Precious Metals News
Markets Insider: Central Banks Boost Gold Reserves to Diversify from the Dollar
Over the last six months, China, Germany and Turkey have increased their gold holdings by the most (these are official holdings - when it comes to China, its true holdings are likely much higher than stated).
Barron's: A Banking Crisis Could Be Closer Than You Think
As more commercial real estate deals are occurring-at huge discounts of up to 50%, if not more. Banks will be squeezed even more as these discounts get reflected on their balance sheets.
Bloomberg News: China Splurges on Gold For a 16th Month as Price Hits Record
"There are number of central banks buying a combined total of around 1,000 tons a year, and that sends a message to the wider market" about possible long-term changes to the global monetary system
CNBC: The U.S. National Debt is Rising By $1 Trillion About Every 100 Days
Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett believes the 100-day pattern will remain intact with the move from $34 trillion to $35 trillion.
Daily Mail: Wharton Professor Predicts 2025 Financial Meltdown With $34 Trillion Debt Set to 'Derail the Next Administration'
Interest payments on the national debt will eclipse defense spending this year. Interest payments on this debt are now the fastest growing part of the federal budget.
Fox Business: JPMorgan Warns Investors Should Brace for 1970s-style 'Stagflation'
U.S. stocks smashed a new record high last week, but the rally may not last for long thanks to heightened risks that the economy returns to a 1970s-style stagflation scenario, according to JPMorgan Chase strategists.
Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Mark Zuckerberg have sold stock worth about $9 billion.
They might think markets can't go much higher
Barron's: A Banking Crisis Could Be Closer Than You Think
Schmelzing stressed that a year isn't long enough to know if a crisis has been averted. He said that "systemic crises tend to be drawn-out affairs" with "long tails." Schmelzing said that a helpful guidepost is the timeline of the 2007-09 financial crisis.
Bloomberg News: US Risks Fiscal Crisis After Soaring Borrowing, Blanchard Warns
The huge deficit seen last year has caused concern as it comes after a rise in interest rates and when the economy is growing. US government debt held by the public topped $26 trillion in 2023, or 97% of GDP.
CNBC: Gold at $3,000 and Oil at $100 By 2025? Citi Analysts Don't Rule it Out
"The most likely wildcard path to $3,000/oz gold is a rapid acceleration of an existing but slow-moving trend: de-dollarization across Emerging Markets central banks that in turn leads to a crisis of confidence in the U.S. dollar."
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Markets Insider: Recession is Coming And it Could Send Stocks Plummeting 26%, Strategist Says
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Real Estate Market Will Collapse - Donald Trump Attorney
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CNBC: 'A Slow Fiscal Death' Awaits Some Countries in This 'Decade of Debt,' Says Economist Arthur Laffer
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Fox Business: Government Spending and Borrowing Puts Us Squarely on the Road to Bankruptcy
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Investing Haven: Silver Set to Rise To $30 This Year, But Where is Momentum?
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Investing News Network - Andy Schectman: How to Win When the Dollar's Hegemony Ends
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Market Watch: Credit-card and Car-loan Delinquencies Are at Their Highest Point in More Than a Decade
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Markets Insider: Jeremy Grantham, Jeffrey Gundlach, and Other Market Veterans Predict Pain for Stocks - and See a Recession Ahead
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Markets Insider: The Epic Stock Rally Will End Badly, the AI Bubble Will Burst, And the Economy Will Sink, Warns Jeremy Grantham
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CNBC: Silver Set for a 'Terrific Year' and Could Outperform Gold to Hit a 10-year High
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Bloomberg News: Gold Demand to Hit Record with Central-Bank Buying, WGC Says
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Business Insider: Brace For a Recession That May Trigger a Stock-market Meltdown Worse Than 2022, Says Top Economist David Rosenberg
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Markets Insider: Stocks Look 'Highly Vulnerable' and the Economy is Likely to Enter a Year-long Recession, a 30-year Market Veteran Says
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Fortune: Billionaire CEO Sees $1 Trillion in Commercial Real Estate Defaults Coming for 'Very, Very Ugly Market' Over Next 2 Years
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Fortune: Jamie Dimon Says Washington Faces a Global market 'Rebellion' Over Record U.S. Debt: 'It is a Cliff, We're Going 60 Mph Towards it'
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Fox Business: Consumers Are Propping Up the US Economy, But They're Going into Debt to Do So
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Pensions & Investments: DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach Says Fed Won't Cut Rates, Markets Overpriced
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Yahoo Business: Central Banks' Gold Buying Frenzy Set to Continue in 2024
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Business Insider: Bank Credit is Shrinking for the First Time Since the Great Recession - and That's a Red Flag for the Economy
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CNBC: Jamie Dimon Warns 'All These Very Powerful Forces' Will Impact U.S. Economy in 2024 and 2025
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Fox Business: Billionaire Investor Warns Over Impending Financial Crisis: 'Nobody' Knows When it Will Hit
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Investing.com - Gold: QE Has Already Begun and the Next Rally is Coming
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Markets Insider: Top Economist Steve Hanke Says Stocks Will Drop, a Recession Will Hit, and Inflation Will Sink Below 2% This Year
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Newsweek: Ignoring BRICS Expansion Threatens America's Economic Security
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Bloomberg News: Credit Card Delinquency Rates Climb to Decade High in Fed Study
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Business Insider: The $34 Trillion Mountain of National Debt is a 'Boiling Frog' Situation for the US Economy, JPMorgan Warns
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CNBC: U.S. Deficit Tops Half a Trillion Dollars in the First Quarter of Fiscal Year
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Fox Business: US Economy Starting to Look 'More Like the 1970s,' JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon Says
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Markets Insider: Buying the S&P 500 Seems Like a 'Pretty Lousy Trade' Right Now - And a US Recession is Looming, Jeffrey Gundlach Says
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USA Today: Our National Debt Has Topped $34 Trillion. Does Anyone Actually Have the Guts to Fix It?
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Fox Business: US National Debt Tops $34 Trillion for First Time in History
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Market Watch: Gold Still Outshining Stocks and Bonds Since the Turn of the Century
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Financial Times: Bankruptcies Soar as High Rates and End of Covid Aid Hit Businesses Hard
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Fox Business: Delinquencies Are Rising for Credit Card, Auto Loans - And it Could Soon Get Worse
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Fox Business: US Economist Predicts 2024 Will Bring 'Biggest Crash of Our Lifetime'
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Ex-State Department Official Says BRICS-Led De-dollarization Should Alarm US
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Market Watch: Silver's Window of Opportunity is Closing, with Prices Poised for an 'Explosive Move' in 2024
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Washington Examiner: The economic indicator screaming that inflation is not vanquished
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Markets Insider: The Fed is Quietly Signaling That Stocks are Overvalued and a Recession is Almost Certain, Top Economist David Rosenberg Says
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A 'severe recession' may be coming in 2024 as the stock market, job market flash warning signs, strategist says
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Warren Buffet Selling $28.7 Billion in Stock Rings Alarm Bells Over Economy