Category: Precious Metals

We’ve been warning about an oncoming financial crisis for a while now. The fact that a financial crisis would occur was all but inevitable, given the massive bubble blown by the Federal Reserve’s extraordinarily loose monetary policy over the last 12 years. But despite the numerous warning signs that markets were flashing, many investors just […]

You’ve probably heard it said that you can’t time markets. There’s definitely a lot of truth to that. Try to time when to get in and out of markets and you can second guess yourself into losing thousands of dollars. In many respects, trying to time markets is just gambling, not investing. But that’s not […]

The raft of Federal Reserve actions to bail out Wall Street had many people thinking that we’re going back to the days of 2008, when big banks got bailed out while the little people were forced to suffer. Major banks received trillions of dollars worth of federal assistance to stay afloat, then turned around and […]

The bad news just keeps getting worse and worse. After a 100-basis point rate cut and $700 billion in quantitative easing, the Federal Reserve has announced that it is opening up a new Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF) to provide a bailout of commercial paper markets. The new special purpose vehicle (SPV) will purchase commercial […]

Another Fed move, another day of collapsing stock markets. The Federal Reserve on Sunday evening announced its third consecutive unscheduled monetary policy move, making a 100-basis point cut to its target federal funds rate, cutting to a level of 0.00-0.25%. So after only a couple of years in which interest rates never even got back […]

Last week the Federal Reserve made waves in markets by announcing that it would immediately offer $1.5 trillion in funding for repo markets. While that made for a nice stock market bounce in the immediate aftermath of the announcement, it couldn’t keep stock markets from losing the most points in a single day in their […]

There are undoubtedly millions of investors out there who still are heavily invested in stock markets. They enjoyed the gains they’ve seen over the past several years, with both the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 reaching all-time highs on a consistent basis. As a result, the number of 401(k) millionaires in this country has […]

The bad news just keeps getting worse for investors, as stock markets continue their slide. The Dow Jones lost 10% today, dropping over 2,350 points to end the day. Not even an unprecedented monetary policy action by the Fed was able to stop the loss, so investors who are trying to stick to stock markets […]

After last night’s Democratic primaries, things aren’t looking so hot for Bernie Sanders, once the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Joe Biden currently leads Sanders in the delegate race, about 860 to 710. That’s not an insurmountable lead, but the change in momentum that occurred after Super Tuesday is looking to favor Biden […]

If you thought the last two weeks were bad for stocks, they just went from bad to worse. The Dow Jones dropped almost 1,900 points to start the day, an over 7% drop. The S&P 500 dropped 7% too, triggering the New York Stock Exchange’s first circuit breaker, the first time that has happened since […]