Should Investors Worry about Repo Market and Buy Gold?

Should Investors Worry about Repo Market and Buy Gold?

$500 billion. This is the sum the Fed has already pumped into the repo market since the crisis there started. On September 17, 2019, the secured overnight funding rate – a broad measure of the cost of borrowing cash overnight collateralized by Treasury securities,...
The Diamond Princess Info Is Quite Unsettling

The Diamond Princess Info Is Quite Unsettling

Great and Wonderful Tuesday Morning Folks, Gold is in the green in the early morning with the April trade at $1,589.80, up only $3.40 after reaching $1,592.40 before “the calm” was put into place with the low at $1,581.80. Silver is up as well with the March contract...
The Fake News Economy

The Fake News Economy

The stock market is becoming increasingly disconnected from underlying main street reality. Corporate profits have been declining since the third quarter of 2018. However, pre-tax corporate profits have been declining since the Q3 2014 (this data is available on the...
Widening Bid-Ask Spreads, Gold / Silver Market Report

Widening Bid-Ask Spreads, Gold / Silver Market Report

The price of gold rose $14 and the price of silver fell $0.07. The gold-silver ratio rose further with this price action. Welcome to our new Gold and Silver Market Report, or “Market Report” for short. We are separating this from the economics essay, which was...