(By Chris Hamilton) Every month the Bureau of Labor Statistics comes out with it’s employment report for the United States. Last week I wrote a short report detailing the jobs situation. Still, most folks take a single data point, the 5.5% unemployment rate and presume the US labor market has…
With all the data finally out, the United States gold market suffered a massive deficit over the past three years. How large was this deficit? Actually, large enough to supply all the gold for the U.S. Mint’s production of its Gold Eagles for the past twenty years… a huge amount…
Most investors are in serious trouble as the majority have their net worth tied up in paper assets in one form or another. While paper assets were a safe place to store wealth in the past, the future will not be so kind. Why? The most important factor that drives…
Very few Americans realize just how bad the domestic energy situation will become in the next several years. While U.S. shale oil production has surged over the past five years giving Americans a false sense of energy security, the next five years will certainly destroy this myth once and for…
While gold is a main focus of the Central Bank market rigging apparatus, physical silver investment demand is their real enemy. The reason is simple. Central Banks have gold in their vaults to dump on the market (or to lease) to control the price, but they have very little if…
(By Chris Hamilton) If the “markets” are rigged and economies divorced from true market valuations, then what (if anything) could trigger a recoupling of reality to the record setting flashing numbers presently offered by the “market” facade? My best guess is decelerating global credit and debt creation (and a rotation from private to government debt creation) is the harbinger progressively…