April 18, 2024 | Federal Budget Does Nothing to Improve Productivity

Stock market teetering on the edge of a major correction

April 18, 2024 | Why Doesn’t Canada Pension Plan Invest in Canada?

Canadian Insider Index out performing US investments

April 18, 2024 | Stock Markets Appear To Be in Correction Territory

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April 18, 2024 | Still Lots of Room for Higher Gold, Silver

The manipulation of precious metal prices losing its grip

April 17, 2024 | Mortgage Rates over 7% and Heading Higher, Housing Market Still Frozen, Lots of Buyers on Strike as Prices Still Too High

Mortgage rates continue to trudge higher from the abandoned Rate-Cut-Mania low. The average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to 7.13% in the latest week, the highest since early December, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association today, as the 10-year Treasury yield has re-surged amid the Fed’s vigorous backpedaling on its December rate-cut visions after […]

April 16, 2024 | Friday 4/12

It’s hard to overlook the tremendous price volatility that occurred on 4/12, when both gold and silver established new recent price highs, only to fall precipitously by the close of trading. At the time of the sharp selloff, the only market open was the COMEX, with markets in London, China and everywhere else closed. Therefore, […]

April 13, 2024 | Trading Desk Notes For April 13, 2024

LATE NEWS: Iran fires missiles into Israel. As much as the market worried that this could happen, there was hope that Iran would not retaliate at this scale. This will likely have a MAJOR impact on markets, especially if Israel and the US counterattack. Is the Fed wrong – again? For traders and investors, the […]

April 13, 2024 | The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: Home Prices Dip Further, -14% from Peak in March 2022, Now Below Sep 2021

Condo prices in Canada fell 0.7% in March from February, seasonally adjusted, while house prices edged up 0.3%, and so the Composite MLS Home Price Index edged down 0.1%, according to data from the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) today. The index has now fallen 14.1% from two years ago, from the peak in March […]

April 13, 2024 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Gold, Oil, Cocoa, Apple, AI
• Hilliard MacBeth: (15:23) Canadian Real Estate, 30 Year Amortization, Copper, Electrification
• Tony Mitchell: (1:08:51) Director of Marketing for RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials Inc. on Company Showcase –  Behind the Scenes of RecycLiCo’s Taiwan Joint Venture.  Transitioning from Mining to Battery Recycling.  Read RMI Article – “The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers“. Watch Video Clip of Steve Jobs. View RecycLico’s Company Presentation. Watch Roundtable Video with Sandy Munro, Jason Fenske and Norm Chow: “RecycLiCo Battery Recycling Q&A with Engineering Explained & Kemetco Research“. Watch – We upcycle cathode scraps and black mass into higher-value battery materials! Video  – The demonstration plant for the RecycLiCo™ Patented Process is now operational in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Questions?  Email or Phone: 778.574.4444

April 12, 2024 | CPI Shocker Could Affect The U.S. Election

The U.S. Consumer Price Index exceeded expectations, growing by 4.8 percent (annualized) in the month of March, while Core CPI rose 3.8 percent from last year. The markets corrected sharply after the surprise as the market expected lower inflation leading to rate cuts. President Joe Biden said that he still expects the Federal Reserve to […]

April 12, 2024 | Is the Stock Market Now in Correction Mode?

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April 12, 2024 | What is the Best Way to Measure “Value” of Gold?

How to best take advantage of Gold’s rising prices

April 11, 2024 | Insurance Companies Planning for Climate Lockdowns

  Some insurance companies are altering their policies for corporations and business interruptions, which seems to be in anticipation of government lockdowns for climate change under the label “weather events.” The government seems to be preparing for new lockdowns under the pretense of climate change this summer.  It appears that they are preparing to restrict […]

April 11, 2024 | Gold, USD, Revolution, False Flag 101

Doubles and Clones, Disruptive Events, Sleeper Cells

April 11, 2024 | Behind the Scenes of RecycLiCo’s Taiwan Joint Venture

Transitioning from Mining to Battery Recycling. Read RMI Article – “The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers“. Watch Video Clip of Steve Jobs. View RecycLico’s Company Presentation. Watch Roundtable Video with Sandy Munro, Jason Fenske and Norm Chow: “RecycLiCo Battery Recycling Q&A with Engineering Explained & Kemetco Research“. Watch – We upcycle cathode […]

April 10, 2024 | Jim Willie: 20 Solid Reasons For Gold Breakout

The time has come to cite the many reasons why Gold has risen, and why Gold will continue to launch to much higher levels. The USGovt debt and USTreasury Bond default, in my opinion, deserve the lead factors along with powerful price inflation. These factors are not featured in the press. The Jackass has stated […]

April 9, 2024 | Selective Law Enforcement

JPMorgan took over Bear Stearns in 2008, inheriting Bear’s massive short position in COMEX silver (and gold). There was a formal investigation by the CFTC’s Enforcement Division that began as a result of my request to readers to write to the CFTC about the massive short position held by JPMorgan. 5 years later, the investigation […]

April 8, 2024 | Becoming Invisible, Part 14: Proton’s Latest Tools

The biggest hurdle for non-techies trying to avoid the world’s data predators is the need to cobble together solutions from different sources, each of which has to be installed correctly, monitored, and upgraded. This can be a nearly full-time job—and still end up failing. So a one-stop privacy shop that plugs all the holes and […]

April 7, 2024 | Bank of Canada Balance Sheet QT Sheds 64% of Pandemic QE Assets, Indicates QT Might End in September 2025

The Bank of Canada, in its quantitative tightening program, does not cap the roll-off. Whenever Government of Canada bonds in its portfolio mature, the BoC gets paid for them at face value and doesn’t replace them. That’s the roll-off. There are months when nothing in the BoC’s portfolio matures, and there are months when a […]

April 7, 2024 | By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge

The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on March 26th was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1814. His inspiration was the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in the critical port of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The British had just burned the U.S. Capitol and the […]

April 7, 2024 | What’s So Great About the Great Reset, Great Taking, Great Replacement, Great Deflation, and Next Great Depression?

“At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move all the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.” – Frank Zappa “In the past […]

April 6, 2024 | Trading Desk Notes For April 6, 2024

Gold closed at All-Time highs this week, up 29% from the 2023 lows made on October 6, the day before Hamas attacked Israel. Gold rallied over $150 in the last seven trading days, making new highs every day this week and closing at its highs on Friday, as anticipation grows Iran will respond to the attack on […]

April 6, 2024 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Gold, Silver, Oil
• Marc Faber:  (9:34)  Gold, Inflation vs Deflation, Free Speech
• Martin Straith: (30:19) Interest Rates, Bonds, High Tech, Natural Resources
• Tony Mitchell:  (1:01:13) Director of Marketing at RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials Inc. – on Company Showcase –  Taiwan Earthquake. Joint Venture Update. Read Reuters Article – “Taiwan’s Strongest Earthquake in 25 Years Kills 9 People, 50 Missing“.  See AMY News Release June 12, 2023 – “RecycLiCo Battery Materials and Zenith Chemical Announce a US$25 Million Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Joint Venture in Taiwan“. View RecycLico’s Company Presentation. Watch Roundtable Video with Sandy Munro, Jason Fenske and Norm Chow: “RecycLiCo Battery Recycling Q&A with Engineering Explained & Kemetco Research“.  Watch – We upcycle cathode scraps and black mass into higher-value battery materials! Video  – The demonstration plant for the RecycLiCo™ Patented Process is now operational in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Questions?  Email or Phone: 778.574.4444

April 5, 2024 | Gold Porn, Part 1: Gold Bugs Are Suddenly Cool

Suddenly the rest of the world is “gold curious.” With the current spot price piercing $2300/oz this morning … … we long-suffering stackers (and gold/silver mining stock investors!) can be forgiven for wanting to enjoy the moment. So let’s survey the headlines. Start by Googling “gold price” and note that even CBS’s audience is wondering […]