Tag: Inflation
2020: Oil Bankruptcies Will Mean Higher Prices for Consumers
(OilPrice.com) A bankruptcy boom has hit the oil and gas industry, and it’s just getting started. Investors have lost their appetite for shale, and...
For Venezuelans, Death Is Another Unaffordable Expense
(Associated Press) The last time anybody in Nerio García's family heard his voice was on a crackly call from jail outside Maracaibo, Venezuela's second...
Housing Costs Are Rising Fastest in THESE U.S. Cities
(Associated Press) Aspen Day-Flynn and her boyfriend, Travis Tolin, were thinking of moving back to her native Washington state this fall when their Phoenix...
As Consumer Costs Rise 5%+, Fed Chairman Calls for “Significant and...
(Money Metals Exchange) Gold and silver markets edged up this week but remain mired within a longer-term consolidation phase.
Last Friday, it appeared that silver...
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Inflation Fighter, Dead at 92
(Associated Press) Paul Volcker, who as Federal Reserve chairman in the early 1980s elevated interest rates to historic highs and triggered a recession as...
Hyperinflating, Land Expropriating Zimbabwe Begs White Farmers to Return as Country...
(NewsPunch) Crisis-torn Zimbabwe is on the brink of “manmade starvation” with most households unable to obtain enough food to meet basic standards, a UN envoy...
Central Banker Admits Fed Got It Wrong, Markets Got It Right
(Associated Press) In mid-2016, even with unemployment falling and the economy growing modestly, James Bullard, head of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, was...
Powell Talks Up Economy, Recommits to Creating More Inflation
(Associated Press) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Monday sketched an optimistic view of the economy but signaled that continued low inflation means higher...
Silver Guru: Here’s Why You Must Protect Yourself Outside the Financial...
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the November 22nd, 2019 Money Metals Market Wrap Podcast interview featuring David Morgan of The Morgan Report. You...
Costly Ignorance: Only 7% of Americans Grasp This Crucial Fact about...
(Mike Maharrey, Tenth Amendment Center) At one time, the U.S. monetary system was backed by gold. Now it’s not backed by anything.
But most...
