Here, Chris joins Mitch (Money Mitch) Hoch, Lead Anchor / Producer of Benzinga TV to discuss the markets ahead of the next Federal Reserve meeting on February 1. Having been vindicated in his Dec. 2021 predictions for 2022 on Benzinga,…
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“The Great Stagflation” Will Be More “Stag” in 2023
(From the December, 22, 2022 Issue) One of the two main themes I discussed a year ago — that 2022 would usher in The Great Stagflation — certainly turned out to be the case. And this environment will be with…
PUSHING BACK AGAINST “FIRE MARSHALL JAY”
The Fed Itself is Under its Greatest Scrutiny in a Long Time By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher (NOTE: A recent broader dive into many subjects related to the below can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9RXYwsJ-3E&t=302s. Also, be sure to keep up…
WHAT WILL Q4 BRING FOR THE MARKETS?
By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (From the September 27, 2002 issue) In addition to our regular Friday evening Metals, Money and Markets Weekly on kitco.com (at https://www.kitco.com/commentaries/2022-09-23/The-Metals-Money-and-Markets-Weekly-B-is-for-da-bears.html) I was party to two much deeper discussions…
The Very Real Danger of Another Nasty DEFLATION Episode
COMMENTARY: September 16, 2022 In mid-September, a prediction was made by Cathie Wood, the chief cook and bottle washer for Ark Invest: that a nasty deflation in the economy is at the door. This is by no means the first…
PAIN looms for Economies and Markets: Here’s what I am advising…
DON’T FORGET! In order to receive all my recommendations you must be a paid Member! Recently, those recommendations have again included directional trades to take advantage of the renewed downturn for the broad markets, spiking dollar/interest rates, etc. This past week we cashed in a couple…
Is the Bear Rally Ending…or are Happy Days Really Here Again?
(From the first August, 2022 issue) Through the second week of August now, stock market bulls who have been bloodied the most in two years have had renewed reasons for hope. We’re told inflation has peaked…the Federal Reserve may “pivot”…and…
Your Road Map for 2022’s Second Half
Friday evening — June 24, 2022 I enjoyed another BIG turnout for this past week’s discussion of “The New FAANGs” for the Money Show Virtual Expo. The recording of this event is now RIGHT HERE. As I said prior — and as you…
The Bear Market’s next leg down…more on The New FAANGs…and MORE
This past week was a busy one as I prepped our Members for some moves I recommended late in the week. They may well be augmented in the week ahead, due to the looming Fed meeting and other factors I have…
Biden and Yellen at Cross-purposes on Energy…or are They?
COMMENTARY – May 14, 2022 In his Clintonesque “I feel your pain” message to America on the inflation crisis this past week, President Biden—among other things—insisted that he’s going to compel America’s energy sector to produce more to help alleviate…
The Fed’s “Hawkishness”…this week’s Bear Trap…and MORE
NOTE: For all of my recommendations and market / sector commentaries, you need to be a Member; visit me RIGHT HERE to join! This Sunday morning, March 20, I sent several links — upcoming conferences you DON’T want to…
The Fed’s upcoming game of “Monetary Jenga”
Commentary and Analysis — Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022 We all know that–quite soon–the Federal Reserve at long, belated last is going to begin at least trying to undo some of the damage it has done over the last couple years…
Presentation: Portfolio Strategies for The Great Stagflation of 2022
For those who missed the live version this past Wednesday, Jan. 12, here is the complete video/slide presentation… This was incredibly well-received by the hundreds of people who signed up…don’t miss out yourself now that you can watch this at…
A More “Hawkish” Fed might really materialize…here’s why
At the end of January’s first week, I was invited to join my friend and colleague Trevor Hall on the first “long form” discussion of 2022 on his Mining Stock Daily podcast. You can listen to perhaps the widest-ranging and “meatiest” discussion…
“Hiccups” as the Markets kick off 2022 — What I’m watching
In my new missive (readable/downloadable just below) to our broader audience, I discuss the greater volatility that has crept into the markets in the first week of the New Year. LOTS here, folks, on sectors, the broad markets, my favorite…
The “Flation Debate” – A Look Ahead to 2022
The week of Jan. 10, we will hear from both Fed Chairman Powell and Vice Chair-nominee Lael Brainard as they sit (on different days) for their respective Senate confirmation hearings. It will be a challenge to glean any real, useful…
China and The New World DISORDER
Following up my recent detailed commentary on Evergrande and its evolving fallout, I recently sat down with my old friend, Washington-area journalist Cliff Kincaid to dive even deeper into this catalyst for the biggest changes to the global economic and…
Evergrande’s “Marketized Default” and the Consequences
(From the third regular issue of The National Investor for September, 2021) Investors just as much as politicians too often get caught up in often-stale, simplistic narratives on a subject–in this case, on a country, China–which prevents them for seeing…
More “Plumbing Problems” to come for the Fed–COMMENTARY
Several months before we were introduced to the Plannedemic, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell suddenly discovered a “plumbing problem,” as he euphemistically termed it, in the payments/banking system. It required the injection of hundreds of billions into the banking system…
Market dynamics as we approach the midway point of 2021
In late May as I was on my way north for the summer months, I stopped to visit over a dinner meeting with old friends and new alike in the Chicagoland area…and as promised, I wanted to pass along nearly…
Building Critical Minerals Infrastructures: Opportunities and Roadblocks
The week of March 8 saw ambitious plans laid out in both the U.S. and Canada for building the Green Economies of the future, as well as to promote and develop home-grown resources and technologies that would strengthen all those…
Bonds and Gold React Differently to “Inflation” … or Do They?
As usual, the Pied Pipers of the Gold Bug Echo Chamber especially are, at best, fighting the last war; and have again failed to understand TODAY’S market dynamics. COMMENTARY — February 22, 2021 The morning of Wednesday, February 17, brought…
The “Reddit Revolution” — are all those Peasants with Pitchforks buying GameStop, et al to fight hedge funds the whole story?
As usual, I was starting off the 2nd regular issue of The National Investor for this month with a series of audience questions. But the answer to the first of them–on the subject of all the market gyrations over the…
A Look at the Markets as Biden’s Term Begins
To get all my recommendations–several of which have been ON FIRE recently as you’ll hear in the below discussion–you need to be a Member.If you are not, VISIT ME RIGHT HERE Yesterday (Monday) I caught up with my buddy Trevor Hall…
POWER-PACKED Discussion: Eliminating “Trumpism” and The Biden Administration ahead
Posted Thursday morning, January 7, 2021 Yesterday (Wednesday) — in between keeping our eyes on the crazy scenes unfolding in our nation’s capitol — I heard from a great old friend: Washington area journalist Cliff Kincaid. He recently relaunched his…
Recent Ecuador Coverage and Commentary
Posted Oct. 29, 2020 In the above downloadable compilation, I share my recent thoughts on the legal, political and mining industry climate in Ecuador. Being essentially a “first mover” among my peers in covering the country and its nascent mining industry (I have several Ecuador-related…
Company Report–Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSXV-CGP; OTC-CTNXF)
Published/Posted October 20, 2020 Readable / Downloadable above, I have just penned a fairly comprehensive update on Cornerstone Capital Resources. The timing of this now is deliberate for two reasons: Last week, the hostile bid for Cornerstone by its senior…
BacTech Environmental (CSE-BAC; OTC-BCCEF): A Renewed Opportunity!
UPDATE–From the Dec 3, 2020 Issue I encourage you to continue reading for a more complete profile of BacTech from this past Summer…but first, an update from my NEW issue on a couple recent news items (AND a reminder that…
COMPANY PROFILE–Omineca Mining & Metals (TSXV-OMM; OTC-OMMSF)
As of the latter part of the month now (June, 2020) Omineca is my top performer of the year. So far it is now up SIX-fold for the year (as of the close Friday, June 19.) At the link below…
Playing in the Fed’s “Water Park” (without drowning!)
BY THE WAY … NOT A MEMBER??Visit me RIGHT HERE to make sure you have ALL my Members-only recommendations! The best one-liner I heard Monday (actually, in a while) came from an analyst being interviewed on CNBC. As I was in my car and only listening to…
UPDATE: “The Flation Debate”, with Palisade Radio’s Tom Bodrovics
My colleague Tom Bodrovics at Palisade Radio and I spent the better part of an hour on Memorial Day on one of THE most important subjects that investors generally–and gold investors especially–need to get their heads around. I have…
OILMAGEDDON–And the Consequences of American Hubris
(from the March 31, 2020 Issue) GUARANTEED to piss off Trump sycophants and those with T.D.S. (Trump Derangement Syndrome) alike, here’s a BADLY needed discussion of the current, unfolding DISASTER in America’s energy industry:
The GOLD ISSUE: This is NOT Your Father’s Gold Market! — (Summer, 2020 Issue, JUST Updated and Expanded!)
Even with the price of gold recently reaching its highest levels since just after the all-time high of $1,920/ounce was logged in September, 2011, we have already had a few lessons teaching us that “This is NOT Your Father’s Gold…
COMPANY PROFILE–Piedmont Lithium (NASD-PLL; ASX-PLL)
As most of you already know, I have been ambivalent for a while when it comes to most any “commodities” save for gold and uranium. The battery metal lithium has a GREAT future; yet the still-tenuous nature of the global…
The Fed’s Next Act: But Judy Shelton Might not be Around for It
Congress can do no more than play confused, partisan politics with the central bank—and a new nominee—at a “Waterloo Moment” for the Fed, the economy and markets. by Chris Temple — Feb. 15, 2020 _________________________________________ “A double-minded man is unstable…
The Fed and your Money in 2020; Volcker, Revisited
Sunday, December 15, 2019 — By the time the late President Ronald Reagan appointed him for a second term as Fed Chairman, Paul Volcker (the two of them above, of course, in the Oval Office) was already well into his “second…
“The World Turned Upside Down”
(From the July 29, 2019 issue) Markets seem both oblivious to and unprepared for a MAJOR change that’s looming in the world: the end of “Globalization” as we have known it for three-quarters of a century. As I write in…
The Modern Monetary Theory “Debate”
(From the April 15, 2019 Issue) — I put “Debate” in quotes above since what you are hearing on this suddenly-HOT issue is, for the most part, just another scripted and canned one delivered to us by the Establishment and…
A year in the life of Fed Chair Jerome Powell
(Posted Feb. 6, 2019) — With all the attention on the president’s State of the Union address last night and myriad other matters, you can be forgiven for forgetting that yesterday marked the one-year anniversary at his present post of…
C.R.E. Preview — My conversation with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
I’m privileged in this discussion here to visit with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. who, over the better part of four decades beginning during the Nixon Administration, was a Senior U.S. diplomat involved in every single agreement concerning nuclear non-proliferation and…
The “Death of the Dollar” Nonsense — Here’s the latest
(Posted Aug. 18, 2018) — From most of the usual suspects, there have again been “sensational” and “SHOCKING” revelations recently of (Take your pick) a coming currency re-set. . .new global currency based on the International Monetary Fund’s S.D.R. basket.…
Gold Manipulation – A History Lesson (From the Feb. 20, 2018 Issue)
From time to time I clarify my own position–and provide some common sense and history–to address a well-flogged story line (actually a MYTH today) that the gold price is “suppressed.” In the below excerpt from the latest issue of The…
Now THIS was “Gold Suppression!”
I regularly call out the carnival barker types among the “Pied Pipers of the Gold Bug Echo Chamber” for putting out utter nonsense at times as they frantically fight over a shrinking audience of well-meaning but impressionable investors who appreciate…
An Infrastructure Bill’s importance to “The Game”
(Posted August 16) — This week President Trump announced some unilateral measures he was taking on the regulatory/administrative front to try and remove some of the road blocks to speedier approvals for infrastructure spending projects. This is intended to precede…
THIS is the Revived Roman Empire!?
(COMMENTARY and News from the Sept. 5, 2016 issue) — I vividly remember when — in the late 1990’s, as a growing European Union was about to add a common currency, the EURO, to its regimen–Dispensationalists and others were loud…
EXPOSED: The usual Hucksters and their warnings (again!) of a new “world currency.”
(Adapted from the first August, 2016 issue) — On schedule, those “experts” who specialize in taking a grain of truth and spinning it into a mountain of B.S. in order to sell you something are at it again! The following…
Building an Economic Lifeboat
Here’s my two-part interview of my old friend…and hero…and (among other things) creator of the Ithaca HOURS community currency, Paul Glover. (For more on Paul’s activities, visit www.paulglover.org) 2015-04-06 08-04-47
Christmas Message: “The Original Revolution”
Each year at Christmas for some time now, I have shared the accompanying commentary by the late Mennonite theologian, John Howard Yoder. To me it indeed does reflect the truly revolutionary, epochal event of over two millennia ago, when our…
UNDERSTANDING THE GAME
(NOTE: New/returning subscribers will now receive the NEW/EXPANDED VERSION!!) Though nearly a decade old, Chris’ “signature presentation” here remains the best primer on the nature of our markets you will read ANYWHERE. Once you have read this, you will know…
The REAL Cause of Enron’s Collapse
When energy giant Enron imploded in scandal and financial ruin, too many described it as a tale of political cronyism, greed and whatnot. The truth was deeper than that: Enron collapsed because it had turned itself into the poster child…
Real American Heroes
Once upon a time in America, there was a thriving middle class; citizens able to enjoy “The American Dream” because they had good, stable jobs that paid a living wage. One of the great advocates of “A Square Deal” for…
Why Glass-Steagall HAD to be Repealed
It’s been nearly 15 years since this key Depression-era legislation was repealed by a Republican Congress and Democrat president. The reasons why the banks were pushing for Glass-Steagall to be deep-sixed became evident with the monstrous mortgage and derivatives boom–and BUST–of…
Ithaca HOURS–Community currency alternative to Bitcoin
(NOTE: Chris will be updating the Ithaca HOURS story and adding a LOT to it in his upcoming Special Report entitled “Building an Economic Lifeboat.”) Years ago, Chris wrote of a wonderful new–and successful–experiment to create “an economy within an…