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 investing in surplus military vehicles. (See the Tangibles Investing section.)
Precious Metals:
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Bubba Horwitz: Gold and silver continue to torture traders.
Economy & Finance:
China’s Property Sector Is Crashing Again And This Time It Has Reached The Country’s Biggest Developer. JWR’s Comments: This is still just the early phase of the Chinese debt crisis. By the time these huge malinvestments are worked out, I can foresee that they will have profound global effects on credit markets, the construction industry, construction-related commodities, the housing markets in many nations, and perhaps even national currencies. I will post some further comments about this debt crisis, on Monday.
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CNN Business reports: Another big Chinese real estate developer might need to sell off property.
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Top 20 hedge funds earned USD65.4bn for investors in 2021, says LCH.
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At Wolf Street: The Fed’s Huge Income Statement for 2021 Is Out: Where its Revenues Came from and Where They Went.