What awaits us

By Doug Noland, Credit Bubble Bulletin 03/23/2019 This week’s FOMC meeting will be debated for years – perhaps even decades. The Fed essentially pre-committed to no rate hike in 2019. The committee downgraded both its growth and inflation forecasts. Having all at once turned of little consequence, we can now dismiss the 3.8% unemployment rate and [...] Read more

By MN Gordon 03/22/2019 “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” remarked George Santayana over 100 years ago. These words, as strung together in this sequence, certainly sound good. But how to render them to actionable advice is less certain. Aren’t some facets of the past – like the floppy disk – not worth remembering? [...] Read more

Underground operation at the Prominent Hill mine. Photo by OZ Minerals. By MINING.com Staff 03/21/2019 Energy and resources open innovation platform Unearthed joined forces with Adelaide-based OZ Minerals to launch the Explorer Challenge, a competition that brings together data scientists, geoscientists and mining professionals to create machine [...] Read more

By Sunshine Profits, Przemyslaw Radomski 03/20/2019 Some important pieces of the US economic reports, including the latest nonfarm payrolls, have disappointed recently. May indicators (including the leading ones) have hit a soft patch it seems. Will that push the Fed to downgrade its dot-plot or fine-tune the monetary policy mix anyhow? Can gold [...] Read more

Image: Generation Grundeinkommen By MINING.com Editor 03/20/2019 Wednesday's Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting confirmed market expectations that the Federal Reserve will remain on hold for the rest of the year. This decision could have significant implications on the gold market, according to analysts at the World Gold Council [...] Read more

Invest now or later. Image by artemuestra By Frik Els 03/21/2019 Gold was trading just shy of the $1,320 an ounce mark in overnight trading in New York on Thursday, a three-week high. The latest bounce comes after Wednesday's Federal Reserve meeting confirmed market expectations that interest rates remain on hold for the rest of the year. A panel [...] Read more

BY JOHN RUBINO 03/15/2019 Spend a little time researching gold mining stocks and you’ll notice that once you get past a handful of familiar names there’s a long list of companies you’ve never heard of. Most of these are the proverbial “hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it.” But a fair number are real miners with legitimate [...] Read more

BY JOHN RUBINO 03/16/2019 In his latest newsletter commodities analyst Jay Taylor notes that a very important date is approaching: In 2018, central banks added nearly 23 million ounces of gold, up 74% from 2017. This is the highest annual purchase rate increase since 1971, and the second-highest rate in history. Russia was the biggest buyer. And [...] Read more

In the fall, the US Federal Reserve will stop selling treasury bonds. This will put an end to the long-term increase in US public debt and will be a radical change in the country's financial policy In the fall of 2019, the US Federal Reserve will stop selling government bonds. At the same time, the Fed announced that it would not raise the key [...] Read more

We are increasing the price for GoldFor. In connection with the growing strength of the crisis in the global economy and the entry into force of the new rules approved by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) for gold. (March 31 ) - we increase the price of the GoldFor token. [...] Read more