January 7, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For January 7, 2023

“What’s the Fed going to do?” was the Big Question in 2022, but it won’t be the Big Question in 2023 The Fed raised short-term interest rates aggressively in 2022. The yield on the 2-year Treasury soared from ~0.9% in early January to ~4.7% in November – the highest yield in 15 years. Looking one […]

January 7, 2023 | Shockingly Low COMEX Silver Volume Yesterday

07 January 2023 -Saturday Yesterday in Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium The gold price took a couple of small steps higher in GLOBEX trading in the Far East on their Friday — and that lasted until a few minutes past 3 p.m. China Standard Time on their Friday afternoon. From that juncture it was sold very […]

January 7, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark – Stock Markets, Interest Rates, USD, Canadian Dollar, Crude Oil, Gold
• Martin Armstrong –  (8:17) Real Rate of Inflation 32%
• Victor Adair –  (38:40) Interest Rate Hikes, Tesla, Apple, Bonds, Energy, Gold
• Zarko Meseldzija – (1:10:50) CEO RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials Inc. – on Company Showcase – RecycLiCo™ is Well-Positioned to Take Advantage of Many Exciting Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Opportunities on the Horizon.  Read Benchmark Minerals Article – “Investment in Battery Gigafactories Nears $300 Billion Since 2019 as China Extends Battery Dominance“.  Read FastMarkets Article – “US Dives into Lithium Battery Recycling: 2023 Preview“.  Read MIT Technology Review Article – “What’s Next For Batteries“.  Video  – The demonstration plant for the RecycLiCo™ Patented Process is now operational in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  Questions?  Email or Phone: 778.574.4444

January 6, 2023 | 18th Century Copper Riots & Private Money

During the reign of King George III (1760–1820) the first issue of halfpennies actually was not issued until 10 years after his accession to the throne in 1770. Consequently, the vast number of halfpennies in circulation were actually all counterfeits. Indeed, counterfeiting became rampant at first because there was a coin shortage. In 1771, it […]

January 6, 2023 | Speculation on Interest Rates and Inflation in 2023

Speculation on the direction for interest rates will dominate stock market chatter in the first half of 2023. In November 2022 market participants had started to anticipate a decline in inflation which would allow the Federal Reserve to drop interest rates, leading to a new bull market in stocks, bonds and housing. Will interest rates […]

January 6, 2023 | Financial Pressures Again Increasing

Depositor run on Blackrock

January 6, 2023 | RecycLiCo™ is Well-Positioned to Take Advantage of Many Exciting Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Opportunities on the Horizon

Read Benchmark Minerals Article – “Investment in Battery Gigafactories Nears $300 Billion Since 2019 as China Extends Battery Dominance“. Read FastMarkets Article – “US Dives into Lithium Battery Recycling: 2023 Preview“. Read MIT Technology Review Article – “What’s Next For Batteries“. Video  – The demonstration plant for the RecycLiCo™ Patented Process is now operational in […]

January 5, 2023 | The Coming Revolution – The End of Brazil

  The leftist press immediately claims that any assertions of a rigged election in Brazil are as baseless as the Hunter Biden laptop. Our model shows that the election was in fact bogus and it was in a series of global elections that are being rigged to create this global leftist agenda. For any newspaper […]

January 5, 2023 | The Implications of a Dropping US Dollar

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January 5, 2023 | Real Estate, Rents, Mortgages, Luxury Homes

Interest Rates, Inflation

January 5, 2023 | Real Estate Bubble, Mortgages, Interest Rates, Inflation

Stock Markets, Tesla

January 5, 2023 | Energy, Interest Rates, Recession

San Francisco Real Estate, Office Vacancies

January 5, 2023 | Vaccines, Death, Gold, Sheep

Jim is on fire to start 2023

January 4, 2023 | 2023 Comes in Like Ongoing Bear for Stocks and Commodities

Two thousand twenty-two vaporized $25 trillion of notional equity value from global balance sheets, and the global bond market lost nearly $10 trillion more. Together, the decline in these two asset classes amounted to about a third of the world’s 2022 103.86 trillion GDP, not counting ongoing losses in real estate, commodities, or the crypto […]

January 4, 2023 | Belarus Drafts Every Male 18 to 60 for the Inevitable War

    Belarus has issued a Draft for all men 18 to 60 years old. This war that our leaders are determined to create is going to be beyond anything previously contemplated. Even the US will most likely adopt a draft and it will be highly probably it will be to at least age 45 […]

January 3, 2023 | It Turns Out that the CIA Has been Behind Sabotage Attacks Inside Russia

Every time we post something on the CIA the Links Go Crazy  

January 3, 2023 | 2022 Inflation is Final – 32% for the year

Our Independent Inflation model has calculated that the combined rate for everything from food to transportation came in at 32% for 2022. That is a far cry from the official number. This is simply calculated by Socrates from an unbiased perspective. Thank you, COVID & the Russian Sanctions. What a new wonderful world the Biden […]

January 2, 2023 | Dow Stock Market Trend Forecast to December 2023

What if someone told you where the Dow stocks index will be trading at in 3 months time and by that time the index was within 1% of  where it was forecast it would be. How much would you value such analysis, furthermore without the benefit of hindsight that forecast did not just end there […]

January 2, 2023 | Does Supply v Demand Really Work All the Time

QUESTION: Didn’t gold decline from 1980 to 1999 because of all the dumping of gold by central banks? WV ANSWER: I understand that the quantity rise, in theory, makes sense that the price would decline. But historically, there is no evidence that supports that theory on a consistent basis. There are times when the supply […]

January 2, 2023 | Beware If 2023 Gets Off to a Good Start

Be skeptical if stocks start the new year on a positive note, since that would be the perfect way for Mr Market to set the hook to trap bulls and bears alike. It would probably take most of the opening session on Tuesday for an enticing rally to build up steam, since the bears who […]

January 2, 2023 | Silver – 2022 – A Momentous Year

The last couple of years have been significant in silver (and gold), not particularly price-wise, but in other important ways. For instance, 2020 was particularly note-worthy in that JPMorgan was partially brought to justice for its many years of manipulating the price of precious metals on the COMEX and agreeing to settle with the Justice […]

January 1, 2023 | Did they Get the Pandemic Idea from the 2010 Simpson’s