Posts by Jeff Berwick

What a week for the precious metals and mining stocks! Thursday was an outstanding day for gold and silver prices as measured against the plunging dollar. And Friday blew the doors off! In fact, gold hit a high not seen since January 2015, closing at $1,293 on Friday. And silver has really taken off.  It reached…

As we mentioned yesterday, both the heads of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan held important meetings and they both looked like deer in the headlights.  Janet Yellen tried her best to act like somehow, maybe, the economy was going to recover… which has been going on since Ben Bernanke’s “Goldilocks recovery” story.…

I was recently on Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction where we discussed how to live as a Perpetual Traveler/Prior Taxpayer (PT). Living the PT lifestyle is not as hard as it may seem.  In fact, in today’s day and age it is quite easy.  And it has the benefit of being able to live as…

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We said after the 2008 crisis that the financial system had died.  In fact, that was our cue to start The Dollar Vigilante. And we said all they would do was print money to make it seem like the economic system was still functioning until the next major crisis/collapse, which we said was likely to occur between…

Every day there are big things happening in this most epic of Jubilee years… and it’s just getting started. Silver roared out of the gate from the get-go this morning. Gold also spiked higher as oil fell 7%. In this insane world full of college-edumacated zombies in the financial world, we are often mocked for…