What’s most disturbing about a black swan event is how it affects the rest of us. What will this non-bailout, bailout of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature usher in? Will we have a new way of banking where the Fed gets to call the shots? Will digital dollars be their way to control us? Because it’s times like these when those in power usher in change in the name of following “the science.” Will this give them the extra inch they need to tell us that currency digitization is for our “protection?” One thing’s for sure, we’re not going back to the way life was. Sitting in my cave, it never … [Read more...]
Gold, Silver, and Currencies
Young Research & Publishing has been providing research and insights on precious metals and currency markets to institutional investors, corporate financial officers, business owners, and individual investors for over four decades. Richard C. Young started Young Research & Publishing in the 70s to publish the authoritative Young's World Money Forecast, a 50-page monthly investment report on the precious metals and currency markets. Today, our research on gold, silver, and currencies is geared toward investors in or nearing retirement who are looking to preserve and protect wealth.
Is Your Good for Nothing Cash Doing Anything with Its Life?
Is your good-for-nothing cash doing anything with its life? Please don’t tell me it’s sitting around eating all your food and drinking all your wine. That’s no way to go through life. Maybe it’s time your cash goes on a liver cleanse. But, if that’s not in the cards, there’s an easier way to whip it into shape—no boot camp required. (Read 4 Life Changing Words for Your Survival Guy: “You Should Try This” - Your Survival Guy). Your Survival Guy knows what you’re dealing with. Your bank is getting fat by lending out your cash for a song and paying you peanuts. Banks are always slow to pay … [Read more...]
UK Takes Aim at the Cryptocurrency Industry
The United Kingdom has unveiled sweeping new regulations for the cryptocurrency industry. Scott Chipolina reports in the Financial Times: The UK has set out a sweeping new regulatory regime for the cryptocurrency industry that aims to bring the rules governing the issuance, trading and lending of crypto tokens closely into line with those for traditional financial assets such as stocks and bonds. The proposals to “robustly” regulate the sector, which are subject to a consultation, are the clearest sign yet that the government is determined to transform the UK into a hub for the crypto … [Read more...]
China Reopening Drives Gold Prices Higher
The reopening of the Chinese economy after draconian COVID lockdowns is pushing gold prices higher, report Myra Saefong and Joseph Adinolfi in MarketWatch: Gold futures touched a fresh eight-month high Wednesday as traders bet that China’s decision to drop COVID-19 restrictions on its economy would continue to boost prices of precious and industrial metals. The reopening of China’s economy after the lifting of COVID-related restrictions has helped push demand for industrial metals and precious metals higher. Copper futures traded at their highest levels since June and gold on Wednesday … [Read more...]
How to Invest in Gold
How should you invest in gold? We explain how to invest in gold in seven different ways. We explain how to invest in gold coins or bars. How to invest in gold exchange traded funds (ETFs). How to invest in gold mining stocks and gold royalty stocks, and how to invest in gold futures. At Young Research, we have followed the gold market for over four decades. Young Research’s founder and Chairman, Richard C. Young even owned a small private gold company that specialized in Gold Pandas. To invest in gold back then, it was either gold mining stocks or gold coins for most. Today, … [Read more...]
How Your Survival Guy Feels About Digital Dollars
My client told me yesterday that years ago, he and his wife traveled from Alaska back to his childhood home to accept an award for excellence in dentistry. Home for him was LA—not that LA—Shreveport. The ceremony was in New Orleans. The plan was to borrow one of his sister’s cars in Shreveport and drive to New Orleans. Before they drove off, he asked his buddy if he needed anything. “Would you mind picking up some alligator meat?” he asked. “No problem.” Driving home from New Orleans, they took a left into the swamp, walked into the store, and said he was there to pick up alligator … [Read more...]
SEC Signals Greater Regulation of Crypto “Casinos”
After the catastrophic collapse of the world's second largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, the SEC's Chairman, Gary Gensler, has signaled that his commission will be taking a harder line on cryptocurrency exchanges, tokens, hedge funds, and broker-dealers. Gensler made the comments about cryptocurrencies in an interview with Yahoo! Finance. When interviewer Jennifer Schonberger asked Gensler why the SEC didn't enforce the rules on the books regarding the collapse of FTX, Gensler responded: We are enforcing. The Securities and Exchange Commission, I couldn't be prouder. And it started under … [Read more...]
Crypto Owners Dumping Luxury Cars as Industry Suffers
The barrage of mishaps and catastrophes in the cryptocurrency market just keeps on going. Following the collapse of major cryptocurrency exchange FTX, other crypto-related companies have seen their fortunes falter. BlockFi, a crypto lender, has filed for bankruptcy, Bitfront, another crypto exchange, is shutting down, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has been shoring up its "Secure Asset Fund," and in the last couple weeks, at least three big crypto players have died in mysterious circumstances. It's been a rough month for the industry. Now, crypto owners who spent big … [Read more...]
CRYPTO CHARLATANS: Investors Lulled to Sleep by Celebrities, Influencers
Investors in cryptocurrency on the FTX exchange weren't just taken in by the celebrities they saw pitching it to them during the Super Bowl. There were self-styled "financial influencers" who also pushed crypto onto unsuspecting investors eager to beat the zero-interest rate environment. Despite Tom Brady's endorsement of FTX, investing is supposed to be boring, not run like a fantasy football team. Listen to what crypto buyers interviewed by The Wall Street Journal have to say about their involvement with FTX: “My blood is boiling,” said Matthew Way, a fundraiser for an Illinois orchestra … [Read more...]
Remember This from FTX Bankruptcy and You Can Thank Yourself Later
The fall of crypto exchange FTX is a brutal lesson in fear and greed. Not the fear of losing but the fear of missing out or FOMO. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBM) said this on the podcast “Odd Lots” describing how venture capitalists pick investments (highlighted by Jason Zweig in his WSJ column the “Intelligent Investor”): You get a bizarre f—ing process that does not look like the paragon of efficient markets that you might expect. [Venture capitalists] see what all their friends are chattering about, and their friends keep talking about this company…and they start FOMOing [feeling the … [Read more...]
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