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09.19.20- 3 Reasons Silver Bulls Could Soon Be Handsomely Rewarded
They also say good things come to those who wait. I believe those good things will be coming…in spades. Silver reached just shy of $50 back in April 2011. A decade later, we're still just barely above half that level. But that's all about to change. Read More |
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09.18.20- What’s the Price of Gold? It Depends.
In most cases, the different gold markets are close enough that the minor differences are insignificant. TV news anchors just want to know if the price is in a major trend, up or down (up). Old Uncle Ernie could be reminiscing about the bull market of the 1970s and comparing the price back then to the price today (spoiler: it’s higher today). Read More |
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09.17.20- Americans Face Gut-Wrenching Retirement Decisions
Many of those unfortunate folks have had to turn to other sources of money to make ends meet, such as raiding their 401(k) or IRA accounts. In fact, a recent survey reveals that 30% of respondents have already turned to their retirement plans. Another 19% plan on doing so, but haven't yet. Read More |
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09.16.20- COMEX Delivery Update
As most precious metals investors know, physical "delivery" from the COMEX futures exchange has always been a sort of illusion designed to maintain some semblance of legitimacy for the pricing scheme utilized there. If no metal is ever delivered at the price discovered through derivative trading, then how can that price be considered acceptable?Read More |
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09.15.20- A Powerful Ally to the Fed Just Boosted the Prospects for Inflation
If one believes that central bank policies are a primary driver of gold prices, the yellow metal should have plenty of room to go up even as it sits above its previous all-time high. Besides the Federal Reserve’s openness to inflation, gold should be buoyed by a surge of the euro and the European Central Bank’s (ECB) efforts to contain it.Read More |
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09.14.20- The Next Two Months Could Be Catastrophic In American History
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09.12.20- Gold Price Forecast: The Next Bubble Will Be In Gold
Below are the three ingredients often associated with bubbles. Read More |
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09.11.20- Special Report: 9/11... A Time For Truth
(Editor's Note: In the days leading up to the tenth anniversary of the bringing down of the twin towers in NYC, "the Bear" will feature an article each day which will, hopefully shed some light and bring some insight into the truth of 9/11. I realize that this is a "touchy" subject. I expect to receive many emails from readers whose "comfort zones" have been violated. But now, after ten years, 36% of Americans believe 9/11 was an inside job. In the same poll, only 28% of the people even knew that a third building (building seven) fell. Building seven is the "canary in the coal mine". One cannot watch the collapse of building seven without realizing, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that its collapse was a result of "controlled demolition". The fact that the planning and preparation required to "pull" a skyscraper (or three) takes several months (more if its occupied) and the odds of building seven being brought down on 9/11 without prior knowledge of the planned destruction of the twin towers is preposterous, and it's a fact that has been conveniently overlooked by the bulk of the sheeple. It's one thing to be born stupid. It's an unfortunate result of being genetically challenged. It's another thing, entirely, to be "conveniently stupid" or stupid on purpose (SOP). Being stupid on purpose is a devolutionary act. It is the antithesis of "survival of the fittest". It is an act that merits a Darwin Award and it is the result of being effectively "dumbed down" for generations. It's an affliction that, as a result of the dumbing down, is running rampant in our country today. Until the sheeple wake up, and the perps of the 9/11 attack on America are routed out, and exposed to the light of day, the future of America will remain on extremely shaky ground. Neither you nor your kids will have a happy, secure future so long as you allow madmen to run the world. - JSB) Read More |
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09.10.20- Cheap at $2000 an ounce
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09.09.20- Here Come the Institutional Investors—How This Shift Could Overwhelm the Gold Industry
It blew up my phone. It was after market hours on Friday, August 14 when the news broke that Berkshire Hathaway’s 13F showed it had purchased 20.9 million shares of Barrick Gold. Read More |
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09.08.20- Another Big Month For The Silver Price?
I discussed this in my newest YouTube video update, Another Big Month For The Silver Price? In the video, I explain some of the forces that will impact the silver price in September Read More |
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09.07.20- Gold's Season To Be Jolly...Or Folly?
'Tis Gold's season to be jolly. Or better stated, 'twasGold's season to be jolly, that to expect same today may well be folly.
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09.05.20- Why Silver Is A Better Investment Over Gold… 8 Billion Reasons
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09.04.20- Pension Funds Join the Gold Party - Things Are About to Get Interesting
But with interest rates near zero globally, we’re seeing signs that this is changing rapidly. The latest such news was first brought to our attention by our investor, Gold Bullion International, who services institutions like these: the Ohio Police and Fire Pension fund announced it will allocate 5% of its assets to gold. Read More |
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09.03.20- Fed Dials-Up Inflation Target: Make No Mistake…Higher Gold Prices Are Coming
Make no mistake, higher gold prices are coming. By pulling yet another arrow from its quiver, the Fed’s just helped move us closer that target. The Fed wants inflation, so it’s going to get it. Problem is, we the people, will have to live with it. Read More |
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09.02.20- Investors are pouring record amounts into Wall Street’s new favorite ‘safe haven’
But it's the less lustrous silver that's having a moment. Silver prices have climbed roughly 60% since the start of 2020 and closed at more than $28 per ounce on Monday, with the metal trading at levels not seen in more than seven years. Read More |
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09.01.20- Outlaw Gold Mining? Imperialists And Totalitarians Would Love That
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Because of gold mining’s environmental costs, financial writer JP Koning mused the other day, outlawing it “makes a lot of sense,” at least “in theory.” Read More |
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08.31.20- Silver is the Better Investment: Massive Financial Bubbles Everywhere
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08.29.20- Why A Rally In Gold
Moving past the upcoming Bank of International Settlements options expiry, the stage is set for a rally in the price of gold, explains Andrew Maguire. Why is options expiry important? According to Andrew Maguire, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) are aggressively weighing on gold ahead of the upcoming BIS options expiry. Read More |
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08.28.20- Look for Platinum to Rally
Platinum may be setting up in a technical pattern that is similar to the end of 2001/early 2002. At that time, Gold had already begun to rally above $340 and Platinum had rallied to levels above $600. Read More |
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08.27.20- The Silver Market Is Manipulated
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08.26.20- This Analyst Says Gold’s Pullback is Proof that Higher Prices Are to Come
Standard Chartered: Gold has more to show this year despite hitting a new all-time high Read More |
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08,25,20- The Silver and Gold Dam Breaketh
Gold rocketed without pause to $2,070. Silver, though still well below record nominal dollar highs, sliced through $26, which was supposed to be a lid on prices until next year. A litany of "price pullers" we've long discussed in our essays – government deficit spending, lagging metals' production vs. exploding demand, and an almost complete absence of big discoveries have all played a part. Read More |
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08.24.20- Gold Debate:
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08.22.20- Why Martians Are Wrong About Gold
That is, the business is idiotic… pointless… and wasteful. At first blush, our space man is justly puzzled. Why would humans shovel up hunks of metal — only to lock them away, idle? Yet the martian — and the Nebraskan — jump past a fundamental truth of human nature. Read More |
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08.21.20- The Covid-19 Scare And Gold: A Bargain At These Prices To Protect Against The Destruction Of The Currencies And The Financial System
Is Covid the most perfect distraction that could have hit the world? The timing couldn’t have been more perfect for the European and American economies. We know that there were major problems in the financial system back in August-September 2019 when both the ECB and the Fed declared that they would do what it takes. And since then we have seen massive injections of liquidity in the form of QE and Repos. Read More |
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08.20.20- $10,000 Gold - Or A Triple Top?
GOLD IS NOT AN INVESTMENT Gold, itself, is not an investment. Gold is real money and the original measure of value for everything else. Read More |
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08.18.20- Gold, Silver And Mining Stocks Smell The Demise Of The Dollar
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08.18.20- Silver Price Rockets To Multi-Year Highs, Targets $169
After nearly 7 years of consolidation and mostly sideways trading, the silver price is finally experiencing a powerful breakout. It did not take long after breaking above the psychologically-important $20 level for silver to climb another nearly 50% toward $30 per ounce. Read More |
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08.17.20- Gold’s Pullback May Be Expected “Breather” Before Next Push Higher
After a meteoric rise over the past few months, this pullback was not only expected, but may be the beginning of an opportunity to “buy the dip.” In fact, this pullback could represent the last time you see gold below $2,000. Read More |
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08.15.20- Did Buffett Just Bet Against The US? Berkshire Buys Barrick Gold, Dumps Goldman
Berkshire Hathaway's latest 13F just dropped and contained inside is a signal that none other than the Oracle Of Omaha appears to now be quietly betting against The United States. Why? Because for years - in fact for as long we can remember - Warren Buffet has denigrated gold: In a speech delivered at Harvard in 1998, Buffett said: Read More |
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08.14.20- This Is NOT 2011!
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08.13.20- Silver Purchasing Power or Perverse Incentives?
So we wrote yet another article, showing that the fundamentals are keeping up, even though the price was rising (the hallmark of the last decade has been that rising abundance occurs with rising price—price brings more metal out of private hoards). Read More |
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08.12.20- Junior Gold Miners Are Going Vertical
We’re all speculators now. The difference is that some of us know it. If you have the courage, in this short essay, I’ll show you how to play to win. Last week, gold hit a new all-time high of $2,070 an ounce. This explosive move higher caught a lot of folks in the mainstream media off guard. But it shouldn’t come as a surprise to longtime Dispatch readers. Read More |
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08.11.20- Gold To Surpass $3,000: VanEck
The price could easily rally by 70% to $3,400 a troy ounce compared to recent prices of $1,994. Gold tends to perform well during times of economic uncertainty including when inflation jumps and when there is deflation, or a general fall in the price level of goods or services. Read More |
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08.10.20- Don’t Forget the Silver Users
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08.08.20- The Dawn of Gold
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08.07.20- The Nightmare Scenario For The World
Many found this statement puzzling as another Goldman department previously has told clients not to sell anything gold. The CIO went on to say: “Our view is that gold is only appropriate if you have a very strong view that the US dollar is going to be rebased. We don’t have that view.” Read More |
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08.06.20- The Dollar’s Ongoing Fall From Grace Will Soon Catapult Precious Metals to Even Greater Heights
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08.05.20- WE HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHING YET: The Coming Tiny Silver Market Explosion
Unfortunately, the glitz, glamor, and allure of Technology will only last as long as the world is capable of supplying lots of cheap and available oil. Technology doesn’t really solve problems; it just consumes one hell of a lot more energy with the illusion of a FIX. Tesla isn’t solving our problem with fossil fuel addiction. Read More |
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08.04.20- Gold Price Taps $2000
Gold's having tapped Two Thousand is price's most major milestone in history. 'Tis as well a major milestone for The Gold Update. Recall this brief commitment from our 200th Edition as penned a-way back on 14 September 2013: Read More |
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08.03.20- GOLD: The Absolutely Essential Investment In A Warped System With Fake Money, False Markets
The global financial system has for half a century undergone an act of contortion that few believed was possible. This has led to a warped system with fake money and false markets. Read More |
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08.01.20- Gold Prices See Best Month In 8 Years
Spot gold rose 11% for the month of July, heading for its biggest monthly gain in over eight years, driven by a declining US dollar and real yields. By 11:15 a.m. EDT, the spot price was up 1.0% to $1,974.40 per ounce, near an all-time high. Read Mor |
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07.31.20- “Dollar Debasement” Driving Gold’s Record Rise, Says Goldman Sachs
Back in 2002, the U.S. dollar index (DXY) peaked at 118.85, before crashing over the next 6 years to 72.23 in 2008. It struggled to regain any semblance of its former dominance until March of 2015. Read More |
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08.30.20- Is This “Peak Gold”?
You have to wonder: Who are these forecasters? Where have they been? Do they have any idea what is going on? Gold has its nose in the air. Like a deer in a dry forest, it smells the smoke. It knows it’s time to get out of town. Read More |
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07.29.20- Gold Price Forecast:
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07.28.20- Forget $1,911 – Gold Soars Towards $2,000 (And Silver Climbs Even Faster)
Forget $1,911, as $2,000 seems to be the next target for gold Analysts who were hesitant to commit to an overly bullish forecast for gold a week or two ago might have been taken aback as gold has smashed through its prior record, set in 2011. Read More |
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07.27.20- Big Change in Silver: New Bull Market
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07.25.20- Gold Versus The Financial System's "Hubristic Swindle"
Hubris is a serious sin that seldom goes unpunished. The arrogance and uber-confidence which TPTB (the powers that be) have displayed in leading the world to ruin will clearly be severely punished. But sadly the punishment will affect the whole world and not just the Elite that caused it. Read More |
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07.24.20- The Nature of Money
One of the most important aspects of your financial survival concerns your understanding of the nature of money. If you believe that precious metals do not constitute "money", you may have been misled. If you have been misled, who misled you? Why? And "What's wrong with this picture"? Read More |
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07.23.20- About That Silver Price Spike…Was It The Buying Of Physical Metal
The price of silver has just spiked up about $2.00—that’s about 10%. All the usual suspects have been calling for silver to skyrocket. With some amusement, we have been watching ads from a guy known for savvy junior mining stock investments, who has been calling for gold to go up for a while. And recently, silver. Read More |
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07.22.20- No Surprise: SILVER Is One Of THE BEST PERFORMING Assets In World
Sovereign Man is a little over 11 years old. And when we started this business, silver was worth $13 per ounce at the time. My philosophy then, just like today, is that precious metals hold their value over the long-term. Read More |
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07.21.20- Silver Demand Exploding!
While silver prices are fairly-widely followed, the data revealing the underlying fundamentals driving this metal is sparse. The best silver global supply-and-demand data is only published once a year by the venerable Silver Institute in its World Silver Surveys. Read More |
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07.20.20- Will China Clean Up the Criminal Gold Futures Markets?
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07.18.20- Summertime Sizzle for Gold and Silver
In early July, gold and silver each broke out to fresh multi-year highs. The yellow metal is within striking distance of new all-time highs and the headline worthy figure of $2,000/oz. The white metal, meanwhile, has a lot of catching up to do. And as it does, the gains in percentage terms could be explosive. Silver has already packed on 60% since its March panic-selling low. Importantly, it has shown leadership by narrowing its ,historically large discount to the gold price. Read More |
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07.17.20- Shocking Data: If You Listen to One Silver Interview in 2020, It Shuld Be This One
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07.16.20- Will Silver Reach $21
Now that the silver price has broken through the important $18.50 level, will it reach $21 during this current rally? Silver was up 70 cents for the day (Monday). However, after Dallas, Fed President Kaplan announced today that the “Emergency Facilities” used to support the economy might be pulled back, the markets sold off from their highs. Read More |
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07.15.20- The One Thing that Can (Temporarily) Derail Gold’s Bull Market
That’s the case now with gold as it approaches its all-time U.S. dollar high. So let’s consider what might derail the metal’s latest – and potentially greatest – bull market. Read More |
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07.14.20- Analysts Agree: Gold to Leave Stocks
Unlike stocks, gold has every reason to continue rising According to various analysts and experts, gold is the safest long bet one can make right now. This notion is supported by the metal having climbed alongside stocks even prior to the pandemic, showing that investors had plenty of questions about the long-running and overblown equity market. Read More |
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07.13.20- The Silver Pressure Cooker
It’s quite different in silver, since prices are barely changed on a year-to-date basis and current prices are still close to 65% below the highs registered, both 40 years ago and again 9 years ago. Nothing could demonstrate the malfunctioning of silver’s price relief valve relative to gold than the recent 5000 year undervaluation of silver to gold. Read More |
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07.11.20- Silver's Silver Lining:
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07.10.20- The new deal is a bad old deal
When the scale of the banking crisis is known the scale of monetary inflation involved will become more obvious. But in the politics of it, Trump is being set up as the equivalent of Herbert Hoover, and presumably Joe Biden, if he is well advised, will soon campaign as a latter-day Roosevelt. In Britain, Boris Johnson has already called for a modern “new deal”, and in his “Hundred Days” his Chancellor is delivering it. Read More |
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07.09.20- A potential crisis in Comex gold
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07.08.20- How to Squash this Stealthy Attack On Your Wealth
What is money? The whole point of money is suppose to be the provision of a convenient and liquid medium that can be exchanged for less liquid value. It is a go between. One strives to accumulate money so it can be exchanged for something else. Read More |
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07.07.20- We Are In Never Neverland
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07.06.20- What Went Wrong In 1971
The last remnants of the gold standard were abandoned in August 1971, when President of the United States Richard Nixon decided to close the gold window (foreigners couldn’t redeem dollars for gold at the Treasury anymore). From 1945 until 1971, the U.S. dollar was backed by gold, and served as the world reserve currency under a system called Bretton Woods. Read More |
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07.04.20- Market Update: Gold Hits $1800 –
Gold just had one of its best-performing quarters ever As we committed to last week, this week’s video focuses on the precious metals and the exceptional performance gold is exhibiting right now after many years of disappointing returns. Year-to-Date, it’s hard to find an asset class that has performed better than gold and gold mining stocks: Read More |
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07.03.20- World’s Two Largest Silver Producers Mine Supply Cut Drastically In April
According to Mexico’s INEGI, silver output in April fell to 301 metric tons (mt) compared to 500 mt in March. This turned out to be a 40% decline, less than my forecast of 60-70% loss in production. Read More |
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07.01.20- The
Patriotic and Moral Imperative for Owning Gold and Silver
Remember when you learned those words? It was back when everything was simple. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, the circulation manager of the Boston based "The Youth's Companion" magazine. The end of the Nineteenth Century was a much simpler time. The world was a much simpler place. It is not so simple anymore. When we recite those seemingly patriotic words, what are we really pledging our allegiance to? To the flag? To the United States? To the Republic for which it stands? Read More |
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06.30.20- Outlook for Gold “Hasn’t Looked This Good in a While”, Says Bank of America Strategist
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06.29.20- Stagflation Is Paradise
The creators of Medicare, Social Security, and other long-term spending programs had a handle on demographics – or at least on the political realities of the time – so they structured those programs to initially take in more money than they needed in order to build up “trust funds” to cover the eventual retirement of the massive Baby Boomer generation. Read More |
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06.27.20- A Can Too Big For
There are lies, damned lies, and economists. Whether these economists work for the government or a bank, they spend all their time on the computer extrapolating current trends with minor adjustments. If you want to understand the future, don’t spend your life preparing and constantly revising an Excel sheet with masses of economic data. Collective human behaviour is extremely predictable. But not by spreadsheet analysis but by studying history. Read More |
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06.26.20- The Final Chapter
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06.25.20- Silver is the Better Bargain Right Now
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06.24.20- The Money Printing Road To Perdition
The chart above plots the NY Fed’s weekly index of economic activity (red line) vs. the Bloomberg U.S. financial conditions index, which attempts to measure the relative strength of the bond, equity and money markets (white line). With the amount of money the Fed has injected into the financial system, it’s no surprise that the financial conditions index is soaring. However, as I’ve suggested in recent issues, this money is having little, if any, effect on real economic activity. Read More |
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06.23.20- Peru Silver Mine Supply
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06.22.20- History of world currencies vs gold
The British Pound lost 99.63% and the US dollar 98.64%. Even worse, for the Japanese Yen and the French Franc. The German currency lost its value completely twice and is about to go for a third time ! The German Mark called the Goldmark (backed by gold) was introduced in 1873. With the outbreak of World War I, the Mark was taken off the gold standard and became the Papiermark and briefly the Rentenmark in 1923. Read More |
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06.20.20- Fact, Fiction And Fraud At The Comex
The alleged gold flow into the Comex and amount of gold for which contract longs are taking “delivery” is at a historical extreme. I use “delivery” because “taking delivery” means being assigned an electronic warrant that records ownership transfer of a Comex registered bar presumably (but not guaranteed) to be sitting in a Comex-approved vault. It does not mean that the party taking delivery takes possession of a physical bar. Read More |
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06.19.20- Major Investment Factor: 5 Billion Ounces Of Silver Mine Supply
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06.18.20- Metals Nearing Critical Momentum for New Paraboic Rally
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06.17.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The System Is Rigged: Qualified Immunity Is How the Police State Stays in Power
The system is rigged, the government is corrupt, and “we the people” continue to waste our strength by fighting each other rather than standing against the tyrant in our midst. Because the system is rigged, because the government is corrupt, and because “we the people” remain polarized and divided, the police state will keep winning and “we the people” will keep losing. Read More |
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06.16.20- Bullion Bank Retreat Puts Floor Under Silver And Gold Prices
The bullion banks – notorious for their concentrated short positions – might have made a killing. But that isn’t what happened. Some of the most prominent players took massive losses instead. Read More |
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06.15.20- Rare Earths Show Signs of
These opportunities are perfectly suited for the average investor, because they’re cheap enough to put your money in… they’re often overlooked by Wall Street… and they are so small that it could take just a little good news to send them soaring. Read More |
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06.13.20- The Potential Looming Catalyst for Silver No One Sees Coming
But there’s another potential catalyst that is so immense, so market-altering, that it would overwhelm the silver market and profoundly change its structure for a generation or more. Not just something that would send the price soaring, but reshape the supply/demand balance and even change the way people view it. Read More |
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06.12.20- Falling Supply & Surging Physical Investment, We Could See Some
As I have stated over-and-over again, the coming ENERGY CLIFF is going to change the world as we know it. Read More |
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06.11.20- Cyberfraud Lawsuit Reveals Dangerous Threat to IRAs, 401(k)s
Data breaches, compromised email accounts, ransomware, and phishing are a few of the many ways you could have part or all of your retirement disappear in the blink of an eye. According to the FBI, "Internet crime schemes steal millions of dollars each year from victims and continue to plague the Internet through various methods." Read More |
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06.10.20- Chaotic Price Swings Will Be Engineered To Shake Off Gold Investors
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: A European friend well known to us who prefers not to fall under even more surveillance in his own country sends the observations below, for which your secretary/treasurer will take the responsibility of sharing with you. Read More |
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06.09.20- The “Great Unlock” Does Not Change
The return to normal might seem rapid, but the economic rebound could be anything but Read More |
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06.08.20- Silver Will Explode and Fake Money Collapse Like in Third Century
Deficits, debts, excessive military spending, debasement of currency, breakdown of trade, plague, revolts, wars, and hyperinflation. This is exactly what happened in the Crisis of the 3rdcentury and right now the world is facing the same disasters. Read More |
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06.06.20- You May Never See “Normal” Again
Other than that, everything’s fine. People often ask me when things will “get back to normal.” Well, the answer could be never (or at least not for a long time). Germany was not “normal” from 1914–54, for example. Social disorder is like a virus; it goes away eventually but not necessarily soon. Read More |
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06.05.20- Why Gold?
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06.04.20- Return to gold standard
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06.03.20- Maxime Bernier Becomes First Major Western Political Leader to Call for a Gold Standard
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06.02.20- Does Enough Physical Silver Exist In The World To Make Delivery Plausible To Close Out The Big COMEX Short Positions?
One wants to be careful about seeing things as previously predicted, but not so careful so as to not recognize when things seem to be playing out exactly as expected. Recent news stories and events seem to be in accord with a number of my central themes, but I’ll present the case as I see it and let you decide. Read More |
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06.01.20- Silver scores biggest monthly gain in 9 years as U.S.-China tensions boost gold prices
Silver futures on Friday posted a gain of nearly 24% for the month, the largest since 2011, with the industrial metal finding support as global economies continue to reopen from pandemic-related shutdowns. Gold futures, meanwhile, rose for Friday’s session buoyed by U.S.-China tensions and global monetary stimulus measures. Read More |
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05.30.20- The Next Silver Rally will Dwarf the Gold Rally
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05.29.20- US Gold Confiscation Would Be Folly
So the first question we must ask is: Why would governments punish prudent savers who have taken protection in gold against the mismanagement of the economy and the currency? Read More |
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05.28.20- How Would Gold Perform In a Second Stock Market Crash?
In the biggest stock bear markets over the past nine decades, there was an initial crash… followed by a big bounce… and then a more severe selloff, a “second leg down” if you will. Could it happen again? As Mark Twain said, “history doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” Read More |
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05.27.20- Why The Gold/Silver Ratio Is A Useful Indicator
Both points are factually defensible, sort of. But they’re also irrelevant. The real reason the gold/silver ratio has tended to fluctuate within a broad but well-defined range is that humans have a vivid visual imagination. Here’s how it works: Read More |
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05.26.20- Australian Perth Mint Silver & Gold Bullion Sales Surge In April
The Perth Mint gold bullion bar and coin sales reached 120,504 troy ounces in April, while silver bullion sales were 2.1 million oz. Thus, the Perth Mint sold 17 times more silver bullion than gold last month. Figures in the chart below are shown in troy oz Read More |
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05.25.20- California Just Put Washington in this Economic “Catch-22”
The problem is, the government may not be able to help this time. In response to a bloated state budget and a massive debt of over $550 billion, Newsmax reports that California Governor Gavin Newsom is looking for a bailout from the federal government:Read More |
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05.23.20- U.S. Mint Gold Coin Sales Already Double vs. 2019: Best BUY PRICES
Interestingly, sales for precious metals bullion retail products, according to Dan at Cloud Hard Assets, are running about 60% for gold and 40% for silver (total value, not ounces). Investors would be buying more silver, but due to the backlog and shortage of retail silver bullion products, individuals are being forced to buy more gold.Read More |
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05.22.20- Gold Prices Could Hit a Record High by Year End. Just Don’t Expect an Easy Ride.
U.S. gold prices are likely to gradually increase over time, says Darwei Kung, portfolio manager and head of commodities at asset management firm DWS Group. Read More |
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05.21.20- Silver Soars & Posts Big Gains
Blow-offs in the gold/silver ratio are rare and nearly always game-changing. While the past is not a perfect predictor of the future, we view the blow-off happening now as a powerful signal that silver is shifting into higher gear as it rallies to catch up with gold. This fundamental change in the relationship between these two metals could last for years. Read More |
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05.20.20- Two Months Of New Currency In Circulation Could Buy A Stunning Amount
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05.19.20- Here’s 5 Reasons Why Gold Miners Have Massive Outperformance in the Tank
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05.18.20- Silver price to outperform gold in Q2
Silver prices are off to a solid rally after being left out of the gold price party in Q1. Spot silver has been even outperforming spot gold this month, up 6.7% since the beginning of the month while spot gold is up only 2.5%. “We continue to favor silver over gold in the near term for at least three reasons. First, the silver price is relatively cheaper than the gold price judging by historical standards. Second, its positioning is cleaner (i.e., less crowded) than gold. Third, the re-opening of the economy could result in a rebound in industrial activity and therefore, a pick-up in silver consumption considering that 50% of annual silver supply is consumed by the industrial sector,” Orchid Research summarized in an Alpha Post on Wednesday. Read More |
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05.16.20- Silver Markets Break Major Barriers
Silver markets have broken higher during the trading session on Friday, slicing through a couple of major resistance barriers at this point, the market slicing through the $16 level during the day on Thursday, and then the 200 day EMA after that. Ultimately, the market looks as if it is going to make a serious attempt at $17, which is an area that has been the scene of major selling previously. At this point in time, the market will have a bit of a fight above, but with the movement that we have seen its rather easy to see that buyers will return on dips, with the $16 level being a very interesting area for buyers to come and pick up value. Read More |
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05.15.20- TIGHTNESS CONTINUES IN RETAIL SILVER MARKET: Best Gold-Silver Eagle Buy Prices Update
I continue to check the U.S. Mint website, but there still hasn’t been any update for Silver Eagle sales for May. While the U.S. Mint sold 7,000 oz of Gold Eagles in May so far, it shows no figure for Silver Eagles. The large online dealers are still struggling to obtain supplies of silver bullion products with the availability pushed back 2-4 weeks or longer. Read More |
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05.14.20- Dow-to-Gold Ratio Signals
Tom’s one of the brightest analysts in the financial world – and when he discovers a money-making opportunity, he goes “all in.” Regular readers know we’re big on gold – but Tom took it a step further. Two years ago, he put nearly all his money into the precious metal. And below, he shares how he bet thousands of dollars on bitcoin in 2011… just before it took off. Read More |
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05.13.20- Gold Sets Its Sights on $1,800
Analyst: Gold could be heading above $1,800 next Gold has been trading steadily around the $1,700 level as various uncertainties grip the global market. According to UBS Investment Bank’s precious metal strategist Joni Teves, the metal has a short-term target of $1,790 with an upside above $1,800 after that. Read More |
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05.12.20- The Changing Value of Money
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05.11.20- Silver Coin Premiums Soar: Signal "Alt-Money" Demand As Re-Opening Recovery Hype Fades
The question is always, which of these demand/supply attributes is more prevalent at any one time. Read More |
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05.09.20- $3K To $20K Gold Coming? These Pundits (Now 34) Think So!
Here are the most current (i.e. within the last year) forecasts for the price of gold: Read More |
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05.08.20- Junior Gold Miners Ready To Run
Gold, the bell-weather safe-haven asset, initially collapsed when the US stock market started the massive selloff in late February 2020, then recovered to higher price levels near $1785 recently. Since reaching these levels, Gold has stalled into a sideways price flag near major resistance. Read More |
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05.07.20- How to Know the Perfect Time
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05.06.20- Silver to Go to $150 and Beyond!
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05.05.20- Gold: $6,600, $20,000
I like to read. I read fast and that helps. I can’t quite come to grips with all these guys now coming out with 25-minute videos they insist we watch instead of reading. Do they really believe that everyone has so much free time that they can pay attention to someone chattering away for 25 minutes? Read More |
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05.04.20- Silver Is Due For An EPIC Mean Reversion Relative To Gold
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05.02.20- Gold's Got Your Back
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05.01.20- Silver hasn’t been this cheap in 5,000 years of human history
Kanesh was located in the dead center of modern day Turkey, so it was perfectly situated on the route between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and between Europe and Asia Minor. As a result, Kanesh became a popular trading post. And merchants, scribes, and moneylenders from all over the Assyrian Empire traveled there to profit from the boom in copper, tin, and textiles. Read More |
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04.30.20- GOLD EAGLE SALES SURGE: Update On Best Buy Silver-Gold Eagle Prices
Even with the temporary shut-down of the U.S. Mint in April, another 101,500 oz of Gold Eagles were sold during the month. Thus, total Gold Eagle sales of 320,000 oz for 2020 is more than double the 151,000 oz sold during full-year 2019: Read More |
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04.29.20- Crooks and Criminals – Gold and Silver SUPRESSION – Upside Imminent
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04.28.20- Why We Rush to Gold in Times of Crisis
The reason we rush to gold whenever crises hit For the gold market, the coronavirus crisis brought about another instance of familiar price action. Barring the initial rush to liquidity, people around the world were quick to search for a safe haven to pile into and quickly found gold to be the ideal choice. This, in turn, pushed the metal’s price to seven-year highs, as it has traded above $1,700 for two consecutive weeks. Read More |
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04.27.20- And Now, for Somrthing Entirely Different: Throttle Up
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04.25.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Pandemic And Economic Collapse:
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04.24.20- America finally found the
Ordaz thought he was about to hit the jackpot. And he wasted no time ordering expeditions of the area to find this city– what eventually became known as El Dorado. The mission failed, and most of Ordaz’s men died. But one survivor, a crewman named Juan Martinez, claimed that he had been captured and held prisoner for 10 years in El Dorado. Read More |
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04.23.20- The U.S. Government Spent Fort Knox Gold—Hundreds of Times
That gold gradually disappeared until President Nixon refused to exchange dollars for gold in 1971. Officially in 2020, 147,000,000 ounces of gold remain inside those locked vaults. Read More |
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04.22.20- Is the Extreme High in the Gold/Silver Ratio Setting Up For an Extreme Reversal?
It may not have been expected by many investors, but the gold/silver ratio (gold price divided by the silver price) has stretched to never-before-seen levels. It’s soared to not just a generational high, but a historic high. As in 5,000 years of history. Read More |
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04.21.20- Crouching Silver, Hidden Oil
One does not need to look to the gold-silver ratio, which is currently off the charts, to see that the world has gone mad. Silver, it has long been understood, has both industrial as well as monetary demand. With the plunge in economic activity of all kinds due to the response to the coronavirus, the industrial component of silver demand is drastically reduced. Read More |
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04.20.20- The Fed Just Put Gold
This is thanks to the “extensive new measures” that Chairman Jerome Powell decided to deploy, as a monetary moon shot intended to avoid severe economic disruptions. But is this what the economy really needs? And is the Fed fueling a recovery or complete economic disaster? Let’s briefly examine these questions. Read More |
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04.18.20- Silver and COVID-19,
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04.17.20- AI Fibonacci Modeling Predicts
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04.16.20- Loading Up on Silver:
You can shout from the rooftops, but this won’t change the REALITY we live in one bit. Read More |
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04.15.20- Why the price of silver could skyrocket
By that time, gold and silver had already been in use by earlier civilizations for thousands of years. There are cuneiform tablets that are nearly 4,000 years old from ancient Sumeria which record commercial transactions made in gold and silver. Read More |
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04.14.20- The Fed Must Embrace Inflation, So You Must Embrace Gold, Says CIO
As the Fed responds to the crisis with inflation, investors should return with gold Read More |
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04.13.20- Strange Things Are Happening
There truly are strange things occurring in gold and silver, things I not only have never observed previously, but also nearly impossible to explain in rational terms. The two main things most strange are the extremely wide discounts of spot gold and silver to the most active COMEX futures months and the sudden large inflow of physical gold deposited in the COMEX gold warehouses. There is little question in my mind that the two strange occurrences are very much related, although it has taken me a bit of time to come up with an explanation. Read More |
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04.11.20- Gold Soars as the Fed Goes Full MMonTy
And this is why now, more than ever, you should be asking yourself one simple question over and over again: “Do I have enough gold?” Read More |
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04.10.20- Global Stimulus on Steroids Means Higher Gold and Silver Prices
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04.09.20- It Likely Came From
All we can do is wait and hope for the best. Meanwhile, gold topped $1,700 per ounce today. That’s nice for gold, but it’s better understood as an early warning of declining confidence in the dollar. Read More |
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04.08.20- Silver Eagle Update: Premiums Range Between $6.50-$10.00+ Based On The Dealer
Today, the silver price shot up over $15.00, and gold surpassed $1,700, while the Dow Jones Index surged by 1,600 points. It seems as if the market now believes the WORST HAS PASSED in regards to the global contagion. While the “WARM FUZZY” today motivated investors to push the broader markets higher by more than 8% today, the fundamentals continue to deteriorate. Read More |
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04.07.20- Precious Metals are About to Reset Like in 2008 - Gold Bugs, Buckle Up!
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04.06.20- The Comex Does Not Trade Gold
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04.04.20- Silver and Sanity
Prices for silver rise as currency units are devalued. Silver sold for $1.29 in the 1960s. Today’s COMEX price is around $16.00 because dollars buy less. Prices for physical silver are much higher. The continual devaluation benefits the political and financial elite who own most paper assets – stocks and bonds. The bottom 90% pay higher prices for necessities plus interest on their debts. Savings in silver coins will offset devaluation and loss of purchasing power. Read More |
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04.03.20- Silver Shock Update: A New and Major Threat to Supply
That decline has just sped up. In a big way. As you might know, a plethora of mining companies around the world have announced they suspended part or all of their operations. It’s probably worse than we know, as I suspect other miners have curtailed activities even if they haven’t announced it. Read More |
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04.02.20- Silver Investing During The Coming Financial Storm
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04.01.20- The ‘Out’ Has Not Yet Begun To ‘Fall’
So, the stock market has dropped. Every government in the world has responded to the coronavirus with drastic, if not unprecedented, violations of the rights of the people. Not to mention, extremely aggressive monetary policy. And, they are about to unleash massive fiscal stimulus as well (for example, the United States government is about to dole out over $2 trillion worth of loot). The question is what will be the consequences? Read More |
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03.31.20- Supply of Gold Craters
While many countries have experienced some form of shutdown in response to the pandemic, Switzerland’s case is shaping up to be the most impactful to the gold market. When it comes to gold processing and storage, Switzerland is a pivotal countries in the world. Read More |
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03.30.20- Gold and Silver Break Free From Their Paper Chains
Last week I wrote “Paper Prices Dump, but Premiums for the Physical Metals Soar on Heavy Demand”. My sincere thanks to the many Twitter followers who alerted me to this phenomenon around the world almost two weeks ago now, in which prices for physical Gold and Silver were soaring and inventories were fast running out. Despite encroaching censorship, Twitter still remains an important tool for sharing valuable information. Since then, Silver prices reached a peak of around $35 CAD and ~$25 USD, but that was as of last Friday. It is now almost impossible to know what the real price is, because inventories have disappeared. It could be much, much higher now. We just don’t know. Read More |
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03.28.20- Swiss Gold Refiners Cease Production - End of Paper Market
Three of the world’s largest refiners – Argor, Valcambi and PAMP are based in Ticino. We are likely to see major pressure on the gold and silver paper market. More later in this article. Read More |
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03.27.20- Gold Price Forecast 2020: The Shift Towards Precious Metals Has Begun
Investment Themes Every decade has a distinct investment theme. One asset class rises to the top and outperforms everything else. Read More |
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03.26.20- The Time of the Vulture
Every so often, however, there comes a time when neither the hare nor the tortoise is the victor. This is when both the bear and the bull have been vanquished, when the pastures upon which the bull once grazed are long gone and the bear's lair itself lies buried deep beneath the rubble of economic collapse. This is the time of the vulture. – DRS, 1991 Read More |
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03.25.20- Gold Price Tells Us Nothing About Gold
People are obsessed with the price of gold. That is not surprising, given that most people likely view gold as an investment opportunity. "How much can I make and how quickly?" What really plagues gold investors and others is the question "Why didn't gold respond the way we expected?" Read More |
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03.24.20- Buy Gold and Silver While You Still Can, Warns Analyst
Jim Rickards: Get gold and silver now instead of waiting for things to get worse Read More |
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03.23.20- Corona, Exter’s Inverse Pyramid and the Coming Gold Spike
In my previous article “Coronavirus to Boost Gold Price” from March 5, I wrote, “Although I think gold has a lot more upside, it can be a bumpy road.” Since then, the US stock market has declined by about 21%, and gold took a beating too, having lost 10%. Many people question why gold is down, at the same time when stock markets are dropping at the fastest pace in history. In this article, I will set out my view on the developments that cause downward pressure on gold and what will happen going forward. Read More |
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03.21.20- This Is Why You Should Own High-Quality Gold Miners
Is there anyone left out there with good year-ahead business prospects? Why yes there is: High-quality gold miners have been accumulating reserves that made sense when gold was considerably lower. Now they’re producing at a profit and have free cash flow to distribute to shareholders. Assuming the gold price stays more-or-less at current levels, these companies will be almost unique in reporting positive year-over-year comparisons in 2020. Read More |
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03.20.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Is The Panic Worse Than The Virus?
With respect to the stock market, the modus operandi of the last 11 years is being stood on its head. Rather than ‘buy the dip.’ The new divine mantra is ‘sell the rip.’ Here’s why… Read More |
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03.19.20- It Is All Being Exposed…Now!
All of a sudden and immediately after the Fed and Treasury announced over $4 trillion in various stimulus and aid …interest rates on Treasuries are rising.For example, rates on the 10yr Tsy collapsed to .34% a week ago Monday.Now, after 150 basis points in cuts, the 10yr is trading over 1.1% just 7 trading days later! Read More |
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03.18.20-Is This the End of Gold or the End of Gold Market Rigging?
Surely there was some of that, but suspicion also must fall on governments and central banks seeking, as they long have done in times of crisis, to bolt the exits from the financial system, which they control. This suspicion must be especially strong because of what GATA disclosed last week — the refusal of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to answer a member of Congress as to whether the commission has jurisdiction over manipulative futures trading conducted by or for the U.S. government and whether the commission is aware of such trading: Read More |
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03.17.20- Masking The Drop In Open Interest
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03.16.20- Feeling Adventurous? Consider Silver
To understand why, lets start with the gold/silver ratio. The relationship between the prices of these two monetary metals tends to fluctuate within a wide band running from 20 to 90. A high reading implies that fear is the dominant emotion in the market, sending money toward the safest safe haven, which is gold, and away from silver, which is more volatile and therefore riskier. Read More |
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03.14.20- Move Over Coronavirus; Is This “Repo-Virus” the True Culprit of the Crash?
But there is another entity that could cause even more panic in the markets than a virus, and that’s the Federal Reserve. In fact, the Fed has already been creating uncertainty in the markets since last September. Back then, a sudden 10% jump in repo market borrowing costs caused panic and liquidity problems. The Fed reacted by injecting billions in cash in attempts to restore sanity (and liquidity). Read More |
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03.13.20- SALES EXPLODE: U.S. Mint Sells Another Million Silver Eagles Past Two Days
This brings to total Silver Eagle sales in March at 2.3 million, more than three times the previous month. On my last update, the U.S. Mint sold a total of 1,345,000 Silver Eagles as of March 9th Read More |
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03.12.20- Silver – Left Behind Today, But Not Tomorrow
The coronavirus is blamed for weak global demand and damaged supply chains. The Fed is worried; they lowered interest rates by half a point. But central banking is part of the problem. Central banks created bubbles, and those bubbles crashed in 2000, 2008, and 2020. Read More |
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03.11.20- Gold is Immune to the Coronavirus, Says Goldman
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03.10.20- Why are Gold & Silver Crashing?
Gold is down over 3% today as we write. Silver is down over 6%. The gold/silver ratio has soared to 95, its highest level since March 1991. Why is this happening? Aren’t gold and silver crisis hedges? One of the biggest reasons has to do directly with the stock market. It’s the same reason gold and silver crashed in October 2008. Read More |
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03.09.20- Gold steadily climbs back closer to multi-year tops on coronavirus jitters
Gold gained some traction on Friday and has now moved well within the striking distance of multi-year tops set on February 24. Read More |
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03.07.20- "The Market Slump Is Just Beginning" -
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03.06.20- Silver Backwardation Returns, Gold and Silver Market Report 2 March
Of course, when the price drops the injured goldbugs come out. We have written the authoritative debunking of the gold and silver price suppression conspiracy here. We provide both the scientific theory and the data. So we won’t say anything more about it today. Read More |
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03.05.20- Why Precious Metals Crash During Market Meltdowns
There is, however, one asset class that’s behaving rather strangely: precious metals. Despite their popular safe-haven status, gold, silver, platinum, and palladium — priced in U.S Dollars — have fallen 5% or more from their highs. But why, in a period of mass panic and fear, are metal investors experiencing heavy losses? The answer is volatility. Read More |
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03.04.20- Physical Gold Will Soon Break Free from the Paper Market in Spectacular Fashion
Fast forward to 2019, which was the year of vindication for all gold bugs. Multiple banking entities had been implicated in gold and silver market manipulation, including JP Morgan. It was no longer a “theory”; now it was fact. The problem is, whenever these institutions get caught illegally undercutting the market, they get a fine, at most. Essentially, they receive a slap on the wrist and then go right back to strongarming metals. Read More |
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03.03.20- Like Last Week, Gold Dropped in 2008. Then It Did This
There is a good reason behind the gold selloff and plenty of upside Read More |
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03.02.20- Stocks And Gold: What Happened Last Week
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02.29.20- Why Is Gold Tanking?
If you were expecting a major recovery today after yesterday’s bloodbath, you were very disappointed. Stocks opened higher this morning but soon fell back into red territory again, where they stayed throughout the day. The Dow ended up losing another 879 points today after yesterday’s 1,031-point hammering. Read More |
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02.28.20- How Gold Is Manipulated
There is hard statistical evidence to make the case, in addition to anecdotal evidence and forensic evidence. The evidence is very clear, in fact. I’ve spoken to members of Congress. I’ve spoken to people in the intelligence community, in the defense community, very senior people at the IMF. I don’t believe in making strong claims without strong evidence, and the evidence is all there. Read More |
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02.27.20- 2021 Social Security COLA Could Be “Infected” by the Coronavirus
According to official statistics, more than 64 million Americans receive more than $1 trillion in Social Security benefits. It also represents about 33% of total income for the elderly. Read More |
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02.26.20- Gold: The Piper Must Be Paid
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02.25.20- Silver and Sanity
Prices for silver rise as currency units are devalued. Silver sold for $1.29 in the 1960s. Today’s price is around $18.00 because dollars buy less. The continual devaluation benefits the political and financial elite who own most paper assets – stocks and bonds. The bottom 90% pay higher prices for necessities plus interest on their debts. Savings in silver coins will offset devaluation and loss of purchasing power. Read More |
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02.24.20- A Minsky Moment is coming for gold
Named after economist Hyman Minsky, the theory centers around the inherent instability of stock markets, especially bull markets such as the current one that has been in place for over a decade. Read More |
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02.22.20- Will COVID-19 Lead To A Gold Standard?
The crisis is likely to be a wake-up call for complacent investors, who are content to buy benchmark bonds issued by bankrupt governments at wildly excessive prices. A recession turned by the coronavirus into a fathomless slump will lead to a synchronised explosion of debt issuance for which there are no genuine buyers and can only be monetised. Read More |
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02.21.20- The World's Best Kept Investment Secret
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02.20.20- Surprise! Massive Consumer Debt Fueling 'Record' Economy
You can see how total outstanding consumer debt, currently at $4.2 trillion, has skyrocketed since 2008 in this graph. But the total amount of outstanding debt isn't the only problem, because as reported by Newsmax Finance, consumer borrowing in December also shot up the most in five months: Read More |
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02.19.20- What Do Crashing Emerging Market Currencies Signal About Future
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02.18.20- Widening Bid-Ask Spreads,
Welcome to our new Gold and Silver Market Report, or “Market Report” for short. We are separating this from the economics essay, which was attached for many years. As they used to say in many toy commercials of yore, “batteries sold separately”—or in this case essays. Read More |
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02.17.20- Copper market is a coiled spring
Three thousand years later homo sapiens figured out how to smelt copper from its ore, and to alloy it with tin to create bronze. Bronze was useful for tools and weapons, making it one of the most important inventions in the history of civilization. Copper was later used in roofing, and still is, for its strength and oxidized green look, as well as in works of art. Copper, or Cu, is also essential for all living organisms. Read More |
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02.15.20- Spotlight on the DOJ and JPMorgan
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02.14.20- Do You Solemnly Swear?
Assume (without laughing or crying) that our U.S. senators are honest individuals filled with integrity. Yes, I know, but stay with me… They voted last week during the impeachment trial for President Donald Trump. They swore to uphold the following oath: “Do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help you god?” Read More |
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02.13.20- Gold, silver prices up as coronavirus back on the front burner
Asian and European shares were mostly down overnight. U.S. stock indexes are also pointed toward lower openings when the New York day session begins. Read More |
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02.12.20- The Eternal Relationship Between Gold and Global Crisis
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02.11.20- Investing In Gold: The Biggest Upside With the Smallest Risk
For example, his subscribers are already sitting on 867% gains – and counting – from a single investment E.B. recommended last February. And he has plenty more opportunities like those on his radar… So don’t miss the replay of E.B.’s big event. Then read on for this weekend’s Diary guest feature… Read More |
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02.10.20- This Is What a Run on the Bank for Precious Metals Looks Like…
Put simply, available inventories are failing to keep up with demand (largely from the automotive industry). According to Refnitiv GFMS, the palladium market will be under-supplied by 883,000 ounces this year. Stresses on the physical market are showing up in spiking lease rates, illiquidity, widening bid/ask spreads, and disconnections between quoted spot prices and actual physical prices. Most importantly, the deficit in palladium supply is manifesting in the form of rising prices. Read More |
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02.08.20- You Cannot Go Wrong With Gold
I have quoted Brutus’ speech in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar many times in the last twenty years. But I believe that it is today more relevant than at any time in history, when it comes to economic affairs. Read More |
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02.07.20- The Eternal Relationship Between  Though it is often referred to by critics and elitist central bankers as a “barbaric relic”, there is no denying that gold is usually the go-to asset during times of crisis and uncertainty. And as much as they pretend to hate it, even the elites secretly stock the precious metal whenever the economy goes awry. In fact, you can almost predict when things will go bad simply by watching how much gold that central banks around the globe stockpile in a particular year.
As noted in my last article, the banking establishment is often privy to impending disasters, usually because they directly participate in creating them. This is why they always seem to know when to prepare and hedge their assets to weather the storm. Read More |
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02.06.20- The Guggenheim "#1 Conviction Trade"
In our 2020 forecast, we wrote that you should expect higher gold and silver prices this year due to a continuation of the trends from 2019. And we expect great things for “all forms of precious metal” as the global investment community slowly begins to add asset allocation to the sector. If you missed this forecast in January, here’s the link: Read More |
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02.05.20- Gold, only safe haven in town amid coronavirus outbreak, expected hit
Gold rose 4.8 per cent in January to hit a seven-year high on Friday, as investors sought out the safe-haven asset amid the coronavirus outbreak, a trend that will support its price this year, analysts said. It was up 4 per cent year to date on Wednesday. Read More |
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02.04.20- There’s Just Not That Much Silver Investment Insurance To Go Around
Why? It all comes down to ENERGY. While I have repeated myself many times over about energy being the driver of the economy, there is a large percentage of precious metals analysts and investors that still don’t “GET IT.” Read More |
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02.03.20- What lies ahead for gold in 2020
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02.01.20- Silver Prepares for Next Leg Higher
Following up on some of our recent metals research, we wanted to alert our friends and followers to the incredible opportunity that still exists in Silver. We’ve highlighted two of our more recent articles for reference and review, below. Silver continues to be one of the most incredible opportunities for 2020 and Silver Miners (SIL) could explode to the upside as the price of Silver rallies to close the gap between the Gold to Silver ratio. Read More |
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Inflate and Die - Stock Collapse and Gold Surge Imminent
After three decades of massive money printing and credit expansion, “inflate or die” has artificially kept the world economy going. But we are now in the 2020s moving in to the next stage which will be INFLATE AND DIE. Because, as stock and credit bubbles implode and money printing accelerates, the world will soon realise that not only is the freshly printed money worthless but also most of the manufactured money from the last 20 years. Read More |
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01.30.20- Sweet Spot for Gold’s Fundamentals
Let me explain. The most bearish points for Gold (aside from a blowoff in inflation) are when an economic recovery gains traction or when the Fed raises rates to combat inflation. All three scenarios entail stable or rising real interest rates and, therefore, no investment demand for Gold. At present, the Fed is seeking higher inflation while trying to keep the economy from falling into a recession. Do not expect higher real interest rates anytime soon. Read More |
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01.29.20- Alert: Silver Goes on Sale
This has pushed the gold/silver ratio back close to 90. It hasn’t been this high, meaning silver hasn’t been this undervalued compared to gold, since early last summer. It may not feel like it, since silver has been on the rise, but this level of volatility makes today a prime buying opportunity. Read More |
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01.28.20- Coronavirus Jitters Spur Safe Haven Demand for Gold
Gold prices soar as U.S. reports multiple patients infected with coronavirus Read More |
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01.27.20- Why Germany Is Going To War With Gold
In China and India, gold jewelry is a status symbol - a sign of wealth and success. In Germany, owning gold bars and coins, maybe a 24-karat necklace or two, is a means of preserving wealth, especially in times of war or economic crisis, something never far from Germans’ minds, considering their history. Read More |
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01.25.20- Mississippi Bill Would Remove Barrier to Use of Gold and Silver as Money
Sen. Joey Fillingane (R-Sumrall) introduced Senate Bill 2097 (SB2097) on Jan. 17. The legislation would exempt the sale of bullion or currency in gold, silver, platinum or palladium from the state sales tax. Read More |
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01.24.20- MSM Gold Reporting Becomes More Absurd By The Day
Practially every day prompts those who consider themselves market analysts to contrive explanations for movements in the gold price, no matter how implausible. Zaner Metals in Chicago attributed today’s slight decline in the gold price to concerns about the new virus that has appeared in China: Read More |
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01.23.20- The Tremendous Hidden Value
The majority of gold and silver analysts provide forecasts for precious metals based on the negative symptoms taking place in the economy and market (debt, derivatives, fiat money, etc), and not the fundamental factor… ENERGY. Read More |
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01.22.20- A New Gold Standard:
OVER the past century, monetary systems change about every 30 to 40 years on average. Before 1914, the global monetary system was based on the classical gold standard. Then in 1945, a new monetary system emerged at Bretton Woods. I was at Bretton Woods this past summer to commemorate its 75th anniversary. Read More |
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01.21.20- “Boiling Conflict” to Push Gold Past $2,000 in 2020
Bridgewater CIO: Gold could hit $2,000 due to loose monetary policies and geopolitical tensions Read More |
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01.20.20- The Cannibalization Of The Financial System Will Force Investors Into Silver
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01.18.20- Stock Market Ready to Crash, It Could Happen at Any Time
This week I will discuss Fed bubbles and a potential imminent major market event, including an extremely important chart and also the safest private gold vault in the world. But first, last week was overshadowed by Iraq and Iran, which again has reminded us of terrorism in various forms. Terrorism is not just an act of violence. Cyber attacks can have devastating effects like paralysing air traffic or making all your digital assets disappear. Read More |
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01.17.20- Silver Could Blow-Through $50 And Be At $85 Only 5 Days Later!
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01.16.20- Silver Price Forecast: Most Likely A Strong Decade Ahead
Central banks primarily buy gold, rather than silver. Investors view gold as a safe haven, rather than silver. Gold is for kings and queens, while silver is for gentlemen and ladies. Silver is more speculative. It is a smaller market, it is a primarily a mining byproduct of other metals rather than a directly-mined metal itself, and it is a metal that has both an industrial side and a monetary/jewelry side, with the industrial side being slightly larger. Electronic devices, electric vehicles, solar panels, and a variety of industries use silver. Read More |
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01.15.20- The 3 Reasons Gold Will Remain Above $1,600 in 2020
3 key reasons why the gold market is ready to trace back to $1,600 Read More |
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Here Is Why Gold Could Rise Above $7,000 An Ounce
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01.13.20- Gold’s New Bull Market and Why Over $7,000 Per Ounce Is “Logical” (Part I)
Unlike the gold bugs, I’m not a broken record. And unlike the barbarous relic brigade, I recognise gold’s importance in the modern world. Read More |
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01.11.20- Gold futures tally a third weekly rise
Gold futures ended higher Friday, finding support from weaker-than-expected monthly U.S. jobs data to score a third weekly climb, even as easing tensions in Middle East worked to dull haven demand for the precious metal. Gold had climbed past the “psychological $1,550 level as immediate reaction to the underwhelming December US nonfarm payrolls,” Han Tan, market analyst at FXTM, told MarketWatch. However, “bullion bulls are struggling to find cause for a sustained liftoff back to $1600 after the US and Iran appeared to walk away from the brink of an all-out conflict earlier this week.” Read More |
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01.19.20- How to return to sound money
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01.09.20- Gold And Financial Survival In The 2020s
2020 is of course perfect vision or “facilely accurate judgment or assessment” as Webster’s defines it. So why should we be able to forecast the 2020s better than we have the 2000s or the 2010s? Well, I can with confidence say that we won’t. Read More |
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01.08.20- I sure am glad that I own gold…
This most recent price bump is due to the panic over Iran. But the gold price is up nearly 20% over the last year, so there have obviously been plenty of other factors driving the price higher before the Middle East started flaring up again. And there will be plenty more after these tensions cool down. Trade wars, economic crisis in China, Bolshevik nonsense in the US, Brexit woes… the world is definitely not lacking in major issues that could continue to drive gold prices higher. Read More |
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01.07.20- As the World Embraces Clean Energy, This Metal's Price Will Soar
It's rush hour... yet it's quiet. Although the road is packed with cars rushing to their destinations, one after the other... the only sounds are the whip of the wind and the crunch of asphalt under their tires. No engine rumble can be heard. Quiet and efficient electric vehicles ("EVs") now comprise the majority of all automobiles on the road. The formerly empty fields to the sides of the highway are now filled with farms of silver-coated solar panels. Air-polluting coal power plants are nearing obsoletion. Shiny photovoltaic ("PV") panels can be seen on most houses. Read More |
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01.06.20- Gold Or Oil: Which Is A Better Iran Crisis Hedge? Here Is Goldman's Answer
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01.04.20- This Is Great News For Gold
But this imbalance has begun to reverse, in two ways. First, stocks have soared to nosebleed valuation levels — see Nasdaq caps $7 trillion decade with its best rally in 10 years. Apple, Gooogle and Netflix might continue to rise from here, but they’re no longer anyone’s idea of a safe haven. Read More |
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01.03.20- Gold Price Forecast: Gold To Rise On Fed Dollar Debasement
Gold and silver sometimes act on their own, independent of what is happening to the broader commodity world. However, at other points gold and silver will get pulled together with the rest of the resource sector – this is what is about to occur in the precious metals world. Read More |
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01.02.20- Gold Surges Due To Troubled Fed Repo & U.S. Treasury Market
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01.01.20- Money Printing And Physical Demand Will Drive Gold Higher
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In Energy & Gold’s latest conversation with 
In the past few days, the price of gold has had a setback, dropping fromits fresh all-time highs to back below $2,000.
I have been telling readers to put savings into gold and silver for well over 14 years now, and in that time, precious metals have had spectacular rallies as well as intense corrections. Weak hands have been selling and strong hands have been buying and holding for some time now. We have done this with the expectation of something far more than just a parabolic event; some of us have been predicting an economic crisis the likes of which have not been seen in almost a century. 
Zeus punished the hubristic King Sisyphus to roll a huge boulder up a very steep hill in Hades. Before Sisyphus reached the top, the stone rolled down and he had to start all over again.
In this article, I will explore how gold will figure into the future global currency system after the global financial system implodes at some point within the next couple of years, perhaps sooner than later, especially since it just likely missed a complete meltdown this past March, which I’ve already spoken 
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pledge allegiance to the flag...
Investors dumped paper gold and silver along with stocks, commodities, and most other asset classes in March. The price of silver dropped to $12.02/oz on March 18th and gold bottomed at $1,473/oz.
I know I may be dating myself, but that was the title of a popular children’s song (circa 1953) by the comedian Red Buttons that came to mind as I contemplated the truly strange events occurring currently in gold and silver. Perhaps intended to demonstrate that my musical tastes have evolved, another question arises – what business does a 73 year old have in listening nonstop to the Red Hot Chili Peppers? 
If you’re like me and you follow 
For years, many Gold Bugs (investors who’ve been advocating buying Gold and Silver at low prices as a hedge against future global economic risks) were shunned as conspiracy theorists and nuts. How could these people believe Gold and Silver were solid investments when the Global equities markets were rallying 5% a year consistently – what could go wrong? 
Unequivocally, gold does not trade on the Comex. The Comex trades paper gold derivatives. It is a futures and options exchange on which a small amount of 100 oz. gold bars change ownership each contract month. The transfer of title is facilitated by the creation of an electronic record called a “warrant.” But even these “warrants” which assign title to specific bars are derivatives. Presumably gold is “delivered” to the parties who stand for delivery (the “stopper”). But that “delivery” most commonly is the electronic transfer of a warrant from the entity short a paper gold contract to the entity who is long the same. 
Silver is real money, not a debt-based fiat currency that will eventually fail.Silver bullion production requires capital and effort to mine and refine. We use it for solar panels, iPhones, cruise missiles and thousands of other items. Silver is monetary sanity.
As many of our readers know, 
While the world has entered into a financial crisis, the worst is still yet to come. When the global contagion continues to spread, the crisis will turn into a FINANCIAL STORM, in which few are prepared. Unfortunately, the analysts on CNBC and Bloomberg continue to provide incorrect forecasts because they are looking at the markets in a linear fashion. What lies DEAD ahead is a collapse and disintegration of a way of life that won’t return as it was in December 2019. 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Physical gold is getting more difficult to come by, gold jumping to $2,000 by 2021 is a reasonable prediction, and Goldman Sachs tells investors to buy gold. 
What happens in the real world (not the paper monopoly world) when demand soars and supply disappears? 
The paradigm shift I spoke about last year is unfolding before our eyes. Precious metals are likely to emerge from the global COVID-19 crisis as the premier asset for investors. 
If the title of this article is in any way disturbing or seems incorrect to you, then I sincerely recommend that you read it through carefully and completely. It was written for your benefit.
An analysis of the current volatility in the gold market, and what to expect going forward.
How much of last week’s smash in monetary metals prices was caused by what seems to be the primary explanation for it — selling required to meet margin requirements for positions in other markets that were falling amid the worldwide virus panic?
Golds value remains inside yesterday’s trading range with the price at $1,470.80 down $15.70 after dipping to $1,465.60 with the ICE rally high at $1,519.30. Silver is still leading the declines with the trade at $12.150, down 66.10 cents and at its low of $12.11 with the ICE high to beat at $13.230. The new quarter’s US Dollar trade (June) now has a value of 99.205, up 105.3 points after reaching up to 99.395 with the low at 98.105. Of course all this happened already, before 5am pst, the Comex open, the London close, after 
Silver is getting crushed in the pandemic-driven flight to safety — which might have created one of those blood-in-the-streets opportunities that contrarian investors dream about. 
There is no doubt, if stocks don’t stage a turnaround soon, the coronavirus could bring the U.S. economy to its knees.
With the spread of the Global Contagion, the demand for physical precious metals has increased significantly. According to the U.S. Mint’s newest update, another million Silver Eagles were sold over the past two days. 
Breaking News: The DOW rose 455 for the week ending March 6. It fell 3,583 the previous week. Gold rose $105 and silver rose $0.87 for the week.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold is immune to the effects of the coronavirus, the Fed is once again driving a flurry of gains in the gold market, and the Royal Mint of Britain issues various unique gold coins and bars ahead of new James Bond movie premiere. 
This is it!
The big news this week was the drop in the prices of the metals (though we believe that it is the dollar which is going up), $57 and $1.81 respectively.
During last week’s Coronavirus market sell-off, 
Not long ago, the idea of gold and silver market manipulation was considered the realm of “conspiracy theory”. Alternative economists and precious metals investors were often accused of “wild imagination” or bitterness when it came to long periods of stagnation in the market. Despite a considerable amount of evidence to the contrary, our suspicions were not being taken seriously.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold’s losses alongside stocks are an expected result of the coronavirus panic selloff, expert sees the virus as the last straw needed to push gold to $2,000, Goldman raises its gold price forecast as the pandemic takes its toll.
The coronavirus crisis is perhaps the real “Black Swan” that no one saw coming. While the virus pulled the trigger on the loaded weapon aimed at the stock market, it’s not the cause of the 2nd fastest 10% decline in the history of stock market. Using “as adjusted” GAAP accounting applied to the current trailing 12-month SPX earnings to make them comparable to the GAAP standards applied to 1999 earnings, this was the most overvalued stock market in U.S. history. While Fed officials and Wall Street story-tellers rejected the notion that the stock market was in a bubble, this table from Crescat Capital demonstrates the stock market’s extreme degree of overvaluation: 
The coronavirus continues to take its toll on the stock market.
Is there gold price manipulation going on? Absolutely. There’s no question about it. That’s not just an opinion.
It appears that the coronavirus, officially 
In his State of the Union victory lap, the president crowed that the “great American comeback” entered this decade with the longest bull run in American history. Unsaid is that in dancing to all time highs, the bond and stock markets are priced for perfection. In normal times, this would not be as dangerous as it is today. 
“Inflate or die” was coined by the legendary and extremely wise Richard Russell of Dow Theory Letters. He understood the necessity, as well as the curse, of permanent central bank money printing already at the beginning of this century. Richard died in 2015 so sadly he didn’t live to see how right he was. 
Gold cannot lose this year.
As we write, silver is down 3.4%, one of its more volatile days.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold soars on the threat of a possible pandemic, the yellow metal is the place you want to be in right now, and gold and silver are looking like 2020’s top bets.
Germans, like Indians and Chinese, love their gold - although their reasons for buying and keeping bullion are somewhat different. 
JACKSON, Miss. (Jan. 21, 2020) – A bill introduced in the Mississippi Senate would exempt gold and silver bullion from the state sales tax. Enactment of this legislation would eliminate one barrier to using gold and silver in everyday transactions, a foundational step for people to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money. 
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Very few people understand the tremendous hidden value in every silver coin in the world. Unfortunately, most precious metals investors do not realize the critical factor in acquiring and holding the physical silver investment.
Don't expect the US to expect it...
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: CIO of world’s best-performing fund sees gold hitting $2,000, gold is still the go-to haven asset, and Victorian-era £5 gold coin fetches nearly $700,000 at an auction.
Day in and day out, the global financial system continues to cannibalize itself. Clear evidence of this points to the massive “Artificial” liquidity and asset purchase policy instituted by the Federal Reserve. While financial analysts provided several theories why the Fed was forced to inject liquidity via the Repo Market and also purchase $60 billion a month in U.S. Treasuries, the real reason has to do with the falling quality of oil and its impact on the value of assets and collateral. 
There is always a lot more attention on gold than silver.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Why strategists expect gold to form a new base around the $1,600 level, gold could reach $3,000 by 2025, and constant gold buying shows risk aversion in the stock market.
In 
A year ago, in my occasional free newsletter, Atlas Pulse, I upgraded gold – which was trading at $1,239 an ounce at that point – to “bull market” status for the first time since 2012.
I’m growing more confident that we’re on the cusp of a big move higher in the precious metals sector because of the Fed’s massive money printing. Also, because the money printing and near zero interest rates are visibly not stimulating economic growth, we’re at the point at which unless the Fed continues increasing the amount of money it puts into the system, the melt-up in the stock market is completely unsustainable. 