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05.25.18- The “Axis of Gold” Will Drive Gold Higher by the End of 2018
This is the Axis of Gold. This gold-based payments system will dilute and ultimately eliminate the impact of U.S. dollar-based sanctions. Gold offers adversaries significant defenses against these dollar-based sanctions. Gold is physical, not digital, so it cannot be hacked or frozen. Gold is easy to transport by air to settle balance of payments or other transactions between nations. Read More |
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05.24.15- “Peak Gold” Scarcity Could Drive Gold Value Past $1,600
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05.23.18- Silver Refuses To Follow Gold, So Far
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05.22.18- 'We're right at peak gold': All major deposits have been discovered,
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05.21.18- The Trend Away From the Dollar to Gold Continues, Turkey Significantly Increases Reserves
In the West, our central bankers appear blissfully ignorant as the world becomes more and more financially unstable. With nothing truly solved since the 2008 crisis—only papered over—we head into the great unknown, awaiting the next crisis. Meanwhile, they continue to dis-hoard our vital gold reserves, moving our assets towards the East, which is ecstatic to purchase every ounce, every gram they can get their hands on. Read More |
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05.19.18- A Popular Question
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05.18.18- In Under 20 Years, All Currently Recoverable Gold Will Have Been Mined
This discovery holds significance not just to scientists but to investors as well. Simply put, it means that humans have been mining and refining gold for more than 6,600 years. And if that's true, gold investors may wonder: After seven millennia of exploitation, how much gold is left in the world to be discovered, mined, and refined in the future? Read More |
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05.17.18- Silver’s Long Consolidation Looks Like a Launching Pad
The silver market’s consolidation has formed a symmetrical triangle pattern. Prices are now nearing the apex of that triangle. The pattern cannot hold much longer – it must soon break in one direction or the other. And when it does, the move that follows should be sudden and sharp in one direction or the other. Read More |
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05.16.18- The Missing Link for Gold
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05.15.18- Two Important Reasons to Buy Gold Now
Of course, there has been a certain negativity toward precious metals investing for years. as SRSrocco put it, “There’s a very interesting notion put forth by many commenters that the precious metals analysts and dealers are the frauds and charlatans, not Wall Street or the central banks. I imagine they believe this because gold and silver prices haven’t performed as forecasted or compared to the insanely inflated stock, real estate, and crypto markets.” Read More |
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05.14.18- Is This Junior Miner the Best Play on a Rebound in Silver?
Another factor that will give silver a boost is rising industrial demand for the white metal. Because of its conductive properties, silver is an important component used in the manufacturer of a range of electronic and electrical products, including the photovoltaic cells that make up solar panels. That coupled with the likelihood of another supply deficit in 2018 should give silver a boost. This makes Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (TSX:FVI)(NYSE:FSM) an attractive investment. It is ready to soar when silver bounces back. Read More |
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05.12.18- Gold To Silver Ratio Extremes
The implications are that silver will now outperform gold and that both metals will move higher as a turnaround in the ratio has bullish implications, just like it had in early 2016. At least that’s what the partial analysis of the topic would have one believe. Read More |
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05.11.18- Gold is Good, Greed is No Good
Argentina used to be a very strong economy 100 years ago but in the last few decades the country has gone through several economic collapses and hyperinflation. Argentina just increased short term rates to 40% to defend the currency. The Peso has declined 95% since 2001 and is on its way to zero. Read More |
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05.10.18- The Two Most Important Reasons To Invest In Gold & Silver
The motivation to write this article is due to the increasing amount of negative sentiment and comments in regards to precious metals analysis and investing. Read More |
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05.09.18- Purchasing Power – In Silver
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05.08.18- You might want to think about ditching the FANG stocks for gold miners
I've written recently about the FANG stocks and another popular group I call MCBM. Both trade at valuations that look extreme relative to their history. There's another group, though, that I have been watching that appears to be trading at a significant discount to its normal range over the past couple of decades. Read More |
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05.07.18- Is the Supply of Gold Depleting?
The increased spending, however, has not produced the equivalent in new gold discoveries.During the past decade, 41 discoveries have resulted in a mere 215.5 million ounces of the precious metal. Even counting recently discovered but unexplored mines, which may hold as-yet major discoveries, the total available amount of gold in these discoveries are not expected to surpass 363 million ounces over the next ten years. Read More |
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05.05.18- "Money Is Gold — and Nothing Else"
In the course of his testimony, Morgan made one of the most profound and lasting remarks in the history of finance. In reply to questions from the congressional committee staff attorney, Samuel Untermyer, the following dialogue ensued as recorded in the Congressional Record: Read More |
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05.04.18- Gold Holders - Centennial Opportunity
Having come down from $850 in 1980, not only did gold represent incredible value at $300 in 2002, but it was also the best insurance possible against a financial system which was turning increasingly unsound. Sixteen years later we are still sitting on our gold. We have seen a high of $1,920 in 2011 and a low of $1,050 in 2015. Have we ever been tempted to sell the gold? No, not for one second. We would rather buy more than sell an ounce. Read More |
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05.03.18- Platinum Price Cycles
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05.02.18- The Coming Silver Supply Crunch Is Worse Than You Know
Well, I’ve got a series of charts for you that point to a silver trend that is so entrenched in its development, so inevitable in its outcome, so inescapable in its consequences that it comes as close as one can get to a guarantee. And once fully underway, it will have major implications for the silver price, along with the availability of investment metal. Read More |
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05.01.18- Gold: A Strong Spring Rally Is Likely To Prove Exceptional This Year
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04.30.18- Legendary Rick Rule Offers Good News For Precious Metals Investors
Along those lines is Rick Rule, President and CEO of Sprott U.S. Holdings. Who is (in my opinion) a legend in the industry. And contrary to Ben Bernanke’s belief that no one can understand or grasp the dynamics of the gold market, Rick, as he often does has put it into beautiful perspective. If you’ve never had the chance to hear Rick speak in person or via video, it’s worth putting on your list of things to do. Because in addition to successfully guiding his clients, Rick also has an incredible knack for simplifying the complex. Read More |
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04.28.18- The Shake-Out Period In Silver Is Over
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04.27.18- Come clean about gold, congressman tells Treasury and Fed
A member of Congress this week asked the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to come clean about government policy toward gold. The congressman, U.S. Rep. Alex X. Mooney, R-West Virginia, pictuered right, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell raising issues similar to those GATA long has been raising about the U.S. government's involvement in the gold market. Read More |
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04.26.18- The coming boom in gold prices. . .
Though no one had any idea at the time, Bantjes’ farm was located on a vast geological formation known as the Witwatersrand Basin… which just happens to contain the world’s largest known gold reserves. Within a few months, other local farmers started discovering gold… kicking off a full-fledged gold rush. Just over a decade later, South Africa became the largest gold producer in the world… and the city of Johannesburg grew from absolutely nothing to a thriving boomtown. Read More |
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04.25.18- Whither Silver from Here?
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04.24.18- Avoiding the Obvious
What you’ll hear is a self-congratulatory review of what a great job the agency is doing in terms of market manipulation in precious metals and how the agency welcomes and takes very serious and always follows up on all allegations to the fullest extent; even offering multi-million dollar rewards under its whistleblower program. Read More |
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04.23.18- Frustrated by the Dormant Silver Price? Don’t Be, Says History, the Upsurge Is Coming
Well, history has a message for you: This trading behavior is normal. Furthermore, similar scenarios from the past say the next price explosion is on the way. I know from past studies that silver doesn’t always shoot up when gold does, in spite of the fact that it almost always gains more than gold before the uptrend is over. I decided to put the data to a chart and see what it showed. Read More |
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04.21.18- Silver Gold Ratio… Set To “Spring” Precious Metals Higher?
One thing that has been missing is Silver strength… but yesterday’s big move by Silver may be the lift that precious metals need. During bull markets for precious metals, silver tends to lead. Similar to small caps, it adds “beta” when bulls are in control. To measure this aspect, investors can look at the ratio of Silver to Gold. When this ratio is heading higher, its bullish. Lower is bearish. Read More |
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04.20.18- Silver: The Calm Before the Storm
Look at the trading being done by one of the largest market movers in silver, and you’ll see some puzzling mixed signals. Dig deeper into the supply and demand fundamentals, and it starts to make sense. While bearish positions are hitting records, the underlying market has dramatically changed over the last couple years. And those market forces, bolstered by the market mover, could very well set off a massive breakout for silver prices this year. Read More |
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04.19.18- Global Silver Scrap Supply Falls
For example, silver recycling from the photography sector has declined since consumption peaked in 1999. The photography industry was using 228 Moz of silver in 1999 compared to the 44 Moz last year. Thus, silver consumption in photography has declined by 80% in nearly two decades… and along with it, a great deal of recycled silver supply. Read More |
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04.18.18- Gold wants to break free
Our bullish gold call centres on the belief that precious metal markets are still underpricing the full potential for inflation to pick up this year. Whilst this also raises the likelihood of a further three rate hikes in 2018, it will be the front-loading of inflation data that could spur gold’s long-awaited breakout, along with a little help from continued weakness in the US dollar and equity volatility. Establishing itself cleanly above $1350/oz is proving gold's biggest hurdle, but when it is done, gold stands its best chance to capture further flows from funds stuck on the sidelines. Read More |
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04.17.18- More Paper Gold Trades in a Day Than Physical Gold Is Mined in a Year
One of the central sources of dismay for precious metals traders has been the gold and silver markets’ susceptibility to manipulation at the hands of central banks, Wall St. banks, and otherwise. Oceans of paper money is used to gain access to exponentially more giant pools of additional paper money, that is then used to exert influence on the price of silver and gold. Read More |
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04.16.18- Dynamics Are Converging And Forming A Financial Storm But Shelter Can Be Found In Silver
What Storm? Why do we need shelter?
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04.14.18- As Gold Breaks Out - The World is on the Precipice
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04.13.18- The U.S. Government With Its Military Cannot Stop China & Russia’s New Gold Standard
For those who believe the conflict, confrontation, and trade war with China is very recent and fresh, not true. The war of words and sabre rattling is part of a longstanding trade war between the two superpowers. The war with China has been brewing for many years, with much hidden in the background battles over legacy USTreasury Bonds and hidden Gold stores. The United States does not publicize this conflict, since the US actions are full of dishonor, deceit, fraud, and murders within the secret war. To begin with, Washington officials have steadfastly refused to honor high valued old bonds backed by gold, claiming they are very old. Read More |
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04.12.18- The Dollar Cancer and the Gold Cure
I am going to share a little bit about myself and my personal motivation. I want to help fix this problem. The alternative, if it’s not fixed, will be a repeat not of 2008 or the inflation of the 1970’s or 1929. It will be a repeat of 476AD, the collapse of Rome and the known world. Read More |
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04.11.18- Which is Right: Gold or Real Rates?
When real rates are increasing or strongly positive (during most of the 1980s and 1990s and 2011 through 2015) Gold performs poorly because one can earn a real return on their money unlike with Gold. However, when real rates decrease and particularly when they are negative, Gold flourishes. That being said, right now there is an interesting development. Real rates have increased over the past year but Gold has held steady. Reviewing recent history can help us answer which is right. Read More |
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04.10.18- Stunning Silver Setup
As we will proceed to see both COTs and the silver to gold ratio are at record extremes that point to a major bullmarket in silver starting imminently.We will begin by looking at the latest price charts for silver. The 6-month chart looks dead boring, which is of course why those who are habitually wrong are making the dangerous mistake of shorting it. Read More |
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04.09.18- In defence of having reserves and hoarding gold
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04.07.18- China’s Secret Gold Supplier Is Singapore
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04.06.18- As Volatility Spikes, Here’s What Could Be Ahead for Gold and Silver
We’ve already seen this at work. The S&P 500 fell 2.2% on April 2, and in response, gold rose 1.2% and silver 1.6%. It’s more than just a daily phenomenon, though; any prolonged wave of uncertainty that hits the markets will push investors into gold. What’s happening on a small scale now will play out on a much bigger scale when sentiment shifts, especially in regard to our monetary system. Read More |
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04.05.18- Price of Silver’s Next Move Will Be Determined by These 2 Indicators
But there is a bright spot in this recent movement for precious metal investors. Despite moving in a narrow range between $16.25 and $16.80 since early February, silver has bounced back on weakness from both the stock market and the dollar. Read More |
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04.04.18- The Skyrocket Phase
As an aside, in what other market is there a sense of entitlement of what the price ought to be, and a sense of anger at the only conceivable cause for why the price is not what it ought? Read More |
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04.03.18- Moment Of Clarity: Bill Introduced In Congress To Define The Dollar As
Check out our pages on the gold standard and sound money for more information about what is required by the United States Constitution. The bottom line is that Article 1 Section 8 gives the power to Congress:
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04.02.18- Market Report: Quarter-end factors
Despite a shortened week for European and Canadian markets, volumes in futures markets for both gold and silver were healthy. Read More |
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03.31.18- U.S. Dollar on Last Legs as Gold Finds New Life
According to analysts at BMO capital markets in Toronto, an investment banking subsidiary of Bank of Montreal, the U.S. dollar is forecast to continue its decline in 2018. Just 14 months ago, analysts weren’t quite as negative about the performance of the dollar. But after the dollar lost all of its post-election gain, along with the lackluster performance of the Trump tax bill in 2018, analysts are starting to change their tune. Read More |
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03.30.18- Trade Wars, Petroyuan, Debts – $32,000 Gold & $500 Silver
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03.29.18- Silver Price Best Setup In Years & Update On Continued Meltdown In Stock Markets
While most investors will be interested in what is taking place in the silver market, it’s very important to understand how much the situation is deteriorating in the U.S. Shale Oil Industry. Without cheap and abundant oil, the value of most stocks, bonds, and real estate would collapse. Unfortunately, falling stock and real estate prices are precisely what is going to happen to 99% of the public’s investments as only 1% hold precious metals. Read More |
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03.28.18- Silver Is Not Just Acting Strange And Exciting But Also Hyper-Bullish
Friday’s commitment of traders (COT) report for gold and silver offered more of the same. Which is to say the gold futures action was boring and the silver action was strange and exciting. Starting with gold, the large speculators – who, remember, tend to be wrong at big turning points – got a little less optimistic, while commercials – who tend to be right at big turning points – did the opposite. But both groups are still in unfavorable territory, with the speculators too long and the commercials too short. Read More |
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01.27.18- Silver to Catch up and Outpace Gold
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03.26.18- Fake Gold - Silver Explosion -
There we have it – a complacent Mint on the one hand and a Secret Service which is involved in fake gold on the other hand. So this is clearly a major problem. Read More |
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03.24.18- New Wyoming Legal Tender Law Recognizes Gold and Silver as Money
Fortunately, we’re beginning to see a shift. Many states are repealing taxes on gold and silver, and treating precious metals more like money. Wyoming is the latest state to reform its laws. These policies not only ease the burden on investors, it opens the door to use gold and silver in everyday transactions, a foundational step for the people to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money. Read More |
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03.23.18- Why the Collapse of Bear Stearns Changed the Silver Market Forever
What is irrefutable is that JPMorgan inherited Bear’s enormous and disastrous short silver position. How they would deal with it in response has fundamentally altered the silver market, while simultaneously setting it up for a historic rally. Read More |
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03.22.18- Another look at gold’s true fundamentals
In real time it often doesn’t seem that simple, though, because on a weekly, monthly or even yearly basis a lot can happen to throw an investor off the scent. However, the risk of being thrown off the scent can be reduced by having an objective way of measuring the ebbs and flows in the confidence that drives, among other things, the performance of the gold market. That’s why I developed the Gold True Fundamentals Model (GTFM). Read More |
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03.21.18- Gold Price Suppression News Going Viral: Pro-Govt Turkish Paper Picks Up On Story
Gold researcher Ronan Manly’s detailed report for Russia Today on the history and mechanisms of gold price suppression by central banks, called to your attention by GATA a few hours ago— — has been quickly reprinted by the Daily Sabah, a major newspaper in Istanbul, Turkey, that is published in English, German, Arabic, and Russian: Read More |
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03.20.18- The Demise Of The Dollar:
These days, the dollar is joined by the euro and the yen as accepted currencies. No longer dominant, the dollar is losing its global position. Can it survive? Early in the 20th century, the US was the most powerful nation on earth, and the dollar reflected that power. Our gold reserves were larger than those of any other country, thus setting the standard worldwide. The US dollar was, indeed, good as gold. Read More |
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03.19.18- Gold Unmoved By Market Volatility,
Even during the market meltdown in February, when the S&P 500 dropped precipitously and Treasury bonds tumbled, gold barely budged. A measure of gold price volatility, the Cboe Gold ETF VIX Index—which measures implied volatility on options for the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD)—is trading at half its historical level. Read More |
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03.17.18- Gold Price To Be Reset MUCH HIGHER To Keep Those Without It From Catching Up
Bill Holter interviewed on the X22 Report Spotlight In this important, timely interview, Bill Holter says that China and Russia are ready to make their moves away from the U.S. Dollar. When this happens, Bill says, everybody’s standard of living is going to drop dramatically. Bill says the credit system will freeze-up and the United States will be thrust into Banana Republic status. Bill says it’s even going to be hard to get food from a grocery store because of how dependent the systems are on credit. Read More |
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03.16.18- Gold bull market in waiting
Not that it particularly matters; if you own silver and gold, you will benefit, regardless. Where is the gold bull market that we predicted would begin about now? Here is our broad-based overview. The financial markets continue to expect an aggressive Fed going forward with four—even five—rate hikes this year and a continuing shrinkage of its balance sheet (Quantitative Tightening). Read More |
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03.15.18- Something BIG Going On In Russia
Please connect the dots below, but first, please do this math:1+1+1+1=4 (every day of the week). While it has been known that China and Russia are relentlessly stacking gold, a recent turn of events point to something big going on under the surface with silver. Read More |
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03.14.18- Gold to Hit $1,475
Gold could hit $1,475 if it follows copper’s path According to one fund manager, gold is in a good spot for prices to set off and reach multi-year highs. Kitco reports that Will Rhind, CEO of GraniteShares, told the attendees of his webinar that gold could push to $1,475 an ounce if the yellow metal follows copper’s cue. Read More |
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03.13.18- Record Low Volatility in Precious Metals and What it Means
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03.12.18- Mr. President, If We Don’t Have Gold,
Circumstantial evidence is mounting high that there is something seriously wrong with the amount of gold reportedly owned by the United States government, or more precisely, the American people. Read More |
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03.10.18- Bad 'Karma' Brings Bad Consequences for Those Who Practice It
I guess Trump is not familiar with what happened at Bretton Woods, back in 1945, when the US, as victor in WW II, forced the rest of the world to accept the US proposition: gold would be the world’s money, supplemented by dollars, which were to be regarded as good as gold – and perhaps they were, at the time, as good as gold, for the US had a stock of some 22,000 tons of gold at that time. Read More |
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03.09.18- JPMorgan’s Great Silver Accumulation: Short to Buy, Then Stop Shorting
So singlehandedly lean with all your might on the price, buy what everyone else sells, then stop shorting and position yourself for the huge price rise, aided and abetted by taking away your massive short position. After acquiring enough physical metal to neutralize its dominant paper short position early on (by 2012), JPMorgan continued to accumulate hundreds of millions of physical ounces of metal with the sole intent of someday selling that silver at as high a price as possible. Read More |
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03.08.18- Why QE didn’t send gold up to $20,000
The Quantity Theory of Money The intuition that an increase in the money supply should lead to a rise in prices, including the price of gold, comes from a very old theory of money—the quantity theory of money—going back to at least the philosopher David Hume. Hume asked his readers to imagine a situation in which everyone in Great Britain suddenly had "five pounds slipt into his pocket in one night." Hume reasoned that this sudden increase in the money supply would "only serve to increase the prices of every thing, without any farther consequence." Read More |
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03.07.18- Hashgraph Public Launch?
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03.06.18- Here’s What Gold is Waiting for
Meanwhile, the US Dollar has rebounded and the oversold and overhated bond market could be starting a rally. The recent rise in long-term bond yields which has benefitted Gold appears due for a pause or correction. Meanwhile, Gold could also correct and consolidate as it waits for a breakout in long-term bond yields which should in turn benefit Gold. Read More |
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03.05.18- Silver Looks Way Better
But lately – perhaps in a sign of how confused the world is becoming – gold and silver traders have diverged. Taking gold first, the speculators – who tend to be wrong at major inflection points – remain extremely bullish. Commercial traders, meanwhile – who tend to be right when speculators are wrong – are extremely bearish, with short positions more than double their longs. Historically that’s been a setup for a big drop in gold’s price. Read More |
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03.03.18- Michael Pento: Currencies Will Be ‘Flushed Down The Toilet’ Triggering
Michael is a well-known money manager and a fantastic market commentator, and over the past few years has been a wonderful guest and one of our favorite interviews here on the Money Metals Podcast and we always enjoy getting his Austrian economist viewpoint. Michael, welcome back and thanks for joining us again. Read More |
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03.02.18- How Will Gold Prices Behave During Economic Crisis?
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03.01.18- Total US Debt And The Gold Price
After falling together through the late 1990s, the price of COMEX god and the total accumulated U.S. debt began to rise together since 2002. With the help of Nick Laird at GoldChartsRUs, we've been able to plot this relationship on the chart below: Read More |
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02.28.18- Gold Is The Cure For The Job-Drain
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02.27.18- $700 Silver? Here's How It Could Happen
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02.26.18- Own Gold Before Pandora
Pandora – the all giving – was the first human woman created by the Greek gods. Zeus ordered her creation to punish humanity due to Prometheus’ theft of the secret of fire. Read More |
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02.24.18- Silver: 2018 and Beyond
Do you appreciate the beauty of silver coins? Do you understand the necessity for silver in our modern world? American Silver Eagle coins and Canadian Silver Maple Leafs represent value, history, and ownership of an industrially important metal that has been money for thousands of years. Read More |
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02.23.18- No Longer The Safe Haven: The Dollar Is The Achilles Heel of the Global Economic Reflation
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02.21.18- Doug Casey: Gold Will Hit $2000 By The End Of This Year
Justin’s note: Volatility has come storming back. Just look at the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), which measures how volatile investors expect the market to be over the next 30 days. It’s up 89% since the start of the year. Last week, it hit the highest level since 2016. Investors aren’t used to this. After all, last year was the least volatile year ever for U.S. stocks. That lulled many investors to sleep. It led them to take risks they would normally never take. Read More |
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02.20.18- Silver at 1/80th the Price of Gold?
Here are some insights on the silver price relative to gold from a senior economic geologist that are certainly worth serious consideration: A VERY SERIOUS ANOMALY HAS ARISEN WITH SILVER - WAIT FOR IT: |
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02.19.18- Gold: Another Month, Another Test Of Key Resistance - But This Time With A Difference
By late January, this combination of technical resistance and overexcited speculators had once again proved impossible to overcome, and gold fell back to the low $1,300s. Read More |
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02.17.18- The 2007-9 Crisis Will Return in 2018 - With a Vengence
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02.16.18- For Gold, It’s Goldilocks Inflation
Is inflation good for gold? It depends. If inflation provokes a hawkish Fed to raise rates faster than inflation, not so much. But if the Fed is worried about the stock and bond markets and therefore won't raise rates fast enough to keep pace with inflation, that's good for gold. And that's where we seem to be now. Fear of inflation has been weighing on the bond market, helping to drive interest rates higher, and that's been a negative for the stock market. On February 14, we got a "hot" CPI number that confirmed the market's fears and the initial reaction was to sell stocks and gold, sending them lower, and the dollar caught a bid. That's the response you would expect from anticipation of a more hawkish Fed. Read More |
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02.15.18- Silver, Gold and the Dow
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02.14.18- Something is definitely “changing”
Let’s take a look at two charts that might help, one of interbank lending in the U.S. and also at “velocity”. These are both very important and I would suggest they are both connected by something called “trust”. Read More |
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02.13.18- Gold & Silver Are About To Find Out If That Dog Is Friendly Or If It Bites
First the good news. The gold-to-silver ratio just keeps looking better: Every single number on the latest daily chart is above 80, with a high above 82, and a last price of 82.52. It’s hard to see how we are not close to the gold to silver ratio coming down. Regardless, to say the ratio is favoring silver right now is an extreme understatement. Compared to earlier in the year, you can now get over six ounces of silver for each ounce of gold, dollar for dollar. Read More |
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01.12.18- Gold Fireworks On The Horizon
On the weekly chart there is now a clear head and shoulders bottom pattern in play. A break above the neckline would confirm the pattern and project an eventual target near $1,650. There is also a very interesting price analog from 2008-2009 (hat tip, @ECantoni) that suggests this breakout could be imminent. Read More |
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02.10.18- The Dollar – From Bohemia To Bust
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02.09.18- And Now. for Something Entirely Different: Is A Massive Stock Market Reversal
Of course, whether we alternative analysts like it or not, the fact of the matter is that the rest of the world is psychologically dependent on the behavior of stock markets. The masses determine their economic optimism (if they are employed) according to the Dow and the S&P and, to some extent, by official and fraudulent unemployment statistics. Read More |
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02.08.18- Inflation Worries Make Gold A Good Choice For 2018
According to Thomson Reuters, the price appreciation could be driven by “concerns that the United States may pull out of NAFTA,” or the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA, of course, is the trade pact the U.S. shares with Canada and Mexico, its number two and three largest trading partners. Read More |
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02.07.18- Gold To Sustain Rally,
In the near term, analysts at the international brokerage firm said they see a modest retracement in the yellow metal to $1,320 an ounce before climbing higher to test resistance at $1,400 an ounce, be a multi-year high. Since its December low at $1,236.50, the yellow metal has rallied 8% following a much anticipated Fed rate hike. The rally coincided with strong upward momentum in equities. However, Sucden Financial doesn’t see growth in the stock markets lasting forever, and a reversal in trends may bode well for precious metals. Read More |
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02.06.18- Gold tips higher in recovery mode, defying higher yields and stable dollar
U.S. stocks traded mostly lower Monday, part of a broader global equity selloff “Should this rout in the stock market continue, gold may continue under pressure as the ‘sell everything’ to raise cash mantra unfolds,” said Peter Hug, global trading director at Kitco Metals Inc. Read More |
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02.05.18- Gold and Silver Price Riggers Arrested
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02.03.18- Platinum V.S. Palladium: Should You Invest?
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02.02.18- Gold & Silver Hammered As BLS Jobs Report Hits Tape
Today is one of the cartel’s favorite days to smash. In the first two minutes, 14,000 gold contracts were “sold” into the “news”. For anybody doing the math, that’s $1,890,000,000 notional value of gold sold in two minutes, and it created less than a $10 move in the price of gold. Read More |
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02.01.18- Monetary Metals Brief 2018
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01.31.18- Why Buy Silver? 10 Reasons to Invest in Silver Now (w/ Charts)
It’s natural and even prudent for an investor to wonder if a particular asset is a good investment or not. That’s especially true for silver, since it’s such a small market and doesn’t carry the same gravitas as gold. But at this point in history, there are compelling reasons to add physical silver to your investment portfolio (and only one is because the price will rise). Here the top 10 reasons why every investor should buy some silver bullion… Read More |
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01.30.18- World's Lagerst Silver Mines:
In my newest video, I discuss the changes that have taken place in the world’s two largest silver mines, the Cannington Mine in Australia and the Fresnillo Mine in Mexico. Falling ore grades and rising energy costs have contributed to the doubling and tripling of production costs at many silver mining companies. Investors who believe it still only costs $5 an ounce to produce silver, as it did in 1999, fail to grasp what is taking place in the silver mining industry: Read More |
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01.29.18- Move In Commodities, Dollar And Interest Rates...Road To Hyper-Inflation
How could anyone believe the propaganda that there is no inflation. It has of course suited the market manipulators. But the fake wizardry of the central bankers is now about to be revealed. Since the early 1980s the interest rate cycle were in a strong down trend. When the financial crisis started in 2007, central banks panicked and rates were rapidly lowered around the globe. Read More |
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01.27.18- Gold Gains A Powerful Friend
As the ancient proverb goes, my enemy’s enemy is my friend. Although it is usually employed in foreign policy, this concept also applies to finance. Given the negative correlation between the greenback and gold, the enemies of the U.S. dollar are generally gold’s friends. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has recently joined this elite club. On Wednesday, he welcomed the weakness in the American currency. According to Bloomberg, Mnuchin told reporters at the annual Davos summit of business and political leaders that a weaker dollar is not bad for the U.S., at least in the short term: “Obviously a weaker dollar is good for us as it relates to trade and opportunities”. He also added that the currency’s short-term value is “not a concern of ours at all.” Read More |
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01.26.18- The Coming Market Crash Will Set Off The Biggest Gold Panic Buying In History
While the U.S. and the global economy have seemingly continued business as usual since the Fed and Central Banks stepped in and propped up the collapsing markets in 2008, this was only a one-time GET OUT OF JAIL free card that can’t be used again. Read More |
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01.25.18- Will silver outperform gold in 2018?
Going by low volatility and rising risk in all other asset classes, the 2018 is expected to see a preference for precious metals. However, within gold and silver, the latter is expected to outperform the former. Ratio traders are also looking at a fall in gold-to-silver ratio, which indicates how many ounce of silver can be bought with one ounce of gold. Read More |
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01.24.18- Some Reflexions on History and Economics
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My 2018 economic predictions follow through on the accurate predictions I made in 2017. In my last article, I stated that I had bet my blog the stock market would crash by January 2018. That was my thinking back then based on where Obama had been taking us. In fact, however, when I went back last week and rechecked my economic predictions and my bet, I found I had wisely revised my thinking even that far back and had hedged my bet due to the Trump factor. Read More |
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01.22.18- Why You Must Own Silver in 2018
If and when Silver breaks above its 2017 highs, we can declare its bear market over (in terms of time). Read More |
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01.20.18- Gold & Silver Are Setting Up For A ‘Rip Your Face Off’ Rally
Metals are setting up for that “Rip Your Face Off Rally”. The following charts for Gold and Silver show a very interesting setup that is unfolding as the US markets continue to strengthen – that being that the Metals are showing strength in price and we can only assume this is related to some level of FEAR in the markets or expectations that the “Equities and Bitcoin Bubbles” are nearing an end. Read More |
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01.19.18- Silver As A Strategic Metal and Why Prices Will Soar
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01.18.18- What Do Dow 26,000
As we went over DOW $26,000 today there was a little raid in silver and not so much so in gold… But is this the raid I referred to in earlier, recent posts? Well, it is NOT a significant break to the Line of Lateral Movement. Of great note, in gold Friday, there was a HUGE Commercial Gold accumulation of Longs, after what was structured to appear as a short raid in both gold and silver. Read More |
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01.17.18- Silver: Once and Future Money
Of course, in the late Empire, the aureus, solidus and denarius were all debased by mixing the gold and silver with base metals. The decline of the Roman Empire went hand in hand with the decline of sound money. Read More |
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01.16.18- The 2018 Stock Market Bubble
So, we continue to see the Dow Jones Index hit new record highs, as it moved up 765 points since the beginning of the year. Now, if w go back to 1981 when the Dow was trading about 800 points, it took five years to double itself by another 800 points. However, the Dow Jones Index just added 765 points in less than two weeks. Read More |
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01.15.18- The Last Great Silver Buy
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01.13.18- As Sisyphus Fails Gold Will Ascend
2018 will be a year of major volatility in many markets. Stocks are now in a melt-up phase and before the major bear markets start in virtually all countries around the world, we are likely to see the final exhaustion moves which could be substantial. The year will also be marked by inflation increasing a lot faster than expected. This will include higher interest rates, much higher commodity prices, like food and oil as well as a falling dollar. And many base metals will strengthen. Read More |
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01.12.18- Gold & Blockchain
I can’t remember where I heard this quote, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. Gold, as an asset class, has one of the richest histories of all the earthly assets ever to have value bestowed upon them by man. As far back as we go in history, for which there is archaeological record, we find evidence of an infatuation with gold. I was talking with a friend the other day about VanAurum, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. He asked, “Why are you building an artificial intelligence for gold? Isn’t it dead? Why don’t you just build an artificial intelligence for analyzing crypto?” Read More |
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01.11.18- Silver Is a Metal to Watch in the New Year
We only saw silver rise 10% within a month four times this year. The last time it rose 10% in three weeks was almost a year ago. Like gold, 2016 was a strong year for silver. The price soared through the first half of the year. It ended down from its high, but still up 15% overall. However, in 2017, the silver price only gained 4%. The price bounced up and down, never really breaking out. You can see what I mean from the chart below: Read More |
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01.10.18- First Majestic Silver CEO Keith Neumeyer Talks About The End Of The Silver Manipulation
For those not familiar, Neumeyer is one of, if not the only mining CEO to speak publicly about the manipulation that has left silver prices suppressed. His interviews always offer insightful commentary, and this latest one covered what could be a game changing event for the price of silver. Read More |
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01.09.18- Now in Effect: Virginia Law Takes First Step to Support Sound Money
A bipartisan coalition of delegates and senators sponsored House Bill 1668 (HB1668) and Senate Bill 934 (SB934). The legislation exempts gold, silver, and platinum bullion or legal tender coins whose sales price exceeds $1,000 from state sales tax. Each piece of gold, silver, or platinum or legal tender coin need not exceed $1,000, provided that the sales price of one entire transaction of such pieces exceeds $1,000. With gold over $1,000 an ounce, a single bullion coin will exceed this threshold. Read More |
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01.08.18- David Morgan: The “Oh My” Moment Is Coming For Silver
Josh Sigurdson and John Sneisen talk with David Morgan of The Morgan Report, also known as the Silver Guru. David Morgan is one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet when it comes to silver as well as gold. He’s written the book ‘The Silver Manifesto’ and does regular reporting on everything silver. Read More |
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01.06.18- Silver: The Key to Monetary Freedom
I sat down with Ken Schortgen, Jr., The Daily Economist, to open 2018 with a look at what is happening right now in several areas of our world. 2017 was the year of cryptocurrencies and 2018 is going to be the year of…? I don’t think one person predicted cryptocurrencies would rise like they did in 2017. Read More |
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01.05.18- 4 Financial Predictions for 2018 That Could Impact Gold
As we look forward into the New Year of 2018, it’s important to look back at these financial trends to see how they might affect us during the next 12 months. If the last year was anything to go by, investors may be asking themselves some important questions. Read More |
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01.04.18- The Next Great Bull Market
This new trend will take gold past $1,400 per ounce by the end of 2018, past $4,000 per ounce by 2020 (if not sooner) and ultimately to $10,000 per ounce or higher by the mid-2020s. This bull market actually began on Dec. 17, 2015, when the dollar price of gold sank to $1,051 per ounce. This new bull market was two years old last weekend. That’s OK. Bull markets begin slowly, almost unnoticed in the gloom of the prior bear market. The biggest gains often come after a few years when the crowd catches on and the price action gains momentum. Read More |
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01.03.18- Silver prices likely to rocket by mid-year
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01.02.18- Quantum Change in Gold and Silver Demand, 2 Jan 2018
There is a long informercial airing on American TV. It shows an endless parade of senior citizens, struggling to pay their bills, unable to buy that motorized stairway lift, play golf, or eat out at restaurants. The solution? Get a reverse mortgage! The number to call is 1-800-GET-CASH. That number again is one eight hundred get your free cash now! To summarize the point of the commercial—if not the terms of the fine print—the senior gets a monthly check, and this free money pays for all the things currently missing in his life. Free, as in magic unicorns and rainbows. Right? Read More |
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01.01.18- January Won’t Be Just A Silver Price Advance But A SUSTAINABLE Advance
On the 6-month silver chart we can see the breakdown from a Symmetrical triangle that occurred late in November leading to a drop well into December, and also how silver has slowly recovered over the past two weeks. Read More |
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12.30.17- In Gold We Trust!
While gold was rare and valuable, it was also ideal for pressing into coins. Because gold coins were portable, private and permanent, they fit the early definition of a currency. Gold could be used as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. Read More |
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12.2.17- The Next BIG MOVE In The Gold Price After December IS UP
In December 2015, I made one of the best calls of my career when I announced the terminus of the 2011-2015 Great Bear Market in Gold at $1,045, but what followed was neither the clinking of champagne flutes nor the beating of puffed-up chests. Instead, I was consumed with a slow, simmering rage not unlike the emotion one feels at returning to a burgled home or boosted auto. Read More |
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12.28.17- Asian Metals Market Update:
Industrial metals are getting added price benefit after China orders closure of copper factories to curb winter pollution. I will be careful day trading in industrial metals despite the bullish technical. Read More |
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12.27.17- A Ten Year Deal For Silver?
In a few short months, we will hit the ten year anniversary of perhaps the most seminal event in modern silver history – the takeover of the failing investment bank, Bear Stearns, by JPMorgan in March 2008. Bear Stearns failed as a firm due to a variety of problems which, in effect, caused a run on the bank. But what makes the failure and subsequent takeover so prominent in silver history was the revelation shortly thereafter that Bear had been the biggest short seller in COMEX silver and gold futures and was replaced in that role by JPMorgan. Read More |
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12.26.17- A Collapsing Dollar Will Trigger The Next Big Move In Gold And Silver
Sorry MAGA-enthusiastics, it’s all a lie. The tax legislation just passed will lead to higher Government spending deficits, a near-parabolic acceleration in Government debt issuance and a possible collapse of the dollar. The U.S. is in systemic collapse. Perhaps the biggest manifestation of this is the grand money-grab by the elitists enabled by blatant political corruption. Read More |
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12.25.17- ”It’s A Wonderful Life” Is A Lesson To Hold Gold Outside of The Banking System
Interestingly it wasn’t all that big a hit upon its release (despite garnering five Academy Award nominations) and was disliked by some of the highest intelligence authorities and political thinkers. Ayn Rand worked with the FBI to identify Hollywood Communist propaganda and helped them to conclude that the Christmas film contained several subversive tendencies, including “demonising bankers” and “attempting to instigate class warfare”, and was “written by Communist sympathisers”. Read More |
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12.23.17- Why Silver Will Outperform Gold 400%
Alas, poor silver is the Rodney Dangerfield of precious metals—it can’t get no respect. It certainly should merit respect, since its 20th century performance has far outpaced gold. It’s volatility and superior fundamentals ought to make it much more attractive than gold. Read More |
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12.22.17- 2018 could be the year for gold
It might take a few years yet to get there, but the speed of our train is dependant to a large degree to how the engine’s boiler is stoked by America through her isolationist plans. It is very hard to see how the dollar cannot decline significantly with America’s autarkic trade policies, benefiting gold. Read More |
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Here’s a thought that I fully acknowledge didn’t originate with me, but from a close associate, even though it incorporates many of my findings. If it does come to fruition, I will gladly reveal my associate’s identity to give him his proper due; but in case it doesn’t, I’ll spare him any embarrassment for an incorrect premise. As I think you’ll see, I can’t deny that my friend’s premise seems to tie up all the loose ends about the silver manipulation. Read More |
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12.20.17- What Peak Gold, Interest Rates And Current Geopolitical Tensions Mean For Gold in 2018
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12.19.17- Silver: Double-Digit Gains This Year,
The precious metal has offered not just centuries, but millennia of intrinsic monetary and industrial value. And despite that inherent worth, silver sometimes goes through frenzied buying manias, not unlike Bitcoin’s 2017 run-up. In my view, that same kind of “Tulip Mania” lies ahead for silver investors, only bigger. And while that may not happen in 2018, it almost surely will in the next few years. Read More |
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12.18.17- WORLD SILVER PRODUCTION: 3 Charts You Won’t See Anywhere Else
Today, the world’s largest primary silver mine, Fresnillo’s Sauicto Mine, produced three times that amount in just one year (22 million oz, 2016). Yes, we have come along way in 500 years. Just think about that for a minute. One silver mine last year produced three times the global amount in 1493. Read More |
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12.16.17- Long Term Patterns in Stocks, The green arrows are 10 years long. Peaks indicated are in 1987, 2007, and potentially 2017. The pause in 1997 was not a top because the market rally extended into early 2000. The current peak in 2017 could also extend, but valuation and timing indicators show high risk. When the monthly RSI (timing indicator at bottom of graph) exceeds 70, turns down, and prices fall below the red support line, a significant correction or crash is possible. Those crashes occurred in 1987, 2000, and 2008. The S&P is ready to make a similar correction or crash in 2017 or 2018. The RSI has reached its highest level in two decades. Read More |
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12.15.17- Some Key Reasons Gold
The gold price has moved ahead this year, despite rising US interest rates and a persistent bull market in equities. Looking ahead, there are several reasons to believe that gold could maintain upward trajectory. Investor attention may have been focused on US equity markets, technology stocks and cryptocurrencies this year, but gold has still had a decent 2017, delivering double-digit growth in the first 11 months alone. Read More |
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12.14.17- Why the New Tax Reform Bill
Such a move means it will be the first time the U.S. will rewrite its tax codes since 1986. After witnessing some of the most crushing tax rates under the Obama administration, the bill can’t come soon enough for business owners. Should it come to fruition, it’s expected to cut corporate tax down from thirty-five percent to twenty percent. Read More |
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12.13.17- Gold & Crypto Destroy Fiat
That’s clearly in play now, and the deregulation of America’s thousands of small banks is perhaps the most exciting event taking place on this new “inflationary frontier”. Because of these powerful monetary trends, I’ve predicted big problems ahead for Wall Street and somewhat better times for Main Street. Having said, that, I think investors would be making a major mistake to assume America is going to experience any kind of fabulous rebirth and relive an economic growth era like the 1950s, let alone the Golden Age of the 1880s. Read More |
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12.12.17- CPM Group’s Jeff Christian Responds “NEGATIVELY” To The SRSrocco Report On Silver Investment Demand
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12.11.17- 2018 Will be Gold’s Time to Shine
Gold’s time to shine will be at the end of 2018 JP Morgan’s outlook for gold in 2018 is markedly positive, especially in the second half of the year. As stated in a recent Kitco article, during the first half of 2018, gold should average $1,295 an ounce, with the average climbing to $1,340 in the second half, said the bank in its 2018 Global Commodities Outlook. Read More |
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12.09.17- The Government Manipulation Of Precious Metals Caused The Rush Into Bitcoin
In the year 301 AD, the Roman unit of barter was the denarius, which had originally been 95% pure silver when introduced by Augustus at the end of the first century BC but by the time of Diocletian’s rule, it had moved to 50,000 denarii to a pound of gold. Ten year later, it took 120,000 denarii to buy a pound of gold and by 337, that figure was 20,000,000. What had occurred in a mere 400 years was that a slow and agonizing erosion in the purchasing power of the Roman currency accelerated to full fiat disintegration and that complete and total disregard for the denarius was attributed as one of the underlying causes of the Fall of the Roman Empire. Read More |
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12.08.17- Gold Investors Should
Over the last few days, I’ve been approached by several friends and acquaintances interested in Bitcoin. Most, know nothing about cryptocurrencies, but their excitement is palpable. One described reading how China was going to switch to Bitcoins and that he needed to get in before it was too late. I think he severely misunderstood the article, but I listened anyway. Read More |
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12.07.17- The Dirty Secret of COMEX Delivery Revealed!
We were called chicken littles because each delivery month would see open interest collapse going into and during the delivery process and default from excess demand always evaporated at the last moments. I wrote several times and questioned the logic of accounts that were fully funded to take delivery…they just “went away”. It defied logic to say the least. We also speculated but could never prove these fully funded longs were “bribed” to not take delivery. Read More |
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12.06.17- Are We Ready For A Gold And Silver Rally?
In fact, in 2011, the fundamentals for the metals market were exceptionally strong, with most everyone believing in the certainty of gold exceeding the $2,000 mark, just before we began a multi-year pullback. Moreover, the fundamentals were terribly weak just as we were hitting the bottom in 2015, with most market participants being certain that gold was about to break below $1,000. Read More |
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12.05.17- Gold Prices Will Jump After the December Fed Meeting The price of gold has appeared stagnant since October. Normally, traders flock to the precious metal during times of uncertainty and instability. That’s why it was surprising that not even another ballistic missile fired by North Korea was enough to rally gold prices. The precious metal continues to trade in a narrow trading range about $25 wide. Read More |
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12.04.17- Seasonal slam
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12.02.17- The War on Gold Intensifies: It Betrays the Elitists’ Panic and Augurs Their Coming Defeat
Magicians use distraction, deflection and misdirection to conduct their tricks. They get their audiences to look to the left while they perform their magic undetected on the right. So do con artists and swindlers. George H. W. Bush, in a speech delivered to a joint session of Congress on 11 September 1990 entitled “Toward a New World Order,” headlined a geopolitical theme that has garnered a great deal of attention ever since. And while Bush was not the first person to use the term, it struck a global nerve when he invoked it. Read More |
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12.01.17-Breaking My Silence Regarding A Long-Time Silverbug Turning His Back On Silver
So many have contacted me recently regarding Andy Hoffman’s sudden flip flop on silver that I feel it necessary to comment publicly. To be clear, this is not a “hit piece” on Andy, rather using logic and common sense I hope it is some comfort for those worried. I believe what and “how” Andy has acted can be classified as irresponsible for several reasons. Read More |
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A major blind spot in U.S. strategic economic doctrine is the increasing use of physical gold by China, Russia, Iran, Turkey and others both to avoid the impact of U.S. sanctions and create an offensive counterweight to U.S. dominance of dollar payment systems.
Gold is a finite resource. According to 
Gold and silver have been closely linked for over five thousand years. In around 3000 BC, the first Egyptian Pharaoh Menes stated that two and one-half parts silver equal one-part gold. The statement in ancient times was the first time the metals that are the longest standing means of exchange in the world would be linked. Gold and silver have a dual role. As metals, they are both commodities, but also have a history as financial assets. Both precious metals have industrial uses because of the physical characteristics. They are also adornments that symbolize wealth and beauty. 
The trend of accumulation continues onward, with no signs of slowing down despite a sluggish precious metals paper market that at this point is nothing more than a complete and utter farce.
In 2016, archaeologists working at a dig site in Bulgaria came across a tiny but significant find: A gold bead measuring about an eighth of an inch in diameter, which scientists believe may be the oldest piece of refined gold jewelry ever discovered -- dating back as far as 4600 B.C. 
Rising gold prices could result in major gains for these stocks: Barrick Gold, Agnico Eagle, Nemont Mining and Goldcorp.
After last week’s sharp rally, gold and silver failed to follow through this week ahead of the quarter-end. Gold lost $24 from last Friday’s close to trade at $1324 in morning trade in Europe today (Thursday) and silver lost 33 cents to end up at $16.25.
It is generally well known in economic circles and in the general public that precious metals, including gold, tend to be the go-to investment during times of fiscal uncertainty. There is a good reason for this. Precious metals have foundation qualities that provide trade stability; these include inherent rarity (rather than artificially engineered rarity such as that associated with cryptocurrencies), tangibility (you can hold gold in your hand, and it is relatively difficult to destroy), and precious metals are easy to trade. Unless you are attempting to make transactions overseas, or in denominations of billions of dollars, precious metals are the most versatile, tangible trading platform in existence. 
In the old Greek mythology, the opening of Pandora’s box unleashed many evils on the world. Within the next few years, we will see a modern Pandora’s box being opened that will lead to events in the world which will be as devastating as when the ancient box was opened. The very big difference is that this time the consequences will not be part of historical mythology. Instead they will be real and catastrophic for the whole world on a scale never experienced in history.
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This week’s COT report once again confirms that the Large Speculators are arguably the stupidest group of gold traders in existence. To be certain, as criminality is to the Commercials, brainlessness is to the Large Specs. They are constantly long massive positions at major turning points in gold and silver and are consistently on the wrong side of the trade. Pundits love to refer to the Small Speculators as “dumb retail” or the typically green, blindly optimistic newcomer piling into gold futures after receiving an e-blast from one of the blogs praising the regenerative powers of gold and silver. However, I have been watching the Small Specs for a while now and they have actually been on the right side far more often, but without question, residing forever and a day in the House of Pain, are the Large Specs. The last two COT reports illustrate this point perfectly but first take a peek at the last 30 days of gold trading. 
Doug says gold is going to $2000 this year, and that’s just the start…
Consider silver's relative scarcity to gold. No doubt, much more abundant, much more widely available. And shouldn't that ratio have some general bearing on the price discrepancy between the two?
Gold spiked in January, and looked to be headed even higher. But there were some problems. First, futures speculators - as tracked by the Commitment of Traders (COT) report - had gone overwhelmingly long, and since they tend to be wrong at emotional extremes, this was a red flag. Second, gold was approaching the $1,360 level that had, since 2014, been the place where upward momentum went to die. For the relevant charts, see 
US economics is extremely predictable. It doesn’t matter who is President and what party he comes from. Because every president will spend more money than the US can afford. On average, US Federal debt has doubled every 8 years since Reagan came to power in 1981. And Trump has just fulfilled the prediction. The budget deal that has been agreed is guaranteed to produce substantial deficits in coming years. The current year’s deficit might be just under $1 trillion but thereafter it is virtually guaranteed that the US will not have a budget deficit under $1 trillion for many, many years. 
Rudi Fronk and Jim Anthony, cofounders of Seabridge Gold, delve into the question of whether inflation is good for gold.
The gold to silver ratio hit 80 to 1 last week. That is unusual – the 3rd highest in over 20 years. It tells us:
Markets around the world are convulsing which is definitely different than anything we have seen in over a year. We also know that interest rates are going higher all over the world. In fact, if you look at rates going back to 1981, the downtrend line(s) has been broken and thus a very major change. Generational trades and 37 year trend lines are rare on their own, when they finally break it means something very big has changed and you must do your very best at trying to figure out “what” it is.
The gold price has risen about 20% since I wrote “
Virtually no investor studies history and the few who do always think it is different today. The most important lesson is that people never learn. If they did, they wouldn’t be invested in a stock market that on any criteria is now at a bubble extreme. And they wouldn’t be invested in a global debt market which has grown exponentially in recent decades and which will become worthless in the next few years as debtors default. Nor would anyone hold paper money which is down 97-99% in the last 100 years and which is guaranteed to soon fall the final bit to take the value to zero. 
I have been saying it for years and I will say it again here — stocks are the worst possible “predictive” signal for the health of the general economy because they are an extreme trailing indicator. That is to say, when stock markets do finally crash, it is usually after years of negative signs in other more important fundamentals.
In its outlook for 2018, Thomson Reuters GFMS analysts see gold prices rising to $1,500 an ounce sometime this year on inflation fears. This would put gold at a level unseen since April 2013. 
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Gold futures tipped higher Monday, attempting to rebound from last week’s losses, when stronger U.S. hiring and wage data lifted the dollar and Treasury yields. Those moves came on the belief that the Federal Reserve could turn more aggressive in its approach to interest rates.
When people think about investing in precious metals, they typically think 
Nearly $2,000,000,000 of gold “sold” in two minutes, and silver hammered under $17. Here’s an update… 
The world’s two largest silver mines have seen their productivity decline substantially due to falling ore grades and rising costs. Gone are the days when silver mines could produce silver at 15-20 ounces per ton. Today, the Primary Silver Mining Industry is likely producing silver at an average yield of 4-5 ounces per ton.
2018 is starting right on cue. Inflationary pressures have been latent for quite some time but have recently shown the world what is to come in the next few years. 
The leverage in the economic system has become so extreme; investors have no idea of the disaster that is going to take place during the next stock market crash. The collapse of the U.S. Housing and Investment Banking Industry in 2008 and ensuing economic turmoil was a mere WARM-UP for STAGE 2 of the continued disintegration of the global financial and economic system.
Nicolas Oresme, a Catholic bishop (1320-1382), studied human behavior with regard to money, which in his time consisted of gold and silver coinage; he was perhaps the first to observe that humans attribute varying valuations to the money that comes into their hands. He stated that holders of gold and silver coins prefer to tender their most deteriorated coins in payments, and retain the most bright, shiny and perfect of their coins. Thus, he was the true originator of what has come to be known as "Gresham's Law", long before the Englishman Thomas Gresham made a similar observation during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603). 
It sure is shaping up to be one heck of a summer, and now the stakes have been raised. Here’s the details…
While Gold is very close to a major breakout (in price) its strength has not filtered down to Silver yet. Gold is 3% away from a major breakout and comfortably above its long-term moving averages. However, Silver is well below its 2016 high and is currently battling its 200-day moving average. But that is okay. Silver typically lags and underperforms Gold until Gold gains momentum or breaks key resistance. A major breakout in Gold this year and its effect on Silver is just one reason why Silver could have a big year.
Chris shows when to trade or buy gold & silver in the second half of January. Here’s the details…
The arguments in favor of silver as an investment asset are growing rapidly. In the opinion of the Jackass website, silver is the most under-valued hard asset in existence, with the highest potential for price appreciation on the globe. To begin with, central banks own no silver, but do own huge tracts of gold. Industry has huge demand for silver, but a trifling amount for gold demand. The investment demand is another key factor in favor of silver, but also for gold. Ever since the tech telecom bust in 2000, the precious metals growth curve has been evident. Ever since the subprime bond disaster in 2007, followed by the Lehman strangulation in 2008, the precious metals growth curve has continued. It is suppressed like holding back a team of six stagecoach Clydesdale horses by simple leather straps held by mere men with computers on their backs. 
The Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire had gold coins called the aureus and solidus, but they also minted a popular silver coin called the denarius. One denarius was the daily wage for unskilled labor and Roman soldiers.
The U.S. Stock Market is reaching its biggest bubble in history. When the price of the Dow Jones Index only moves in one direction… UP, it is setting up for one heck of a crash. While market corrections aren’t fun for investors’ portfolios, they are NECESSARY. However, it seems that corrections are no longer allowed to take place because if they did, then the tremendous leverage in the market might turn a normal correction into panic selling and a meltdown on the exchanges.
In the annals of silver in the modern age, there have been two well-known instances of very large investor accumulations of the metal. First came the purchase by the Hunt Brothers and their associates in early 1980, followed by the purchase by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, 17 years later. The Hunts were said to control around 100 million ounces of actual metal (plus another 100 million ounces in long paper futures contracts), while Berkshire held as many as 129 million ounces. 
Welcome to 2018 – a year that will be the culmination of at least 105 years of mismanagement of the Western financial system by governments, central bankers and the elite.
Gold never changes - only the world changes around it. 
The price of silver is up 10% in three weeks. That’s unusual for silver right now.
During a recent interview, First Majestic Silver CEO Keith Neumeyer shared some interesting comments about the silver market. In particular he spoke about a development that could lead to the end of the ongoing manipulation.
On Jan. 1, a Virginia law that repeals sales taxes from some purchases of gold and silver went into effect. It represents an important first step toward encouraging its regular use as currency and breaking the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money.
We love to repeat that gold is money. We also love to point out that silver has been money longer than gold. Sometimes when when we look at situations or images long enough we begin to stop seeing certain aspects, characteristics or attributes that are right at the end of ones nose. This is what just happened with me. After looking at silver for so long it seems that I have overlooked the fact that silver has been money longer than gold and, therefore, has created more innovation, more wealth and helped more people rise up from bondage than gold. Silver is the key to our personal freedom and sovereignty.
A new, long-term, secular bull market in gold has begun.
If you want the upside potential of Bitcoin with minimal downside risk, then silver may well be your answer.
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