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Trump will be the Republican candidate in 2024. You don’t have to been sitting fifty or sixty feet from him during his electric CPAC speech, as I was, to know that. You only have to be a sentient human being. Donald Trump loved being president and he does not like to lose. Only a force … Read more
by Doug French via Mises A gentleman who does work for us sent me a text recently saying the price of his supplies has increased 20 percent, so he wants to increase his monthly fee 10 percent. It was a nice way to ask, and I said sure, especially given that he’s willing to take a haircut on … Read more
by Simon Black Warren Buffett minced no words in his most recent annual shareholder letter (which came out over the weekend) when he told investors that “retirees face a bleak future.” Buffett was referring to the pitifully low interest rates that dominate fixed income investments (like bonds and annuities). In September 1981, he writes, investors could … Read more
Rumble — Kari Lake: “Journalism has changed a lot since I first stepped into a newsroom… I don’t like the direction it is going. …I’m sure there are other journalists out there who feel the same way.”
Kitco News, Released on 3/2/21 The net effect of trying to squeeze the silver is that “you will lose your money” said Jeff Christian, managing partner of CPM Group. 0:00 – The silver market 4:33 – Silver squeeze 6:52 – SLV ETF 9:35 – Silver futures contract default 13:50 – Effects of silver Squeeze 16:02 … Read more
By Matt from Silver Fortune via Silver Fortune YCC
Current, former Tennessee governors to address rising federal debt. As Congress prepares to push the national debt to nearly $25 trillion with the latest spending plans, a group of millennial leaders worried about America’s growing federal debt will get some advice next week from Tennessee’s current and former governors about balancing budgets. Tennessee’s current governor … Read more
Interest rates have been negative in Europe for years. The global lockdown from 2020 has forced banks now to charge all depositors in Germany to keep cash in their banks. Negative nominal interest rates are real in Europe but here in the United States we also have a REAL negative savings rate on our deposits. … Read more
by howmuch Cryptocurrencies saw their values soar in 2021. Big companies like Paypal dove into the market, creating greater access. Demand skyrocketed alongside equity markets as troves of new investors snatched up various cryptocurrencies. And surprisingly, Bitcoin wasn’t the top performer. Use this visualization A significant amount of the gains occurred alongside the ‘Gamestop’ mania as investors and … Read more
by MetricT There appear to be two schools of wildly-diverging thought among investors right now, and I’ve been thinking how to bridge the two camps, since I can’t imagine them being both so incredibly wrong given the amount of money on the line. On the pessimists side are numerous successful investors (Ray Dalio, Jeremy Grantham, Charlie Munger, … Read more
$spx valuation model pic.twitter.com/JoEOkekI5I — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) March 2, 2021 $spx put /call ratio pic.twitter.com/bvObjQ6nL2 — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) March 2, 2021
https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1367102942768205824 Deflation. pic.twitter.com/K6hIutHNGL — The Macro Pulse (@TheMacroPulse) March 2, 2021 I agree. Although I think we will ultimately move away from the Ice Age deflationary quagmire, the reflation trade has gone too far, too soon. After a now fully discounted H1 GDP boom, a growth and Inflation slump towards the end of this year … Read more
"Investors are putting full faith in the idea that there is indeed a free lunch and never a price to pay for the Fed's largess and that is certainly how markets are trading. At some point you start to add up all these transitory items"#FBNhttps://t.co/WrStEUSzlB — Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) March 3, 2021
EU must prepare for ‘era of pandemics’, von der Leyen says https://t.co/hcHgfsaoeN — FT Europe (@ftbrussels) February 28, 2021 AC
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by J. Johnson via JS Mineset Great and Wonderful Tuesday Morning Folks, Late last night, I observed the hammer coming back to nail the precious metals lower. To me, the desperation is becoming more obvious by the day, as Gold reversed with the April contract at $1,725.50, up $2.50 after being dipped to $1,704.60 with the high to … Read more
Following Student Press Freedom Day, FIRE files a lawsuit on behalf of student newspaper and editor-in-chief against Haskell Indian Nations University and its president who issued “directive” forbidding routine newsgathering Federally-operated tribal university in Kansas shorted funding for student newspaper by over $10,000 without any explanation and ignored emails for months LAWRENCE, Kan., March 2, … Read more
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/02/investing/china-banking-financial-bubble-intl-hnk/index.html One of China’s most powerful financial officials is sounding the alarm over a bubble in global markets. Guo Shuqing, the Communist Party boss at the People’s Bank of China, told reporters in Beijing on Tuesday that confidence in Chinese markets could be hit by volatility around the world. “We are really afraid the bubble … Read more
https://twitter.com/SpencerKSchiff/status/1366882908179472385 Treasury yields jump https://t.co/NePSIx8Rj0 pic.twitter.com/0BGf1pl8UY — Bloomberg Markets (@markets) March 3, 2021 Drivers of the US bond market sell-off: (i) large fiscal stimulus timed to coincide with reopening of the US economy, making for a super-charged recovery; (ii) fiscal deficits (black) far above projected Fed QE buying (blue). Higher yields are a way to … Read more
