Dear Reader, There’s no love lost between the US and China…but is it possible for their relationship to deteriorate even further? It seems the answer is yes. In addition to continual confrontation on trade, tariffs, theft of intellectual property, currency manipulation, and human rights, the two countries are finding new ways to strike at each […]
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Why Your Brain Is Fooling You on the Stock Market
We’re all being fooled, in a way. It’s all relative. You see, the stock market isn’t really going up. It just looks that way because the US Dollar is going down. Those falls correlate with a sustained rise in all sorts of other assets. From stock markets, to commodities, to gold and even bitcoin…
China Continues to Show its True Colours: They Can’t Be Trusted
Dear Reader, As China continues to show its true colours, the world continues to grapple with the revelation that the world’s next superpower isn’t playing by the rules. At least, not the rules as we know them. Below, Jim Rickards reveals just a few of the ways in which China is wreaking havoc around the […]
Are the Boomers Too Big to Fail? — Why Central Banks Prop Up Markets
Today, I want to take a step back from the here and now and instead take a look at the big picture. Because in a strange way the stock market reaction to the turbulent times of 2020 makes sense, when seen through the prism of one huge, overarching trend…
Tyranny of the Denominator Dominates
Dear Reader, Today’s topic is about a book written by an economist named Russ Roberts. It doesn’t exist yet and he doesn’t even know he’ll write it, but he should. The book will be about the most important lesson he has taught me. And, after listening to him for an hour each week for 14 […]
Two Metals to Watch if the Bears Are Wrong — Commodity Investing
On Wednesday, I outlined what the risk was for the big Aussie miners. This doesn’t mean that some carefully selected Aussie small-cap miners can’t succeed though. Today, I’m going to run you through movements in the prices of two metals. You should be watching them closely…
