# Chris Temple – Macroeconomic Movers, Outlook On The US Equity Markets, Precious Metals, and Critical Minerals

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Podcast: [The KE Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ke-report-5642261)
Published: 2026-05-02T00:43:05+00:00
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## Resource

Chris Temple, Editor and Publisher of the National Investor, joins us to review the macroeconomic trends moving the markets, and his outlook on US general equities, precious metals, and various segments of the critical minerals space. Chris also recaps some of the companies he just saw in person at a number of site visit tours throughout Nevada, California, and Arizona. We start off discussing the Fed meeting earlier this week, and a brief summary of Jerome Powell’s 8-year tenure as the head of the US central bank. Next, we pivot over to the macro backdrop for incoming Fed head, Kevin Warsh; and the results that have accrued as the result of prior monetary and fiscal policy in the US and abroad. Chris note the persistent issues of record sovereign debt loads, higher-for-longer inflation levels, greatly spurred along by excessive money printing over Jerome Powell’s term, pressures from the war in the Middle East, and the potential for slowing economic growth and more meaningful pullback in the broad US equities in the medium-term. Switching over to gold, silver, and the precious metals equities, Chris had warned subscribers earlier in the year that things had become overbought and gotten ahead of themselves and to fade that rally, anticipating a medium-term sector pullback. He pointed to the coming corrective move in the PM sector, that was then exasperated by the war in Iran, when many felt that would be a bullish driver for gold and silver. Central banks and generalist momentum investors had come into the precious metals over the last couple years, but then some of these same groups had shifted over to selling PMs over the last couple months, putting further pressure on the sector. Generalist investors are still very much fully deployed into US equity markets and in p…

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