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09.27.16- How US States Can Pave the Way for Greater Use of Sound Money
Even though laws such as Utah’s are just a small step in the right direction, they serve an important purpose because they encourage greater use of gold and silver as circulating media of exchange. Read More |
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09.26.16- U.S. Imports Record Amount Of Gold From Switzerland In July
However, something has changed in the market dynamics as the U.S. imported a record 23.8 mt of gold from Switzerland in July: Read More |
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09.24.16- Gold Unleashed by Fed
Oddly, Wall Street's expectations for a rate hike at this week's latest meeting of the US Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee were surprisingly high. The interest-rate target directly controlled by the FOMC is the federal-funds rate. Commercial banks are required to hold reserves at the Fed. They lend these reserves to other banks overnight in the federal-funds market, at the FOMC's federal-funds rate. Read More |
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09.23.16- With Federal Reserve Uncertainty Out of the Way, the Gold and Silver Bull Will Now Resume
Last year, we were consistent in stating all year that every dip in the price of gold and silver assets was a trap and false buying opportunity that would just precede lower prices. This year, we’ve been consistent in our message that every significant dip has been a true buying opportunity and would precede strong rebounds in the price in gold and silver assets. For example, on 25 August, we wrote a piece titled, “Don’t Worry. Falling Gold and Silver Prices Equals Big Opportunity”, and well before that, on 21 June 2016, we penned a piece titled “Three Charts that Show Much Higher Gold and Silver Prices are Still Ahead.” Read More |
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09.22.16- Silver Price Forecast: Higher Silver Prices For Many Years To Come
In my previous article, This Confirms The Continuation Of Silver’s Rally, I highlighted how a Head and Shoulders Bottoming pattern on the silver chart suggested that the silver rally since the beginning of 2016 is likely to continue. This pattern has now matured nicely, thanks to the retrace to the breakout area. Below, is a silver chart (all charts from tradingview.com), with that pattern and the retrace to the breakout area highlighted: Read More |
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09.21.16- Gold Becomes Elephant in the
Is gold now the elephant in the room? Kitco News’ Neils Christensen noticed an oddity while watching the coverage of CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference: despite gold being up almost 25% so far this year, most speakers seemed to ignore the metal. Read More |
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09.20.16- Have Your Children Seen Your Gold?
It’s impossible not to write about gold and/or precious metals without always wanting to remind the reader why you need it: as a hedge against fiat currencies, preserver of value, counter-weight to the markets, etc. There are certainly many reasons to own precious metals, and intellectuals much smarter than me have poured over those reasons again and again. Read More |
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09.17.16- This Month, History Says that
Ever since the early 1970s, gold has produced an average return of 2.2% in September compared to a combined average of 0.6% in the remaining 11 months. While the reasons for gold’s September spike aren’t fully clear, one thing is: After a couple of relatively flat months, owners of gold are entering what is historically one of the best months of the year for the metal. Read More |
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09.16.16- Precious Metals Entering, Stocks and Bonds Exiting Bull Market
B) I am concerned that these gains are overinflated and pumped higher through these policies of the Central Bankers and stocks are way overvalued and extremely overbought. Read More |
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09.15.16- Jim Cook Interviews Ted Butler
Butler: First you must understand the price of silver is set on the COMEX by two large opposing forces. On the short side are the big banks or traders led by JPMorgan. Four of these big traders are short 72% of the total commercial short position. Cook: Isn’t that highly manipulative? Butler: Of course, I think it’s grossly illegal, but the regulators sit on their hands. Read More |
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09.14.16- "Boom! End Game Nears As Central Banks Buying Up Gold Mining Companies!"
Just that alone, is unbelievable, considering that gold has been one of the best performing investments of the 21st century. On December 31st, 1999, gold closed at $290.25. As of today it is trading at $1327.80. That is a percentage gain in the last 16 years of 357%! Compare that to the Dow Jones, which closed the 20th century at 11497 and currently is at 18085 for a gain of only 57.3%. Read More |
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09.13.16- Betting on Crazylegs in the Final Race
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09.12.16- Gold And Silver Are Money. Everything Else Is Debt. Globalist’s Biggest Scam.
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09.11.16- 15 Years Ago Today...
Their intent was to hijack the aircraft and use them as kinetic cruise missiles, their fuel as an incendiary bomb and the kinetic energy as the means of dispersal of same. The persons inside were considered expendable, including themselves -- along with both passengers and crew. Three such groups succeeded in hitting their targets. The fourth failed because the passengers discovered the plot and decided that while they were nearly-certain to die, they were not going to do so quietly and allow the hijacker's plot to succeed. Read More |
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09.10.16- The (160 to 1) Gold-Silver Ratio Every Investor Needs To Know About
Before I get into this important Gold-Silver ratio, let’s quickly examine some of the historic ratios listed above. Read More |
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Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Fiat
No, they don't, according to a study during the 2016 presidential primary season, which says lots of other Americans don't either. The survey found 58% of millennials favor government-run socialism (statistically 6 out of 10), while a nearly identical number (64%) don't want government interference in free markets. The incompatible findings make no sense, unless... Americans aged 18-24 simply don't understand the real meanings of either concept. Read More |
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09.08.16- Gold’s Best-Kept Secret
At this time in 2015, with the price of gold nosing below $1,100, mining companies were in the last stages of the “Great Dividend Cut.” Any free cash flow that a firm once had to pay a substantial dividend had long since dwindled to a trickle. Mining companies had shifted their focus to cutting costs, chopping debt and staying alive. And now? Read More |
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09.07.16- “Gold Will Soar”: Fund Manager Warns Writing is On the Wall For the Dollar
If the big Central Banks resort to more QE to keep everything from collapsing, gold will SOAR. If they don’t resort to QE, everything will collapse and gold will soar in a flight to safety…
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09.06.16- Deutsche Bank Tries To Explain Failure To Deliver Physical Gold
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09.05.16- The Greatest Lie Ever Told
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09.03.16- Fiat “Dollar” Says Gold And Silver Will Struggle
Today, cash is barely 5% of “money” in circulation, and the bankers want to do away with even that paltry source in order to fully gain control over the financial lives of all citizens. Read More |
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09.02.16- 16 Tests to Spot Fake Silver Coins
So how do you tell if a coin is genuine silver or a fake? There are several tests to which you can subject your coins. Some of them are potentially (or definitely) destructive, so they shouldn’t be used with collectible coins. Some tests are simple; others are complicated and require special tools. But no matter your budget, you should find at least some of the sixteen tests described below useful. Some of the tests are even fun! Read More |
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09.01.16- Why the Big Silver Short?
It is undisputed that the 4 and 8 largest traders hold a massive paper silver short relative to all other commodities in it’s class. And it’s obvious that they are not legitimate producers or users… (It is also worth mentioning that despite some of these shorts being held on behalf of a diversity of clients, the fact remains that the positions they control (as a whole) are manipulative based on concentration alone). Read More |
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08.31.16- The “Wildcards” That Will Push Gold Prices Even Higher
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08.30.16- The Precious Metals Sector and the Fed While the Fed is almost powerless these days, as it has succeeded in "painting itself into a corner," the markets still seem to think that its utterances are important and react, sometimes violently, to its apparent stance, or implied stance. For this reason we have to treat Fed statements as important, even though they really aren't. Today we have the Fed making pronouncements and the markets can be expected to gyrate around and react as usual. Read More |
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08.29.16- Making The Case For
Gold = $1,300 X 9 = $12,000 Silver = $18 X 20 = $360 Global Financial Assets are more inflated and propped up than ever. According to the most recent figures published by The City UK Fund Report, total Global Conventional Assets under management topped $105 trillion in 2014. That’s one hell of a lot of future PAPER CLAIMS. Read More |
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08.27.16- Final Catastrophe of the Currency System
It started on Jekyll Island
It all started in 1910 when a few senators and bankers, led by JP Morgan, secretly met on Jekyll Island with the purpose to set up the Federal Reserve and so control the banking system. Thus, the Fed was a creation by private bankers and for the benefit of these bankers. Read More |
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08.26.16- Eight!
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08.25.16- Why It’s Time to Go “Maximum Overweight” in Gold
In any case, it’s safe to say few, if any, Americans bank with Raiffeisenbank Gmund am Tegernsee, a small co-operative bank outside Munich, Germany. But now it’s vital Americans know what’s happening in the tiny bank with the big name. The European Central Bank’s negative rate on deposits has forced the small co-op to implement negative interest rates (what it creatively calls a “custodian charge”) of its own… on private clients. Read More |
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08.24.16- OFFICIAL STATEMENT: The U.S. Mint Has NOT STOPPED Production Of Silver Eagles
According to the public affairs person at the U.S. Mint, the rumor that Silver Eagle production was halted due to lack of demand, is not true. I have been receiving lots of emails on this issue, so I decided to pick up the phone and call Michael White, public affairs person at the U.S. Mint. I have spoken to Mr. White several times over the past five years on different issues. So, instead of going by secondary channels and the blog-sphere rumor-mill, I thought it best to get it directly from the source itself. Read More |
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08.23.16- The HUI is the New Gold and Silver Spot Price, Spot Price is DEAD!
Billions of dollars are flowing into gold and silver miners, yet all the while PM “price” continues to lag, largely because it is set by the traditional flawed paper derivative dinosaurs. Regardless of how or why this is occurring (deliberate plan or free market), one thing seems evident: HUI is the new Spot Price, and Spot Price is Dead! Read More |
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08.22.16- Gold Will Explode In Value Well Beyond What Jim Rickards Forecasts
Jim Rickards has written several best-selling books such as, Currency Wars, The Death Of Money and more recently, The New Case For Gold. Rickards is a big believer in owning gold to protect against the collapse of the highly leveraged derivatives based financial industry. Read More |
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08.20.16- Here’s why silver is crushing gold — Pan American Silver CEO
Silver is up 40% to date, while gold has only gained about 28%. For some such as Michael Steinmann, chief executive officer of Pan American Silver (TSX:PAA) (NASDAQ:PAAS) — the world’s second largest producer of the metal —, silver will continue to crush gold into 2017, partly thanks to its use in solar panels and electronics. Read More |
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08.19.16- Gold And Silver: Patience Required
As Bill suggested, silver is under more pressure today than gold, with JPM going all out to get the speculative traders to sell, which helps JPM push the price down. If you look at short term chart, it would appear that silver is forming a head and shoulders “top” formation, something which JPM is trying achieve, as Bill correctly pointed out. Read More |
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08.18.16- If Silver Can Beat $21 & Gold $1365 – They will Break to the Upside
Whoops. Maybe not. Delta Airlines suffered an outage last week that forced them to cancel over 2,000 flights. Delta pointed the finger at a power outage & Georgia Power, and GP in return pointed the finger right back at Delta. Combined with a computer “glitch” at Southwest a couple of weeks ago that cancelled 2,500 flights, one begins to wonder if these are only random coincidences. Since corporations are as consistently given to lying as the yankee government & all its minions, I don’t risk the label “paranoid” by wondering if something else didn’t happen to these airlines? Were their giant central computers hacked? Read More |
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08.17.16- Cartel on the Precipice
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08.16.16- Gold Buying Has Just Reached Record Levels
This week, Your News to Know brings you the hottest news involving the gold market and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold investment at its highest level ever, what is really behind the gold price rally, and the world’s oldest gold object may have been found in Bulgaria. Read More |
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08.13.16- Peak Gold –
One of the more astute gold analysts today, Frank Holmes also believes that peak gold is happening and may even have occured in 2015. Peak gold and the fact that total annual global gold production is likely to have peaked is an important supply side factor in the gold market. This is one of the bullish factors which will support prices and indeed should contribute to higher prices in the coming years. Read More |
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08.12.16- *Breaking: China & BIS Negotiating Deal to Settle Global Contracts in GOLD at $5,000/oz!
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08.11.16- Silver and Inflation
First is the monthly chart on the price of silver since 1792. As you can see, the price of one troy ounce of silver remained remarkably constant for the first 175 years as silver remained under the firm control of Western governments. And for good reason as silver was recognized as a monetary metal constituting the metal of choice for most everyday commercial transactions. Read More |
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08.10.16- The global economy’s “perfect storm” that may send gold even higher
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest happenings in the world of finance and the gold market. Stories include: Gold will benefit from a brewing economic storm, the recent missteps of gold bears, and what Trump voters and gold buyers might have in common. Read More |
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08.09.16- Gold Price $2,150 Or Bust
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08.08.16- The simple reason that gold is an “unabashedly strong buy”
Three conditions that could push gold past $1,400 How much higher can gold go from its highs of the past month? According to several strategists, $1,400 per ounce is a realistic goal that might be reached sooner rather than later. Read More |
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08.06.16- Gold Stocks' Autumn Rally
Gold-stock performance is highly seasonal, which certainly sounds odd. The gold miners produce and sell their metal at relatively-constant rates year-round, so the temporal journey through calendar months should be irrelevant. Based on these miners' revenues, there's no reason investors should favor them more at certain times of the year than others. Yet history proves that's exactly what happens in this sector. Read More |
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08.05.16- The Coming Global Silver Production Collapse & Skyrocketing Silver Value
Again, this is far worse than anything I imagined before. As I mentioned, new information and data point to a rapid “Thermodynamic collapse” of the U.S. and Global Energy Industries. According to Louis Arnoux, from his article, Some Reflections On The Twilight Of The Oil Age:” Read More |
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08.04.16- Something Strange is Afoot, U.S. Sees Massive Gold Inflows
Everyone knows that the West has been bleeding gold for decades, especially the United States, which has systematically been selling their citizen's true wealth and hollowing out the foundation of their financial system. Yet, a massive and dramatic shift has occurred. A massive amount of gold is flowing BACK towards the United States. Read More |
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08.03.16- Silvercrest Metals May Be The Stock Of The Year
Silvercrest’s trench samples showed the possibility of high grade silver mineralization on the property, which is believed to have historically produced about 120 million ozs of silver and 200k ozs of gold through 1930. Silvercrest confirmed the high probability of a prolific silver deposit with the release of its first drilling results: Read More |
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08.02.16- You Can’t Eat Gold!
Yes, I am kidding. The point is that simple statements such as “You can’t eat gold” are a useless DISTRACTION. Read More |
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08.01.16- Platinum takes limelight from gold with best month in four years
A surprise rally in gold and silver caught the eyes of investors in the first half of the year. Now, platinum and palladium are shining brighter. Platinum is up 12% in July, putting prices on track for the best month since 2012. Palladium is even better, jumping 17%, the most since 2008. By comparison, gold added less than 2% in July as it lost momentum after gains in the first half. Read More |
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07.29.16- Silver - Once and Future Money
In the fourteenth century, Florentine bankers (called that because they worked on a bench or banco in the piazzas of Florence and other city states), accepted deposits of gold and silver in exchange for notes which were a promise to return the gold and silver on demand. The notes were a more convenient form of exchange than physical metal. They could be transported long distances and redeemed for gold and silver at branches of a Florentine family bank in London or Paris. Read More |
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07.28.16- Central Banks Will Create A Historical Gold Rush
Banks and central banks are experts at forging money Read More |
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07.27.16- The Big Short–Now the Big Long
The Big Short is turning into the Big Long and that is — being long on precious metals. The movie Big Short was based on a true story outlining two separate groups that understood the mortgage crisis and capitalized on it. How did they do this? Read More |
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07.26.16- Why a "Dollar" Should Only Be a Name for a Unit of Gold
Now, $20.67 is not the price of one ounce of gold in terms of dollars as popular thinking has it, for there is no such entity as a dollar. Dollar is just a name for 0.048 ounce of gold. On this, Rothbard wrote, Read More |
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07.25.16- Is Gold’s Rally Far From Its Peak?
Your News to Know brings you the hottest news involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: The bank that foresaw gold’s rally now forecasts $1,500 per ounce, why a 500% jump in gold prices isn’t far-fetched, and post-Brexit Britons warm up to gold as a safe haven. Read More |
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07.23.16- Get On The “Gold Wagon” To $10,000
But after a long life in markets, patience becomes a virtue that is absolutely essential. If your investment decisions are based on sound principles at the outset, there is no reason to change your opinion because the market takes longer to accomplish what it must do. Read More |
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07.22.16- One of the World’s Greatest Heists – A Jurisdiction Full of Gold and Trying to Change
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07.21.16- Bob Moriarty Still Thinks The Miners Have Room To Run And Why He Likes Platinum
CEO Technician: We are in what is probably the strongest 5+ month stretch in history for the gold mining sector. Where are we at now and is the sector a bit overheated at this point? Read More |
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07.20.16- The Greatest Lie Ever Told
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07.19.16- The Day They Killed the Dollar
We drove along in comfort, but our sympathies turned to the poor pilgrims who made their way to California in covered wagons. How they must have suffered! Hell with air-conditioning Read More |
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07.18.16- Negative Mainstream Media Articles on Gold and Silver Don’t Tell the Truth
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07.16.16- The Fundamental Reason The Silver Price Will Explode Much Higher Than Gold
This critical factor is based upon a certain supply versus demand component of the gold and silver markets. Actually, I came across this data while working on the research for a completely different article. However, the more I compared the figures, the more surprised I was by the results. Read More |
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EXPOSED: SGE & The REAL Silver to Gold Ratio
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07.13.16- Condition Red: Important Silver Threshold Line Broken… What Next??
I wrote about this in my article, WATCH OUT if Silver Breaks Through This Threshold Next Week. The important silver threshold line is the 50 (MA), or what is known as in technical terms, the 50 month moving average line. Because I used a 20 year monthly chart, the 50 (MA) line refers to the moving average in monthly terms. If the chart is shown in weeks, then its a weekly moving average… and if it is a daily chart, then it is a daily moving average. Read More |
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07.12.16- Millennials Pay Rent By Selling Their Parents' Jewelry
So what's an American youth to do? Aside from perhaps investing it in a Ghost Skyscraper. Read More |
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07.11.16- Gold And Silver – Be Afraid, At The Very Least Be Wary.
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07.09.16- The Tide is Turning
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07.08.16- DoubleLine's Gundlach: Gold remains best investment in 'shaky' world
"Things are shaky and feeling dangerous,” Gundlach said in a telephone interview. “I am not selling gold.” Read More |
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07.07.16- SILVER – Currency For Collapse
Silver has been used as a medium of exchange dating back to the earliest of records. It has always been considered to be a form of ‘money’. Even up until the late 19th century, most nations were on a silver standard as to their ‘money’, with silver coins making up the main circulating currency. Read More |
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07.06.16- Gold’s Shimmer Is Sign Of Dark Days Ahead
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07.05.16- Silver SOARS to $21, Forcing Bankers to Fight an Epic Battle
Well, brothers: did I call it, or did I call it? Read More |
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07.04.16- Gold Prices: The Road To $10,000
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07.02.16- Gold And Silver Investors Smell Central Bank Blood
It’s clear that the Central Banks are desperate to keep the stock markets from plunging, despite the fact that the deterioration of economic and financial fundamentals globally – including and especially in the U.S. – has begun to accelerate. Read More |
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07.01.16- Making The Case For $12,000 Gold & $360 Silver
Unfortunately for most investors, the majority of these supposed assets will evaporate into thin air from where-ith they came. Bubbles were designed for children to make and play with… not meant for adults to use in the financial industry. Read More |
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06.30.16- On The Cusp Of A Major Break Out
First, does this not ridiculously assume that “overnight” is the same for traders of gold all over the world? (This is just another instance of how American manipulation theorists believe they are the center of the universe). Let’s also not forget that the market was within a correction, which means that “surprise” moves are often to the downside, just like in bull markets surprises come to the upside. But, no one seems to complain about it when it happens to the upside, do they? Read More |
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06.29.16- Will Gold Crash With The Dow…
There are two primary camps amongst economists with regard to the economic direction that a crash will generate – inflationists and deflationists. Read More |
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06.28.16- The World is Going to Pay for Brexit
One of people’s favorite fantasies is to believe they are smarter than your average concrete block when we all know bricks appear brilliant compared to humans. A few years back one of a hoard of new gold sites sent me an email pronouncing that they were having a price of gold prediction contest. They were going to those they considered the top 150 commentators have predict the price of gold at a point six months later. I puffed up at once realizing that at least someone in the world understood my brilliance. Actually I probably should have asked if I was #1 on their list or a fill in for #150 after five of their list had died in the last week. Read More |
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06.27.16- Gold and Brexit
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06.25.16- Why gold may hit $1,500 by year’s end—and it’s not just about Brexit
Gold’s impressive rally Friday offered a taste of what may be in store for the precious metal, as some analysts say it’s just a matter of time before prices top $1,500 or even $1,900 an ounce. Futures prices for the metal GCQ6, +4.43% soared by as much as $100 an ounce on an intraday basis Friday as the United Kingdom’s historic vote to leave the European Union sent investors scrambling for a safer place to park their money. Read More |
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06.24.16- What Is Money and How Does It Work? A Simple Explanation
For example, proponents of gold level a number of serious critiques against the US dollar monetary system. They say things like, “Only gold is money. The US dollar is just a fiat-currency—a glorified IOU!” Read More |
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06.23.16- Here's How High Gold Is Headed
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06.22.16- The Silver Ruble Coin for Russia
The seed for the propaganda was provided by events in the Crimean Peninsula, after the US-led coup which ousted the elected President of Ukraine and installed a US-led puppet government. The people of Crimea did not regard the unelected government in Kiev as favorable to their interests, and in a peaceful vote decided to rejoin Russia, of which Crimea has been a part since time immemorial. This action on the part of Crimea, has been painted as "Russian Aggression". Read More |
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06.21.16- Gold Price: USD 65,000/oz in 5 years?
Currencies are Worthless As the world’s fiat paper currencies have lost 99% or more of their purchasing power over the last 100 years, its critical to understand that fiat paper currencies are not a suitable unit of account for accurately measuring prices. In fact, gold is a far superior measuring stick of value than paper currencies. Read More |
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06.20.16- Insanity Is World “Norm.” Keep Stacking!
1. Both are the only valid form of money. Yeah, yeah, anyone can argue sea shells, livestock, whale’s teeth, barter, any form of paper, etc, etc, etc, but none of them will fly now or even in the last century. When all is said and done, throughout the history of mankind, gold and silver rule. Read More |
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06.18.16- Sprott Money News Weekly Wrap-up
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06.17.16- Intermediate Targets For Gold & Silver $1490 & $28
“The rate hike cycle has left the building.” - Jeffrey Gundlach “Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike.” - Theodore Roosevelt The Fed has failed. Death by serial policy errors and a credibility trap. They are in good company with their peers. The longer term implications of this are quite interesting, especially given the upcoming elections in the US, the bonfire of the vulgarities. And globally, something as old as Babylon and evil as sin slouches towards the darkness and the death of reason to be born, again. Read More |
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06.16.16- What Happens When Big Money Moves Into Silver?
However, the time when BIG MONEY finally moves into the precious metals sector grows closer each day. Michael Belkin discussed this in his recent interview on Kingworld News. Read More |
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06.15.16- Abnormal Risks Have Abnormal Consequences
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06.14.16- How to Grow Bullion
One of the problems with precious metals has been the fact that they do not pay any interest or dividends. In today’s ZIRP market that is becoming less of a problem. However, some people have done quite well trading the gold to silver ratio. Read More |
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06.13.16- Massive Gold Investment Buying 2
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06.11.16- Will I Ever Get Back to Even on My Nearly 100% Underwater Gold & Silver Position?
I invested $20,000 in gold and $60,000 in silver bullion five years ago. I was lead to believe they were going way up due to money printing and zero interest rates. So far I am down nearly 100%. |
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06.10.16- The Case for Gold Is Stronger Than Ever
Today, The Case for Gold remains a timeless piece of scholarship, offering successive generations both a prescient warning and a path to sound currency and a stable U.S. dollar. Read More |
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06.09.16- Gold logs 3-week high as rate-hike fears subside, dollar weakens
Gold futures on Wednesday finished at their best level in three weeks as the U.S. dollar weakened and fears of an interest-rate rise, which might diminish the appeal of the metal, faded. August gold GCQ6, +1.34% gained $15.30, or 1.2%, to $1,262.30 an ounce, after seeing relatively tepid trade Tuesday as investors readjusted their expectations for rate increases in the wake of last Friday’s disappointing May labor-market report. The metal scored its highest close Wednesday since May 18, according to FactSet data. Read More |
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06.08.16- Gold – a reasonable correction?
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06.07.16- Triple-digit silver prices coming
Keith Neumeyer serves as CEO of First Majestic Silver Corp. The company ranks as the second largest silver producer in Mexico – the world’s leading country in silver production. Neumeyer told Bloomberg a major Japanese electronics maker approached the company last month seeking to lock in future silver stock. This is a sign that supply concerns could significantly boost the price of the white metal – perhaps as much as nine-fold: Read More |
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06.06.16- Friday May Have Marked A Pivotal Turnaround
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06.04.16- SRSrocco Report: Silver Will Move The Most of All The Metals
This is where the majority of manipulation has taken place. Read More |
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06.03.16- Hidden in Full View
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06.02.16- Long Term Silver Bull Market Signal Falls Into Place
You will read various commentators who start pumping silver as soon as it makes a big move. That is not good enough if a reason is not given. We have seen big moves rise and fall these past five years, but none of them issued the buy signal that occurred yesterday in the silver market. Read More |
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06.01.16- The Arguments for Gold in 2016 That No One Should Ignore
Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kenneth Rogoff, recently penned a piece in which he recommended that emerging markets diversify their foreign exchange holdings away from the bonds of developed countries and into gold. One of Rogoff’s main reasons for the argument is that with interest rates at or below zero, there is little value to be gained in buying such assets. Read More |
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05.31.16- This Looming Issue Could Boost Both Platinum and Copper
The challenge is labor negotiations in the mining sector. With both the world’s top platinum miner South Africa, and top copper producer Chile facing tough talks with strong local unions. South Africa’s powerful platinum mining group Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said last week it is beginning internal meetings as of last Thursday. Read More |
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05.28.15- The Fed Can’t Make A Decision, But They Can Make Gold Glitter
Each week, Your News to Know brings you a weekly roundup of the top news stories from the gold market. Stories include: Gold favored as Fed might have to backtrack, why rate hikes may be good for gold, and gold jewelry is getting more expensive. Read More |
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05.27.16- Q1 2016 Canadian Silver Maple Sales Surge To Highest Record Ever
Why is this such a big deal? Because Q1 2016 sales of Silver Maples topped the Q3 2015 record, without surging demand and product shortages. Read More |
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05.26.16- Gold Prices Should Rise Above $1,900/oz - “Get In Now!”
“This is just the beginning of a new bull market in the metals,” Boockvar believes. Ultimately, Boockvar believes that the 2011 highs of around $1,900 for gold are not only reachable, but surpassable, as he reasoned that bull markets historically exceed the previous bull market peak at some point. As Boockvar sees it, it’s just a matter of when. Read More |
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05.25.16- Are these the golden days for gold?
As my colleague Jean Boivin recently wrote, central banks are pushing the outer limits of monetary policy. This has had many odd side effects, not the least of which is a significant portion of sovereign debt today is trading at a negative yield. If you buy government bonds from Japan today, you’d have to pay interest. Welcome to a world in which investors pay for the privilege of lending money. Read More |
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05.24.16- Does China Want To Be The Most Powerful Player In The Gold Market?
China does nothing without a reason. Lately, that reason has a lot to do with gold and the gold market. This week, a bank in the communist “managed market” country seized further control over the precious metals market by buying one of the largest gold vaults in London. Read More |
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05.23.16- Revenge of the Fundamentals
The price of gold moved down about twenty Federal Reserve Notes, and the price of silver dropped $0.57. The big news is that the gold-silver ratio moved up about 1.5. We hate to say “we told you so,” well, OK. Actually… sometimes there’s a certain je ne said quoi about gloating. *Achem* In all seriousness, the dollar is going up. We measure it in gold, or alternatively in silver. In gold, the dollar rose 0.4mg gold to 24.84. In silver, it was up 60mg to 1.88g silver. We do not think that the dollar can be measured in terms of its derivatives such as euro, pound, etc. for the many of the same reason that the gold can’t be measured in terms of its derivative, the dollar. Read More |
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05.21.16- U.S. Debt Is Being Dumped
Central banks have been dumping U.S. debt at an unprecedented rate. Last year, foreign central banks sold an astonishing $225 billion in U.S. treasury bonds. And now, just a few months into 2016, the rate of selling has increased, with central banks having already sold $123 billion in bonds. Read More |
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05.20.19- The Two Best Calls Ever on a Gold Correction
If you are one of those investors with at least an 'over the room temperature IQ’ and you understand that markets are like pendulums - they swing from one extreme to another - you would view the incredible rocket higher as an opportunity to take some money off the table. I may have mentioned that before. All of a week ago. It was good advice and timely. Read More |
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05.19.16- Huge Trend Changes Point To Something Big In The Gold Market
Let’s start off with one segment of the gold market that has changed significantly in the past 15 years. The Global Gold Hedge Book hit a peak of nearly 3,100 metric tons (mt) in 1999: Read More |
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05.18.16- “Power Elites Are Now Speaking Openly
Former BIS official Stefan Gerlach writes a new article appearing on Project Syndicate here. He notes that the potential for a major crisis still exists in the global financial system and has some interesting comments on gold. Below are some quotes from the article and then some added comments. See Jim Rickards comment on the article below. Read More |
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05.17.16- Silver Remains
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05.16.16- Fresh Mainstream Nonsense on Gold Demand
We and many others have made a valiant effort over the years to explain what actually moves the gold market (as examples see e.g. our article “Misconceptions About Gold”, or Robert Blumen’s excellent essay “Misunderstanding Gold Demand”). Sometimes it is a bit frustrating when we realize it has probably all been for naught. Gold wants to know what it has done now… Read More |
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05.14.16- The Golden Mean
Bears are frustrated that the predicted collapse in the precious metal has not yet materialized. Bulls are expecting a skyrocket higher any day. Yet a third possibility exists, and there is still time to take a middle road in one's perceptions. Ironically, such a moderate view might just end up being the most profitable in the long run. Read More |
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05.14.16- The Golden Mean
Bears are frustrated that the predicted collapse in the precious metal has not yet materialized. Bulls are expecting a skyrocket higher any day. Yet a third possibility exists, and there is still time to take a middle road in one's perceptions. Ironically, such a moderate view might just end up being the most profitable in the long run. Read More |
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05.13.15- Here's Why $100,000/oz Silver is a Conservative Estimate
Nobody should under estimate the COILED SPRING EFFECT that underlies the silver price. 45 years of computer price suppression won't blow off smoothly! I will attempt to quantify the potential price movements in Silver based on my 20 reasons to SELL/BUY from this article: 20 Reasons to Sell (BUY!!) Physical Silver Read More |
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05.12.16- Demolishing Three Common Arguments Against Gold
Gold was about $1,400 per ounce as late as January 2011. Almost $500 per ounce of the overall rally occurred in just the last seven months before the peak. That kind of hyperbolic growth is almost always unsustainable. Read More |
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05.11.16- The Lies You Are Told About Gold
Why did so many get it wrong in 2011? Why did most get it wrong for the last 4 years? Because most market participants and analysts do not understand gold. Feel free to read that again: most market participants and analysts do not understand gold. And, worse yet, most have bought into or sell you on the lies and fallacies about gold and are not burdened by the true facts presented through our recent history. Read More |
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05.10.16- Is Gold Behaving Like It Did Prior To The 2007-08 Crash?
Since the beginning of the year, gold has been on a tear. Not only has it outperformed many other investment classes, but just this week, it breached $1,300 per ounce. That price is over 20% higher from where it began 2016. On the technical charts, gold has broken out of its long-term downtrend, signifying a change in market mentality. Read More |
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05.09.16- The Historic Dow Jones-Silver Ratio Points To $300 Silver
Let me explain. The U.S. economy suffered a fatal blow in the 1970’s as its domestic oil production peaked and inflation soared. To protect against the ravages of inflation, investors moved into gold and silver in a big way. Read More |
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05.07.16- Gold And Silver ARE The Only Money [Hardly] In Existence.
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05.06.16- This Rarely Seen Chart Signals A Raging Silver Bull Market
Perhaps markets have already priced in another modest rate hike. Or maybe the markets simply aren’t taking the hint! Fed officials’ constant posturing and innuendo have long been contradictory and unreliable – and the Fed’s economic forecasts have usually been wrong. Read More |
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05.05.16- If A = B and B = C, does A = C?
But what happens when the apparent answer is not the correct answer? What if the obvious is dead wrong? Here is the proof. If an airplane is transportation and a train is transportation, is an airplane the same as a train? Now the correct answer is both apparent and obvious. No. A train and an airplane are both transportation but they are not the same. Read More |
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05.04.16- Gold's 18% Rise Is a Small Move
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05.03.16- When the Truth is Found to be Lies, Confidence in Currency Dies
In 1967 the Jefferson Airplane sang:
Restating this for economies and global currencies, one might say:
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05.02.16- A Clarion Alarm Call For All Paper Assets
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04.30.16- Gold leaps toward a 15-month high as dollar gets crushed
June gold GCM6, +2.29% jumped $30.30, or 2.4%, to $1,296.70 an ounce, marking a fifth straight day of gains. That would be the longest winning-streak since early February, according to FactSet data. A settlement around this level would be the best since late Jan. 2015. Read More |
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04.29.16- Gold Bullion: “Triple Threat” Could Send Gold Prices Skyrocketing
It can’t be stressed enough: if you want to know where gold prices are going, then pay attention to buyers. Their actions suggest gold bullion prices could soar. We are seeing a gold rush, but unfortunately it fails to get any recognition. There are three things you must know: China remains a strong buyer, Indian’s gold demand is astonishing, and mint sales around the world are surging. Read More |
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04.27.15- The Moment of Truth: Has the Silver Bullet Arrived?
For the last few months, silver has crept higher under the radar, that is, until the last 2 weeks, where it started to become mainstream news. The silver price, which the banks had remarkably kept $14s and under for several months, had finally come off the lows, and it’s quickly made up for lost time. This is now “make or break” time for this new rally. As you can now see in this chart, after its recent stellar performance, silver is at a crucial crossroads now. Read More |
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04.26.16- Interesting Silver Debate: Do Old Indicators Matter Or Is Physical About To Overrun Paper?
The data series that tracks this relationship is known as the commitment of traders report (COT), and it’s been a pretty reliable indicator of precious metals’ short-term trajectory. Read More |
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04.25.16- Good News, Bad News, Both Favor Gold And Silver
This is not yet a victory lap, for the market remains in its transitioning phase, but the faithful, for what has always been considered the only true form of money: gold and silver, can relax more and shed the deer-in-the-headlights look after seeing both pummeled to the downside so relentlessly over the past years by the money changers.Read More |
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04.23.16- Are stars aligned for gold revaluation -- and is GATA finished?
Today Zero Hedge posts a couple of items suggesting that central banks are intervening surreptitiously in the markets even more lately to avert deflation or that they should intervene more -- items suggesting an end to gold price and commodity price suppression as central bank policy. The first item is from an anonymous commodity trader who can see no other explanation for the recent rally in commodities. Read More |
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04.22.16- Silver: Not Time to Worry
From Steve St. Angelo:
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04.21.16- Why Are The Chinese Stockpiling Silver? Big Price Move Coming?
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04.20.16- Gold, Silver And COMEX Outlook For 2016 And Beyond
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04.19.16- Gold is the spectre haunting our monetary system
For a century, elites have worked to eliminate monetary gold, both physically and ideologically. This began in 1914, with the UK’s entry into the First World War. The Bank of England wanted to suspend convertibility of bank notes into gold. Keynes counselled wisely that the bank should not do so. Gold was finite, but credit elastic. Read More |
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04.18.16- Stronger Reasons For Buying Gold/Silver Right Now.
Then there are the ongoing published figures of how many gold and silver coins that are being purchased each month, one record month leading to another. “Demand is going through the roof!!” Coupled with those figures are mining supplies v world demand, especially bullish for silver, almost beyond imagination. Read More |
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04.16.16- Silver Prices Up 5.6%; Gold Down 1% This Week. Deutsche Bank Settles Gold and Silver Manipulation Suits
Silver remains strong despite gold’s weakness this week and continues to eke out gains. Since Monday April 4, silver has surged from $14.93 to $16.32 per ounce for an 9.3% gain. Read More |
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04.15.16- Make Money Great Again! Gold is Monetary Truth
Its use spans not only time but different civilizations, used by diverse cultures. It is an internationally recognized currency, value preservation tool and the king of all money. Gold is king money, and trumps even the king of paper money, the US Dollar. Read More |
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04.14.16- Gold Prices: This Could Trigger Massive Move in Gold Prices
Are gold prices going to sink or swim, rise or flop from here? What if when market analysts of the future look back at this period, they conclude that the reason no one saw the big move coming…was that no one was asking the right question…? The biggest gold influencer from here could very well be this once-in-a-lifetime sequence: an economic collapse, closely followed by a reset… Read More |
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04.13.16- Silver No Fly Zone
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04.12.16- The Precious Metals Conspiracy
For at least a few weeks now, we have noticed a growing drumbeat from a growing corps of analysts. Gold is going to thousands of dollars. And silver is going to outperform. Reasons given are myriad. Goldman Sachs apparently said to short gold, so if one assumes that the bank always advises clients to take the other side of its trades — a tricky and dangerous assumption at best — then one should buy gold. Read More |
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04.11.16- Gold And Silver – Fallacy Of East v West And Price Of PMs.
Take Putin, aka Russia, for example. He has had a long-term association with Heinz [Henry] Kissinger, a higher-tiered “gofer” for the global elites. They met again in early February, when Putin welcomed globalist-NWO-agenda-pusher Kissinger as an “old friend, “ referring to him as a “world class politician.” Putin embracing a globalist is no accident. Read More |
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04.09.16- Something Big Happened
Over the past several years, the gold market has suffered net outflows of metal from Gold ETF’s & Funds. However, this changed in a big way in Q1 2016: According to the World Gold Council’s Gold Demand Trends, the market suffered net outflows from Gold ETF’s & Similar Funds except for the small 25 metric ton (mt) build during Q1 2015. Read More |
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04.08.16- Gold Once Again Proves To Be The Best Defense Strategy
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04.07.16- A crisis is coming…
Yesterday, I (Porter) wrote about a dinner meeting I had a few days ago. One of the most powerful figures in America had invited me to dine at his table at the Metropolitan Club in New York. I’ve dubbed the plan he told me about – to exchange the Federal Reserve’s bond holdings for gold – the “Metropolitan Plan.” Assuming the exchange took place today, it would establish a new dollar/gold price of around $10,000 per ounce. Could this really happen? Read More |
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04.06.16- Fort Knox Paradox
Question: If the Bullion Depository still contains over 147 million ounces of gold, why not audit it, prove the existence of the gold, and eliminate speculation? The US government spends over $70 billion on “food stamps” every year and nearly a $Trillion per year on “defense,” so cost is not the issue. Current policy seems to be “don’t ask, don’t tell” because the answer might be disconcerting, might destroy the narrative that the US gold still exists, and the revelation of missing gold might encourage other embarrassing questions …Read More |
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04.05.16- Five Years – The Feedback
I also realize that my premise may seem outlandish to those hearing of it for the first time. Hopefully, not many regular subscribers were surprised, since I have been writing about this for some time now. Read More |
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04.04.16- World Monetary Collapse Coming, Need Return to Gold Standard
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04.02.16- Silver Is Coiled Spring
Silver has always been something of an investing enigma, somehow combining attributes of a highly-speculative investment, a conventional industrial commodity, and an alternative currency. Read More |
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04.02.16- Silver Is Coiled Spring
Silver has always been something of an investing enigma, somehow combining attributes of a highly-speculative investment, a conventional industrial commodity, and an alternative currency. Read More |
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04.01.16- PRECIOUS-Gold heads for biggest quarterly rise in nearly 30 years
The metal is highly exposed to rising rates, which lift the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets, while boosting the dollar. Gold fell 10 percent last year ahead of the first U.S. rate increase in nearly a decade in December. Spot gold was up 1 percent at $1,236.16 an ounce at 1330 GMT, while U.S. gold futures for April delivery were up $9.80 an ounce at $1,238.40. Read More |
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03.31.16- Will The Dollar Be Able To Take On These Threats?
As if we don’t already have enough to worry about, the world is now attempting to come to grips with the spread of the Islamic State into Western capitals and the resulting terror that is metastasizing around the globe. Recent attacks in Paris and Brussels have stunned the European continent with their brutality. With central banks running out of bullets in their multi-year attempt to reflate global markets, Western reserve currencies seem especially vulnerable. Enter stage right, the U.S. Dollar. Read More |
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03.30.16- Gold, the Misery Index, and Insanity
Today the Misery Index is much smaller than in 1980, thanks to … intelligent fiscal management, economically beneficial monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, and wise political policy from the White House. If you believe any of those, read no further. Read More |
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03.29.16- Is The Pullback In Gold Over?
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03.26.15- Fiscal and Monetary Madness
When central banks and politicians “manage” global currencies, we can expect:
It has happened before and it will happen again… Read More |
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03.25.16- Five Years That Changed Silver Forever
What you will not hear is how a specific development has transpired over the past five years that ensures a coming explosion in the future price of silver beyond the most bullish predictions and optimistic upside targets. You’re also not likely to hear that the stunning decline in the price of silver over the past five years was a deliberate feature of an unusually bullish development that promises to change forever the future price landscape. Read More |
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03.24.16- A Love Affair: India and Gold
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03.23.16- Gold and Gold Stocks – A Change in Market Character
Inside the fully mechanized South Deep gold mine in South Africa. Maybe it’s worth to keep digging for more after all? Read More |
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03.22.16- Why Investing In Silver Is Vastly Superior To Investing In Gold Right Now
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03.21.16- Why Debt Is Not Money
There are lots of other advantages to gold as money. It’s by far the most private kind of money; gold coins, unlike paper currency, don’t even carry serial numbers. That makes it truly untraceable. At current prices, it’s more portable than cash, even in the form of $100 bills. Read More |
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03.19.16- Shanghai Exchange Effect On Silver?
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03.18.16- Silver Fundamentals: The Numbers Don’t Lie
Many readers are familiar with this cliché, but few understand its real significance . Numbers don’t lie, meaning the raw data which we collect on a nearly infinite number of subjects. Statistics, on the other hand, are rarely just raw data. Instead, they are numbers that have been massaged (i.e. manipulated) with various adjustments. Read More |
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03.17.16- Crumbling U.S Empire Drives Russia & China To Move Into Gold
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03.16.16- Reviewing The New Case for Gold
I’ve read his first two books and by and large I agree with his conclusions. He believes that gold will be a major part of a new international replacement for the Bretton Woods agreement. On that we agree. But he believes a gold linked version of the SDR, the Special Drawing Rights will be the future foundation of money. Read More |
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03.15.16- Protect Your Wealth – Buy Gold Before It Reaches $2,000
Desperate measures by the ECBThe ECB confirmed yesterday that they are extremely concerned about the European economy as well as the fragile banking system. They lowered the negative rate to 0.4% and increased Q.E. or money printing by more than the market expected. Read More |
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03.14.16- Will Gold Outperform Stocks?
With their assumption of the Earth being at the center, this funny path was hard to describe and impossible to explain. What could possibly cause planets to stop and even reverse? Read More |
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03.12.16- Gold is the only sound money A "golden cross", with the 55 day moving average crossing above the 200 day moving average with both of them on a rising trend, and the share price above both these moving averages, has now occurred. This is generally taken by traders to indicate the bear trend has reversed, and a bull market is now in place. Read More |
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03.11.16- Broken Bazookas!
First it was the Fed, then it was the Bank of Japan, now the ECB (and maybe even China). Mario Draghi finally let loose this morning with everything left in his monetary “bazooka” and gone as far as the Bundesbank will let him. He also has to face the BIS restrictions in the next three weeks which are far from certain to be in favor of his actions. Read More |
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03.10.16- And Then There Was None:
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03.09.16- …Everything else is credit!
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03.08.16- Future Gold Prices
If you are a central banker or a powerful financial player which often supplies loyal employees to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, the low gold numbers look good. Or, if you understand the incredible $200+ Trillion of debt the world has accumulated and realize it can’t be repaid, then gold at $10,000 probably looks inevitable. Crashes occur and sovereign debt markets look like paper bubbles with disastrous potential to send gold much higher. Read More |
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03.07.16- Gold And Silver – Charts Reviewed
We noted that the monthly bar for February [See first chart], was wide range to the up side with a strong close, and it marked the potential for an important change in market behavior that could mean December 2016 may be the final low of this protracted 6 year correction. Read More |
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03.05.16- Silver is Destined for Massive Gains
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03.04.16- What Is Copper Telling Us?
The world seems to be on the verge of a meltdown but, if so, why are some of the commodities telling a different story? Copper Copper has been on our watch list for sometime now as it is a leading indicator of economic investment and strength and with the recent upside breakout on March 2 all we can say is that copper is trying to tell us something. Read More |
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03.03.16- The COMEX vs. Private Gold & Silver Eagle Stocks
Right now, most mainstream investors still have their eyes glued to CNBC hoping and praying that their retirement accounts and paper investments don’t get flushed down the toilet. Unfortunately for these investors, man must still abide by the fundamental laws of nature, even though we can cheat the system for many years. Read More |
03.02.16- Russia becomes world's largest buyer of gold
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Gold-Silver Ratio Breakout
A Sharp MoveThe gold to silver ratio moved up very sharply this week, +4.2%. How did this happen? It was not because of a move in the price of gold, which barely budged this week. It was due entirely to silver being repriced 66 cents lower. This ratio is now 83.2. It takes 83.2 ounces of silver to buy an ounce of gold. Conversely, it takes 1/83.2oz (about 0.37 grams) of gold to buy an ounce of silver. Read More |
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02.29.16- The Escalating War on Cash and What It Means For Metals
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02.27.16- The gold market is about to explode
Before 2008 global central banks were net sellers of gold. Their policy was designed to keep the gold price from moving up higher. When you understand gold is like Dr. Evil to paper currency, you know turning from net sellers to net buyers is a big deal.Read More |
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02.26.16- Electric Car War Sends Lithium Prices Sky High
Moreover, land grabs, rising price predictions, and expectations of a major demand spike are leaping out of the shadows of a pending energy revolution and a new technology-driven resource era. Read More |
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02.25.16- Why Gold Prices are Headed Up Now
Once you crunched the numbers, it was easy to see that the old prices couldn’t last. In my article, “Did COMEX Just Receive A Physical Gold Bailout From The Feds?”, published in June 2015, I did just that. Gold prices were down to about $1,175 per troy ounce, and I took the trouble to calculate the physical cost of the politics of gold. Comparing new mining supplies + scrap vs. the then-existing demand level, I concluded that some not-so-mysterious gold supplier of last resort had to inject at least 1,345 tons in order to balance supply with demand in 2015. Read More |
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02.24.16- If This Happens, Gold Mining Stocks Could Skyrocket
The subsequent crazy action in the gold pits took everyone by surprise, including me. At one point, the pick was up more than 200% in just a few trading sessions from the date of the article, nicely took out its first resistance level, and now needs to take out the $61.00 level to continue moving up the profit ladder (see chart below).Read More |
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02.23.16- The War On Cash Is Irrelevant If You Own Gold And Silver
But lost in this fog of fear is the obvious alternative: gold and silver. Worried about the elimination of $100 bills because it makes it harder to accumulate and safekeep meaningful amounts of cash? An ounce of gold stores a lot more wealth than a $100 bill. Currently one roll of silver eagles is worth more than three $100 bills. Read More |
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02.22.16- Gold Costs 80 oz. of Silver
The big news is that the gold-silver ratio closed at 80. This is not only a new high for the move. It’s higher than it has been since 2008. It is also exactly what Monetary Metals has been calling for. Last week, we said the gold fundamental price was $1,450 and the silver fundamental price was $14.90 (i.e. a fundamental value for the ratio over 97 last week). This week, the ratio moved up, and it’s now 1.3 points closer. In other words, silver got cheaper when measured in gold terms. Uncle McDuck has a speculator’s eyes… Read More |
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02.20.16- Indonesia, China, Gold and ISIS
On January 14, an Indonesian terrorist group connected with ISIS in Syria claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings and terror attacks in Jakarta, killing two civilians and ending in the death by police of five terrorists. The attackers apparently were not the most professional. The first was a suicide bomber who entered a Starbucks café, detonated the device killing only himself, along perhaps with a few thousand calories worth of Starbucks muffins and cups of Latte. The terror attacks were the first in Indonesia since 2009. Read More |
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02.19.16- Did Mark Cuban and the Dow Just Prove Goldbugs Right? |
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02.18.16- Bill Murphy: Gold/Silver Manipulators Are At The End Of Their Rope!
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02.17.16- SWOT Analysis: Central Banks Continue Gobbling Up Gold Strengths
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02.16.16- Silver, Gold, the Argentina Peso, and Exponentially Increasing Prices
According to Wikipedia Argentina devalued their currency by a factor of 100 in 1970, by another 10,000 in 1983, by another 1,000 in 1985, and by another 10,000 in 1992. From Alan Greenspan in 1966: “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.” Read More |
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02.15.16- Gold outlook improves
The change in the outlook for US interest rates has probably put an end to the dollar’s four-year bull run, it is clear that there is a growing likelihood of negative interest rates in the future, and the global banking system is no fit state to manage the potential challenges of 2016. This article walks the reader through the likely economic effects relevant to the future purchasing power of the dollar, and therefore the gold price. Read More |
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02.13.16- “This is a Clusterf*ck! Silver Could Reach $2,000+ Within 24 Months!
Gold is undervalued to the point of idiocy. But silver? Silver is in another universe. Read More |
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02.12.16- Gold, Gold Stocks, and the End Game
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02.11.16- As Central Banks Dim, Gold Brightens
Of course the above excerpt is brought to us by the Motley Fool, one of the bigger mainstream investment web destinations. The description is entirely predictable and could have found a home at Bloomberg, CNN or even CNBC. Gold is always to be portrayed as a Keynesian "barbaric relic." Read More |
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02.10.16- Setting The Record Straight On The Massive Gold Supply Conspiracy
I decided to write this article due to a recent email question from one of my readers. This individual wanted to know what I thought of the notion that the world held nearly two million tons of gold instead of the official 170,000 metric ton (mt) figure. Let me start off by saying, I have answered this question dozens of times. So, I thought it would be best to write an article to SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. Read More |
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02.09.16- They Broke the Silver Fix
If you read more about it, you will see that there was an irregularity around the silver fix. At the time, the spot price was around $14.40. The fix was set at $13.58. This is a major deviation. Many silver bugs are up in arms about how unfair the new silver fix is. That’s nothing new. They were up in arms about the old one. The old one was supposedly manipulated. Read More |
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02.08.16- INDICATORS SHOW: Collapse Of The Paper Gold & Silver Market May Be Close At Hand
We must remember, a collapse does not happen overnight, but the endgame does. This can be clearly seen in the collapse of the Roman Monetary System: Read More |
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02.06.16- Gold And Silver – Is A Bottom In? Nothing Confirmed.
We are again seeing more and more experts and non-experts calling for the bottom for gold and silver, but none can confirm it as a proven fact. Few realize how important it is to have confirmation that one’s position is correct and will be profitable. It is confirmation that gives validity to a prior market move/event. This is the theme of our analysis, today. Read More |
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02.05.16- Market Report: Systemic risk and negative interest rates
Last night gold closed at $1155.5 and silver at $14.91, and in early London trade this morning prices opened at these closing levels. The performance for 2016 so far represents a rise of 9% for gold, and 7.75% for silver. Normally silver is roughly twice as volatile as gold, which suggests that it is relatively under-priced in current market conditions. Read More |
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02.04.16- Gold Prices: This 1 Thing Could Send Gold Prices to $5,000
To see where gold prices will go in the long-term, investors should pay extra attention to one thing: money printing on the global level. As it stands, if you look closely, it seems as if there’s a flood of fiat money hitting the global economy. You see, there’s still big debate about how to price gold. It doesn’t pay any dividend or any interest like other investment instruments, so investors tend to get confused about its value. Read More |
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COMEX Gold: Two Reasons It Is At RECORD LOWS |
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01.02.16- A Possible Sign of a Silver Turn
Precious Metals Firm Last Week The price of the dollar was down 0.50mg gold, to 27.8mg, or if you prefer 0.04g silver to 2.18g. Why do we measure the volatile dollar in terms of gold and silver? There’s nothing else to measure it in, certainly not the dollar-derivatives called euro, pound, franc, yen, and yuan. In the common tongue, gold was up $20 and silver rose 25 cents. More importantly, we want to know what happened to the fundamentals. Read on for the only proper fundamental analysis of the gold and silver markets … Read More |
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02.01.16- Why The Gold Market Is Glittering Again
But one asset that’s been much maligned in recent years, practically given up for dead in fact, is glittering again: Gold! The Dow and S&P 500 are both down 8% year to date. Small caps have it worse with a double-digit decline of 12.2%. Read More |
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01.30.16- IT BEGINS… Primary Silver Mining Company To Cut Production 25% In 2016
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01.29.16- They Don’t Bother To Hide The Criminality In Silver And AMZN Trading
Strange things are happening in the global financial markets. Most likely evidence of a massive systemic earthquake starting to shake. As many of you know, the LBMA price fix “fixed” the a.m. priceof silver 84 cents below the front-month futures price right before the price was “fixed.” This graph to the right shows how the criminal activity went down (click to enlarge). Read More |
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01.28.16- These Insiders Say They’re Shocked By Today’s Low Platinum Prices
Japan’s biggest bullion seller, Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo, reported that its platinum sales more than tripled during the past year. Rising to an all-time high of 537,946 ounces, from just 149,272 ounces in 2014. That comes as platinum prices fell over 25% last year, this week hitting the lowest level since 2008 — at near $800 per ounce. Read More |
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01.27.16- Charts with more words than Comex has regitered ounces
What we need to focus on is what has happened since the last “official” recession of 2008/2009. I put the word official in quotation marks because it is clear something has gone very wrong since 2009, have we really recovered? Read More |
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01.26.16- The Coming Revaluation of Gold
Sandeep Jaitly thinks that the desperate reserve-issuing CBs - the US Fed, the ECB, the Bank of England and the Japanese CB. Read More |
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01.25.16- Gold Deficits, Fort Knox, and a Reset
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01.23.16- Market Report: Gold steady, equities volatile
However, in early European trade this morning gold was level at $1097 and silver slightly better at $14.07. This was relatively subdued, given that US crude oil dropped to under $28 at one point this week, but recovered to $30.60 per barrel this morning. However, the real action was in equities. Read More |
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01.22.16- If You Are A Silver Investor, You Have To See These 3 Charts
While Silver Eagle sales in January are normally very high compared to the rest of the year, initial sales this month are starting off with a real bang. The Authorized Dealers purchased all of the four million oz of Silver Eagles allocated last week and have already taken delivery of 950,000 of the 1 million oz allotment this week. There are only 50,000 Silver Eagles remaining until next week’s allotment. Read More |
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01.21.16- The Best Way to Prepare for a Gold Bull Market
So far in 2016, the S&P 500 and the Dow have both dropped 8%. The NASDAQ has plunged 10%. And the Russell 2000, which tracks 2,000 small U.S. stocks, has plunged 11%. Global stocks have also sold off. The Euro Stoxx 600, which tracks 600 of Europe’s largest stocks, is down 10%. The Japanese Nikkei 225 is down 11%. And the Chinese Shanghai Composite Index is down 18%. Read More |
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01.20.16- Post-ZIRP stock/gold era
The Fed’s ZIRP saga symmetrically ended 7 years to the day after it began way back in mid-December 2008. That was just after the dark heart of that year’s once-in-a-century stock panic, which struck terror into the Bernanke Fed. Read More |
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01.19.16- Gold Deficits and T-Bond Fantasies
My name is John Q. Public. I live a good life, make lots of money (never mind how) and have debts such as a mortgage on a great house – $375,000, a Cessna – $150,000 (my air force), and a sweet little two mast sailing ship – $78,000 (my navy). Also my wife and children (my army) spend a lot of money. My total credit card debt is $97,000. But this was a bad month for revenue collections and there was only one thing to do. I called the customer service agent at my bank – the 3rd State Bank of Chicago, and asked for a credit limit increase. The friendly customer service agent asked how much I wanted my credit limit increased and I suggested from $100K to $200K. Read More |
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01.18.16- Gold Breaches R18000/oz in South Africa, Up 11% In Two Weeks!
The price of Gold breached R 18,000/oz for the first time ever on the 11th of January 2016 in South Africa (R = Rand). It is currently standing on R 18,239/oz. Let’s take a look at the price of Gold in South African Rands (ZAR) over the last 30 years, and the returns a saver would have earned had they bought and held Gold over various time periods since then: Read More |
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01.16.16- Changes On The COMEX As Bankers Increase War On Cash & Gold
According to The International Man article, The End of Safe Deposit Box For Wealth Storage: Read More |  |
01.15.16- Gold in 2016
We all know that gold prices rise, on average, as the underlying currency declines in value. Gold in the US was priced under $21 per ounce when the Federal Reserve was established. Since then the dollar has been devalued and gold has increased in price by a factor of about 50. It is the same story around the world, whether you evaluate in terms of British pounds, euros, rubles, yen, or any other debt based fiat paper currency. Read More |
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01.14.16- The Chinese Silver Fox
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01.13.16- Eureka Moment
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01.12.16- IT’S TRUE…. The U.S. Peaked In Silver Production 100 Long Years Ago
In my recent article, U.S. Silver Production Drops Significantly Again In October… Has Peak Silver Arrived?, I wrote about the recent steep drop in U.S. silver production and how this was a likely trend for many countries in the future . I also stated that if the global economy went into the toilet in 2016, then I believe Peak Silver is already here. Read More |
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01.11.16- The Time of the Stackers
The US$ price of gold has been in retreat since 2011, but sometimes we have to look at the big picture, and reexamine our premises to remember why we promote gold and silver and how such resonates with our clients. For many it is a hedge against the inevitable coming chaos that the fiat debt ponzi-scheme will lead to. For others, yes, just a speculation for profit… buy low, sell high. Some of our clients intend their gold holdings to be a permanent family estate, and if rare coins, a family heirloom to pass from generation to generation. For we in the business, it is both a passion and a livelihood chosen because we are believers in honest money. Read More |
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01.09.16- Gold And Silver – Why More Important Than When. Going Lower Before Moving Higher.
On the other hand, neither China nor Russia wants to oppose the globalist forces of evil, for both of those nations see what is unfolding on the world’s stage is the kabuki theater death dance of the US and the inexorable fading away of the fiat Federal Reserve Note. Read More |
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01.08.16- Gold in 2016
Furthermore, the dollar's strength, coupled with widening credit spreads confirms a global tendency for dollar-denominated debt to contract. These developments typically precede an economic and financial crisis that could manifest itself in 2016, partially confirmed by the disappointing performance of equity markets. If so, demand for physical gold can be expected to escalate rapidly as a financial crisis unfolds. Read More |
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01.07.16- During A Currency Crisis, This Is Tremendously Helpful
Gold always works during a currency crisis. It has been proven over and over again throughout history, that when people fear the value of their fiat currency issued by the government, they substitute another currency that will maintain its value in a crisis. Gold has been that substitute for thousands of years. Read More |
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01.06.16- Gold investing: why it’s an indispensable insurance
2015 was the year of the rate hike, everything else was useless. The first rate hike in 9 years crushed the gold price. Mainstream media believed it would push the gold price under $1.000. Probably the gold price has already priced in an interest rate increase. Read More |
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01.05.16- Silver, Silliness, Gold, and Risk
Repeat: “THE RISK PRICING MECHANISM IS BROKEN.” What risks could be mispriced? A few come to mind. Read More |
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01.04.16- Silver will break $50.00 in 2016
While I believe the value of silver will surge in the future, it’s hard to determine the timing of this event. That being said, Future Money Trends puts together high-quality interesting videos with a lot of good information and data. I highly recommend watching this video and it contains valuable information about the silver market and industry. Read More |
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01.02.16- Guernsey's Monetary Experiment
Guernsey is a small island located in the English Channel. An Anglo-Norman population. This island is located closer to the French coast than to the English one. At the close of the Napoleonic wars, the island, like several countries, was in pitiful condition, both physically and financially. Read More |
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01.01.16- Silver Manipulation Solution: 17 Requirements for a Freely Traded Silver Market Structure
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This week, 
If investors decided to increase their gold and silver investments to equal the percentage in 1980, we would have the following:
The fate of the global economy was decided decades ago as deficits, debts and derivatives started their exponential growth and reached the time bomb phase that we are now in. This final chapter of this 100-year era will end in “a final and total catastrophe of the currency system” as von Mises succinctly articulated.
Today is the eighth anniversary of this blog, but as you know, last year I moved most of my activity to a subscription blog called the Freegold Speakeasy. Anyone can join, and a subscription is only about 60 cents a day, but for those of you who don't, can't or just plain won't pay for this stuff, I'm going use this anniversary post to give you a little taste of what you've been missing. ;D 
Most American consumers do their banking with one or more of the 10 biggest U.S. banks, like Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: 
The spot price for gold and silver is dead. We seem to have the makings of a major disconnect, and it is worth talking about: 
While Jim Rickards explains many reasons why it is important to own gold, he leaves out the most important factor. Jim has become one of the more prominent names in the precious metals community due to his strong opinion on owning gold even though he worked on Wall Street (the anti-gold financial establishment) for 35 years. 
2016 has been a good year for precious metals, particularly silver and gold, but when comparing the two of them the grey metal has clearly outperformed bullion — it is up 40% to date, while its sister metal has only gained about 28%.
I wanted to share a discussion on the metals that I had with GATA’s Bill “Midas” Murphy this morning. I had emailed him to ask him if he knew of any reasons the metals were getting slammed today because the dollar was down a bit, the economic reports were poor and the stock market was selling off – all three occurrences of which are precious metals-friendly.
Yea, buddy, that centralization’s a great idea! Just channel & funnel all your business through one central location & computer. Bang up idea.
I have watched every tick of the Precious Metals market for 14½ years, since the fateful day in May 2002 when I bought my first 100 shares of Newmont Mining, en route to putting essentially all of my liquid assets into the sector. Frankly, the 1% position I have taken in Bitcoin is as exciting as any development in my investment career – as until Bitcoin, I have not come across any asset class since 2002 worth investing in. And by investing, I mean the classical definition of such, not today’s bastardized concept of speculating in overvalued assets based on the expectation of what Central banks and government manipulation operatives might do. To borrow from Richard Russell’s lingo, I take big positions in primary trends I deem to have extremely high return/risk profiles. And the more confident I am in such a trend, the more I invest. Hence, my 1% position in Bitcoin, versus 90% in physical Precious Metals. 
As stock markets around the world crashed in early January of this year amid panic selling, investors seeking safety began allocating their portfolios towards precious metals assets. While prices in almost every other asset class dropped precipitously, physical gold and silver, as well as the publicly traded companies that mine them, exploded to the upside. It was exactly the confirmation those on the sidelines had been looking for, as it proved that in the heat of crisis and confusion, money would flow to historical safe haven assets of last resort. 
‘Peak Gold’is happening which has important ramifications for the gold market and is another long term positive fundamental. This is why we were one of the first analysts to consider the peak gold phenomenon back in 2007 and 2008 (
The big US banks are dead, as in giant hollow reeds. Such has been the Jackass refrain for eight straight years. They are insolvent monsters and destroyers of wealth and capital. They are massive criminal enterprises. Events prove the case well. The Too Big to Fail policy has instead assured the wreckage and destruction of the USEconomy. Save the big banks, but ruin the capital base. The USGovt under the management of the banker cartel since the 9/11 event, which they orchestrated in a bold move, has systematically brought down the macro business sector, permitted the USDollar platforms to decay completely, and rigged the financial markets in every conceivable arena. 
In the course of writing a newsletter on silver and seeking new angles on the metal, it is necessary to maintain a wide array of datasets. Some of these I update on a weekly and monthly basis for subscribers, but I thought I would update one that gives us the very long term view on the price of silver.
As central banks around the world take more desperate measures to help their economies, one notable organization believes gold could soar. 
My projection for gold a few weeks back to $2,150 is still not in any jeopardy of failure. There will be bumps along the way such as Friday’s decline, but these by themselves are not anything to worry about. So, when do we arrive at that price? Unfortunately my primary method of trying to gauge a price projection does not provide any time scale. Timing for such move is more determined by external events such as war and the like. It might also take a Clinton victory -- and all the debt that will follow to raise gold to unheard of heights. Who knows what event will precipitate a gold boom. 
This week, 
The gold miners' stocks have already enjoyed a phenomenal year, blasting higher with gold's new bull market. This sector's market-dominating performance has been amazing. Yet incredibly, the gold stocks are only now entering their strongest time of the year seasonally. Historically during bull-market years the gold stocks have enjoyed massive autumn rallies on average, starting right about now which is very bullish.
The global economic and financial system is in much worse shape than I originally thought. New data and information suggest that the collapse will occur much quicker and with more dire results. 
Well, well, well. Something incredibly strange is afoot. What exactly is happening is the million dollar question. Regardless of what it is, a shift has occurred that has shocked many in the precious metals community and has others scratching their heads in confusion.
Silvercrest Metals was formed by the former management of Silvercrest Mines, which was acquired by First Majestic in 2015 for $154 million. The primary property interest for Silvercrest Metals is the Las Chispas project.
I read that I can’t eat gold as I munched on my 401(k) sandwich and guzzled my IRA wine, which tastes like a cheap Chardonnay. For a side dish I ate blanched twenty dollar bills and consumed a chocolate money market for dessert.
In what appears to be a strategy designed to keep their financial system afloat when fiat currencies around the world collapse under the strain of trillions in quantitatively eased debt, the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) has now shifted their operations so that all trade settlements can be completed in physical gold. The move follows the opening of the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE), which is the East’s answer to decades of manipulated precious metals prices by a 
Before the Renaissance, world money existed as precious metal coins or bullion. Caesars and kings hoarded gold and silver, dispensed it to their troops, fought over it, and stole it from each other. Land has been another form of wealth since antiquity. Still, land is not money because, unlike gold and silver, it cannot easily be exchanged, and has no uniform grade.
The central banks are leading the world into a black hole and have no idea what a disaster they have created. What initially seemed like a nice money spinner for the private bankers in 1913 when the Fed was set up has resulted in a $2 quadrillion (at least) monster that is now totally out of control.
We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball… What bothers me isn’t that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did.
Prior to 1933, 
One bank that accurately predicted gold’s current rally is now forecasting that it could reach $1,500. Could they be right again? 
Between 1999, when gold bottomed at $250, and the 2011 peak at $1,920 there was only one major correction lasting 8 months in 2008. The ensuing correction from the 2011 top at $1,920 of almost $900 seemed to take an eternity until it finally finished in December 2015. During those four years it was always clear to me that the uptrend in the precious metals was still intact although I must admit that I did not expect a correction of that duration.
During the reign of King Charles, a daring and dashing man by the name of Thomas Blood committed one of the most notorious heists in history. He successfully infiltrated the Tower of London with a group of men with hidden weapons, and by ‘infiltrated’ we mean ‘was escorted in’ on the pretense of arranging to marry his (non-existent) nephew to the daughter of Talbot Edwards, the Keeper of the royal jewels of England. While he failed to escape with the jewels, it’s hard to say he was completely unsuccessful. King Charles was so impressed with him that he gave him a pardon and a place to retire on a plot of land in Ireland. 
We had the opportunity to catch up with 
It was 113 degrees outside when we rolled through Baker, California, a few days ago.
Investors need to understand an important fundamental reason why the silver price will explode much higher than gold. While many analysts state several reasons why silver will outperform going forward, I believe one vital fundamental factor is overlooked.
The important silver threshold line was broken briefly last week and continues to bump up against it in early trading today. If the silver price closes above this threshold line by a significant margin, it could mean big trouble for the bullion banks who hold record silver short contracts.
With the market just shy of all-time highs, it would be reasonable for one to assume, looking at nothing else, that the American economy is wonderful. One may even wish to ponder the joyous thought of a younger generation living better than their parents. The problem is that the youth of America are saddled with debt and the university they took on the debt to attend left them with a lacking skill-set after graduation.
The price fireworks over the July 4 holiday, particularly in silver, were met with an outpouring of commentary and renewed interest. Not only have precious metals prices soared to levels not seen in a couple of years, it’s hard for me to recall a time with more input from different voices. It’s also hard to believe that it was only six months ago that gold and silver were locked in nearly the opposite situation. So the obvious questions are what happened and, more importantly, what is likely to occur from here? 
Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, said on Wednesday that gold remains the best investment amid fears of instability in the European Union and prolonged global stagnation, as well as concerns over the effectiveness of central bank policies. 
At the highest level, silver is used in industry, in jewelry, and as an investment (and/or wealth preservation). Together, these three categories represent more than 95 % of annual silver demand.
Market watchers around the world are struggling to figure out what is happening in our global economy. We are swimming in news of Brexit opinions and terrorist attacks all in hopes of making sense of it all and keeping our heads above water, if not our investment portfolios. Drowning in an ocean of information, it is easy to miss the signal for the noise and a possible indicator of dark economic days ahead. 
Remember how several months ago, I wrote a piece 
Anyone who follows my work knows that I've been hesitant to approve the December 3rd $1,045.40 low as the official 8-year cycle bottom. Nevertheless, the 
The mainstream narrative that gold/silver moves inversely with stocks because the metals are a “risk off” trade has imploded. Since late January, when the S&P 500 began to “recover” from its 11% New Year’s plunge, the precious metals and the stock market have been rising in correlation, with the precious metals significantly outperforming the stock market since mid-February:
Global Financial Assets are more inflated and propped up than ever. According to the most recent figures published by The City UK Fund Report, total Global Conventional Assets under management topped $105 trillion in 2014. That’s one hell of a lot of future PAPER CLAIMS.
In 2008, we projected that the crash in the market was in fact a mini-crash and that the day would come that a more major crash would occur - one that reflected the level of debt. In recent months, this prognostication has been gaining traction – that a second, more severe crash is inevitable. 
In a good way.
In what was an extraordinary day for global financial markets, and a day which will no doubt become legendary and enter folk memory in the UK and elsewhere, the electorate of the United Kingdom voted 51.9 % to 48.1% to leave the European Union. As the first count results began trickling in during the very early hours of Friday morning London time from northern England constituencies such as Newcastle and Sunderland, the cosy optimism that had prevailed in the Remain camp became increasingly agitated as the voting majority swung to the Leave side and quickly snowballed, in what was a shock to many. 
One of the worst things an analyst can do is make a prediction that includes both a price and a date. Odds are you’ll end up with egg on your face.
16 June 2021 is exactly five years from today. What will the gold price be on 16 June 2021?
We know of no discernible line where stupid begins; for sure, it does not end. There are two primary reasons for the never-ending goal of buying and holding physical gold and silver:
The event that will transform the Silver Market is when BIG MONEY finally moves into the sector in a BIG WAY. Even though the precious metals prices experienced new highs in 2011, this was due to only a small fraction of investor demand. The overwhelming majority of investors were still in playing in the Stock, Bond and Real Estate Markets.
Most people believe that the era we live in is totally normal. This is the case whether you live in a war-zone or in “Shangri-La”. It is the same with the economy. Everybody in the West today believes that stocks always go up and that property grows to the sky and that government bonds are the safest investment you can own. So these strong markets have been the norm for the average investor for the last 100 years. Everything they touch has gone up and any down move is only a correction. And so far investors have been right to stay in the market. Anyone who sat on a diversified portfolio of stocks, property and some bonds has made a massive fortune in the last hundred years. Very few skills in picking the investments were required. 
With the zirp, (zero interest rate policy) savings and bonds are not paying any significant interest. In Germany some bunds are paying negative interest rates. Few stocks are paying big dividends and most pay none at all. Everyone is trying to find a decent return on investment without taking on too much risk. The old 5 ¼% savings account interest rates that never seemed that interesting in the past now look mouth watering.
Gold’s strong
gains so far this year have been overwhelmingly fueled by one
dominant driver, massive investment buying. After shunning prudent
portfolio diversification with gold for years, investors are finally
starting to reestablish those essential positions. And since their
collective gold holdings were so incredibly low heading into 2016,
reflecting hyper-bearish sentiment, gold’s investment buying has
only begun. 
SD reader Dave writes:
Thirty-four years after its first publication in 1982, The Case for Gold remains remarkably timely. The Case for Gold is the minority report of the U.S. Gold Commission and lays out a thorough and comprehensive defense of sound money. 
The head of a major silver mining company says he thinks we will see 
More reasons why owning gold and silver should be at the top of everyone’s financial survival list, current elite-abused [abandoned] supply/demand considerations aside not being a part of the reasons where reason is utterly absent. Politicians have run amok. The elites are driving world economies harder and faster into the ground. Lies are the current political and financial currency, and the public seem not to mind. 
The reason I believe the markets have been manipulated is because Wall Street and the U.S. government have bamboozled Americans as well other governments across the world by funneling their citizens money or funds into paper assets since the 1980’s.
After studying the silver market closely for more than three decades, I find it nearly unbelievable that its single most important price factor is widely unknown. Admittedly, the vast majority of the investment world has little interest in silver and that’s unlikely to change any time soon. But under appreciation has its merits in the investment world. After all, silver does have a history of climbing in price higher and faster than just about any other asset and a multitude of factors now point to another massive price move higher ahead. 
As a newsletter writer who keeps an eye on the long term prospects for silver, there are a few indicators I follow which have proven reliable over the years past. When each indicator issues a buy signal in succession, the probability of a long term silver bull market increases and so does my confidence as a precious metals investor.
The world’s #1 producing nations for platinum and copper are facing a common problem this week. And latest developments suggest this issue could be a potentially explosive one. 
Could the Fed’s indecisiveness on raising interest rates cause gold to shine even brighter? This bank says yes — and here’s why… 
Gold prices are likely to rise above $1,900/oz in the next phase of the bull market and investors should “get in now,” Chief Market Analyst of the Lindsey Group, Peter Boockvar told CNBC’s “Futures Now” yesterday.
Given an environment of low and even negative yields, slow growth and potential signs of rising inflation, Russ discusses why gold may continue to shine.
The Chinese have taken another tremendous step to insert themselves into the gold market. What’s the end game to these maneuvers? 
With U.S. debt being sold by other nations at increasingly distressing rates, will the American economy be able to survive the record sell-off?
The loose cannons screeching about “Comex is going to Default” and “Crimex” have just led their flock to the shearing shed one more time. In the third week of January both the XAU and HUI began a moonshot, the 2nd biggest rally for the indexes ever measured.
Very few precious metals investors realize how recent trend changes will greatly impact the gold market going forward. The reason many investors fail to grasp the huge change in the gold market is that they look at data or information on an individual basis. To really understand what is going on, we must look at how all segments of the market compare to each other… a BIRD’S EYE VIEW.
They Will Never Get It…
Gold continues to show underlying strength despite volatility that is leaving many investors sitting on the sidelines.
Where The Price of Silver Is Going and Why
Recent history has been a long and volatile ride for gold investors. Starting from a low of about $250 per ounce in mid-1999, gold staged a spectacular rally of over 600%, to about $1,900 per ounce, by August 2011. Unfortunately, that rally looked increasingly unstable toward the end.
For the last 5 years, most were caught on the wrong side of the gold market. As gold was topping in 2011, most market participants, and analysts alike, were caught looking the wrong way. Most were uber-bullish when the market was topping, and remained so almost the entire way down. 
That’s correct. Going by the historic Dow Jones-Silver ratio, it points to $300 silver. This may seem outlandish or a play on hype, but it isn’t. While many precious metals analysts have forecasted high three-digit silver prices, I didn’t pay much attention to them. However, after I looked over all the data, $300 silver is not a crazy figure at all.
Gold and silver ARE money. Neither is a “currency,” although money is often cited as interchangeable with currency. Take the Federal Reserve Note, [please!], as an example. A Federal Reserve Note [FRN], is more commonly known as a “dollar.” Even though the word “dollar” appears on every FRN, each and every FRN is a debt instrument issued by the Federal Reserve and not a true dollar. The Federal Reserve is a privately held corporation, owned mostly by certain european bankers, and may include the Rockefellers, from the US. 
Federal Reserve officials hinted at a rate hike as soon as next month, but that prospect did little to support the U.S. dollar or hinder precious metals. Gold and silver prices have surged to new highs for the year while the dollar made a new low.
A century ago when I was in high school, one of my teachers wanted to teach us the basics of logic. The teacher began with the simple equation of if A = B and B = C, does A = C? Of course the majority of the class picked the most obvious answer.
Perhaps the most successful Ponzi scheme of all has been the Rothschild-led takeover and sapping of the entire United States since the American Civil War that started in 1861. The final stages were set with the not-so-lawfully-passed but fully implemented Federal Reserve Act on 23 December 1913. The fact that it purportedly passed two days before Christmas, when the custom was for no legislation to be enacted, while most politicians were en route or already home for the holidays, and the main opponents for this specific Act were indeed absent when the vote was made before a select skeleton group that stayed in Washington to ensure “passage” of the Act. 
Gold futures rallied Friday toward their highest settlement level since January 2015, as a slump in the greenback to its lowest level in about 11 months lured investors into dollar-denominated commodities. 
Earlier this year, as investors around the world panicked and stock markets crashed across the board, one asset class held strong and actually gained. It was, by all accounts, a capital flow panic out of broader stocks and into precious metals. As a safe haven, precious metals like gold and silver have long been sought by a panicked populace during times of crisis and given the current economic and monetary debacle created by central banks, we can safely forecast a continued rise over coming years for this reason alone. 
Moment of Clarity
For as long as most gold and silver investors can remember, the paper markets — that is, banks and speculators placing bets with futures contracts — have set the price of those metals. And within the paper markets, “the commercials” — fabricators and big banks — have time-and-gain fooled speculators like hedge funds into piling in (both long and short) at exactly the wrong time. 
First, the good news and taking a moment to celebrate the recent unstoppable rally in both gold and silver where, as has been expected, silver is outperforming gold. While we have stayed clear of paper futures from the long side, over the past few years, almost each and every week we have continued our mantra of buying and accumulating the physical metal. It is beginning to pay off, especially for purchases made throughout last year and this one.
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
As 
It looks like something big may happen to the silver market and the Chinese are preparing for it. After China launched it’s new Yuan Gold Fix today, the prices of the precious metals surged. At one point today, silver was up 5%. Silver is now trading at the $17 level, a price not seen in over a year. Even though gold has taken center stage today due to Chinese rolling out there new Yuan Gold fix, 
This article is based on a live webinar which was hosted by 
Almost all of those in the precious metals community are avid consumers of news and statistics pertaining to gold and silver [PMs], such has how many tonnes of gold are being purchased by China, mostly. How much gold does China really own, certainly far more than the “official figures” provided by the Chinese, and certainly far less than that country admits.
Silver prices have surged 5.6% this week, while gold is down 1% in dollar terms, 1.5% in sterling terms but flat in euro terms. Gold appears to be consolidating after the recent gains and the bounce in stocks this week is likely leading to traders taking profits.
If you are used to making visits to your bank to make your credit card payments, you may find this no longer an option in the future. Some banks are no longer accepting (or limiting their acceptance) of cash deposits. The war on cash forges on. Paper money, that is indeed more or less worthless, is slowly being taken out of circulation and being replaced by digital currency forms. This shift presents of course the same fundamental problem as paper money itself: “digital money” is also not backed by gold or other precious metals or any asset representing real value. The whole concept of digitizing our transactions is being marketed as a convenience, a hassle-free payment method and a transparent, easy new way to smoothly run our lives and businesses, without the burden of carrying cash around. 
“It’ll be a race,” he said. “Between us and China. Whoever wins will control the reserve currency of the next 50 to 100 years.”
Officially the Fort Knox Bullion Depository contains 147.3 million ounces of gold. However, the last audit was performed over 60 years ago. According to reliable sources “audits” since then have been incomplete and inadequate. 
There was quite a bit of commentary generated as a result of making public my article, “Five Years That Changed Silver Forever.” This wasn’t particularly surprising, because if my assertions are correct about JPMorgan accumulating a massive quantity of physical silver at prices the bank rigged lower, nothing could be more important to the future price of silver. 
Silver’s
reluctant, sluggish participation in early 2016’s powerful gold
rally has been glaringly obvious. Instead of amplifying the yellow
me
In the face of these threats, can the greenback survive in the long term? Or will they prove to be too great to handle? 
In 1980 Ronald Reagan spoke about the Misery Index. An economist had added the inflation rate to the unemployment rate, called it the Misery Index, and used it to indicate the social costs and economic difficulty for the middle class.
The price of gold ran up 20% since the beginning of 2016 through early March. In response to “overbought” readings in the popular momentum indicators, the superficial gold commentators become short term bearish. Additionally, based on what appeared too be a heavy “off-sides” in the bullion bank net short position vs. the hedge fund net long position in Comex gold futures, per the Commitment of Traders report, the “big price correction” side of the ship deck became heavily mobbed with short-term timing forecasts. 
Up until January, the majority of people assumed that governments and central banks had everything under control. Zero-Interest and Negative-Interest rate policies coupled with unprecedented monetary printing appeared to have stabilized the economy and financial markets. But then something broke. Stock exchanges crashed following the New Year and investors the world over went into panic mode. They sold pretty much everything, including oil and the oft touted Internet 2.0 behemoths that were, in some cases, selling at 500 times their earnings. It was a rush for the exits. 
Global Currencies Madness:
Ask any casual observer of the silver market what happened to the metal over the past five years and you’re likely to hear how the price fell from nearly $50 in April 2011 to under $14 at recent lows – a stunning decline of 70%. If you inquire further, you’ll likely hear a number of reasons for the decline, ranging from an oversupply of the metal, a strengthening dollar, falling inflation rates, and the collapse of the commodities markets.
India has had a long-standing love affair with gold. At Indian weddings, some of the brides get so much gold jewellery that it weighs them down. There are upwards of 15 million weddings every year in India. According to the World Gold Council, upwards of 50% of Indian demand for gold is destined for weddings. Gold is ingrained in the culture and a part of their belief system. Not only is it integral to weddings, gifts of gold are common for anniversaries, birthdays and religious festivals. Gold jewellery is not regarded solely as adornment. It is a store of wealth. At one time it was widely accepted that women could not own anything except for their gold jewellery. That custom still prevails outside the major cities. Gold has spanned centuries and millennia in India. 
Similar to many others, we have been waiting for some sort of correction in gold and gold stocks, but obviously, not much has happened in this respect so far. We have written quite a lot about gold and gold stocks between August 2015 and February 2016, because we felt a good opportunity was at hand – a short term trading opportunity at the very least, but one with the potential to become more than that.
When panic and fear dominate financial markets, gold and silver both tend to rapidly rise in price. We witnessed this during the last financial crisis, and it is starting to happen again. Because I am the publisher of a website called The Economic Collapse Blog, I am often asked about gold and silver when I do interviews. In fact, just a few days ago I was sitting right next to Jim Rickards during the taping of a television show when this topic came up. Jim expressed his belief that investing in gold is superior to investing in silver, but I had the exact opposite viewpoint. In this article, I would like to elaborate on why I believe that silver represents a historic investment opportunity right now. 
One of the people I genuinely enjoy listening to at investment conferences is James Rickards, bestselling author of 
Gold is in a hurry and is unlikely to wait for investors
to acquire it at anywhere near these prices. We could now see a quick move to
$1,400 and if gold doesn’t stay too long at that level, the acceleration is
likely to continue towards the previous high of $1,900.
Let me share a little story, that I think will help illustrate a point. Before Copernicus, people believed that the other planets orbited the Earth. They looked up at the night sky and saw that the outer planets like Jupiter normally moved slowly eastwards in the night sky. But sometimes, they seemed to stop moving and then moved west for a while.
This article notes that the technical situation for the gold price has sharply improved, to the evident surprise of many mainstream analysts. It discusses possible reasons behind the turnaround, and implications for the future.
Canada, bucking an international trend that has seen central banks become net buyers of gold since 2010, has sold off all its official gold holdings. Canada’s official international reserves last released by the Bank of Canada (BofC) on February 23, 2016 showed gold reserves at zero (0). This is unprecedented. Canada now stands as the only G7 nation that does not hold at least 100 tonnes of gold in its official reserves. According to statistics from the World Gold Council (WGC), Canada’s current holdings would now rank it dead last out of 100 central banks, behind Albania at number 99. A footnote says that the BofC still holds 77 ounces of gold, primarily in gold coins. 
Over the last three weeks, U.S. equity markets have recovered and are now more overbought than any time since 2009. While this is the case with equities, it is not the case with high yield debt. As I have said many times before, credit analysts actually look under the hood to discern the real situation and credit at this point is not buying the equity bounce/short squeeze. In fact, high yield credit spreads are rivalling the dark days of 2008. 
The internet is filled with predictions for the price of gold, from $500 to $50,000 per ounce. It depends on your world view.
In last week’s commentary, 
The gold to silver ratio has been used for years to indicate buy and sell zones in both gold and silver. Why?
I am going to keep this piece, short and sweet as I believe the charts below will speak volumes about where we are in these markets and more importantly, where we are heading.
Investors need to realize that at some point, the highly leveraged Comex gold and silver paper trading exchange will no longer matter. Why, because future physical demand will totally overwhelm the paltry Comex precious metal inventories. This is not a question of “IF”, it’s only a question of “WHEN”.
The IMF could not but pay attention to recent actions of the Russian authorities. It turned out that the Bank of Russia became the world's largest buyer of gold among all central banks of the planet as of January 2016. International Monetary Fund experts said that the Bank of Russia acquired 688,000 ounces of gold. 
Government bureaucrats, central bankers, and Wall Street executives all have their own reasons for hating the cash in your wallet. So, no surprise, they are working closely together to rid you of it.
This century experienced a big change in the gold market, something barely anyone noticed. The gold market is about to explode and even the almighty central banks can’t stop this. The transformation that took place is disruptive.
With lithium prices skyrocketing beyond wildest expectations, talk heating up about acquisitions and mergers in this space and a fast-brewing war among electric car rivals, it’s no wonder everyone’s bullish on this golden commodity that promises to become the 
As momentum in the gold market turns bullish, many people wonder what has suddenly happened to change things? The simple answer is nothing. The price of gold is simply being set by politics, as has been the case since at least April 12, 2013.
Time flies. A month ago, 
The fear porn headlines are beginning to flood the alternative media blogs. Everyone is warning about the growing “war on cash” and negative interest rates. Yes, it’s inevitable and all the reasons why Governments prefer a digital currency to cash are obvious. First foremost is that it is the bridesmaid to the Totalitarian creep engulfing our system.
Soaring Ratio
At first glance it’s a strange title for an article. What does Indonesia, China, Gold and the Islamic State or ISIS have to do with one another? That might begin to become clearer when we look more closely at the foreign economic policy actions of the Indonesian government of President Joko Widodo. 
When celebrity investor Mark Cuban announces to the world that he is investing in gold, is that a sign that the ride up is just getting going, or that it has already peaked? 
They know they have an end-game coming- its already begun and these two events were signatures of that. A “commercial signal failure” occurs in commodities futures trading when the open interest in futures contracts exceeds the amount of the underlying commodity that is available to deliver into those contracts should enough entities that are long decide to demand delivery per the terms of the contract. It is a rare event because the futures open interest in most commodities rarely exceeds more than 10-20% of the amount available. 
The exchange rate between the Argentina Peso and the US dollar in January 1945 was 4.17 pesos to one dollar. Like the United States, Argentina created substantial price inflation – devaluation of their currency – in the 1950s – 1990s.
I wouldn’t be surprised if half of the JPM silver “horde” doesn’t exist and that they’ve screwed clients ala Morgan Stanley (the only mega investment bank to have been officially busted in the last 50+ years for not having customer precious metal in allocated and segregated accounts). Ted Butler et al. have this wrong too. It’s not clear how much fraud we’re talking about, but hey, we’re talking JPM. 
We have seen the bottom in the gold market and gold stocks.
As market turmoil continues to push gold and silver prices higher, precious metal investors need to understand the fundamentals more than ever. Unfortunately, there continues to be a lot of misinformation reported by sources in the precious metal community. This is harmful as it confuses would be precious metal investors.
Last Thursday, January 28, there was a flash crash on the price chart for silver. Here is a graph of the price action. 
There is something seriously wrong taking place in the markets today. This is also true in the paper gold and silver markets as well. For a paper precious metals futures market to function properly, there has to be ample supplies of physical metal. However, the ongoing trend of falling precious metal inventories points to big trouble in the paper gold and silver markets.
The low price of silver has finally claimed is first victim. Endeavour Silver announced that it will cut silver production by 25% in 2016. The company has three mines working in Mexico and will produce 7.2 million oz (Moz) of silver in 2015. However, Endeavour plans to shut down production of one of their mines by the end of 2016 and put it on care and maintenance. 
When they’re trading 1.5 billion oz. of silver each day in London, the ‘silver’ fix each day is a complete sham. Now the fix has been found to be openly manipulated, it will be interesting to see what happens with the London silver market. – David Jensen, 
Unexpected news in the platinum market this week. With key consumer Japan saying that its buying surged to a record in 2015.
A reader recently sent me these charts. I do not know who put this collection together to give credit to but I do want to say these charts pretty much tell the WHOLE STORY! Please note each graph has grey shaded areas which identify recessions.
The current melt-down of the world's debt bubble is likely to continue in the course of the next months. The secular trend to expansion of credit has morphed into contraction and liquidation. It is my opinion that the new trend is now established and no action by any of the Central Banks (CB) that issue reserve currencies will do anything at all to reverse that trend.
Gold and silver had a better week, before yesterday afternoon (Thursday), when gold steadied and silver slid 20 cents back below the $14 mark.
As the global stock markets continue to crash, demand for precious metals will continue to increase. Already, the U.S. Mint had to ration Silver Eagles sales due to a shortage of silver blanks. Sales of Silver Eagles in a little more than a week have reached nearly five million oz.
There have been some recent changes on the COMEX in response to the Bankers “War on Cash.” Last year, Chase Bank in the U.S. advised its clients who rent safe deposit boxes there would be some policy changes. Some of these changes had to do with the storage of cash and coins.
I recently had a long and very interesting conversation with John Embry of Sprott Resources. It is always good to speak with him as I consider him one of the five sharpest economic/precious metals minds I know of and certainly value his opinion. John’s name came up a couple of days ago when someone asked “where is all this silver coming from” to meet the outsized physical demand? I said “this is the number one question John Embry and Eric Sprott have been asking for about a year now”. 
Over the past month, there have been at least three separate occasions in which silver rallied sharply in a single day, only to lose most of those gains the next day. On another occasion silver rallied over several days, only to lose its gains in one day. This is highly unusual price behavior, even for silver, the world’s most manipulated market. There are no legitimate supply/demand explanations for this kind of erratic price behavior. It always comes down to who’s tapping who on the COMEX - check that - it always comes down to how the commercials are tapping the technical funds. 
There continues to be a lot of misinformation on the internet, even on the alternative media. So, I thought I set the record straight. Yes, it’s true…. the facts show that the U.S. peaked in silver production a century ago. That’s correct, 100 years ago.
The past few years have been challenging times for most of us in the coin and precious metals business.
When the globalist’s central bankers are in control, primarily the US/UK, they are proving their ability to supersede the natural forces of supply and demand with impunity. When they have the ability to “print” unlimited amounts of fake fiat, no other country can stand in the way, not even China.
As Canada suffers through a currency crisis, one notable result is the tremendous benefits of holding gold. How does this apply to you?
At the lowest price in the last 5 year, gold investing hasn’t been successful. Mainstream media says it’s a barbaric relic. The days as a safe haven are gone. But those analysts are missing one important reason to buy gold: it’s not an investment, it’s an indispensable insurance.
The movie “The Big Short” features Michael Burry. His 
Future Money Trends believes silver could break $50 in 2016 due to three reasons. They put together this short video detailing the reasons why the market could see a breakout in the silver price. Will it happen? That’s a good question.
The silver market is broken and has been broken for a long, long time. Much longer than most people think although many people can finally SEE the problems with the market now as the paper market continues to distort the price of physical silver. It is silver derivatives and computer trading models introduced in the 1970's that really started to distort the market value and it has never been more distorted than it is today. Hundreds of Billions of silver derivative ounces are transacted by the bullion banks every year to steer and control the price of silver. This volume of silver trading dwarfs the tiny physical silver market that only provides a few hundred million ounces of physical silver to the market annually for investors to buy. 