Gold Surge Will Happen Despite War Threat, Due to Economic Weakness
Recent Iran/U.S missile exchanges and the general prospect of continued Middle East destabilization have dominated the gold narrative o...
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Weekly Touchpoint — Stars Lining Up for Gold Surge This Year
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said last September he didn’t ever see the central bank turning to negative interest rates. But ...
Middle East Tension Could Spark Robust 2020 for Buying Gold
On Tuesday, January 7, the same day Iran launched a missile attack on Iraqi facilities housing U.S. troops, gold surged 2%. Iran’s atta...
Weekly Touchpoint – Subprime Lending Return Expected in 2020
“Subprime lending.” Remember those words? It was practically all you heard about when the global economic system was brought to its ...
Casey Analyst: “Epic Gold Bull Market on Menu for 2020.”
Experts say mainstream markets are living on borrowed time and owe continued success to little more than the accommodations of central ...
Augusta Precious Metals Thank-You for Helping K-9s for Warriors
Another year is about to come to a close, and it’s a perfect time to thank all of you for allowing Augusta Precious Metals to be at you...
Weekly Touchpoint: Risk-Asset Market Buys Derided by Toogood
Financial markets continue to surge higher against the backdrop of a troubling global economic outlook. Observers are becoming less res...
2008 Recession Still Haunts Retirement Savers Worried About a Repeat
Households all across the country saw the value of their retirement accounts sink when the 2008 recession took its toll on financial ma...
Weekly Touchpoint – Analyst: Climate Ripe for 3,000-Dollar Gold
The price of gold has retreated some from recent highs, but not by much. It continues to trade reliably in the 1,450- to 1,500-dolla...
Physical Gold Hedge Strategy Relied on by Financial Elite
I have written with some frequency about the astounding rate at which the world’s central banks have been stocking up on gold. There is...
Weekly Touchpoint – German Banks Break Negative Interest Taboo
Negative interest rates are no longer an anomaly. Sweden, Switzerland and Japan are just a few of the nations that, along with the E...
Bloomberg: Why Financial Markets Are Not the Economy
Because they have so much at stake, retirement savers should take great care to ensure they don’t confuse robust market performances wi...
Weekly Touchpoint – South Carolina Bill: Gold/Silver as Tender
Worldwide concern is growing over the dangers of record debt levels and the destructive potential of fiat currency. It’s not surprising...
New Cornell Report: U.S. Job Quality Sinking in Last 30 Years
There is a dark truth lurking behind the exceptionally low U.S. unemployment rate. It has hovered right around the 4% mark for roughly ...
Weekly Touchpoint – Kissinger on Trade War Consequences
It’s no secret the U.S. and China have political ideologies in direct opposition to one another. The two countries’ geopolitical rivalr...
Data Reveals Americans Economic Prisoners in Own Homes
It’s probably an understatement to say I discuss underlying weaknesses in the economy with some frequency. Guilty as charged, but why b...
Weekly Touchpoint – Experts: Soaring Markets Due to Cash Infusions
We are over a decade into the current bull market, and key indexes are still hitting new highs. Experts say there is only one thing sus...
Weekly Touchpoint: Erasing Student Loans Potentially Devastating
One of the biggest concerns about America’s economic future has to do with recent generations’ changing sociopolitical perspective. Cre...
Report: Cyberattack Could Prompt Next Financial Crisis
The good news is that financial markets are maintaining their resilience in the face of recent economic stresses. The bad news is that ...
Weekly Touchpoint: Slashing Interest Rates Not Enough
In spite of a decade-plus of significantly loose monetary policy applied the world over, global economic output remains feeble. It is p...
40% of Americans: We Are Unprepared for Recession
The results of a recent Bankrate survey say roughly 40% of Americans are not prepared to withstand the effects of a recession. Accordin...
Weekly Touchpoint: Fund Managers Say Trade War Will Never End
Numerous experts lay the blame for many of the world’s current economic troubles at the feet of the rancorous trade war between the U....
Dutch Central Bank: Gold is Answer if Economy Collapses
The global economic engine continues to sputter, and many of the world’s governments and central banks are expected to resort to drastic measu...
Weekly Touchpoint: Seniors Need Money, Keep Working
Provision Living, a provider of comprehensive assisted living communities across the United States, recently commissioned a surve...
Survey: Every Region Faces Crisis-Level Financial Risks
Last week’s blog article referenced gold’s nickname: the “crisis commodity.” I wrote about it in the context of the recent Iranian drone attac...
Weekly Touchpoint: Consequences of Digital National Currency
CoinDesk reported that two U.S. lawmakers – U.S. Congressmen French Hill (R-Ark.) and Bill Foster (D-Ill.) – sent a letter to Federal Re...
Will the Iran-Saudi War Push the Global Economy Off of a Cliff?
Sudden negative geopolitical events such as the recent attack by Iranian drones on Saudi oil facilities have the capacity to prompt a quick su...
Weekly Touchpoint: U.S. Political Upheaval Could Boost Price of Gold
Gold’s price spike in the wake of the House of Representatives’ announcement that a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump would ...
Survey: American Retirement Becoming Extinct?
In a recent survey, it appears Americans are moving in the direction of writing off retirement, of all things. Many say they plan to keep work...
Weekly Touchpoint: Fund Manager: Plenty of Gold Upside Remaining
Frank Holmes is CEO of mutual fund management company U.S. Global Investors. He writes in Forbes that despite gold’s apparent inclinatio...
Cashless Society Threatens Savings: Precious Metals Can Help
You may have noticed that gold appears to be in the midst of a little consolidating at the moment. That’s a fancy way of saying the price is m...
Weekly Touchpoint: Financially Transmitted Disease (FTD)
Loose money measures are designed to support risk asset prices in the hope of energizing recessionary economies – this is commonly recog...
Global Economy: 2020 “Most Volatile Year in History”?
The global economic environment seems to be changing in a way that suggests risk assets may be unreliable for the foreseeable future. And now ...
Weekly Touchpoint: Historian: Trade War Could Begin Cold War
In a recent conversation with CNBC, historian Niall Ferguson said the contentious trade war between the U.S. and China is not merely a t...
National Debt Surge Cues Bright Future for Gold & Silver
It’s official: Mainstream economists, asset managers and market analysts are boarding the gold train. A growing number of people who make thei...
Weekly Touchpoint: Bank of America: Central Bank Policies Fueling Gold
The devotion of central banks to ultra-loose monetary policy is the basis for the recent Bank of America (BOA) declaration that gold is ...
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