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By Cory Gold – The Fed Rate Hike and Correlation With The USD Doc joins me today to focus on gold in terms of the upcoming rate hike and its recent inverse correlation with the US dollar. Many gold bulls are pointing to next week when the Fed raises rates as a time when gold […]

By Big Al Dr. Harlan Ullman opines on one of the most important political events that occurred this year. And, it just happened this week. The President announces that America will construct it’s embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. Was this a prudent decision? No says Dr. Harlan Ullman, senior fellow at The Naval War College.

By analyst By Cecilia Jamasmie Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world’s No.1 iron ore producer and Brazil’s largest private company, expects to halve net debt to less than $10 billion by 2019 and use the extra cash flow to hike dividends. The Rio de Janeiro-based company, which earlier this week threatened to flood the market with iron

By Cory A Focus On Copper and Oil Today in my chat with Chris Temple we look to a couple other commodities outside the precious metals, copper and oil. Both can be used as a barometer for economic growth and tell us a lot about economies around the world. Chris brings up the factors he

By analyst By Frik Els Barrick Gold’s output fell to 5.5m ounces last year and the Toronto-based gold miner wil record another decline this year. Mined ounces could fall below 5m ounces next year. That’s down from a peak of 7.7m ounces in 2010 and 2011. While Barrick has been getting rid of mines to

By Brian Maher This post The True Rate of Inflation appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Dear Reader, The Federal Reserve pursues its 2% inflation target with a zeal verging on derangement. Yet it progresses toward its target as poor Sisyphus of Greek mythology progressed uphill with his rock — in vain. Core inflation registered 1.9%

By James Rickards This post Inflation Can Return Much Faster Than You Think appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Consumer price inflation has remained persistently low, despite the Fed’s best efforts. This has led many people to ask where the inflation is, because the Fed has created trillions of dollars since the financial crisis. But there

By Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA We’ve been persistently bearish on precious metals since September and that has annoyed our readers. The weak price action, negative divergences and bearish fundamentals are too much to currently overcome for the time being. The gold stocks finally cracked this week and have lost another 7%-8% in only the past

By Cory What’s The Deal With The Pullback In Base Metals? Craig Hemke joins me today to discuss what helped drive the base metals this year and why they are pulling back this week. There are a number of factors to consider which include the downtrend in the USD, massive creation of money around the

By Cory The Opportunities In The PM Selloff In a preview to Chris’s upcoming newsletter to subscribers we focus on the precious metals and the opportunities this selloff presents. We ask the what it will take to get more eyes and attention on the sector. One thing to consider is that some companies have been