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By Daniel Amerman CFA By Dan Amerman – Could a committee of unelected officials increase your household’s share of the national debt by $60,000 in a single meeting? In normal times – they could not. However, these are not normal times and any… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Adrian Ash By Adrian Ash – Gold prices held above $1300 per ounce in London trade Friday, erasing half of last week’s 2% drop even as the Dollar rose again on the FX market amid fresh tensions between Nato members Turkey and the US plus… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – This time on the Financial Sense Big Picture, Jim Puplava discusses why he thinks disappearing liquidity could be the next big unseen factor that might kick off a crisis. There are three large forces precipitating… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Patrick O’Hare By Patrick O’Hare – Why would stock investors be interested in owning short-term Treasury securities when this bull market has yet to be slain by the matador (that would be Fed Chair Powell by the way). If investors hold Treasury securities to maturity, they don’t… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Michael Shedlock By Michael Shedlock – The average size of a loan for a new car in the US set a record in the first quarter as did the average payment. Database firm Experian notes US Monthly Auto Payments Reach Record High in First Quarter. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Matthew Kerkhoff By Matthew Kerkhoff – Recent talks over this past weekend have helped make it clear that both sides are interested in reaching an agreement. China has already agreed to increase its imports of U.S. products, and on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – FS Insider recently interviewed Don Coxe at Coxe Advisors on the large number of storm fronts that are converging upon the financial markets, whether in the disruption to the fundamental pricing mechanism that dictates corporate valuations… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – We’re likely to see two or three more rate hikes this year and the continuation of quantitative tightening, through which the Fed is on course to drain $420 billion dollars of liquidity from the markets. At the same time, recent data shows that… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Urban Carmel By Urban Carmel – It’s true that equities fall before the start of most recessions. So why bother following the economy; why not just follow the price of equities? “Market corrections” occur every 20 months, but less than a third of these actually becomes… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Independent Institute By Independent Institute – A recent story in the New York Times discussed the increasing willingness of political candidates in the United States to run as socialists. Times reporter Farah Stockman wrote that the Democratic… …read more From:: Financial Sense