Rickards: “There Are Three Things Going On With Gold Right Now”

Jim Rickards joined Kitco News and Daniela Cambone to discuss the latest news and analysis from gold markets, geopolitics and even bitcoin. The Wall Street veteran took on the bigger picture facing metals investors and what could be just around the corner in a bubbling market…

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Harvey May Be “Costliest Natural Disaster In US History” With $190 Billion Price Tag

Tropical Storm Harvey made its second landfall near Cameron, La. on Wednesday after slamming Houston with a staggering 50 inches of rain, the largest rainfall ever recorded in the Continental US…

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Gold Flash-Crashes

After the shenanigans in US mega-tech stocks over the last two days and the seemingly well orchestrated melt-up to pre-J-Hole levels in the dollar, why should anyone be surprised that ‘someone’ decided to try to sell $1.1 billion notional into the Asian open…..

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Who Leads The Autonomous Driving Patent Race? (Spoiler Alert: Not Who You Think)

These days the broad consensus on the future of driving seems to be that the car of tomorrow will be (at least partly) autonomous…

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Princeton Finds That Bitcoin Transactions Are Definitely Not Anonymous

A team of Princeton researchers have discovered that every single Bitcoin transaction can be traced back directly to users, revealing their name, email address and even where they live…

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Wall Street Journal Lashes Out At “Our Political Central Bankers”

While the concept of ‘independence’ among the unelected central bank cognoscenti is as cute as the tooth fairy or santa claus, it is nevertheless defended by those on high as sacrosanct to our very democracy…

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One Trader’s “Ultimate Guide To Navigating The Equity Markets”

This is a market in which traders are, for lack of a better word, “confused” (another good word is “paralyzed” as we observed one month ago)…

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WTI/RBOB Algos Undecided After Gasoline Build, Production Dip

RBOB gasoline is at a 25-month high (and WTI has a $45 handle) as all attention is focused on the duration and impact of the storm (i.e. how long refineries will be closed?)…

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Weird Things Are Happening With Gold

Last week featured two unusual stories on gold – one strange and the other truly weird. These stories explain why gold is not just money but is the most politicized form of money. They show that while politicians publicly disparage gold, they quietly pay close attention to it…

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The Great Outer Space Land Grab of the near Future: Conflicts over Space Rock Mining Rights

() Space has become a veritable goldmine of natural resources for many companies, yet can anyone lay claim to them? That’s the question legal experts claim will become relevant in the future as firm turn to the stars for precious metals and minerals, and it’s one that also needs to be answer..

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Sticker Shock: Small Hedge Funds Seen Ditching I-Banking Research Under MiFID

For the past several months we’ve discussed many theories about how the new MiFID II rules in Europe might drastically change the investment banking research business model…

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Hurricane Harvey Likely To Destroy More Cars Than Katrina: “This Is Bad; Real Bad”

Hurricane Harvey’s historic flooding in Texas is set to wreak havoc on the auto industry and its insurers with analysts now predicting the storm could damage more vehicles than Hurricane Katrina…

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