U.S. foreclosure filings jumped 17% in Q3, showing rising stress in the housing sector as mortgage delinquencies and economic pressures mount.

Silver is back at its all-time nominal high, while tales of shortages and squeezes abound. Is this the moment long-suffering stackers have been waiting for? Let’s start with an AI-generated overview of the structural silver deficit:

Building their reputations as viable defensive investments, these stocks will likely attract investors if markets continue to pull back, as their operations are deemed essential regardless of economic uncertainty.

The earnings season will kick off this week and will be the main catalyst for the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and the Dow Jones indices as they will provide more information about the impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs on corporate America.

Gold’s explosive rally has stunned markets this year. Spot and Comex gold have breached $4,000 an ounce for the first time, marking a more than 50% surge year-to-date – the strongest rally since the 1970s.

Ya gotta love October. Silver finds fresh sky above 50 even as Gold takes a gut-punch from its new 4081 high, and the S&P at long last says “Goodbye!”

Gold is on pace for its best one-year rally in almost fifty years, so it’s only natural to say that the rally could use a rest — and it could. But gold is a tricky asset at times.

Effective September 30th, some 105000 Federal workers who had signed up for the Deferred Resignation Program were officially unemployed. So on top of even mild increases, numbers will look meaningfully "bad."

We discuss gold's historic surge past $4,000, the dollar's decline, and warn of looming economic crises and fiscal irresponsibility.

Managed accounts classified as qualified default investment alternatives (QDIAs) are not truly managed because there is no participant engagement. And, calling them QDIAs does not change the fact that pretend personalization does not work.

Here are the scheduled economic data releases for the next two weeks, if the agencies have staff to release data.

One of the hardest things for stock and options traders is finding the sell button.

Today's math lesson.

Trump's 100% China tariff triggered $16 billion in crypto liquidations and sent Bitcoin below $110,000 in historic sell-off.

There's been a lot of buzz about a report from JP Morgan talking favorably about Bitcoin and gold, they are benefitting from a "debasement trade".

Europe wants fairness. But fairness for whom?

And is an exchange default imminent? The structural silver deficit is international.

The October report shows that consumers remain pessimistic as the overall Index of Consumer Sentiment ticked down to 55.0 from 55.1 in September.

The market provided a little drama last Friday; something to stew about over the weekend.  Volume was impressive, could have been a record.  It was too soon after all time highs to be the beginning of a bear market.

BigBear.ai was rejected at the $7.8 to $8.2 range this summer and declined all the way to $4.7 in September, before rising again to $8 and being rejected again.