This article looks at physical gold, silver, platinum and copper regarding their respective versatility of use, durability, fungibility, store of value, liquidity and aesthetics which will yield a new perspective on precious metals (including copper).

What I outline below is not a forecast but a potential scenario which I sincerely hope won’t come to pass but the risk of going down the road to political and financial system collapse, social unrest and even civil war, and eventual hyperinflation, is certainly there.

A lot is happening in the cryptocurrency market these days and this article identifies all the cryptocurrency ETFs, mutual and index funds and trusts currently trading on Canadian and American exchanges with descriptions of each and links to their charts and daily pricing.

A lot is happening in the cryptocurrency market these days and what follows is a recap of some of the major developments last week and so far this week and a summary of all the cryptocurrency ETFs currently trading on Canadian and American exchanges with links to their charts and daily pricing.

There are many different types of economies - communism, socialism, capitalism and democratic socialism. We tend to use the terms concretely, which necessarily introduces inaccuracies and, as such, they serve as excuses not to think and to hold economic beliefs that discourage explorations of the mismatch between theory and practice. Do you know exactly how they differ? Read on.

By amassing large data sets, and linking different economic data sets with each other, you can find patterns within the data and I believe that this helps me to predict the markets.

A dispensing of wit and wonder about things such as the titanic seismic economic events concerning fiscal and monetary policy - the monstrous interplay of which I can only vaguely contemplate, but with a shudder.

A look at the data provides some interesting insights as to what the election’s potential impact will likely have on financial markets.

When it comes to precious metals investing, waiting for the bottom is a fool’s errand. We never know how long a price drop will last, or how deep it will go. All signs point to a coming bull market for gold. If you keep watching precious metals prices and waiting to move on investing, you risk being shut out of the market altogether. Stop waiting to get into the precious metals market! Dollar-cost average instead!

It is most important to have a process that can mitigate the risk of loss in your portfolio and here are 15 rules of investment to accomplish that.