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Source: Michael Ballanger for Streetwise Reports 10/15/2017 Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses the current state of the precious metals markets. In the late 1960s and most of the 1970s, an English rock band named Pink Floyd dominated the world of progressive and psychedelic music with such memorable albums as “Dark Side of the Moon,” […]

By Brian Maher This post When a “Fad” Is No Longer a Fad appeared first on Daily Reckoning. We’ve been keeping two separate books on bitcoin… Book one registers bitcoin under the category “fad.” We avoid fads as the devil avoids holy water — financial fads in particular. We think of bitcoin and our mind

By Cory Continuation from Segment 1 – Bitcoin vs. Gold Please listen to Segment 1 on this weekend show (click here) before listening to this interview. Dan Oliver compares the benefits of gold and Bitcoin in terms of security, investment, and overall roll in the financial system. Download audio file (2017_10_14-Weekend-Special-Dan-Oliver.mp3) …read more Source:: The

By Samuel Taube Next September will mark the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers – the unofficial beginning of the Great Recession. Ten years is a long time between recessions – especially when you consider that, since 1945, the average economic cycle has lasted only 5 1/2 years. As this week’s chart illustrates,

By Cory Bitcoin vs. Gold, US Markets, Inflation, and Iran Download audio file (1014-KE-Report-Full-Show-.mp3) Another week in the markets and new all time highs for US equities. On the flip side gold also put in a good week closing above $1,300 but the stocks are still lagging. We also have the US dollar flattening this

By MN Gordon Divine Powers The Dow’s march onward and upward toward 30,000 continues without a pause. New all-time highs are notched practically every day. Despite Thursday’s 31-point pullback, the Dow is up over 15.5 percent year-to-date. What a remarkable time to be alive. The DJIA keeps surging… but it is running on fumes (US

By Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA In this brief report we cover some rules for selling positions and rules for buying positions. These are rules we have developed over 14 years of investing in the junior resource and junior mining sector. There are obviously exceptions to every rule. However, I have usually been burned when I

By Cory Personal Recollections of the Crash of 1987 Our friend Dana Lyons is running a special on his Lyons Share website. Please check it out and consider supporting a friend of the site. I hope everyone has a great weekend! … The following guest post is a first-hand account of the events surrounding the

By Brian Maher This post An Omen of Approaching Inflation appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Disinflation has Janet Yellen by the snout. Core inflation fell from 1.9% in January… to 1.6% by April… to 1.3% by August, the most recent reading. Many expect September’s numbers to deepen the grip… and October’s too. But today we

By Ray Blanco This post This is Why Blockchain Makes Online Retail Better appeared first on Daily Reckoning. The cryptocurrency trend is red-hot. In fact, many are hailing cryptocurrencies as the future of money. But as I’ve pointed out before, the underlying technology behind the cryptocurrency trend is the enabler… and that’s going to change