The Consensus Is Clear, Main Street Loves Gold

Kitco News interviewed attendees of the PDAC in Toronto to ask them why they attended, their sentiment on gold, and test their knowledge of the mining industry. 

Unanimously, attendees favored the precious metals and held an optimistic and bullish outlook, a big switch from the skepticism and uncertainty surrounding last year's conference.

- Source, Kitco News

Ron Paul: The Green Bad Deal

The "science is settled" on climate change and we need to eliminate air travel? Sounds like a pretty bad deal to Ron Paul.

- Source, Ron Paul

Millennials & Debt: No Room to Maneuver Left

Born between 1981 to 2000, Millennials now average 26 years of age, and comprise about 27% of the North American population. This generation is coming of age in precarious financial circumstances.

Their elders have led them poorly and allowed debt-sellers and other predatory business models to prey on the young. For a brighter future, we need to get the masses out of endless debt holes, and into some financial stability. 

We must focus policies on making education, job training and shelter options more affordable as well as on increasing savings rather than increasing debt. Older folks need the younger to get on solid footing so they can help pull the economic cart and help fund the entitlement programs that boomers are banking on.

- Source, Juggling Dynamite

Basel III & Gold: The Big Picture

There has been a lot of talk lately about Basel III and a potential return to a gold standard. Find out what it is, and what Mike Maloney feels is happening in today's latest update.

- Source, Gold Silver

The Real Cause of Recessions

Lakshman Achuthan of ECRI returns to Real Vision following his April 2018 appearance, where he successfully predicted a slowdown in US growth. 

Achuthan looks ahead with his new forecast to analyze whether the global growth slowdown will continue, unpacking economic cycles in Asia, Europe, and the potential disconnect between economic cycles and financial markets.

- Source, Real Vision

Crypto After The Collapse of Central Banking

Topics include: how was Anarchapulco 2019? What is happening in the crypto space? TDV picked the top and the bottom, time to buy is now? precious metals, central bank money printing, Chinese economy, global role of crypto post collapse, hyperinflation, no point in worrying, no need for fear, work on yourself, life priorities, the TDV Summit 2019 videos now available.

- Source, The Dollar Vigilante

$2,000 Palladium Is Not Out Of The Question

Sitting on solid supply and demand fundamentals, palladium may have more room to grow even with the recent run-up in prices, this according to Phil Streible, senior market strategist at RJO Futures. 

“There’s no question on how high [palladium] could go because of the fact that there’s limited supply and it’s controlled by Russia and what little comes out of South Africa. 

With the new regulations on catalytic converters and fighting pollution, there’s a true demand for palladium,” Streible told Kitco News.

- Source, Kitco News

Andrew Maguire: $50 Silver is a Joke, Breakout Coming

World renowned precious metals expert Andrew Maguire says watch silver for an extreme spike to the upside. 

Maguire says, “Silver is going to break out. I think $50 per ounce is a joke. I think it’s going to be substantially higher than that. 

It’s not going to be a question of how you can run into resistance with silver. It’s going to be how much physical is available. 

It’s going to be a heck of a lot higher when you start to have a run on the price.”

- Source, USA Watchdog

Hemke's Forecasts 2019 As Best Year For Gold Since 2010

Craig Hemke tells Silver Doctors the recent pullback in gold and silver was a result of being overbought. Hemke expects a rally with the FOMC meeting Wednesday. 

The $1360 level for gold is a key resistance level. Some catalyst, such as further easing from central banks will be necessary to launch gold past that level. 

Hemke explains how the price setting of gold is different from the price setting of stocks. He argues it does not reflect physical supply and demand fundamentals. 

Hemke comments on the historic rise in palladium prices and makes the case the rise is due to physical demand. 

The U.S. economy is slowing. Hemke says the economy cannot handle the higher interest rates.

- Source, Silver Doctors

Mining Sector: Will We Have a Famine Or a Feast?

The mining space will not be facing a major bull rally, or “feast” soon, but an inflection point is coming for gold, said John Kaiser of Kaiser Research Online. 

“I think we are in the middle of a turning point, the beginning of what will be a revival of interest in the junior resource sector, and there’s not going to be any glorious trigger. 

I do think that gold is going to develop a subtle uptrend and the key inflection will be when it goes through that 2016 high of $1,370 or thereabouts,” Kaiser told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Metals Investor Forum in Toronto.

- Source, Kitco News

Silver and Gold Investment Demand Still Looking Strong

This is What Economic Control Looks Like...

Increasing the minimum wages does not help the people, it might look like it does in the short run but in the long run they are exactly back to where they started or out of work. 

The real problem lays with the economic system that we are in. Trump and the Patriots now have control over the Fed, the Fed is going to be in a holding pattern and talking about maybe increasing the rates in the 3rd quarter.

- Source, X22 Report

A Return to the Gold Standard? Is that Possible?

Alasdair Macleod explains why returning to a gold standard is the only way nations can contain the interest cost of servicing debt and try to minimize financial damage.

- Source, Jay Taylor Media

The World is Choking On Debt, Buy Gold

What is investment advisor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts looking to put money in? 

She has long been lukewarm on gold, but not any longer. Fitts now says, “The world is choking on debt. It’s not just peak oil, it’s peak everything. So, it is one of the reasons you see margins falling, and we tried to fight it by blowing bubbles. 

We are reaching the end of that sort of strategy, and it’s one of the reasons you are seeing more and more people become aware of gold and want gold. 

They are saying, okay, the financial asset bubble game is over, and now we want real things. 

To me, gold was a core position, and I have always felt that gold was a core position. 

So, I like gold now. For many years, I said I don’t think gold is going to have a good investment run. I am changing that this year. I think gold as an investment will do reasonably well this year, and it should.

Basel III rules are basically making gold more attractive and focusing more on financial soundness. 

Yes, the central banks and banks are going to be buying, but I think as you see global investors see the extent of the lawlessness, and like the determinations in the U.S. federal credit, they are going to be looking for real assets. 

Gold is just going to be a place to go. Away from jewelry, you’ve got about a $3 trillion gold market. 

So, it only takes a little bit of a pension fund or a sovereign wealth fund to increase their gold allocation to run the market up. 

I think there is going to be a steady drum beat of support for the price of gold for some time to come.”

- Source, USA Watchdog

Niko Cacos: Strategic Metal Poised for a Comeback?

Already staging a recovery from recent lows, this strategic metal and its mining industry were thought by many to have been passed over by the new green economy but other developing mega-trends are aligned to drive them into a major comeback. 

Niko Cacos, CEO of Blue Sky Uranium, visits Reluctant Preppers for the first time in this interview that grapples with the titanic tensions between energy and safety advocates, emerging technological solutions, and the superpower countries that are strategically ramping up their nuclear power capacity in this new century. 

Cacos outlines Blue Sky’s expansive new mining district and project in Argentina, and gives us a glimpse of what’s in store for his enterprise going forward.

- Source, Reluctant Preppers

Silver Stacking to Double in Popularity in Next 5 Years?

Despite lackluster investment demand over the last few years, silver and gold stacking is set for a turnaround.

Here is four reasons why.

- Source, Silver Fortune