Cheers Skeeta!

Yes, the trend will likely extend.

Cheers Doc!

Alan Greenspan: Investors should prepare for the worst

Donna Borak, CNN Business – Tue December 18, 2018

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/business/alan-greenspan-stock-market-party-over/index.html

My Take On The Outlook Of the Dollar

by @Samson on December 21, 2018

“However, approximately half of the U.S. equities are now trading 20% lower from the historical high earlier this year. Technically, it could be argued that half of the U.S. equities markets are now in a bear market. A region’s stock market performance is usually a precursor of its domestic real economy, usually with a lead time of 6-9 months.”

“The tightening is the correct move by the Fed, but it could possibly backfire”

“In addition, let us demonstrate why the United States does not have too much room to increase interest rates. First of all, while the economy of the United States looks strong, and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has now become a tempest in a teapot, we can also argue that several of the problems that caused the 2008 GFC are yet to be solved…”

https://ceo.ca/@samson/my-take-on-the-outlook-of-the-dollar

Cheers back to you ex. We are now in an expecting waiting game—only a matter of time.

Have followed Jesse’s blog for years. His level of frustrations, but acceptance of the present, equal mine when it comes to the prices of PM’s. One day……
I generally find several articles worth reading from his list on the left side of his page.
Thanks Ex., for your input on Doc’s interview post on the 20th. My sentiments exactly. You’re an artist with the language………….

Yes agreed Silverdollar, the pace of the precious metals advance, decline, and sideways channeling the last 2 years has been frustratingly slow and muted, but at least the metals stayed resilient in the face of a stronger dollar and surging stock market during this period.

Thanks for the kind words, and right back at you sir. Ever Upward!

Acquiring or selling: Mining Leaders Talk About Their 2019 Plans

Bloomberg News | about 5 hours ago

– Gary Goldberg – Newmont Mining
– Don Lindsay – Teck Resources
– Sean Boyd – Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd.
– Clive Newall – First Quantum Minerals

http://www.mining.com/web/acquiring-selling-mining-leaders-talk-2019-plans/

Haha! Yes DT it will be a comedy of errors compounding in a lunatic fashion.

Rick Rule: Deploying Capital To M&A Targets, Royalty Companies & Promising Exploration Projects

Swiss Resource Capital AG – Dec 22, 2018 #VIDEO Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqTbQqkOLeM&feature=youtu.be

“Everything is going down.” Why you need to own gold bullion right now

By Craig Hemke Weekly Wrap-Up w/ Eric Sprott ( Dec 21, 2018)

” Eric Sprott stops by to break down all the gold and silver news you need heading into 2019, including:

– Which company delivered an ominous warning for the market
– Why silver may be setting up for a tremendous run.
– Plus: signs that the big run for gold has already started

“More important than the gold going up is what else is going on. It’s funny how the macro-theory all along suggested that when the Fed stopped their quantitative easing and rates went up—but particularly the quantitative easing, where they go from quantitative easing to quantitative tightening—that one should have expected the stock market to roll over. Because the whole 2009 to 2018 was essentially a fraud created by the Fed, by doing things that no one in the history of the financial world had ever heard about before: printing money and having zero or negative interest rates. Well here we are. Now we’re doing the opposite. Are we surprised that stocks are going down? Well, we shouldn’t be.”

https://www.sprottmoney.com/Blog/everything-is-going-down-why-you-need-to-own-gold-bullion-right-now.html

In our case, I have to say that delving into politics was something that I pushed very hard. I maintain that there is a specific correlation between investing and politics. Most people agree as the audiences of the various Tv shows and large radio shows that I used to appear on said.

I had a very good publicist years ago and she had no problem scheduling appearances for me on national television and radio in Canada: the U.S.; parts of Europe and elsewhere. I also appeared in person at investment conferences throughout Canada; the United States and Europe.

My theory was successful to the point that Jay Taylor imitated it after we worked together along with my daughter for a couple of years. My statement is proven by the fact that he too started doing, what he called radio which was in reality a fee based internet program where the hosts paid the fees to be on the “network”. The only fees that I ever paid after I had a couple years of airtime experience what to my publicist who arranged for my appearance on stations which were affiliated with networks like Fox and others.

Just a follow up for Owl…….based upon a comment that CFS posted, which was in response to another investor….
Silverdollar,
Because several of us have made our investment fortunes based on long term political analysis rather than short term TA trading.
Different strokes for different folks.

Which I agreed with………just saying, since I am J. THE LONG……. 🙂

Sounds good Big Al, and as stated above, when it comes to macro economics, it does tie into SOME aspects of politics and there are cross currents like what the FED is going to do to interest rates and how that affects the bond markets, how the US trade policies or how government initiatives may affect the strength/weakness of the US Dollar, or how emerging markets may get creamed if the Dollar and US equities keep sucking up all the global capital. There is no doubt some relevant political discourse that ties into politics.

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Having said that (repeatedly by the way every time this subject comes up), there are CLEARLY other areas that people rant on and on about, or that you cover in separate daily editorials that have NO correlation to economics, or resource investing.

For example:

> How did the endless rants on Israel versus Palestine, and the heated debates, arguments, name calling, insults, and insanity on the KER help investors out with better informed investment decisions?

> How does endless ripping on the Clintons, or Obama, or Trump, or Regan, or Putin, or Merkel, or May, or other world leaders assist in ECONOMIC investing, or the resource sector?

> How does posters ranting on the economic blogs about the Brett Kavanaugh attacks and investigation, or the Russian meddling investigation by Mueller, or the endless posts about the sealed indictments, or whether Hillary Clinton was properly punished for her missing emails have ANYTHING to do with the list of Resource Company sponsors along the sidebar on this page?

—–> Do you not see how many investors (particularly many of the left-leaning Canadian and European investors) might find a bombardment of posts about these kinds of political stances divisive, disruptive, and turn them off from reading the posts on this site?

(I realize that most of the radio listeners are in the US, but most investors in Resource companies — like the sponsors of this show — are clearly Canadian), and even the US investors are split down the middle on politics and their views, so taking a hard stance on the right will immediately isolate half your audience, and most will not come back for the economic updates if there is constant political mumbo-jumbo and very opinionated posts from dubious sources acting like they have a strangle-hold on the truth or political narrative?

>> The reality is that 90% of the political posts, editorials, and rants from folks on here have NOTHING to do with Economics, investing, or the Resource Sector.

I see 0 show sponsors that Political companies, and nearly 100% of the show sponsors are now mining companies. Do you honestly think all the boards of those companies share your political persuasion and like their press releases on drill results to have constant discussions of the Russian collusion investigation, Israel vs Palestine, Hillary Clinton or Trump?

(just a wild guess, but I’m sure they’d prefer an audience of folks discussing their company, the Gold/Silver/Base Metals sector, or other peer miners than wacked out polarizing political posts).

As mentioned to you before many times, there are many people that love the CEO interviews, economic discussions, technical analysis, fundamental analysis, discussions on currencies, bonds, the general equities, etc….. but they don’t feel like posting due to the all the political drama on here constantly, and the decision to have those debates isolated to specific editorials makes all the sense in the world.

If investors are making decisions on investing in the resource sector based on political discussions like Hillary’s emails, the epidemic around school shootings, Brett Kavanaugh’s trial, pulling out of Syria, or Trump tweets then they need to have their heads examined and shouldn’t be managing their own investing.

It’s pretty obvious that none of those “political” topics have anything to do with investing for anyone on the outside looking in, or most investors that would find this site from Kitco or searching for mining stock updates.

That was the only point I was making, and I’m not alone in those reflections.

OOTB do you really think CFS made longer term investment decissions or his money based on Fast & Furious, Benghazi, Mueller investigations on Russian meddling, by hating Hillary Clinton, or his endless posts on Israel and Palestine that cause nothing but arguments?

Come on…. nobody invests or makes money on any of that garbage.

The Fed or ECB policies, or Brexit, or Trade Wars do have value, but that isn’t what CFS spends most of every day posting about.

Very little of the political gossip and tabloid like extremely opinionated editorials that get posted here day in and day out actually help investors to be better informed in their trading accounts or longer term retirement accounts. They are mostly far right leaning political rants or polarizing commentary on ideologies, and they are typically the posts that lead to all the bickering and ruffled feathers.

Sorry, I just don’t see how those help investors, but understand completely why they are more popular and get more comments — people love to talk trash about things that they can’t change anyway and that are far out of their control, playing the blame game.

If they spent less time on that and more time on following the markets they’d likely do better in their investing, be happier, and have a hell of lot more free time.

If investors want the news, tweets, and outrage of the day there are thousands of other internet sites gushing with that information every minute of the day.

i guess, we need to spend more time going over the guru list of gold know it alls…….

Cheers……as you say….. 🙂

OOTB – Who said anything about going over the guru lists? (?)

The point was that 90% of the opinionated political rants on here have nothing to do with investing, and are only tiresome when peppered all over the economic blogs.

Now, the 227 posts on the Syria & Afghanistan blog are fine there, but that’s a political blog, but let’s be Frank, those topics have very little to do with the economic investments that folks on this site have made in the past or are making in 2019.

Which one of the KER show sponsors on the right hand side of the page should investors look to invest in based in on Syria and Afghanistan? (just curious)

OOTB – BTW – you know I love ya man, and I don’t mean to direct the comments at just you specifically, as they are meant to be more general in nature and there are a number of posters that rarely discuss investing and only weigh in on the political diatribes (regardless of the topic of the daily editorials).

However, since you were the one that posted the initial comments on this blog about keeping the politics separate (in a bit tongue-in-cheek), and then posted CFS’s comment about the political posts here dealing with longer term investments, then that is why I addressed my responses back to you, but they were meant to be general comments and not ripping on you personally.

Much love and holiday cheer to you as well my good man. 🙂

Ditto on the love ya.. man cheers

Seasons greetings and good tidings to all, and to all a good night!

Thanks Big Al. It has been a much more smooth process with the Economic and Political blogs on separate threads, easier to read, and keeps the 2 different topics more focused. This came up because a different user posted their opinion on the 20th on Doc’s blog about how they found the political rants in the midst of a blog on Gold and Gold stocks distracting to sift through. I was done with it on the blog but comments were made on this blog so the discussion continued on….. (as it has for years and years on this exact same discussion).

Thanks for all you & Cory do.

Big Al – just so you I’m a big fan of you, and your site, and all the great work Cory does, here is a link to the all the reposts of your site I’ve done over at ceo.ca to try to expose this site to a larger investing audience.

The most common response I get back from people in private messages there is asking if I work for you (haha!) or how I can stand to sift through all the political posts and bickering on the site. I tell them I come for the economic discussions, and once I explain that they are normally separate now, they really appreciate that, but say they only listen because of the all the polarizing political commentary on the blog. I thought you may appreciate the feedback.

https://ceo.ca/korelin

Here is the newer link I’ve started using to post the economic audio interviews or posts on the KER that I find interesting. Many people over at ceo.ca get with me to let me know they appreciate all the hard work you guys do, and I agree that the KER crew is top shelf!

https://ceo.ca/korelineconomicsreport