Frank Holmes

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• Impeachment Isn’t The Market’s Worst Worry

  Published 30 September 2019 | viewed 2,321 times

  Donald Trump has become only the fourth president in U.S. history to be the subject of a House impeachment inquiry. The details are still unfolding,…

• Gold Is Beating Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway

  Published 16 September 2019 | viewed 3,871 times

  Way back in January, I showed you that the price of gold had beaten the S&P 500 Index over a number of different time periods,…

• Scarcity Demands A Premium As Economic Instability Grows

  Published 04 September 2019 | viewed 2,911 times

  The fast food world gave us an interesting case study in supply and demand last week. By now you’ve no doubt heard about The Chicken…

• How To Play The Looming Recession

  Published 27 August 2019 | viewed 2,855 times

  If you’ve paid any kind of attention to recent market headlines, you’ve surely seen the term “recession” among the most prominent topics in your newsfeed.…

• How Investors Are Playing Uncertain Markets

  Published 19 August 2019 | viewed 3,337 times

  The United States is the strongest, most prosperous country on the planet. This has been made possible only by free markets and the rule of…

• 5 Things Investors Need To Know About The Markets Today

  Published 06 August 2019 | viewed 2,649 times

  Say what you will about last week, it certainly wasn’t dull. The Federal Reserve, seemingly capitulating to President Donald Trump and Wall Street, became just…

• Prepare For A Weaker U.S. Dollar

  Published 02 August 2019 | viewed 2,260 times

  Unemployment in the U.S. is at a half-century low and the S&P 500 is trading at near-record highs. Nevertheless, the Federal Reserve today trimmed interest…

• Money Managers Turn To Gold On Mixed Economic Messages

  Published 30 July 2019 | viewed 2,379 times

  “Follow the trend lines, not the headlines,” President Bill Clinton once said. I’m a news junkie myself, but I guarantee you I wouldn’t be where…

• One Catalyst That Could Give Way To The Rise Of Digital Currencies

  Published 27 July 2019 | viewed 8,050 times

  There may come a time, sooner than you think, when the world economy simply cannot operate to its full potential without bitcoin, Facebook’s proposed Libra…

• Commodities Are Having A Stellar Year

  Published 17 July 2019 | viewed 7,517 times

  Commodities were on mostly sound footing in the first half of 2019. The S&P GSCI returned more than 13 percent as of June 30, one…

• The Problem With Modern Monetary Theory

  Published 01 July 2019 | viewed 11,183 times

  Fans of the improvisational comedy program Whose Line Is It Anyway? may recall host Drew Carey describing it as “the show where everything’s made up…

• Billionaire Hedge Fund Legend Bets Big On Gold

  Published 18 June 2019 | viewed 4,896 times

  Last week was a strong one for gold, which managed to eke out its fourth straight week of positive gains. The price of the yellow…

• Trust In American Institutions Is On The Decline

  Published 10 June 2019 | viewed 1,828 times

  As we close out another week, I’m currently in Toronto, the mining finance capital of the world. But at the moment, all eyes are on…

• Global Manufacturing Slowdown Is Bad News For The Stock Market

  Published 06 June 2019 | viewed 2,960 times

  Perhaps surprising no one, global manufacturers are now in contraction mode for the first time since 2012. That’s according to the most recent reading of…

• Inflation Could Soar As The Trade War Intensifies

  Published 29 May 2019 | viewed 5,229 times

  Markets were decisively in “risk-off” mode last week. Following weak manufacturing news last Thursday, the yield on the 10-year Treasury sunk to its lowest level…

• Market Sentiment At Its Lowest In 10 Months

  Published 13 May 2019 | viewed 10,643 times

  Before we get to looking at those three charts, let’s talk about the trade war. On Friday the Trump administration made good on its threat…

• Billionaire Miner: You’ll Need A Telescope To See Copper Prices In 2021

  Published 07 May 2019 | viewed 9,089 times

  The world is on a path to vast shortages in copper, nickel, lithium and other important minerals that are necessary to build the batteries in…

• The Three Biggest Influences On Oil Markets Right Now

  Published 30 April 2019 | viewed 6,339 times

  Goodbye, Iran Oil Import Waivers. Hello, Higher Energy Prices? Besides Occidental Petroleum’s bidding war with Chevron for fellow producer Anadarko Petroleum, the big energy news…

• Investors Are Piling Into Tax Exempt Municipal Bonds

  Published 23 April 2019 | viewed 12,224 times

  Another Tax Day has come and gone. This was the first year that Americans paid taxes under President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. And yet many…

• The Three Assets That Outperformed The S&P Over 20 Years

  Published 16 April 2019 | viewed 6,991 times

  Last week the world got its first look ever at a black hole, one of those cosmic bodies so supermassive and powerful that not even…