Gold is challenging the $1300 level for the third time this year. If it breaks upwards out of this consolidation phase convincingly, it could be an important event, signalling a dollar that will continue to weaken. The factors driving the dollar lower are several and disparate. The US economy is sluggish relative to the rest […]

Using TipRanks’ popular Insiders’ Hot Stocks tool, we found which stocks best-performing corporate insiders like right now. We differentiate between informative and uninformative insider transactions in order to find the most compelling opportunities. Uninformative transactions indicate that an insider is buying/selling shares for reasons that do not necessarily indicate confidence in the company, such as exercising share options. […]

Savers are getting strangled by regulations: new laws are threatening their assets and limiting their freedom. They have become prey to a sicker and sicker banking and monetary system. We have already warned about the BRRD directive, which authorizes a failing bank to bail itself out using its clients’ accounts, and mentioned in passing that the 100,000 […]

Everyone knows that China’s economy has had explosive economic growth in recent decades, with tidal effects through the rest of the global economy. In fact, China’s economy has come so far and so fast that some of the main shocks it has caused in recent decades may be about to move into reverse. At least, […]

I messed up earlier this week in discussing the possible impact of demographic changes in the composition of the labor force on the rate of wage growth, but this is an important issue that we should be able to think about clearly. The question is whether the slow pace of wage growth in the last year or […]