Category: Economics & Investing

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at rising lumber prices. (See the Tangibles Investing section.) Precious Metals: Interview with Phil Streible: All-in gold doesn’t make sense; silver, oil are the real winners o  o  o Frank Holmes: The Debate Between Gold And Bitcoin Intensifies Economy & Finance: Biden names liberal econ team as pandemic threatens workers o  …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at predictions for crude oil prices. (See the Commodities section.) Precious Metals: Platinum Begins A New Rally – Gold And Silver Will Follow o  o  o CME Lowers Silver Margins $1000, Shorts Covering? o  o  o JP Morgan Is “Dominating” Gold And Silver Prices Economy & Finance: There’s a New …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at the large number of permanent small business closures, nationwide. (See the Economy & Finance section.) Precious Metals: We’ll start out today’s column with this analysis from Jim Wyckoff: Price gains for gold, silver as bulls making good comeback o  o  o Barrick and Buffett; Gold and Goldman Economy & …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at rural real estate. (See the Tangibles Investing section.) Precious Metals: Gold and silver both were pushed down last week, as was Bitcoin. But in the long term, we know the fate of the U.S. Dollar. o  o  o Record Silver Shortage in 2020? o  o  o A primer: Physical …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at the recent dip in the gold price, in USD terms. (See the Precious Metals section.) Precious Metals: Spot Gold took a 3% dive to a 4-month low of around $1,837 per Troy ounce early in the week, and silver meanwhile was down 2%. The gold price slump continued to …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we further examine suburban and rural relocation. (See the Tangibles Investing section.) Precious Metals: An interview with Dave Kranzler: The Economy, Gold, Silver And Mining Stocks o  o  o Degussa sees gold price rising to $2,500 by mid-2021 as central banks continue to print money Economy & Finance: David Morgan: Quantitative Easing Our …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, the prospect of $200 NFA tax stamps for every magazine of more than 10-round capacity. (See the Tangibles Investing section.) Precious Metals: 2021 gold price target: ‘not wildly bullish, just positive’ – HSBC o  o  o Gold And Silver Under The Biden Government Economy & Finance: Reader H.L. suggested this at Zero …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at the surging price of Bitcoin. (See the Forex & Cryptos section.) Precious Metals: Gold, silver see price gains as Covid-19 rages in U.S. o  o  o Hub Moolman: Is Silver Leading Bitcoin or is Bitcoin Leading Silver? o  o  o Economy To Shut Down Again This Winter, Says Lobo Tiggre, …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at rising gun and ammo prices. (See the Economy & Finance section and the Tangibles Investing section.) Precious Metals: Silver price falls 7% on vaccine news, but here’s key difference between gold and silver o  o  o Gold Price Forecast: Gold Plummets Towards New Target. The article begins: “I saw …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at corporations relocating away from cities. Economy & Finance: o  o  o At Zero Hedge: Companies Join Exodus To Suburbs As Cities Transform Into “Ghost Towns”  o  o  o World’s Negative-Yield Debt Pile Has Just Hit a New Record. ($17 Trillion!) o  o  o At Wolf Street: Sales of New …

Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. Most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at election turmoil-driven ammunition buying. (See the Tangibles Investing section.) Precious Metals: We’ll start off with this from outspoken investing pundit Jim Cramer: You need some gold to protect against inflation and economic chaos. o  o  o Stimulus, Debt And Gold (Michael Kosares) Economy & Finance: Charles High Smith: How Systems …

Welcome to SurvivalBlog’s Precious Metals Month in Review, where we take a look at “the month that was” in precious metals. Each month, we cover gold’s performance, and the factors that affected gold prices. What Did Gold Do in October? Gold was range-bound between $1,890 and $1,930 in October, until it suffered big COVID-related losses the last three days of the month. Spot gold fell from an October 27 close of $1,907 to an $1,867 close on the 29th. Even this $40 drop did not move the average spot gold price in October more than a dollar, from $1,902 to …

October 30th, 1735 was the birthday of President John Adams. (Other sources cite his birthdate as October 19, 1735.) He died on July 4, 1826–just a few hours after the death of Thomas Jefferson. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 91 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: The photovoltaic power specialists at Quantum Harvest LLC  are providing a store-wide 10% off coupon. Depending on the model chosen, this could be worth more than $2000. A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any …