Gold Outlook Report 2023

Key Events This Week: PMIs, Productivity And Consumer Sentiment As has become customary for Monday, we have seen a dramatic surge in risk assets (3rd Monday in a row) on what at least superficially appears to be de-escalation after Trump announced strikes against Iran's power plant would be delayed by 5 days as a result of talks with Iran, talks which at least Iran's domestic news sources have so far denied. And the market lurches from headline to headline, it feels somewhat trivial to focus on the week ahead data calendar,...

Heavy fighting continued to rage in southern Lebanon overnight, and the Israeli command reported they’d sustained a number of casualties, with one soldier was killed and three wounded during a battle when their Humvee flipped over. The slain soldier was identified as Master Sgt. Ayal Bianco of the Barak Armored Brigade. The wounded soldiers were […]

Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed many but not all appears, by that standard, either unwilling or unable.