December 16, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Oil, Gold, USD, Canadian Dollar
• Eric Hadik: (8:53) Stock Market Cycles, Gold, Silver, Bonds, Crude Oil, Solar Flares and Sunspots.  Read – Solar, Seismic & Gold Intensity Cycles.
• Robert Campbell: (36:30) Predicting the Real Estate Market, US Real Estate Peaking, Exodus from California

December 16, 2023 | Solar, Seismic & Gold Intensity Cycles

The Golden Canary 11-29-23 – The fulfillment of Middle East War Cycles, in October 2023, was just the latest validation to the outlook for 2023 – 2025. Reinforcing these geopolitical cycles has been the action and analysis for Gold & Silver. In many ways, Gold acts as the proverbial ‘canary in the coal mine’ – […]

December 15, 2023 | Get Ready for a 1986 Repeat of a Real Estate Crash?

Whenever those in Congress mess with real estate, they have ALWAYS, and without exception, caused a major crash. The Entire Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis was a catastrophic disaster that wiped out nearly one-third of all the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995. I previously mentioned that hedge funds were created […]

December 15, 2023 | Opportunities Building in Gold Sector

Adrenaline fueled trades boosting stock market

December 14, 2023 | The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: Toronto -19% from Peak, back to Sept. 2021. Hamilton Area -25%, Back to Feb. 2021. New High in Calgary

Home prices in Canada dropped 1.7% in November from October, after having dropped by 1.6% in October from September, the fifth month in a row of month-to-month declines, according to the Home Price Benchmark Index for single family houses by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) today. These drops whittled down the year-over-year gain to […]

December 14, 2023 | Could Santa Claus Rally Be a Good Sign for the New Year?

Inflation, Interest Rates, Gold, Crude oil, Bitcoin.  Receive 50% Off VR Trader Newsletters! Enter Promo Code 2022HALFOFF.

December 14, 2023 | Is the Fed Really Finished Hiking Rates?

Which stock will tell you where the stock market is going?

December 14, 2023 | Weimar 2.0, Satanists, Fear and Denial

Critical Thinking vs. Intelligent People

December 14, 2023 | Even if Interest Rates Fall, Is Recession Likely?

Supply not the problem behind Canada’s housing crisis

December 13, 2023 | Are We Too Dumb To Survive?

CBS News just conducted a poll that paints Americans as too economically illiterate to deserve a future of freedom and prosperity. Here’s how Tom Woods, author of Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania, addressed it in a recent mailing: Sometimes you look around and see signs of hope. And you’re not being […]

December 12, 2023 | Javier Milei’s First Day in Office – Reduce the Size of Government

Argentina’s new President, Javier Milei, is making headlines around the world for vowing to radically change Argentina’s failing political system. Milei campaigned on implementing a “chainsaw plan” that would swiftly cut useless bureaus that drain government resources with no or minimal benefit to the public. Milei stuck to his campaign promises and slashed the number […]

December 11, 2023 | What Happened?

This article was written on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. Of course, I’m referring to the wild price ride in gold and silver from Fridays near all-time price high in gold, to Sunday evening’s initial blast to the upside of as much as $60, to a selloff of $120 and to where gold closed trading yesterday […]

December 10, 2023 | Why Liberals Dump Their Oldest Friends

[This essay originally appeared here in July 2022 and was written by a friend who spends a lot of time thinking outside the box. His provocative thesis is that that there is a physiological basis for our political differences; moreover, he notes, liberals cancel and ghost their conservative friends for reasons that are tied to […]

December 9, 2023 | Trading Desk Notes For December 9, 2023

Gold soars to All-Time High, then falls below last week’s low On Sunday evening, New York time (Monday morning Asian time), February Comex gold soared ~$60 within the first hour of trade to an All-Time High of ~$2,152. By mid-day Monday in New York, it was down ~$115 from the overnight highs; at Friday’s lows, it […]

December 9, 2023 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:   Stock Markets, Gold, Bitcoin, Oil
• Martin Armstrong: (12:07) USD, Oil, Consumer Spending, Tax the Rich
• Martin Straith: (1:12:51) Fed, Interest Rates, Gold
• Tony Mitchell: (1:47:04)Director of Marketing, RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials Inc. on Company Showcase –  Introducing Tony Mitchell, Director of Marketing for RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials Inc.  Past, Present and Future.  Read December 4, 2023 News.  Read December 6, 2023 News.  Read Mugglehead Magazine Article – “RecycLiCo Builds Portable Battery Recycling Plant in Vancouver to be Shipped to Taiwan“.  Read InsideEvs Article – “Electrified Vehicles Surged To 18% U.S. Market Share In Q3 2023“.  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

December 8, 2023 | Canadian Lenders are Sleepwalking into The Next Recession

Canadian lenders are ill-prepared for the impact of higher interest rates on Canadian borrowers. The banks have sophisticated models that help them make predictions about the future. But those predictions are only as good as the assumptions fed into the model. Are those assumptions realistic? With the help of Nigel D’Souza, research analyst with Veritas […]

December 8, 2023 | US & Canadian Emission Standards Economy Killers

Mr. Margin the nemesis of the Fed

December 8, 2023 | Introducing Tony Mitchell, Director of Marketing for RecycLiCo™ Battery Materials Inc.

Past, Present and Future. Read December 4, 2023 News. Read December 6, 2023 News. Read Mugglehead Magazine Article – “RecycLiCo Builds Portable Battery Recycling Plant in Vancouver to be Shipped to Taiwan“. Read InsideEvs Article – “Electrified Vehicles Surged To 18% U.S. Market Share In Q3 2023“. Watch – We upcycle cathode scraps and black mass into higher-value battery materials! […]

December 7, 2023 | More Evidence of a Silver Shortage

Recently, the Silver Institute updated its annual review on silver that it originally published in April. The report indicated a reduction in total supply (mine production plus recycling) and an increase in industrial demand. The new report indicates total silver supply for 2023 as being 23 million ounces less than originally reported, largely due to […]

December 7, 2023 | The Fed Isn’t as Powerful as Many Think It Is

Has Gold topped out?

December 7, 2023 | Stock Markets in 2024

Gold and other Commodities

December 6, 2023 | Subprime Comes Home to Roost for Specialized Auto Dealers, Lenders & Investors: Car-Mart Was Next to Confess

Subprime is re-getting into trouble, after having somewhat gotten out of trouble during the free-money pandemic, when folks used some of the free money to catch up with past-dues. In the auto industry, subprime is largely confined to older used vehicles. Less than 5% of new vehicle sales are financed with loans or leases to […]

December 5, 2023 | Art of the Collapse, December 2023

Henry Kissinger died in November, launching a zillion memes: Back in the land of the alive but hungry, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman declared that inflation is not nearly as bad as ignorant Americans believe. Some begged to differ: A big holiday thanks to the FBI for protecting us from an upsurge in terrorist activity: FBI Closely […]

December 4, 2023 | Rate Cuts and Density

Happy Monday Morning! On the heels of inflation slowing to 3.1% last week, we got more evidence rate hikes are indeed working through the system. Demand continues to weaken, households have stopped borrowing money, and as a result, the economy is circling the drain. GDP fell at an annualized pace of 1.1% in Q3, well […]