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
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June 1, 2020
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The debt-to-GDP ratio is an important metric economists use for comparing a country’s total debt to its gross domestic product (GDP). The percentage arrived at by dividing the country’s total GDP by its total debt indicates the country&Close...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 8, 2020
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\ Flying in the face of negative economic news, U.S. factories picked up steam for the third straight month in November. The preliminary manufacturing purchasing manager’s index (PMI), a leading indicator we closely track here at U.S. Global Investors, p...
Frank Holmes
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November 25, 2019
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Stock markets rebounded on Tuesday, after the White House announced further measures to help Americans and companies hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. The Trump Administration is reportedly considering sending checks to Americans so they have cash to spend during the outbr...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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March 18, 2020
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In 1917, the United States created the federal debt limit (or ceiling) to make it easier to finance World War One, essentially allowing Congress to borrow money to pay for the war effort by issuing bonds. By 1939 with World War Two looming, Congress passed the first aggre...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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October 8, 2019
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Say what you will about last week, it certainly wasn't dull. The Federal Reserve, seemingly capitulating to President Donald Trump and Wall Street, became just the latest central bank to cut interest rates. Meanwhile, the president escalated the trade war even further, an...
Frank Holmes
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August 7, 2019
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Mattress stuffers or bullion holders? Who fares better in a crisis? North American investors are divided between those who believe the decade-long stock market bull is going to keep running into the 2020s, and investors who, wary of something terrible happening, are hoarding...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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December 20, 2019
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After a century of cannabis prohibition, it should not come as any surprise that the normalization of cannabis laws in North America (and around the world) has been a slow, uneven process. Despite how clumsy and inefficient North American governments have been in executin...
Stockhouse Editorial
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April 6, 2022
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In Part I of this research, we highlighted the Case-Shiller index of home affordability and how it relates to the US real estate market and consumer economic activity going forward. We warned that once consumers start to shift away from an optimistic view of the economy, t...
Chris Vermeulen
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August 22, 2019
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North American stocks have had a strong week. Markets on both sides of the border responded well to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s vote to hold interest rates between 5.25 per cent and 5.50 per cent for a fifth straight meeting. The central bank has kept r...
Jonathon Brown
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March 21, 2024
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