Precious metals are loving the uncertainty the coronavirus has created. Despite limited successes some countries have had with reopening, the virus is nowhere near contained. As of this writing, close to 6 million worldwide are infected and 365,328 have died. The importan...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
June 1, 2020
|
“There is a Chinese curse which says ‘May he live in interesting times.’ Like it or not we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history.&CloseCurl...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
May 22, 2020
|
The coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest and unprecedented seismic shifts in the global economy that we've ever seen in modern history, and it's just getting started. Already, economies around the world are shutting down. The federal reserve has pumped trillions int...
Michael Kern
|
April 15, 2020
|
The rich are getting richer, inequality is on the rise, and the middle class, the backbone of the US economy since the 1950s, is shrinking. In 2018 the three highest-paid chief executives in the United States earned more than the output of several countries. Tesla&Close...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
March 19, 2020
|
In the 1986 classic ‘Platoon’, Charlie Sheen’s character Chris Taylor tells everyone that he dropped out of college to serve in the Vietnam War. This sets him apart from the other grunts and makes Taylor seem noble and patriotic, giving up sch...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
November 29, 2019
|
The 1960s and 70s were decades of incredible social upheaval. Fed up with wars, governments out of touch with their ideals, authority figures who didn’t get them, the “flower children” of the '60s took to the streets to demand equal ri...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
November 4, 2019
|
Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold makes available the first two chapters of his most recent book that delve into the current state of the economy. Yellow Vests walking in Oloron, France. Photo: Robert Moriarty After being bugged unmercifully by a couple of m...
Streetwise Reports
|
August 20, 2019
|
Saudi Arabia's CEO Amin Nasr's message to the press that oil flows to the market are guaranteed, should be taken with a pinch of salt. Looking at the current volatility in the Persian/Arabian Gulf and the possibility of a temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the Ar...
Cyril Widdershoven
|
July 23, 2019
|
Saudi Arabia's CEO Amin Nasr's message to the press that oil flows to the market are guaranteed, should be taken with a pinch of salt. Looking at the current volatility in the Persian/Arabian Gulf and the possibility of a temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the Ar...
Cyril Widdershoven
|
July 2, 2019
|
“It’s the tail that wags the dog” is defined by Urban Dictionary as a way of persuading a large group of people. The phrase is usually employed in a situation wherein a cause that expects to elicit a certain effect, is in fact reversed. ...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
May 21, 2019
|