It was hedge fund legend Ray Dalio who said: “He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.” With a new President in the White House and a new administration, it is like a massive “reset” button is about to be ...
Stockhouse Editorial
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January 20, 2021
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2021 has started off with a bang for investors, as many sectors continue to weather the storm under COVID-19, which continues to spread to record numbers in the US, while the country watches as its outgoing President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time. Des...
Stockhouse Editorial
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January 13, 2021
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One look at the chart of the U.S. financial markets against the backdrop of economic paralysis and suffering, and one is immediately filled with a myriad of emotions. Sympathy for those that have been afflicted by the most recent pandemic; fear for the families whose prim...
Streetwise Reports
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June 2, 2020
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If there is one thing we know about the coronavirus, it’s that getting a jump on it helps to limit the number of infections. Clearly the best time to stop this, and all outbreaks, is in its early stages. Both China and the United States have been accused of...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 13, 2020
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Benjamin Franklin once said; “Out of adversity comes opportunity.” The adversity the United States now faces with the coronavirus pandemic is the worst national emergency the country has faced since World War II, more serious, far more deadly, than a...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 3, 2020
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On Monday Wall Street pared back losses from last week’s sell-off, the worst since 2008, but it was only the promise of lowering interest rates, the return of the “punch bowl” hearkening back to recession-era stimulus, that has tempora...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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March 3, 2020
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In our last article ( A Minsky Moment is coming for gold ) we presented the “Minsky Moment”, referring to a point in time when a period of bullish speculation leads to a spectacular market crash. Named after economist Hyman Minsky, the theory centers...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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February 24, 2020
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Coronavirus, the topic du jour. It is still the major threat for the global health and economy. But we should not forget about other geopolitical and economic developments. What do they imply for the gold market? Coronavirus, China’s Economy and Gold Prices ...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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February 18, 2020
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The stock market is confounding growing Coronavirus fears by recovering all of the late January's drop in the wake of Coronavirus news out of China that started global alarm bells ringing of what could transpire right across the world. The Dow retraced all of its drop from 2...
Nadeem Walayat
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February 12, 2020
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One of the advantages of being a sexagenarian is that after forty years investing in stocks, bonds, commodities, and currencies you have a pretty good idea when something is not exactly "right." If you have lived a good, normal life and you still have decent control of ov...
Streetwise Reports
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February 10, 2020
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