To invest in gold and silver is to invest outside of the system. When you buy gold bars or silver coins you are choosing to hold assets that can protect other assets...
Deleveraging of the financial system has created a negative feedback-loop, mirroring the 2009 Credit Crisis. The net effect is downward pressure on debt and US equities.
So, at the end of the day, it behooves you, as a depositor, to seek out the strongest banks you can find, and to avoid banks which have questionable stability.
Fed tightening just doubled to the fastest rate of tightening in history by far. That’s why it has suddenly gotten very rough in the marketplace. This is a massive flow of money the size of the Niagara River..
We permabears should be careful what we wish for, however, since deep hardship affecting the broad middle class, the poor and even the very affluent could persist for a long time -- perhaps a decade or more...
The notorious gold-futures speculators just struck again, selling aggressively and pummeling gold sharply lower. Another red-hot inflation report goaded them into puking out more contracts, which is supremely irrational...
