Central banks boosted their gold stockpiles amid a backlash against the dollar. Global reserves grew by 228.4 tons in the first quarter, the World Gold Council reported. 176% increase from a year ago. The recent surge in demand for gold has been seen as a sign of de-dollarization after the greenback became weaponized to put financial […]
The beginning stages of a ‘systemic bank-distress episode.’ The professors reached their conclusions by comparing regulators’ behavior in the current crisis with how they reacted during almost 2,000 historical banking-sector interventions in 138 countries dating back to the 13th century. Stocks and real estate are vulnerable to a systemic banking crisis that could last months,
The legislation would require the state comptroller to establish and provide for the issuance of gold and silver specie and also establish digital currencies that are 100% backed by gold and silver, and 100% redeemable in cash, gold, or silver. Rep. Mark Dorazio (R)introduced HB4903 on March 10 and it has since garnered a bipartisan coalition
The Silver Institute’s World Silver Survey forecasts a second straight annual deficit in silver supplies. “Demand for physical silver, and gold for that matter, is showing overall investor concern over the state of the economy, geopolitical turmoil, and potentially persistent inflation,” said Stephen Gardner. Gold isn’t the only precious metal benefiting from economic uncertainty and
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U.S. and China are on the brink of war, billionaire and Bridgewater’s founder Ray Dalio “We are on the brink of an economic resources war,” the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund wrote last week. The world order is changing, and all countries are getting caught up in the reshuffle based on resources. Bridgewater’s founder
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The most deeply inverted part of the U.S. yield curve is one that hasn’t sent a false signal about the prospects of a U.S. recession in more than a half-century of research. That’s the spread between 10-year and 3-month Treasury yields, the large difference between the two rates is pointing to the likelihood of a
The U.S. dollar’s dominance is being challenged on several fronts simultaneously — from countries choosing to conduct trade in local currencies to BRICS developing its own currency. And gold is paying attention. This was topped by Russia’s State Duma Deputy Chairman Alexander Babakov confirming that BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa —
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Bank-sector stress makes a stagflationary debt crisis more likely and potentially more severe. Higher inflation would lead to higher bond yields, which in turn would hurt stocks as the discount factor for dividends rose. But, at the same time, higher yields on “safe” bonds would imply a fall in their price, too, owing to the
Robert Kiyosaki also warned China is ‘coming after’ the US in a currency war. Robert Kiyosaki predicts the Bank of Japan is next to collapse. The derivatives market in the world today, financed by the Bank of Japan, is a quadrillion [dollars].” That’s 1000 trillion! Federal Reserve Chair] Powell has raised interest rates faster than
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“Every rate hiking cycle of the last 70 years has ended in recession (c. 80% of the time) and/or a financial crisis… His comments came after three U.S. banks have collapsed, as federal authorities organized major banks to deposit $30 billion into First Republic Bank FRC, +3.57% to stave off a fourth. “At this stage,
