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by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
We experienced a tremendous amount of economic turbulence in 2024, but at least the employment market was relatively stable. Unfortunately, that period of relative stability appears to be ending. The pace of layoffs really seemed to pick up steam at the end of 2023, and the outlook for the coming year is not promising at all. In fact, a survey that was just conducted by Resume Builder discovered that a whopping 38 percent of U.S. companies anticipate that they will conduct layoffs in 2024…
by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:
At the current price, silver is a real bargain.
Gold went on a run late last week, setting an all-time record high last Friday and breaking the $2,100 level for a brief time in overseas trading Sunday night. Silver also rallied but continues to lag behind gold.
In fact, silver looks significantly underpriced based on both its historical relationship with gold and the supply/demand dynamics.
by Chen Lin, Silver Seek:
2023 saw another year of the huge supply-demand deficit in silver, despite heavy investment selling. The most significant demand increase came from solar panels. In 2021, the Silver Institute and Metal Focus group were looking at PV (solar panel) using 110 million oz, growing at 12-13% per year. But in November 2023, the Silver Institute and Metal Focus group revised the 2023 estimate to about 200 million oz! In other words, in the past two years, over 100 million oz of silver was taken by the PV industry “unexpectedly”!
by Kerry Lutz, Financial Survival Network:
As Bitcoin approaches record highs, investors are asking the same question they asked in 2017 and 2021: Is this another top?
I called both of those previous peaks—not with hype, but with the help of Martin Armstrong’s Economic Confidence Model, which has guided my market timing for over a decade. But as I prepare to attend the upcoming Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, I’m not sounding the alarm. This time, the signals are different.
Let’s explore why.
by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:
In previous years I regularly reported on the monthly jobs reports. I explained that most of the jobs gains were in lowly paid service jobs, that many and even most of the jobs were part time, and that the jobs numbers were not the same as employment numbers as many of the newly employed held two of the new part time jobs in order to make ends meet. I pointed out that none, absolutely none, of the “better jobs” promised to the manufacturing work force whose jobs were offshored ever appeared.
I also pointed out that the inflation numbers were a hoax and gave the reasons why, and I pointed out that the claimed jobs gains were always later quietly adjusted to lower numbers.
by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
K-Pop star Park Bo Ram has been found dead after suffering a sudden heart attack just weeks after receiving an mRNA booster.
According to police, Park was with two other women at her friend’s house in Seoul on Thursday when she suffered a massive and fatal cardiac arrest.
Dailymail.co.uk reports: She was rushed to hospital, but died at 11.17pm, about an hour after she was found.
from Birch Gold Group:
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: CPM Group says 2024 and 2025 will be even better for gold, why silver stayed dormant in 2023, and gold is getting pricey in Egypt.
CPM Group’s Jeffrey Christian tackles a question many have been wondering: why did gold soar so strongly around New Year? In an interview with Bloomberg, Christian said that the firm is still waiting for today’s trading data for clearer answers, but nonetheless has some insight.
