Rafi Farber
Articles by Rafi Farber
Day after day, gold reaches new highs. Silver, just crossing $29, is only now starting to catch up. The miners are still extremely cheap relative to the price of the precious metals that they mine, so while this rally in mining stacks has...
With gold at new highs and silver finally starting to catch up, it sure looks like we've been in an impressive rally for the precious metals. But looks can be deceiving. What this actually is, is a commodities rally across the board, and a...
Silver is always late to the party, but it always sprints the finish line and wins the race. It's like the hare, except in this parable, the hare beats the tortoise. It's happened twice before.
From 1968 to 1973 with a parabolic spike...
From 1968 to 1973 with a parabolic spike...
Silver topped at $6.50 in 1974, from a low of $1.30 in 1971. That's a quintupling in less than three years. But then, from 1974 to 1979, for five excruciating years, silver went absolutely nowhere, and silver stackers were convinced...
The hope for fast rate cuts from the Fed is fading into the distance, and as a result, gold and silver are getting smashed short term. But the stickiest of price metrics are clearly showing that what they call "inflation", meaning rising...
The next banking crisis looks to be upon us, as New York Community Bancorp teeters on the brink of collapse. Ironically, NYCB was one of the rescuing banks that swooped in during last year's fiasco and soaked up the assets of the now...
It's been over 15 years since the global housing bubble burst, shifting monetary policy into inflationary overdrive, familiarizing us with unwanted acronyms like QE, MBS, and BTFP, and kicking the world off into the late stages of fiat...
Effective immediately and in a move that smacks of panic, the Federal Reserve has shut down the arbitrage from the Bank Term Funding Program (the regional bank bailout) banks have been taking advantage of since November. Banks have been...
The Federal Reserve is very confused about what might happen when all the extra money from the last printing spree finally runs out.
There are now some $600B left. Some, like New York Fed head John Williams and Fed Governor Chris Waller...
There are now some $600B left. Some, like New York Fed head John Williams and Fed Governor Chris Waller...
A "top man" at the Federal Reserve, specifically the "Vice Chairman for Banking Supervision, a super duper important guy, is extremely serious about the Fed not renewing the regional bank bailout program that exploded onto the Fed's...
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