Where's Your Loyalty?

Where’s Your Loyalty?

By Jeff Thomas, Feature Writer for Doug Casey’s International Man and Strategic Wealth Preservation Recently, after reading an essay of mine, a reader angrily questioned my loyalty to the USA. My immediate reaction was that I’m not a US citizen. I therefore tend to observe the US dispassionately, just as I’d observe any of the…

The Precious Metals Week in Review – October 27th, 2023.

The Precious Metals Week in Review – October 27th, 2023

Analysts were warning that the gold market was ripe for a short squeeze rally as prices fell to a seven-month low earlier in the month, and they were proven right as the latest trade data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed significant short-covering in gold and silver.

The Precious Metals Week in Review – October 6th, 2023.

The Precious Metals Week in Review – October 5th, 2023

The bond market’s selloff accelerated after a surge in U.S. hiring raised expectations that the Federal Reserve will need to raise interest rates again this year.

The Precious Metals Week in Review – September 29th, 2023.

The Precious Metals Week in Review – September 29th, 2023

The final trading week of the month kicked off with stocks sliding on Monday, setting investors up for a losing month where much of the optimism of the early summer has fizzled into more tempered expectations of the Fed’s tightening campaign.