Greetings, Investors. First, a heads-up on a week-long, on-line investor “Boot Camp” upcoming the week of June 2…mark it on your calendars! Yours truly will anchor several workshops that week on the evolving landscape in the world markets…the ramping up…
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Trade War: Fact v. Fiction
Greetings, Investors. There’s once again a LOT to get to today; happily, more of positive and actionable investment ideas that look better than ever than my adding much right now to the noise and confusion over events of the past…
Fed and Trump are coalescing around STAGFLATION
Greetings, Investors! There’s a LOT to get to today — this past week’s effective “pivot” from the Fed…President Trump’s hugely-touted Executive Order to ramp up domestic production and financing (?) of energy and critical materials…and more. Keep up with the…
Is Trump Bluffing on some Tariffs
Good morning, Investors. This past week, I joined my old friends Shad Marquitz and Cory Fleck at the K.E. Report again to — this time — discuss in some greater detail various commodities in the context of President Trump’s real…
Energy Fuels Landmark News
Good morning, Investors. For THIS WEEKEND’S Your Money Today, I somewhat set the table for the coming week’s pivotal fresh inflation news that will be coming out. Also big news from Energy Fuels. With that, “Fire Marshall Jay” Powell will…
Gold Record and Trump’s Multi-front Wars
Good morning Investors. The initial pomp, celebrations and giddy optimism (well, on the part of a slim majority of the country, that is!) are over. Now, it’s time for reality–and “The Math”–to set in and for the harder work to…
This is Still NOT Your Father’s Gold Market!
Good morning Investors. For this weekend’s Your Money Today, as I posted late Friday to you, I have a new video/audio version of one of my most popular (if occasionally caustic!) Special Reports ever. RIGHT HERE you’ll find the latest…
National Infrastructure Bank, President Trump, Uranium Record
Good morning Investors! As promised–and after several pieces of this broad discussion have been delved into elsewhere in the recent past by Yours truly in other appearances–I’m wrapping it all up in my 2025 thematic overview on The National Infrastructure…
Let’s do the Math, GREAT gold and Uranium profiles
Good morning Investors! You already know that, in several contexts in recent weeks, I’ve been touching on my theme not only for markets in 2025 generally, but for the prospects of Trump 2.0 specifically: “Let’s Do the Math.” When you…
Act Two in 2025 for the Nuclear Bull Market
Good morning Investors! Though “Old Energy” has done quite well for our Members over the last few years, no single sector has made as much money for our folks as has the renewed clean and green energy of the future:…
BOTH the Fed and Trump are in Trouble
Good morning Investors! A bit later today, I’m going to sit down for our usual post-F.O.M.C. “long form” podcast with The Prospector News’ Mike Fox for the post-mortem on yesterday’s ominous Fed meeting and market reaction. Follow along to see…
Learn of Apollo Silver’s two premier projects; 2025’s outlook
Greetings Investors! Shortly, you’re going to see an updated edition of perhaps my most popular special issue over the last few years, “This is STILL Not Your Father’s Gold Market!” For seasoned gold and silver bugs and relative precious metals…
Commodities, Trump Policies and Uranium coiling
Good morning investors! As I continue to lay the foundation for 2025, discussing commodities and Trump 2.0 for you, I’ll be regularly providing thematic commentaries, my own Your Money Today podcasts and guest appearances on others’ platforms to give you…
Borealis Mining’s compelling story; The (bad) Math in Trump’s looming China battle
Greetings Investors! It’s well known for those who follow or are invested in the sector that, by and large, precious metals-related stocks have done a poor job of keeping up with the strong 2024 run in the metals themselves (especially…
Trump REALLY wants to destroy The Deep State and Make America Great Again
Good evening, Investors. I just posted a new episode of Your Money Today, which you can find RIGHT HERE (although on YouTube, it’s audio only-friendly. So you don’t need to watch!) But I do urge you to listen… …Because you’re…
Seabridge sports THE premier Gold/Copper Project; Fleshing out Trump 2.0
Happy Saturday, Investors! Mercifully, we’ll all be enjoying a weekend FREE of political ads for the first time in, seemingly, forever. Huzzah! We transition now into what hopefully will become a more hopeful and constructive public discourse over the policies…
Promise and Peril of Trump 2.0; Initial Market Reactions Inbox
Greetings Investors! I wanted to share with you my first reactions to what even his detractors must admit was an epic political comeback logged yesterday by, now, our 47th U.S. president. For my preliminary thoughts, LISTEN IN HERE or click…
TWO Reasons why Gold’s Record Rise could make This Undiscovered Company REALLY Soar
Greetings Investors! As many of you know, I have long believed that little Omineca Mining and Metals (TSXV-OMM; OTCQB-OMMSF) would become the third big winner for our Members thanks to the MacNeill family of Saskatchewan. Many years back, as I…
Will it be Trump or Harris who Inherits “The Carter Curse?”
Greetings Investors! Putting together an especially meaty podcast (LISTEN HERE) late this past week, The Prospector News’ Mike Fox and I mused over why either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris would even want the job of being president the next…
Here’s What Powell’s “Recalibration” Will (and WON’T) do for Commodities
Good morning Investors! Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and his merry band somewhat surprised markets following their most recent policy-setting meeting on September 18, cutting the official short-term (federal funds) rate by 50 basis points rather than 25. Some took this…
The Fed’s Next Act: The CRITICAL Campaign Issue lost amid the Cats and Tampons
Good evening Investors! Just following the late August Kansas City Fed-hosted annual summer picnic in Jackson, Wyoming, I recapped Fed Chair “Joliet Jake” Powell’s evolving messaging and what it portends with The Prospector News’ Michael Fox. In THAT DISCUSSION, I…
Looking Past the U.S. Election: Continuing Stagflation…Commodities…China…and More
Today, we mark summer’s unofficial end. I guess I am getting older, as this one flew by faster than any summer of my life! We’ll be up north a bit longer still, but looking past that, I’ll be weaving my…
Markets will give us more Whiplash near-term
Greetings investors! The seemingly unstoppable rally on Wall Street (thin though it’s been for most of its run, as I have been discussing) has been fed by ever-growing inflows into large-cap and Mag 7-related funds especially. I’m going to help…
Mid-Year Market Wrap-up; Enterprise Group’s SURGE!
This coming week we’ll be gearing up in a bit more earnest to navigate the back half of 2024, now that the early Summer Canada Day/Independence Day holidays are past. It’s time for our Mid-year Market Wrap Up! Between the…
Russian Uranium Ban Fallout
If it’s been a while since you checked in on Energy Fuels (NYSE-UUUU; TSE-EFR) you are in for one hell of a treat! Already one of my core uranium-related companies (along with, most notably, Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE-UEC), Energy Fuels…
A Renewed Changing of the Guard on Wall Street
Again this past week with our Konni Harrison, I picked up somewhat where we’d left off in the prior week’s discussion I sent you last Sunday; that on “The Great Stagflation.” This time, we discuss the changing of the guard…
The Great Stagflation: A Sobering Update
Late this past week with our Konni Harrison, I gave AN UPDATE on the renewed dynamics of The Great Stagflation which–among other things–have led to: —> New 2024 highs for both inflation and interest rates (and going higher still in…
Has the Bloom irreversibly come off the E.V. rose?
If you are: * A current or prospective investor in E.V.-related companies of most any kind… * In management of such companies in any way… * A concerned consumer and citizen who NEEDS to know just what a MESS policy…
Three Words Will Guide Markets in 2024: Supply…Supply…and SUPPLY!
Three Words Will Guide Markets in 2024: Supply…Supply…and SUPPLY! By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com Sunday a.m. — Nov. 19, 2023 The present monetary tightening cycle which now seems to be nearing its end (as far…
Powell turns “Good Scrooge”…but why?
By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Sunday — December 17, 2023) Since very belatedly starting to mop up the historically extreme oceans of new money/credit that he first unleashed from late 2019-early 2022, Fed Chair…
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 upcoming game of “Monetary Jenga”
By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com 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…
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
By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com 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.…
China and The New World DISORDER
China and the New World DISORDER By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor Tune in to Chris Temple of the National Investor as he discusses the situation with China and the New World DISORDER following their advancement on the…
Evergrande’s “Marketized Default” and the Consequences
By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (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…
Building Critical Minerals Infrastructures: Opportunities and Roadblocks
Building Critical Minerals Infrastructures: Opportunities and Roadblocks By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com The week of March 8 saw ambitious plans laid out in both the U.S. and Canada for building the Green Economies of the…
The “Reddit Revolution” — are all those Peasants with Pitchforks buying GameStop, et al to fight hedge funds the whole story?
The “Reddit Revolution” — are all those Peasants with Pitchforks buying GameStop, et al to fight hedge funds the whole story? By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com As usual, I was starting off the 2nd regular…
POWER-PACKED Discussion: Eliminating “Trumpism” and The Biden Administration ahead
POWER-PACKED Discussion: Eliminating “Trumpism” and The Biden Administration ahead By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com Posted Thursday morning, January 7, 2021 Yesterday (Wednesday) — in between keeping our eyes on the crazy scenes unfolding in our…
OILMAGEDDON–And the Consequences of American Hubris
OILMAGEDDON–And the Consequences of American Hubris By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (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…
The Fed’s Next Act: But Judy Shelton Might not be Around for It
The Fed’s Next Act: But Judy Shelton Might not be Around for It By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com Congress can do no more than play confused, partisan politics with the central bank—and a new nominee—at…
The Fed and your Money in 2020; Volcker, Revisited
The Fed and your Money in 2020; Volcker, Revisited By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com Sunday, December 15, 2019 — By the time the late President Ronald Reagan appointed him for a second term as Fed Chairman,…
“The World Turned Upside Down”
“The World Turned Upside Down” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (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…
The Modern Monetary Theory “Debate”
The Modern Monetary Theory “Debate” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (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…
A year in the life of Fed Chair Jerome Powell
A year in the life of Fed Chair Jerome Powell By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Posted Feb. 6, 2019) With all the attention on the president’s State of the Union address last night and myriad…
C.R.E. Preview — My conversation with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
C.R.E. Preview — My conversation with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com I’m privileged in this discussion here to visit with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. who, over the better part of four…
The “Death of the Dollar” Nonsense — Here’s the latest
The “Death of the Dollar” Nonsense — Here’s the latest By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Posted Aug. 18, 2018) — From most of the usual suspects, there have again been “sensational” and “SHOCKING” revelations recently…
Gold Manipulation – A History Lesson
Gold Manipulation – A History Lesson By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (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…
Now THIS was “Gold Suppression!”
Now THIS was “Gold Suppression!” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com 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…
An Infrastructure Bill’s importance to “The Game”
An Infrastructure Bill’s importance to “The Game” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Posted August 16) This week President Trump announced some unilateral measures he was taking on the regulatory/administrative front to try and remove some…
THIS is the Revived Roman Empire!?
THIS is the Revived Roman Empire!? By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (COMMENTARY and News from the Sept. 5, 2016 issue) I vividly remember when — in the late 1990’s, as a growing European Union was…
EXPOSED: The usual Hucksters and their warnings (again!) of a new “world currency.”
EXPOSED: The usual Hucksters and their warnings (again!) of a new “world currency.” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Adapted from the first August, 2016 issue) On schedule, those “experts” who specialize in taking a grain…
Building an Economic Lifeboat
Building an Economic Lifeboat By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com 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,…
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…