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Another attempt to help The Wall Street Journal solve the supposed mystery of gold

Today's edition of The Wall Street Journal published another clueless report about what it called gold's failure to function as a safe haven amid financial turmoil.

Complexity Wins Again

By John Mauldin, Thoughts from the Frontline

Pension funds are going to get devastated in this decade. So are many retirees. And it all comes from bad models on top of more bad models. It’s a big problem. But maybe technology has a solution.

Get Ready for a Post-Election ‘Fed Wave’ of Inflation

By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals

A wave of Fed-induced inflation is coming. The only question is how big it will be.

Sit back, relax, have a banana (smoothy, daiquiri, with your corn flakes or straight up). There are only two ways this story can ultimately end. Either a deflationary whirlpool or ole’ von Mises’ Crack-up-Boom.

Joe, Are You Sure You Want the Job?

By Rick Ackerman, Rick's Picks

The Democrats will soon own America's future, but they may come to regret it. The stock market is pumped so full of super-heated gas that it makes the Hindenburg look like a birthday balloon.

Stimulus, Debt and Gold

By Michael J. Kosares, USA Gold

In 2021, we will come to a dubious milestone – the fiat money system’s golden anniversary. Pandemic aside, the continuing inability of the U.S. federal government to come to grips with its fiscal problems during those fifty years largely explains the enduring, some would say stubborn, presence of gold in millions of investment portfolios around the world.

Election Day

By Craig Hemke, TF Metals Report

Well, the day of the U.S. election is finally here. I suppose I could write some sort of elaborate and detailed post about the stakes and the consequences, but what would be the point? The Keynesian train is headed for the cliff, regardless of who's playing engineer for the next four years.

If Inflation Is the Trick, Gold Is the Treat

By Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors

Want to hear something really scary? Inflation, the scourge of the modern economy, may be running much faster than we’re led to believe.

If Comex falls, bullion banking does too, metals consultant Corey Keller says, adding praise for GATA

By Chris Powell, GATA

International monetary metals consultant Corey Keller, interviewed today by Bullion Star's Ronan Manly, suggests that the New York Commodities Exchange is the vulnerable spot of the bullion bank business.

Did The Tech Bubble Pop On September 2nd?

By Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock Journal

At some point I expect the Fed to step in with more money-printing but not until some point after an election winner has been declared. That money will directed at injecting more liquidity into the TBTF banks and funding another big wave of Treasury issuance after the election.

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