August 15, 2021 | Why This Wall of Worry Is Different

There is increasing confusion in America about how to handle the rapid spread of Covid’s delta variant. The stock market can usually tell us how much fear is out there, but this time Wall Street seems, if not quite clueless, then certainly heedless. The broad averages have moved steadily higher in recent weeks, caused more […]

August 14, 2021 | A Commitment of Traders Report For the Ages

14 August 2021 — Saturday Yesterday in Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium   NOTE: Nick Laird of goldchartsrus.com fame — and whose charts grace this column every day of the year, has opened his website for free access for a week starting now — and the link to this free gift, which is well worth your […]

August 14, 2021 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark –  Stock Markets New High, Gold
• Robert Campbell –  US Real Estate, Fear vs. Greed
• Wolf Richter – Consumer Debt, Used Vehicles, Electric Vehicles
• Larry Reaugh – President & CEO of American Manganese Inc. on Company Showcase – Canadian Government Funds Fast Pilot Foreign Market Programs. CEO discusses Press Release content.  Read the Latest News.  Read The Economic Standard Article by Larry Reaugh, American Manganese Inc – over 32,000 views to date. Read Quartz Article – “South Korea is Developing a Critical Metals Strategy to Back a Lofty Battery Goal“.  Read Resource World Article – “Will Battery Minerals Demand Outstrip Supply in the Future?“.  Read Coalition for a Prosperous America Article- “Senate Infrastructure Gets Serious about EV Battery and Rare Earth Supply Chain“.  Watch Vice Versa With Matt & Ricky – “Tesla’s MASSIVE Plan to Recycle ALL Their Batteries!“.  Watch JCDREAM ElectroMobility Video.  See AMY Lithium-ion Recycling Technology – Updated Jan. 2021.  See AMY Company Presentation – Dec. 2020.

  Watch AMY’s Video – “Our Revolutionary Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Technology”.

  Watch AMY’s Video – “Introducing RecycLiCo™ – A Patented Process for Recycling Lithium-ion Batteries“.

  Questions?  Email Larry or Phone: 778.574.444

August 14, 2021 | Trading Desk Notes For August 14, 2021

Choppy price action in mid-summer markets Gold and silver fell sharply Friday of last week (August 6th) as the US Dollar surged higher following the much-stronger-than-expected US employment report. But the real fireworks happened when markets opened in the Far East on Sunday afternoon, August 8th. Gold tumbled ~$85 from Friday’s closing levels, while silver […]

August 13, 2021 | Driving in America Changed: Rural is Up, Urban Down, Mass Transit Out

Total miles driven by all types of passenger and commercial vehicles, including over-the-road trucks and local delivery vehicles, in June, on all roads and streets in the US rose to 282.5 billion miles, the highest since October 2019, and just a tad below June 2019, according to the Federal Highway Administration this week. In other […]

August 13, 2021 | Brave Experiment Powers BC Resource Community

BC businessman teams up with Bitcoin miner, Iris Energy, to revive the fortunes of resource-based communities in Western Canada with renewable energy. Fabian Dawson, with Mata Press Service, reports. BC businessman Brian Fehr receiving the gift of an otter from Yaqan Nukiy Nasukin Jason Louie after Iris Energy recently pledged $500,000 annually to four local […]

August 13, 2021 | Code Red Alert on Climate Change

A report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change triggered a code red alert on the impact of human-induced global warming. The sixth assessment points out that the earth’s climate has warmed by 1.1 degrees Celsius (C) since the Industrial Revolution and immediate action is necessary to limit future temperature increases. Antonio Guterres, UN […]

August 13, 2021 | Speculation: Tale as Old as Time

As Ben Graham pointed out in 1959, the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit followed by ultimate loss. Yet, those who buy corporate securities without regard for valuation are speculating, whether they know it or not. Another generation is learning old lessons the hard way; see How Millennial Investors lost Millions on […]

August 13, 2021 | Diminishing Volume Suggests US Stock Market Momentum Is Weakening – Possibly Setting Up A Liquidity Trap

Weakening volume after an extended rally phase is fairly common.  It represents a complacency in the markets where traders/investors are unwilling to chase an extended rally phase at higher prices.  Often traders are waiting for some type of market correction or rotation to happen – which will allow them to deploy capital back into the […]

August 13, 2021 | Wall Street Journal Proves It Doesn’t Understand Gold

Gold bugs should never assume that the mainstream investing community actually understands finance. That includes the Wall Street Journal, which recently published an article (Gold as an Inflation Hedge: What the Past 50 Years Teaches Us) purporting to show that gold does not protect against a depreciating currency. The article begins with a couple of subheads… […]

August 13, 2021 | Canadian Government Funds Fast Pilot Foreign Market Programs

CEO discusses Press Release content. Read the Latest News. Read The Economic Standard Article by Larry Reaugh, American Manganese Inc – over 32,000 views to date. Read Quartz Article – “South Korea is Developing a Critical Metals Strategy to Back a Lofty Battery Goal“. Read Resource World Article – “Will Battery Minerals Demand Outstrip Supply in the […]

August 13, 2021 | US Consumer Credit Debt, Interest Rates, Inflation, Deflation

Swings in the Chinese bond market, Crypto theft

August 12, 2021 | Dis-Inflating into 2022

Inflation has always been a lagging economic indicator and as transitory as financial bubbles. In the last forty years, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) reports that the low in inflation readings occurred an average of 15 quarters (3.75 years) after the end of each recession. The average number of years from the beginning […]

August 12, 2021 | Shortages & Unemployment

The Federal Reserve’s take on the coin shortage says that there are ample coins in the economy, but the banks have also been closed so there was a shortage also created by the fact that businesses could not get coins from a local bank that was operating only in a virtual mode. This also contributed […]

August 12, 2021 | Inflation, Deflation, US Dollar, Gold, Silver

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August 12, 2021 | The Last Time We Had Inflation Like This, The 2008 Recession Hit

Massive Reverse Repo Hiding Market Problems

August 11, 2021 | LNG Isn’t Dead Yet

BC’s LNG era is far from over. Those seeking its demise would have better luck finding the Holy Grail. If you had the misfortune of reading a recent article in the National Observer heralding the end of LNG, you might be reminded of that famous scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Many of the same […]

August 11, 2021 | Market Scams and Fraud ‘Top to Bottom’

This discussion offers insight into the present ‘investment’ landscape dominated by scams, fraud, deception and participants that are oblivious or apathetic and speculating anyway. Not just in China…Whatever people are doing here, it’s not investing.  Gaming perhaps; but it’s not a game.  Individuals have everything to lose. Carson Block, chief investment officer of Muddy Waters […]

August 11, 2021 | Global Markets Start The Week Very Volatile – Metals & Oil Collapse, Part II

In this, the second part of our Market Volatility research article, we’ll take a look at how Precious Metals, the US Dollar, and the US major markets have moved into a sideways price trend which supports a pending future volatility event.  The big “mini flash-crash” in precious metals on Monday, August 9, may have been […]

August 10, 2021 | What is the REAL Agenda with Vaccines & Climate Change

  This has all been a coordinated effort for the REAL AGENDA which is not vaccines or even saving the planet from global warming. The true agenda is in front of everyone’s eyes, but mainstream media refuses to allow the dots to be connected and anyone who dares to simply open their eyes is immediate […]

August 10, 2021 | Poverty Is Becoming the New Wealth

POITOU, FRANCE – We check the financial news… Both the $1 trillion “infrastructure bill” and the $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” budget moved along in Congress… And stocks hit new record highs on Friday… after what was reported as a “blowout” jobs report. That is to say, we are making progress. The delusions grow more extreme. […]

August 10, 2021 | The Pipeline Protest Built

What does it look like when a major infrastructure project is hardened in the crucible of years of intense public scrutiny? The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project—the $7 billion oil pipeline twinning from Edmonton to Vancouver—might go down in history as a design affected as much by its engineers as by the environmental activists who […]

August 10, 2021 | Stock-linked Pay Driving Destabilizing Trends

A new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute finds that CEOs of publicly traded companies in the United States saw their compensation rise by 1,322% between 1978 and 2020—while the pay increase of the typical worker was just 18% during that same period.  See Since 1978 CEO pay has risen 1,322%. As shown below, in 2020, […]

August 10, 2021 | The Scam of Secret Fees and Taxes on Home Purchases

Is it a good investment for parents to provide mortgage money?