Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. In this column, JWR [1] also covers hedges, derivatives, and various obscura. This column emphasizes JWR’s “tangibles heavy” investing strategy and contrarian perspective. Today, we look at crop price predictions for 2025. (See the Commodities section.)
Precious Metals:
NASDAQ: Silver Price Forecast: Top Trends That Will Affect Silver in 2025 [2].
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At Gold-Eagle.com: Gold SWOT: BMO: Conditions Appear Favorable for a Broader Gold Equity Rally in 202 [3]5.
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How Macro Changes Will Impact Gold in 2025 [4].
Economy & Finance:
Greg Hunter interviews Martin W. Armstrong: Depression, Debt, Default & Destruction in 2025 [5].
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Forbes: 2025 Outlook: 5 Trends That Will Impact The Economy And Markets [6].
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Linked over at the Whatfinger.com [7]news aggregation site: This is going to be a ‘battle on Capitol Hill,’ economist warns [8].
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El Erian: A Baseline Scenario for the Global Economy [9].
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Sticky US inflation points to a more cautious Fed in 2025 [10].
Commodities:
ING: Commodities Outlook 2025: A bearish horizon [11].
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Copper price: What’s in store for 2025 [12].
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USDA Agricultural Projections to 2025 [13]. JWR’s Comment: I expect fairly stable crop prices in 2025. But what about imports? If a trade war develops in 2025, then it would be wise to be well stocked on coffee beans, cocoa powder, and vanilla beans/extract sooner rather than later. Here at the Rawles Ranch we aren’t coffee drinkers. But we recently stocked up on whole vanilla beans, to be able to make our own vanillated sugar.
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An opinion piece from OilPrice News: The American Shale Patch Is All About Depletion Now [14].
Equities:
From the generally optimistic J.P. Morgan: Ready to thrive in 2025 [15].
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USN&WR: Will the Stock Market Crash in 2025? 7 Risk Factors [16].
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From The Economic Times (of India): Grim New Year? Stock market’s fear gauge surges after Fed policy; Donald Trump’s potential tariffs could be critical for U.S economy, equities in 2025 [17].
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Brace for Impact: 5 Potential Stock Market Crash Triggers in 2025 [18].
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From the statist/leftist Yahoo Finance staff: IPO Blowout Forecast for 2025 Threatened By Trump Tariffs [19].
Forex & Cryptos:
2025 EUR/USD Outlook Fundamental Preview [20].
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At Currency Thoughts: The Start of Christmas Week Finds Dollar Atypically Well-Bid [21].
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Bitcoin slides below $100,000, Federal Reserve’s Powell rejects bitcoin reserve [22].
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Ether ETFs surpass $2.5B as ETH positions for $3.5K breakout [23].
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What’s next for DeFi in 2025? [24]
Tangibles Investing:
Swiss America: Best Tangible Investments To Buy In 2025 [25].
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Hagerty Announces 2025 Bull Market List: 11 Collector Cars Poised to Gain Value in 2025 [26].
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Optics Planet [27] (one of our Affiliate advertisers) is running their big annual New Year Countdown Sale.
- Discount Code: no code required
- Offer: Save up to 20% off your purchase + 2% Bonus Bucks
- Sale Dates: 12/27/24 – 12/31/24
And for even longer, they are concurrently running an Open Box and Clearance Sale
- Offer: Save up to 60% select products.
- This sale is going on now and ends February 1st, 2025.
Provisos:
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News Tips:
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