Month: July 2020

by Craig Hemke via Sprott Money News July 21, 2020 It may or may not happen at next week’s FOMC, but that hardly matters. What’s important is that a policy shift is coming and the impact upon the precious metals will be significant. Many times already in 2020, we’ve utilized this space to explain why negative real interest … Read more

by jessefelder The following is an excerpt of a Chart Book featured on The Felder Report PRO: Just three stocks, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, make up more than 16% of the S&P 500 Index and over a third of the Nasdaq 100 Index. Together they are now valued at nearly $5 trillion. That’s larger than the … Read more

by visualcapitalist Healthcare vs. Military Spending, by Country Keeping citizens both healthy and secure are key priorities for many national governments around the world—but ultimately, decisions must be made on how tax dollars are spent to accomplish these objectives, and funding must fall into one bucket or another. This infographic from PixlParade examines how much 46 different countries … Read more

by howmuch Congress is now negotiating another round of economic stimulus to counter the coronavirus, and it still remains to be seen exactly what will be in it. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was one of the biggest planks of the previous stimulus effort, offering small businesses forgivable loans in exchange for keeping workers on their payrolls. … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YYsGIfOryg  

Why is silver breaking out now and the Dollar as measured by the Dollar Index (DXY) is weak?  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqryQrGC4po

The US is in another Cold War with the Chinese Communist Party. But it was late to the game. A new book, Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, details how China has slowly subverted the West using espionage, the national security risks of … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIFjIY0Gdls 100% Fed Up reports, Independent journalist Drew Hernandez captured an exchange between NYPD officers and pro-cop supporters who wanted to deface the “Black Lives Matter” message painted in front of Trump Tower on the street in New York City. When the police officers asked why they were stopping them from defacing the graffiti, the … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV2sJu_iAmk C. Douglas Golden from The Western Journal reports, During a press briefing, CNN’s chief White House correspondent was asking about the alleged Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan with a ton of loaded assumptions baked in. If you don’t have full knowledge of what happened here, don’t worry. You know who else doesn’t? … Read more

    h/t general mishka

by Erik Lytikainen Options risk in the stock market? Over the past two years there has been a growing interest in “options gamma” in the markets. As shown below, Google trends show a surge in interest, spiking around the March 2020 sell-off. Source: Google Trends Option gamma is a concept that many find difficult to … Read more

by The Phoenix The market finally poked its head above major resistance (red line in the chart below) yesterday. We now need to wait to see if there is follow through today. For certain stocks remain in an uptrend (blue line in the chart above).  But without follow through on this breakout, we could easily … Read more

What does the “Greater Depression” look like? Pento says, “Get ready for stagflation, and that’s what I call the ‘Greater Depression.’ That’s when the real chaos begins. . . . You can make an argument that the Fed can fight deflation because it can continue to prop up asset prices. That’s true, and it’s a … Read more