While closing lower on the week and higher on the day, one only needs to stand back to see the respectable performance in gold prices this year. Gold closed out the month of April with a moderate gain of 1%.

Unless the House and Senate Appropriations Committee pass a short-term spending bill to keep the doors of the government open, the U.S. government will run out of money at exactly midnight on Friday April 28^th.

Is President Trump living in a “Field of Dreams” or will his proposed “massive” tax cut grow the economy enough to make up for the trillions of dollars of lost revenue?