Practical Prepping for Financial SHTF Scenarios
By Stefan Gleason Preppers – the sort of people who build bunkers, stockpile supplies, and bear arms – aim to survive “SHTF” scenarios. When war…
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The OTHER Debt Bubbles: How Private Sector Debt Could Trigger the Next Financial Crisis
By Stefan Gleason The $22 trillion official national debt is a much discussed problem, even as politicians exhibit zero motivation to do anything about it….
Fed Must Face Reality: No Return to Normalcy for Monetary Policy
By Stefan Gleason More than a decade after the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. monetary policy continues to operate in crisis management mode. Despite a long,…
Socialist “Green New Deal” Points the Way to Hyperinflation
By Stefan Gleason Socialist Venezuela’s economic collapse and hyperinflationary spiral serves as a warning for American investors. It’s what can happen when a government spends…
The Battle for Venezuela’s Gold Serves as a Lesson in Counterparty Risk
By Stefan Gleason He who controls the gold makes the rules. That old adage applies aptly to the present crisis in Venezuela. An international battle…
Peak Gold and the Coming Supply Crunch
By Stefan Gleason During the lackluster and otherwise unremarkable trading of 2018, a hugely important development took place in the precious metals markets. Gold production,…
2019 Money Metals Outlook
By Stefan Gleason Precious metals markets enter 2019 with an opportunity to shine. Several major bullish drivers are lining up to start the New Year…
Panic Buying Hits Palladium Market: What Comes Next?
By Stefan Gleason This week, a white metal reached a rare feat. Palladium has traded at a higher cost per ounce than gold. Last month,…
Will Unapproved Opinions Be Censored Off the Internet?
By Stefan Gleason “False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the…
The Swamp vs. Alternative Currencies
By Stefan Gleason In Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s testimony before Congress last week, he reiterated his intent to continue the central bank’s gradual rate-hiking…
Gold & Silver Investors’ 8 Commandments for Avoiding Rip Offs
By Stefan Gleason For every promising investment opportunity you come across, there are multiple opportunities for bad-faith brokers and hucksters to try to rip you…
Contrarians See Precious Metals Opportunity in Negative Sentiment
By Stefan Gleason Gold and silver markets entered this summer with sentiment toward the metals in something of a deep freeze. For several months, precious…
The Dangers of Investing Based on Phony Government Statistics
By Stefan Gleason President Donald Trump recently took to Twitter to boast, “The U.S. has an increased economic value of more than 7 Trillion Dollars…
How Savvy Investors Do (and Don’t) Hedge against Inflation
By Stefan Gleason Inflation is a corrosive force that gradually – and sometimes rapidly – eats away at the nominal value of savings and investments….