Are we ALL just Accepting this?
This weekend, I dropped $380 on groceries for my family of four. No fancy charcuterie boards, no organic quinoa – just basics like milk, eggs, pasta, chicken, and veggies. The kicker? Pre-pandemic, the exact same haul cost around $200.
Let that sink in: Grocery inflation has nearly DOUBLED my “survival” budget in 4 years. Continue reading
Gold prices reached an all-time high of $3,404 per ounce in pre-market trading on Monday, driven by a weakening U.S. dollar and growing uncertainty over U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the dollar against a basket of six major currencies, fell to 98.30, its lowest level since March 2022, in pre-market trade on Monday. Continue reading
…and you WONDER where the name “Sierra Madre Precious Metals” came from? ~ Editor
In this jaw-dropping episode of Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains, Larry Hedrick unveils one of the Lost Dutchman’s biggest secrets – the Dutchman didn’t trust banks! Instead, he hid his gold ore deep within the Superstition Mountains. But that’s not all! Bob Garman and Travis Tumlinson uncovered this hidden treasure. Larry reveals the incredible story of what happened to the gold and the exact spot where they found it. Don’t miss this thrilling discovery that could change everything you know about the Lost Dutchman legend! Continue reading
“A weakening US dollar ‘always leads to future inflation’ ~ Steve Forbes
Forbes Chairman and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes warns over U.S. prices going up amid global tariff tensions and weighs in on Federal Reserve leadership.
Tariffs, the Fed and America’s crumbling reserve currency – the economic volatility is painting a gloomy fiscal picture that will result in a recessionary slowdown, according to one expert. Continue reading
“Gold, Mr. Bond.”
Gold’s rally past $3,200 an ounce may only be the beginning of a much larger move, potentially toward $4,000, as traditional safe havens fracture, Bitcoin falters, and the U.S. stock market teeters at historically extreme valuations. That’s the view of Mike McGlone, Senior Commodity Strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, who told Kitco News in a wide-ranging interview that we are witnessing “the beginning of a bear market in the U.S. stock market” and a paradigm shift that favors precious metals.
“We’re putting in a pretty good base now around $3,000. It’s going to head into $4,000, the question is time. Anything in between there is for the traders, which I used to do.” Continue reading
Goldman Sachs has increased its year-end gold forecast to $3,700 per troy ounce (toz), citing stronger-than-expected central bank demand and heightened recession risks impacting ETF inflows.
The investment bank, whose previous year-end forecast was $3,300, said it expected central bank demand to average 80 tonnes per month, up from its previous assumption of 70 tons and well above the pre-2022 baseline of 17 tons per month. Continue reading
Mississippi officials have calculated there are hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of government waste.
According to Fox News, state auditor Shad White is set to release a compilation of findings from his office that shows a collective $400 million in wasted funds. Continue reading
February 9, 2019 ~ The economy has surpassed all normal ebbs and flows, corrections, by approximately five years, since on average in each past cycle it rose for 56 months before collapsing. We’re about four and a half years past that point and our economy is only now “cooling”. We’re just about due for another economic recession, if not a collapse that makes 2008 look small. We’re at the end of the line. ~ Justin O Smith
The U.S. spends almost a third of its revenue on interest payments alone, it doesn’t seem like it can afford to pay much more.
The national debt, ever on the rise, currently sits at around $22 trillion. Continue reading
In recent days, we have read numerous articles about a possible agreement between the US administration and its main trading partners to devalue the US dollar. It has been named “The Mar-A-Lago Accord”, a concept inspired by the Plaza Accord of 1985, which aimed to devalue the US dollar to address trade imbalances. That plan failed. Continue reading
Goin’ down???
April 14, 2013 ~ Did you know that the greatest period of economic growth in American history was during a time when there was absolutely no federal income tax? Between the end of the Civil War and 1913, there was an explosion of economic activity in the United States unlike anything ever seen before or since. Unfortunately, a federal income tax was instituted in 1913, and this year it turned 100 years old. But there was no fanfare, was there? There was no celebration because the federal income tax is universally hated. Sadly, most Americans just assume that there is no other option to an income tax. Most Americans just assume that it has always been with us and that it will always be with us. Continue reading
