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Why 2022 Was the Worst Year For Investors

Guest Post by Joe Sohm

Why 2022 Was the Worst Year for Investors

We’re in for a rough start to 2023. Still-hot inflation, high mortgage rates, and rising personal debt can slow down even the most stable economy. (Let alone a volatile, teetering and still-frothy economy.)

Which brings us to today. Optimistic investors are hoping for a strong finish to this year, in the form of an end-of-year rise in stock prices. The so-called Santa Claus rally has been a feature of equities markets for a long time.

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When Wall Street Fights the Fed, We All Lose

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From Peter Reagan

The Federal Reserve has been all over the news for months now, and today’s no different.

One market pundit – dubbed Wall Street’s most accurate analyst – predicts the Fed will reverse course on hiking rates unless there’s a market meltdown by mid-September.

Wall Street would naturally welcome a return to lower interest rates, since easy money fuels bull markets and higher stock prices. Easy money makes borrowing cheaper for businesses and families, fuels spending and consumption and has more or less been the status quo ante for over two decades.

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The Ultimate Solution to Most Financial Problems

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From Peter Reagan

This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold as an answer to present day trouble, gold is the only asset to claim geopolitical neutrality, and it’s not just Russia’s official sector that’s hoarding gold.

Experts: Gold is the answer to today’s troubling questions

This year’s Rule Symposium summit in Florida hosted a number of financial experts who spoke about the current market conditions and how best to navigate them. Among them were several notable figures in the gold industry who reminded investors that gold’s benefits should always be considered from a long-term perspective.

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World’s Top Hedge Fund Manager Issues This Alert on Gold

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From Peter Reagan

This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Preparing for the stagflation ahead, gold’s mid-year outlook, and U.K.’s Royal Mint sees jump in both gold and silver bullion sales.

A decade of stagflation ahead? Here’s what to do

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What’s Happening to America’s Wealthiest Families Proves the Dollar Is Failing

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From Peter Reagan

There isn’t any doubt, when inflation accelerates like it is right now, the lower income class has their financial worlds turned upside down. After all, that’s what happens when most of the food that we eat and fuel we use every single day suddenly becomes 10% – 43% more expensive.

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This Conventional Wisdom Is Toxic Today – Here’s Why

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From Peter Reagan

When the stock market is tanking (like it is now), the “traditional” advice is to move some of your savings into bonds (like Series I savings bonds, for example).

That’s because bonds are generally considered a conservative investment vehicle. Corporate bond-holders get paid before shareholders, and even in the worst-case scenario of a bankruptcy, bond owners are likely to recoup some of their investment, while shareholders are usually wiped out. Government bonds, well, they’re backed by the “full faith and credit” of an entire nation! Government defaults on bond payments are so unusual they immediately become front-page news worldwide. In his masterwork The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham famously recommended the following allocation to savers:

The proportion held in bonds be never less than 25% or more than 75%…

Well, if you followed Graham’s advice, right now you might not be feeling very good about it…

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Ray Dalio: Gold Reduces Risks, Enhances Returns, Belongs In Your Savings

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“Stop talking about gold, Ray,” Christine Lagarde demanded just before the ‘Ending the Experiment’ session at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 22, 2015.
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From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group

This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Ray Dalio looks at 500 years of economic history to make the case for gold, the Fed’s credibility, and precious metals looking to rebound from April.

Ray Dalio’s 5 wars of our time (and how to navigate them)

In his latest book, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio looked at 500 years of economic history to give investors an idea of the cycle we now find ourselves in. The last such cycle, says Dalio, occurred between 1930-1945 and caused a shift in global influence, as it is doing now.

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Fidelity Sends Gold Investors into a Frenzy to Buy More

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From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group

This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Why gold isn’t above $2,000 yet, investment capital flowing into gold at a historic rate and physical gold demand rises by fastest pace since 2018.

Fidelity: Gold is merely taking a slow-but-steady approach to $2,000

Fidelity’s Graham Smith unveiled an analysis that hopes to answer a question on many minds: why isn’t gold above $2,000 yet? Smith noted that gold seems like the ideal asset to own right now, yet has been unable to find support above $2,000 on two separate occasions this year.

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Dr. Ron Paul’s Gold Company Is Birch Gold Group

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Hello, I’m Ron Paul. Although I’m a medical doctor (an obstetrician, actually, and I delivered over 4,000 babies), a U.S. Air Force veteran and an author with 21 published books, most folks think of me as a politician.

Though it’s true I served sixteen years in Congress representing the great state of Texas, I don’t consider myself as a politician. I’ve spent an awful lot of time around politics, though, because for a long time I thought that was the best way to help my country.

I’ve seen our proud nation change in a lot of ways, to the point I don’t think our Founding Fathers would recognize it. These days, I’m doing everything I can to get our country back on track. Not through legislation – heck, I voted against every single spending bill that came on the House floor, for all the good it did.

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The Only Thing Rising Faster Than Inflation

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This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold bounces as investors brace for a big CPI report, this one weird trick Russia is using to revitalize its economy, and today’s good portfolio is full of commodities and half of them are gold.

Gold rises as investors ponder another central bank failure

Gold is showing some technical strength, as well as decent recovery after a week of being hammered by a strong U.S. dollar. Friday’s trading session saw a high of $1,949. A technical analysis of prices for gold contracts suggests a breakout in the near future.

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Here’s Why This “New Normal” Is Great News for Gold

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This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: The number of black swan events since mid-2019 is astounding, how Russia is re-re-defining central bank de-dollarization with gold, and an overview of why the remaining three precious metals are attractive right now.

“We’ve seen an unprecedented number of black swan events, and more are to come”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s black swan theory is a metaphor to describe an unexpected event or “outlier” that not only comes as a major surprise, but has a huge impact, quite possibly changing the world permanently. In a recent interview, Goehring & Rozencwajg Associates managing partner Leigh Goehring noted that black swan events have almost become business-as-usual since mid-2019. This kind of event seismic economic event tends to greatly boost safe-haven investment in gold.

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Who’s Got the Gold?

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In 1971, the US abruptly went off the gold standard, and in making the public announcement, US President Richard Nixon looked into the television camera and said, “We’re all Keynesians now.”

I was a young man at the time and had previously bought gold, albeit on a very small scale, but I recall looking into the face of this delusional man and thinking, “This is not good.”

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Doug Casey’s Next Big Score

Guest Post by Doug Casey

Editor’s Note: Resource expert and financier, Marin Katusa is Doug Casey’s longtime friend. He’s known for finding the most lucrative investment opportunities in the world. In fact, Doug invests his own resource money with him.

Below is a private conversation between Doug and Marin about their next big score.

We urge you to read what they have to say—including all the details on how you can get in on the action.

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What Investors Get Wrong About Gold’s True Value

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This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Investors may have been underpricing gold’s investment value for decades; rates and inflation are working in gold’s favor, a look into the valuation of gold, and world mints report soaring gold and silver bullion sales.

Have investors been mispricing gold’s value as an investment?

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Goldman Sachs Rushes to Buy Up One Precious Metal in 2022

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This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Goldman Sachs recommends buying “the defensive real asset” gold; Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio recommends a greater allocation to gold; and the gold rush returns to California after a long hiatus.