investors will […]

The Fed Has Promised Too Much and Can Only Deliver Bubbles (Video)

In an interview on Bloomberg, former Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach tears apart the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve. Roach explains that Ben Bernanke has blatantly admitted that the Fed’s goal is to stimulate the economy by growing asset bubbles. Roach’s indictment of the Fed and the US economy is severe, but he […]

Gold Is Once Again Outperforming Stocks (Video)

The price of gold surged this week after the poor jobs numbers released last Friday. The yellow metal is now up about 3.5% in 2015, while the S&P 500 is up barely 1.5%. As usual, technical traders are now jumping on the gold bull wagon, at least temporarily. In this short CNBC interview, precious metals […]

US Economy Is Running Out of Jobs and Excuses (Video)

Last week, the March jobs data finally began to match the rest of the terrible economic data in America. While analysts are blaming the lower-than-expected non-farm payroll numbers on poor weather, the employment picture is actually worse than the first quarter of last year when the “polar vortex” swept through the country. In his latest […]

Icelandic Proposal to Give Central Bank Complete Control of Monetary Supply

In a report ironically titled “A Better Monetary System for Iceland,” government officials in the small North Atlantic nation are considering a policy that would strip commercial banks of the power to increase the money supply through lending. Instead, they would hand all money creation to the central bank – in essence, completely nationalizing the […]

Q1 GDP at 0% Growth – When Will the Markets Wake Up? (Audio)

The US markets are closed today, but the March jobs numbers were release this morning — 126,000 non-farm payroll jobs were created last month. The forecast was for 245,000 new jobs, so this is a terrible report that falls nearly 50% short of expectations. Taking into account all the economic data thus far in 2015, […]

Mineable Gold May Be Gone in 20 Years

A new report from Goldman Sachs warns that mineable reserves of rare commodities like gold may dwindle to extreme scarcity within two decades. This means that easily-mined gold is getting harder and harder to find. With less gold being pulled out of the earth, less gold is being refined and produced for consumers. In fact, […]

Gold Will Reach $1600 by 2016 (Video)

Bloomberg TV interviewed Chris Gersch from Altimus Capital about why he believes gold is due for a price breakout. He sees both technical and fundamental reasons to support gold surging to $1600 in the next year, making him just another stock investor that is waking up to gold’s potential. The gold price has risen substantially […]

Keynesianism Still Doesn’t Make Sense (Audio)

Well-known Austrian economist and author Bob Murphy recently joined Tom Woods in a strong critique of popular, mainstream economics. Murphy tore apart everything from a recent Paul Krugman blog post to the Keynesian explanation for the 2008 financial crash. The interview is long and in-depth, but a great listen if you want a detailed rebuttal […]