Month: April 2021

by Robert Wheeler Joe Biden promised to do it and he has finally delivered. Today, the cognitively declining President of the United States signed a number of Executive Orders allegedly designed to “curb gun violence” but actually designed to destroy the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. In the process, Biden has turned many Americans … Read more

by: Stefan Gleason Americans appear to be growing more concerned about the skyrocketing national debt level – officially $28.1 trillion and counting. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s monthly Fiscal Confidence Index recently shed five points, dropping to a level of 47, in the wake of the Biden Administration’s latest $2 trillion stimulus package. That $2 … Read more

Financial Survival Network, Released on 4/8/21 1. This morning, we have a mixed session, trading is quiet. The tech heavy NASDAQ Composite is the big winner as yields on the 10-year note pullback. The Russell 2000 Index (IWM) is weak again trading lower by 0.58%. The Russell 2000 Index which represents small cap stocks in … Read more

by Michael Snyder The United States has never faced a more severe law enforcement crisis than it is facing right now.  All over the nation, police officers are quitting in droves, and many of those jobs are going unfilled because of the difficulty in recruiting new applicants.  Since the death of George Floyd, police officers … Read more

TradersChoice.net, Released on 4/8/21 Gregory Mannarino started his career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. After realizing that working on Wall Street was not like the movies, he moved on to get a medical degree and practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant. He also served … Read more

by confoundedinterest17 Thanks a boatload Joe Biden, Janet Yellen and Jerry Powell. Low-income Americans bore the brunt of job losses when the pandemic arrived. Now they’re getting hit hardest by price increases as the economy recovers. The headline consumer inflation rate in the U.S. remains subdued, at 1.7% — but it masks large differences in what … Read more

by confoundedinterest17 Gee, I thought The Fed already had control over short-term rates. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stands ready to pull some of the central bank’s policy levers in between regularly scheduled meetings, if that’s what it takes to keep short-term interest rates under control. He noted recent downward pressure on rates during the Federal Open Market Committee’s March … Read more

Food prices have been going up for the better part of a year, and the Fed is claiming these price increases are “transitory”, and in one sense, they are transitory because pretty soon the food we eat will cost even more! Brian Ochsner, who is a Kansas wheat farmer, an economic analyst and a health … Read more

by Frank Shostak via Mises In an interview with National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” program on Thursday, March 25, 2021, Fed chair Jerome Powell said that even with the economy rebounding faster than expected, any change in monetary policy would happen “very, very gradually over time and with great transparency. Rate increases would only be considered when the … Read more

Egon von Greyerz with Patrick V. on Silver Bullion TV SBTV spoke with Egon von Greyerz, Founder of Matterhorn Asset Management, about the coming mayhem from the destruction of fiat currencies against gold. The oversized global banking system will collapse, be careful what you keep in the banking system! FULL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS HERE

from Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network Debbie Bloyd notes that interest rates are rising for now, and asks what will the effect be? Buyers haven’t seemed to notice. One a $300k mortgage their payment has gone up $60-70 per month. Buyers need to prepared for higher insurance, taxes, utilities, etc. Texas had their freeze and they’re still … Read more

Via International Man International Man: The trend of investing in so-called environmental, social, and governance (ESG) companies is growing. Companies are rated based on their carbon emissions, diversity on their board, among other factors. Many companies seem to be bending over backwards to show their ESG credentials. What do you make of all this? Where … Read more

The Jimmy Dore Show, Released on 4/7/21 “It’s almost like the more success you have as a journalist, the more the so-called ‘journalists’ hate you.”