Reports

Jim Rickards was a keynote speaker at the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium, concluded Friday. Taking his presentation, we can understand why Jim was voted outstanding speaker at last year’s conference. He had hundreds of people hanging on his every word Friday morning, all on edges of seats. But they weren’t ...

Financialization of the economy substitutes expansion of interest, leverage and speculation for real-world expansion of goods, services and wages. Financial “wealth” created by leveraging more debt on a base of real-world collateral that doesn’t actually produce more goods and services flows to the top of the wealth-power pyramid, driving the ...

With the U.S. preparing to confront China and go to war with North Korea, Russia is an indispensable ally for the U.S. There are huge implications on capital markets as these hegemonic powers continue to edge toward war. Here’s an overview of some of the financial implications of improved relations ...

“There is an even more important purpose for gold,” says Valentin Katasonov, professor of international finance at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. But what, other than preserving wealth and shortening the tentacles of government? “That of strategic reserve.” Our very own Byron King took the stage yesterday morning ...

[Ed. Note: Jim Rickards’ latest New York Times bestseller, The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis, is out now. Learn how to get your own free copy – click HERE. This vital book transcends geopolitics and rhetoric from the financial press to prepare you for ...

The Daily Reckoning has taken up temporary headquarters in the fair (and humidity-free!) city of Vancouver, Canada… We’ve alighted upon these blessed climes to cover this week’s annual Sprott Natural Resource Symposium. It is here where some of the world’s brightest stars in finance and natural resources gather to spot ...

For over two decades, medical professionals have been warning about the rise of “superbugs” — deadly bacteria that drugs can’t kill. And while some precautions were taken to slow their spread, it hasn’t been enough. One in particular is so bad that a former director of the Centers for Disease ...

Many everyday citizens assume powerful global financial elites operate behind closed doors in secret conclaves, like the scene of a Spectre board meeting in the recent James Bond film. Actually, the opposite is true. Most of what the power elite does is hidden in plain sight in speeches, seminars, webcasts ...

I believe fine art has a place in investors portfolio. I do a lot of work for the U.S. intelligence community, trying to thwart terrorist finance and transnational actors, as we call them. This includes money laundering, smuggling and arms dealing. This work has made me very familiar with the ...

Lolling about in the upmarket precincts of New York’s SoHo district recently, we chanced upon a ghastly scene… A young, voguish couple in an art gallery… at close quarters with a square of canvas on the wall. On that canvas was a carnage of what we assumed to be paint. ...