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05.18.19- Why We Need Gold
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05.17.19- Coming Economic Collapse
More than 99.5% of world financial assets are invested in other things but gold. That makes gold one of the least desired asset classes on the planet. Most professional as well as private investors would never consider gold as part of their portfolio. Read More |
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05.16.19- Crazy Not! Much Higher Gold Prices
He shows the many reasons to own gold in the following “Time Bomb – Global Risk” graphic. Read More |
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05.15.19- Finally, Silver Prices May Have Bottomed, But What Happens Next?
“At ~$15, the silver price is close to levels not seen since 2015 and we see little downside risk at this level. Any future economic hiccups and market sell-offs are likely to encourage investors to look for safe havens and alternatives to traditional financial assets,” the report said. Read More |
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05.14.19- To Stack Or Not To Stack: What To Do When You Get To 1000 Ounces Of Silver & 5 Ounces Of Gold?
I’ve Been Helping My Members weather the economic mess for over 20 years. Now I invite you to join my growing circle of successful investors and the 15,000-plus members we’ve helped scattered over the globe and over 100,000+ free newsletter subscribers have read our weekly e-newsletter. Read More |
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05.13.19- Precious Metals Are Setting Up For A Major Rally While The Broader Markets Are Primed For A Crash
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05.11.19- What Is A Bigger Alchemists’ Dream: MMT Or Transmutation Into Gold?
Great news for all who oppose the House of Lannister’s rule in King’s Landing – the final season of the Game of Thrones has eventually began, so the status quo in Westeros will be certainly challenged. Read More |
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05.10.18- Just Introduced Federal Legislation Would Require FULL AUDIT Of America’s Gold Reserves
The Gold Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 2559) – backed by the Sound Money Defense League and government accountability advocates – directs the Comptroller of the United States to conduct a “full assay, inventory, and audit of all gold reserves, including any gold in ‘deep storage,’ of the United States at the place or places where such reserves are kept.” Read More |
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05.09.19- Moves In Gold And Silver Will Be
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05.08.19- Opportunity knocks!
We ran this article last week for subscribers and are releasing it for the public this week. (We will then also re-run an article done last summer regarding junk silver.) Currently an anomaly exists that only a couple years ago could not have been imagined. 10 years ago it would have been considered an impossibility! Back in 2010, when gold traded around $1,000 per ounce, “numismatic” pre-1933 gold coins traded for huge premiums. This happened because there was fear the Obama administration might go the route of FDR and confiscate bullion. That did not happen, but we did get to see a precursor to what might be should (when?) confiscation become a reality. Read More |
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05.07.19- Gold An Important Portfolio Diversifier as Demand Increases by 7%
Global Gold Demand Rises By 7% in Q1 2019In their analysis of market metrics for the first quarter of 2019, the World Gold Council took note of a 7% increase in global gold demand compared to the previous year, reports Kitco. Read More |
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05.06.19- What Knocked Me Off My Feet About Bart Chilton’s Last Interview
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05.04.19- The Nature of Money
As the editor of the Silver Bear Cafe, I try to focus on the ramifications of world events. I try to understand how what's going on now will affect your pocketbook next week, next month, next year. It is my sole intent to help you consider the possibilities which will, in turn, help you prepare for your financial future. 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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05.03.19- How Gold Could Stage
Futures settled at $1,272 Thursday, leaving them down 0.7% on the year. They lost 1% in April, for their third consecutive monthly decline. The world’s largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, SPDR Gold Shares (ticker: GLD), is down 1.1% this year. “In 2019, capital has been flowing into stocks, U.S. Treasuries, and recently, the U.S. dollar,” says Taki Tsaklanos, founding author at financial analysis provider Investing Haven. After gold rose earlier this year, “investors bumped into gold’s bear market wall [of $1,375 an ounce]. This bear market wall proved to be too stubborn, so capital found its way to other defensive asset classes,” he adds. Read More |
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05.02.19- More Trouble in Mexico: Second Largest Silver Mine Suspended Operations
The blockade was started due to issues with the local community in regards to water supply concerns and problems with a trucking contractor. However, the protests by the local community over water rights have been going on ever since the Penasquito Mine started operations in 2010. Read More |
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05.01.19- Why US Dollar Strength is Long Term Catalyst for Gold
The standard inverse relationship has not been a perfect one in recent months or years. In the chart below we plot Gold, gold stocks and the US Dollar. Read More |
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04.30.19- The Debt Time Bomb:
What a bunch of nonsense. Have you ever heard the phrase, “What a gold mine!”? That common, age-old expression was actually a positive reference to having something very valuable. Notably, a gold mine that paid its owners very well by producing gold. Read More |
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04.29.19- China Holds the Gold
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04.27.19- Market Report: PMs steadier
The lowest prices were seen on Tuesday, when silver sold off to $14.75, a level not seen since Christmas, and gold down to $1266.30. Volumes picked up noticeably on that day. Tuesday is also the day of the Commitment of Traders figures, so no doubt it will register as very oversold. We will know more this evening when the numbers are released after trading hours. Read More |
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04.26.19- Will Stephen Moore
Who Are You, Mr. Moore? There are still two vacancies at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. It’s possible that Stephen Moore will fill one gap, which has provoked great controversy. Read More |
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04.25.19- Fat tailed put option
The above quote has been atop www.jsmineset.com for over 6 months now. Recently, several readers have asked “what does it mean and why has the quote remained for so long”? With financial markets bloated and ready to implode without notice, let’s look at this very important concept and then expand on it as you will see. Read More |
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04.24.19- Bankrupting Coffee Shops – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
Last week was holiday-shorted due to Good Friday (it’s not an official holiday in the US, but it is in the UK. And this week’s report is a day late due to Easter Monday). The price of gold dropped $15, but the price of silver rose ¢4. Perhaps silver traders got word that we are paying interest on silver, which gives people a reason to hold silver? J The discussion in the opening essay [which can be found here, ed.] is germane to the topic of the gold price. It should be clear that—whatever its virtues—gold will not protect you from the second cause of rising prices (i.e., regulation that destroys productive businesses, and thus supply of goods, and hence causes prices to rise). The price of gold does not go up just because the city bankrupts another coffee shop. Read More |
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04.23.19- Manipulation of Gold Price Is As Evil As WWII Expropriation
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04.22.19- 95% Stock Market Loss
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04.20.19- Why Gold Could Rise
At Dohmen Capital Research, we believe a good recent example is the 2008 global crisis. Gold plunged 31% as credit tightened, the crisis accelerated and a rush to cash from all assets commenced. That was painful for bulls who didn’t know that a credit crisis causes all assets to plunge. But it also created a great buying opportunity at the bottom. Here is the chart of the gold ETF during that time: Read More |
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04.19.19- Gold Still To React To U.S. Dollar Weakness, Watch For A Move Higher
The precious metal’s prices dropped 0.32% this week, with the biggest losses seen on Thursday, when the metal fell 1.5%. June Comex gold futures were last trading at $1,296, up 0.21% on the day. The good news in all of this has been gold finding its footing, with prices expected to rebound slightly next week amid lower trading value due to a series of public holidays around the world for Easter. Read More |
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04.18.19- World’s Largest Primary Silver Miner Production Plunges
Furthermore, while silver production fell the most at its Fresnillo Mine, the company also experienced declines at its Saucito and San Julian Mines. Total silver production at Fresnillo PLC dropped by 15% in the first quarter compared to the same quarter in 2018. Read More |
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04.17.19- Dollar Dominance Under Multiple, Converging Threats
That push has been accelerated by Washington’s use of the dollar as a weapon of financial warfare, including the application of sanctions. The U.S. uses the dollar to reward friends and punish enemies. Read More |
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04.16.19- Time to Become a Hindu
Hindus make up 80% of India’s population and, to Hindus, gold is sacred. Lakshmi (pictured above) is the Hindu goddess of purity, prosperity and good fortune. Her symbol is gold, so gold plays an important part in Hindu ceremonial occasions and Hindus donate large amounts of gold to the temples in Lakshmi’s name. Read More |
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04.15.19- Cartel Desperate To Keep Gold & Silver Prices Down Right Up Until The Collapse
Editor’s Note: This post is subjective opinion and possibly offensive. Do not continue reading if easily offended. Read More |
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04.13.19- Silver Shortages are Here and Gold Scarcity is Coming
This is of course nothing new for the US which has practised MMT for soon 70 years. Not since the early 1960s has the US had a real budget surplus. Europe has had socialist governments for decades, but for the US it is a relatively new phenomenon. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has now picked up the baton from Krugman, arguing that socialism and deficit spending is the solution to the US problems. Read More |
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04.12.19- Golden Straws In The Wind
One of those straws is Russia’s continuing accumulation of gold reserves. Financial pundits tell us that this is to avoid being beholden to the US dollar, and undoubtedly there is truth in it. But why gold? Here, the pundits are silent. There is an answer, and that is Russia understands in principal the virtues of sound money relative to possession of another country’s paper promises. Hence, they sell dollars and buy gold. Read More |
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04.11.19- Sound Money From a Biblical Perspective
In today’s world, it is obvious that the competition of ideas is under serious threat and with it, the much-needed discussions on how to deal with certain topics or try to understand the world we live in. That is particularly worrying, especially when one considers that the western world went through the process of Enlightenment roughly 200 years ago. In the words of Immanuel Kant: Read More |
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04.10.19- If Evidence Of Gold & Silver Manipulation Isn’t Enough For Charges, Maybe Govt Is The Perp?
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In commentary posted SilverSeek, silver market analyst Ted Butler reports confirmation from former Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Bart Chilton that JPMorganChase assumed from the collapsing investment bank Bear Stearns a massive short position in silver and has been allowed to manipulate the silver market for years right to the present day. Read More |
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04.09.19- "Maintain Stable Prices" - Who are the Central Banks Kidding?
Below is the Fed’s Incompetence Chart. Some people would use a sophisticated description like an inverted yield curve when the rate goes negative. But that doesn’t tell the real story. Read More |
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04.08.19- CFTC Deep State Insider exposes the Precious Metals Manipulation … Game On!
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04.06.19- Weekend Rant: Confirmation,
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04.05.19- Silver Bullion Set to Soar
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04.04.19- Will Basel III Send Gold to the Moon?
Will it? It would be easy to say—as with all of their other predictions of gold to infinity and beyond—“wait and see.” But where’s the fun in that? We’d rather look into the nature of the claim, how banks operate, and what the regulation actually says. Read More |
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04.03.19- Commerzbank Sees $1,400 Gold, $16.50 Silver By Year-End
Gold started the year strongly, nearly reaching $1,350 an ounce last month, helped by a U.S. Federal Reserve that made a dovish U-turn and now appears cautious about hiking interest rates again. However, the metal subsequently gave up much of its gains and was trading at $1,303.60 as of 8:20 a.m. EDT. Silver, which has followed gold up and back down, was at $15.35. Read More |
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04.02.19- ADL Predictions for the Price of Gold
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04.01.19- A Primer On How To Buy And Store
I'm always surprised by how few people understand the options for buying precious metals. Even the very affluent. I recently returned from a conference full of highly-qualified investors who "get" the economic risks we discuss here at PeakProsperity.com. And on multiple occasions, I was asked if I could demystify the purchasing process for folks who wanted to build a position in gold and silver. Read More |
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03.30.19- FORECAST: $1400 Gold in 2019
Morgan says we’re seeing stagflation. While the global economy is shrinking, prices continue to rise. The yield curve has inverted regarding the 3 Month and 10 Year Treasuries. This signals a recession, Morgan says. Read More |
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03.29.19- Yield Curve Has Inverted.
Red alert! Or, actually, a yield alert! After months of worries, the yield curve has finally inverted. Well, maybe not the whole yield curve, but one of its segment. As one can see in the chart below, the spread between US 10-year Treasury and 3-Month Treasury dived on Friday to its lowest since 2007. Read More |
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03.28.19- The Biggest Short And
Since its creation in 1913, and especially after WWII, the Fed has always been behind the curve. It is hard to believe that this is just incompetence. The recent change of policy hardly seems to be part of a plan but rather another reaction to events. Looking back at the Fed’s policy decisions, it is clear that virtually all are reactive rather than proactive. Read More |
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03.27.19- Crescat Capital Analyst Says Firm is Buying Gold and Selling Stocks
Buying Gold and Selling Stocks is the Trade of the Century Crescat Capital ranks as one of the best-performing funds of 2018, boasting a return of as much as 41% through one of its arms over the course of the year. The firm is no stranger to equities and has frequently and prominently included them as part of their strategy. Read More |
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03.26.19- Only Gold Stands Against
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03.25.19- The Hidden Profit Inside Silver Eagles
But what if I told you that when selling certain types of coins, you could gain another layer of profit when you sell? A little leverage on the spot price when it rises. It’s entirely possible. Here’s how… Read More |
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03.23.19- On The Hot Seat...
Ted Butler:That’s the main reason my arguments have never caught on in a big way. Nobody wants to be associated with a conspiracy. However, I draw my conclusion from government data like the Commitment of Traders report and the Bank Participation report. There’s nothing conspiratorial about the data and my conclusions are factual. Read More |
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03.22.19- Gold - Preparing For The Next Move
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03.21.19- IT’S OFFICIAL; U.S. Silver Production The Lowest In More Than 70 Years
Unfortunately, there just aren’t too many economic silver deposits in the United States, especially with the high level of environmental and governmental regulations. Read More |
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03.20.19- The Road Ahead for the Dollar
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03.19.19- Palladium Panic-Bid To Record Highs As Putin Corners Market
Even as auto sales in key markets slow around the world, Bloomberg reports that demand for the metal - mainly used in auto catalytic-converters in gasoline vehicles - has remained robust as manufacturers scramble to get hold of palladium to meet more stringent emissions controls, particularly in China. Palladium has become the precious-est of precious metals. Read More |
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03.18.19- Jay Taylor: Under “Basel III” Rules,
And not surprisingly, the lion’s share of gold is flowing into central banks of countries that are in the sights of America’s killing machine—the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about in 1958. Read More |
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03.16.19- Bob Moriarty: Invest When You’re Terrified, Sell When You’re Pleased
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03.15.19- What Will You Be Holding When The Dollar Dies?
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03.14.19- 3 Things That Don’t Affect Price of Gold
To this point, Gold’s rallies have failed to make higher highs and higher lows because, although there has been improvement in fundamentals, the fundamentals have not turned bullish yet. The technical trigger will be Gold and gold stock outperformance of the stock market which will likely precede the fundamental catalyst of Fed rate cuts. The start of rate cuts will indicate declining real interest rates which is the key driver of bull markets in Gold. Read More |
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03.13.19- Precious Metals Analyst Says Gold’s Recent Dip Only Temporary
In a recent Seeking Alpha post, Metal Bulletin precious metals analyst Boris Mikanikrezai advised Americans not to look too deep into gold’s recent dip below $1,300. As Mikanikrezai explained, gold has too many strong upwards drivers to falter, and a pullback will merely act as a temporary consequence of selling pressure, says Kitco. Read More |
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03.12.19- Predictions for gold from a legendary natural resource investor
It’s when you get credit for a great quote, but no one really knows who said it first. If there’s any doubt, people’s go-to list is usually either Albert Einstein, Mark Twain or the former New York Yankees catcher, Yogi Berra. For example, there’s the quote, “predictions are hard, especially about the future,” which is often attributed to Berra. And “compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world,” attributed to Einstein. For Twain, pick a random quote, and people may give him the credit. Read More |
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03.11.19- Are You Ready for the
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03.09.19- Gold Could Reach $1,480 by 2020
Gold’s Technicals Will Bring the Metal to $1,480 in 2020 After a stellar run that saw gold all but erase its losses from the previous year, both new and old entries to the market have been left wondering: what’s next in store for the metal? Read More |
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03.08.19- Gold To Soar As Central Banks Try To Play God Again
What has changed is that the central banks are already turning the monetary spigots back on—all but the Fed. This morning the ECB announced new stimulus measures just two months after they supposedly tapered their QE program to zero. Think about that. They turned off the monetary spigots for a proverbial five minutes, German and EU economic data continue down the sinkhole along with inflation, and the ECB does a 180 back to QE and likely NIRP too (both of which clearly don’t work, but what else can they do?). This is the definition of a “Ponzi scheme”. Without increasing cash inflows, it collapses. That is the EU and global markets today. Read More |
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03.07.19- Gold And Silver Take The Stairs Higher And Elevator Lower- PGM’s Shine
Gold and silver had been taking the stairs higher The price of gold had been moving to the upside since mid-August when the yellow metal traded to a low at $116140. The most recent peak came on February 20, when gold reached $1344 per ounce on the continuous futures contract. The rally over six months took the price 15.7% higher, an impressive gain considering the decline last summer. Read More |
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03.06.19- Should we be investing in gold in 2019?
They say 10% of your wealth should be in precious metals… wonder will this apply to the Euromillions 6 and their €30 million each? John Lowe the Money Doctor gives the background. Read More |
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03.05.19- The Gold-Gambling Casino
Since that time, the world's use of gold as money has ceased, and as of today, gold's only function is as a means of saving wealth for future use. Today, the market for gold consists of two groups of individuals or economic entities: a) those who wish to acquire gold for the purpose of saving some wealth for future use, and b) those who hope to realize a profit in terms of paper money, by speculating in the gold market. Read More |
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03.04.19- Platinum vs. Palladium – What you need to know about the demand and price analysis
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03.02.19- How Smart Investors Will Profit From Rising Gold Prices
That’s why, for today’s guest essay, we’re featuring E.B. Tucker. As a board member of a gold royalty company, he knows a thing or two about owning and investing in gold. Below, E.B. explains why money is about to flow back into this sector… and shows there’s a better way to play the trend than just owning physical gold… Regular Diary readers will remember I wrote to you on Wednesday. I told you why I thought gold was headed to $1,500 this year. It’s currently trading at $1,330. Read More |
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03.01.19- Gold Price Forecast: A Warning Signal From The Far East
There have been solid fundamental reasons for gold’s run: primarily, the Federal Reserve last month hinted that it may not continue raising interest rates, as it had been assuring it would over the past three years. Such in turn has been considered a sign that the Fed may in fact reverse course and begin cutting rates later this year, which is generally considered negative for the value of the dollar and positive for precious metals. However, are these fundamentals enough to keep bullion’s run alive? Will this market narrative continue going forward? Read More |
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02.28.19- Bullish Sentiment Won’t Prevent a Breakout in Gold
Lesson learned. Turning to Gold, we find something similar during major breakouts in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In the chart below we plot Gold along with its net speculative position (as a percentage of open interest) and the widely followed daily sentiment index. Read More |
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02.27.19- U.S. Mint Sells Out Of 2018-2019 American Eagle Silver Coins
Last week, the U.S. Mint announced that it sold the last of its 2018-2019 batch of American Eagle Silver coins. According to Kitco, the U.S. Mint stated on Thursday that the series included 6 million units of one-ounce coins. In the announcement, the Mint blamed the shortage on market fluctuations and reassured investors that production of new coins is underway. Read More |
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92.25.19- Mr. Butler's Silver Newsletter
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02.25.19- The return to a gold exchange standard
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02.23.19- Gold – here’s why it just might be different this time
Our summer trade idea to buy with the aim of offloading in the winter for a 10%-20% gain has hit the target. As I write it stands at $1,344 an ounce. But now the bulls are coming out of the woodwork. Is it time to offload? Is this another false dawn or has this run got legs? These are the questions we ask in today’s Money Morning. Read More |
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02.22.19- Breaking: US Mint Sold Out of
The mint issued a statement late Thursday saying they had run out of last year’s and this year’s dated one-ounce coins. “Market fluctuations have resulted in a temporary sellout of 2018 and 2019 silver bullion. Production at the Mint’s West Point facility continues and when sales resume, silver bullion will be offered under allocation,” the mint said. Read More |
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02.21.19- The Coming Restoration of Silver
Currently, it is probably as far away (not time wise though) from being used as a monetary asset, as it has ever been. It is for this reason that silver is so under valued and such a must-buy. Read More |
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02.20.19- Gold Price Forecast: Will Gold Breakout Above $1360?
Gold is once again at a critical juncture just like last April. Will it tuck tail and run or finally breakout? I think we will know within the next few trading days. Below is our afternoon update for GDX. Precious Metal Investors have been beaten down trying to trade these markets over the last 3-5 years. Are investors expecting a breakout? I bet there are fewer bulls now than during last April's breakout attempt. If the masses aren't expecting it - then, a breakout is possible. Read More |
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02.19.10- Gold Could Regain Status as a True Global Currency
With a wobbly stock market, falling Treasury yields and rampant geopolitical strife, the focus on gold has been intense as of late. The metal’s price gains reflect this, as gold recently proved able to hold above a key resistance level, which holds bullish implications. Read More |
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02.18.19- Reason #437 to own gold: The Fed wants Negative Interest Rates
After cutting interest rates to nearly zero following the 2008 crisis, the Federal Reserve starting raising rates near the end of 2015 (from 0.25% to 2.5% today). Following the most recent hike in December 2018, Chairman Powell seemed hell bent on further tightening, saying “some further gradual increases” were in the cards. Read More |
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02.16.19- David Morgan Explains Low Silver Price
In short, his answer was that the banks currently have the ability to make silver just about any price they want. Because the price-setting mechanism is traded in paper, rather than physical metal. Which is rather stunning and amazing in its own right, yet still simple enough to understand, and worth exploring further. Read More |
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02.15.19- How to Prevent the Government From Having Control Over Your Financial Life
“I know the cops are there.” The receptionist looked around. She didn’t know what the man on the phone was talking about. There were no cops in the lobby. Just a delivery man standing in front of her desk, trying to drop off a package. But the man on the phone was right. The cops were there. Three dozen of them, watching every exit in the building… plus an undercover FBI agent posing as the delivery man. He was carrying a package of 1,000 gold coins... worth $1.5 million. Read More |
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02.14.19- The Next Goals for Gold and Silver Prices
If you’ve been following along every week, then you’ll recall that we were quite adamant regarding a year-end 2018 and Q1 2019 price rally for both gold and silver. From the November lows, we projected a rally in COMEX gold to $1310-1330 and a rally in COMEX silver to $16.35. Both peaked on January 31, with COMEX gold hitting $1331 and COMEX silver reaching $16.20. If you’d like a refresher of what was projected, please see these links: Read More |
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02.13.19- Gold’s Surge Has Been Disguised
Over the past two decades, the commodity has actually seen a widespread, strong, and sustained value appreciation around the globe against 72 currencies, according to Ross Norman, CEO of London-based bullion broker Sharps Pixley. That basket of currencies includes developed countries such as Canada, Australia, and Japan, as well as emerging markets including Brazil, India, and Iran. “Using the dollar gold price, as most of us do, has disguised what is actually quite a powerful bull market,” Norman wrote in a note last week. Read More |
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02.12.19- Shiny happy reserves
Central banks bought 651.5 tonnes of gold in 2018, the second highest on record and up 74 percent from the year earlier, according to the World Gold Council. As in the past three years, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey were significant buyers, but were last year joined by the likes of Poland, Hungary and India. Read More |
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02.11.19- Secret Kept from Public: We’ve a Modern Day Gold Rush Going On Right Now!
As we take the time to either add to our positions, or as we think about starting a position during this latest pullback in gold & silver prices, it may be helpful to put some things into a fundamental perspective. Read More |
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02.09.19- The Next Gold Move Is Here
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02.08.19- Gold is back in fashion
Last year was not a happy one for investors in base metals. The GSCI Industrial Metals index slipped by around 15% from its year-high in June, and the gauge lost another 7% from mid-December to January. It may have bounced since, but don’t expect a sustained revival, says Capital Economics. Base metals prices are likely to weaken as the Chinese economy keeps slowing. The gold price rebound, however – the yellow metal is now above $1,300 for the first time since last summer – does look sustainable. Read More |
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02.07.19- A Bull Market To Eclipse All Bull Markets: When Gold Takes-Out $1400 It Probably Won’t Look Back
The Fed didn’t just fold on Wednesday, it crumpled, capitulated. A long time ago we had figured out that when push came to shove, this is what it would do. However, we thought that it would take a market crash to force it to change course, in order that it could use that as solid justification for a U-turn, instead of which it only took a crashlet, or the start of a crash. Read More |
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02.06.19- A Move Higher Than This Price Will Confirm The Gold Bull Market
This Will Confirm The Gold Bull Market Gold is moving closer to confirming a multi-year bull market per my long-term comparison. A decisive mover higher than the $1375 area would be confirmation of the bull. Below, is the updated long-term comparison: Read More |
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02.05.19- Silver Forecast: Shortage To Send Silver Prices Soaring Above $20 In 2019
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02.04.19- Why China Is Buying Gold Miners… And Why You Should Too
I regarded the man for a moment. His business card was written in Sino script, but it turned out he was an American who had set up shop in Hong Kong several years ago… And was now riding a tidal wave of money. I’d come to Hong Kong’s central business district for meetings on my new Brazil gold project. This was my fourth sit-down of the morning, and the ultra-high grades from my mine had caught this mysterious man’s eye. I knew my numbers were real. But I wasn’t sure about his. Read More |
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02.02.19- Silver Outperforming Gold
Despite a good finish, 2018 was a rough year for silver. Its price slumped 8.6%, way worse than gold’s -1.6% performance. And that still masks miserable intra-year action. At worst in mid-November, silver had plunged 17.3% year-to-date. That was 2.2x gold’s comparable loss, and at $13.99 silver languished at a major 2.8-year low. A soul-crushing 96% of its early-2016 bull market had been reversed and lost! Read More |
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02.01.19- Central Bank Gold Purchases Hit A Record In 2018
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01.31.19- Looking at Gold (and Silver) from the Third Side of the Coin
The correct answer is "three." The front (obverse), back (reverse) and… the edge! When you think about it, this makes sense. From this angle – uncommon to most observers – a person can begin to look more deeply at a given subject. From the edge, you are able by definition, to see "both sides" of the story. Read More |
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01.30.19- Crossing Borders with
Gold has always been in something of a twilight zone in that regard. It’s no longer officially considered money. So it’s usually regarded as just a commodity, like copper, lead, or zinc, for these purposes. The one-ounce Canadian Maple Leaf and US Eagle both say they’re worth $50 of currency. Read More |
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01.29.19- How to Position Yourself for
The January 14 Bloomberg headline above might not seem like much to you right away – but it immediately caught my attention. Here’s why… When an industry consolidates, investors can make a lot of money. Consolidation means buyouts – which usually come at a premium… And premiums boost stock prices higher. [For example, see my January 15 essay on mergers in the biotech sector.] Read More |
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01.28.19- If You Could Design A Perfect World
If so you’re in good – or at least numerous – company. So let’s sketch out such a world. Start by envisioning an America in which a handful of oligopolies have captured banking, media, healthcare and several other important industries, while a tiny group of super-rich neo-aristocrats control as much wealth as the 200 million least-rich citizens. Read More |
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01.26.19- Gold hits $1300 as dollar slumps
The sell-off has been blamed on a Wall Street Journal report, which suggests that the Fed could be taking a more cautious approach towards the shrinking its huge balance sheet. Read More |
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01.25.19- If You Understand Gold,
Investopedia states that “A gold bug is an individual who is very enthusiastic about gold as an investment and its prospects for significantly increasing in value.” Finally the Free Dictionary defines goldbug as “1. A person, especially an economist or politician, who supports the gold standard or 2. A person who believes in buying gold bullion as a personal investment or 3. A gold beetle.” Read More |
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01.24.19- Peering Over the Abyss
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01.23.19- Here's Why the Price of Palladium Just Zoomed Past Gold
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01.22.19- 3 Reasons Gold Market Could See
3 reasons why gold market could run with the bulls According to Reuters columnist Clyde Russell, the very same drivers that propelled gold to its all-time highs between 2008 and 2011 could be making a comeback. In a recent Newsmax article, Russell outlines the three main supporting factors that backed the crisis-driven price spike and why each of them have made a return. Read More |
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01.21.19- About That Government Silver Confiscation...
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01.19.19- “Real” Inflation Expected to Rise – Hedge Your Bets With Gold
In the U.S., even economists who favor the dollar gold price might be blind to an upcoming rise in the financial power of the precious metal. That, and real inflation may become a better gauge to see just how well this measuring stick is doing. Though revealing it at the federal level may send the market into a panic. Read More |
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01.18.19- Gold - The Only Safe Place
Anyone who wants to protect their wealth should not be invested in any of the bubble asset markets as I have stated in many articles. But to also avoid counterparty risk is a lot harder. Read More |
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01.17.19- 10 Reasons Why Silver Will Outshine Gold In 2019
Silver was thought of as a godlike metal in ancient times and was associated with magic. It was often used in ancient religious ceremonies. Silver has a very robust profile of uses, including: electronics, automotive, medicinal, coins and medals, photography, and green tech. Silver has a six thousand year history of use as money, longer than gold, from ancient Mesopotamia to the US Constitution. Silver's production profile suggests that while it gets more and more valuable in society, the lack of primary mines, lower ore grades, and mill output portends a much higher rise in the price than gold. Read More |
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01.16.19- Side-Step the Financial and Political Circus
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01.15.19-Will The Next Silver Rally Exceed
Because while the wait has been frustrating for many, that’s not to say it will not end without due reward. Especially when you think back about what actually happened in 2011, and consider some of the dynamics involved. Read More |
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01.14.19- Top Ten Trends Lead to Gold
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01.12.19- $2,000 Gold and the Secret Gold Rally Hiding in Plain Sight
Below is a chart which shows gold prices denominated in Canadian, Australian and U.S. dollars. You’ll notice gold went on a tear in all currencies from 2000 to 2012. However, after that, gold priced in U.S. dollars has under-performed. Gold priced in Canadian and Australian dollars has been very strong and is within striking distance of all-time highs. Read More |
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01.11.19- Questions Only the DOJ Can Get Answered
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01.10.19- Silver Outperforms Key Markets,
However, that’s exactly what took place in December. I stated, since the beginning of 2018, that when the markets really started to decline the precious metals would likely disconnect and rally higher. Over the past month, the silver price jumped by 10% and gold 5%, while most of the broader indexes, base metals, and energy declined. Read More |
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01.09.19- All We Have Left is to
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01.08.19- Surest Way to Overthrow Capitalism
Any manager will tell you that it’s easy. Just look at the profit and loss statement. Profit is so powerful an incentive for managers, that one could never persuade them to operate based on any other indicator. And it would work—if economists had done their jobs properly. Read More |
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01.07.19- Gold's Safety Factor Kicks Into High Gear
Gold is clearly benefiting from fears of a global economic slowdown and should continue to do so in the weeks ahead. The equity market is trying to bottom and the threat of falling stock prices isn’t an immediate concern among investors right now. Read More |
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01.05.19- Precious Metals Are Overbought....And That's Not A Bad Thing
The run has been strong enough that one could consider both precious metals to be 'overbought' using standard technical indicators such as RSI (at top of charts below) and MFI (at bottom of charts below): Read More |
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01.04.19- GOLD…For Whom The Bell Tolls
No one wants to be too early in calling a bottom in gold as your career would then be aligned with those slightly unhinged perma-bulls that have been calling for a massive move up in gold year after year - and been perma-wrong. Nor do you want to be too late - because that would make you, well plain dull. Read More |
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01.03.19- Gold Price Survey Predicts Prices Could Reach $1,500 in 2019
A recent poll by Kitco News had nearly 5,000 retail investors share their forecast for gold’s price in 2019. The largest group of respondents, numbering 1,640 participants or 34% of the overall pool, predicted that gold would push above $1,500 an ounce by the end of 2019. Read More |
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01.02.19- Doug Casey and Rick Rule on Gold-Backed Cryptos
Crisis Investing chief analyst Nick Giambruno says there is a new kind of digital asset that marries cryptocurrencies and gold into one powerful new financial tool: gold-backed cryptos. If you missed his essay on this idea back in October. Dozens of these gold-backed cryptos are now sprouting up. And the potential is enormous. Investing legends Casey Research founder Doug Casey and Rick Rule – president and CEO of Sprott U.S. Holdings – are both excited about the huge potential of gold-backed cryptos as well. Nick recently interviewed the two on the subject, and today and tomorrow I’m sharing their fascinating discussion…Read More |
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01.01.19- Gold Barrels Into 2019 as Growth Concerns Spur Demand for Haven
Spot bullion is holding near a six-month high after topping $1,280 an ounce, and the metal is set for the best monthly gain in almost two years. December’s rally has pared an annual decline, the first full-year loss since 2015. Read More |
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12.31.18- Silver Quietly Climbs Higher As Cries Of ‘Mass Arrests’, ‘Sealed Indictments’ & ‘Military Tribunals’ Go Silent
Q-Anon has gone silent since December 22nd: These are Q’s last two posts, and the posts are curiously from the same day the very limited federal government shutdown began. One day of will-still-be-paid-in-arrears work was all Q could take? Does truth take a day off? Read More |
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12.29.18- Could the Silver Price Really Hit
Nonetheless, well-known figure Keith Neumeyer, CEO of First Majestic Silver (TSX:FR,NYSE:AG), believes the white metal could reach the $130 level. Neumeyer has voiced this opinion many times, recently giving the $130 number in a November 2017 interview with Palisade Research, and again in March 2018 with Kitco. In the past he’s been even more bold, suggesting the white metal could reach $1,000. Read More |
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12.28.18- 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. Read More |
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12.27.18- Frank Holmes Predicts Gold Explosion to the Upside in “Blink of an Eye”
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12.26.18- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Humility Saves Us From Foolishness
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12.25.18- The Bottom For Gold Was December, 2015 At $1050
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12.24.18- Gold: Trump, the Tariff Man
Equity markets soared on reports of a ceasefire negotiated by Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping, after the G-20 talks. But markets plunged when President Trump deflated the enthusiasm with a self-congratulatory tweet, “I am the Tariff Man”, ignoring that tariffs are really a tax on consumption. Trump, the Tax Man? Then the short lived truce was ended by the diplomatic firestorm caused by the unprecedented Canadian arrest of Huawei’s CFO, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant which was more evocative of the 19th century gunboat Opium Wars than modern democracies with established rules and norms. Read More |
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12.22.18- And the Horse You Rode In On - Purposeful Risks
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12.21.18- Third Stage Gold
But, as I pointed out here, there are actually three stages of gold. The first is reflation or inflation, straightforward enough. The second deflation stage historically isn’t associated with the worst of deflation. It just pushes gold down in sympathy with other commodities. Read More |
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12.20.18- Real Gold Price Lowest in 50 Years
And this is the lesson that most people in the world will need to learn the hard way in coming years. We are now at the end of an era which has created unreal wealth for a few and massive debt for most of the world. As all the bubble markets in stocks, bonds, property and other financial assets implode, together with the debt that has fuelled it all, 100s of trillions of dollars will just vanish and never return. The consequences will be both shocking and devastating for most people. Read More |
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12.19.18- Stumbling Near the Abyss
Bill Holter understands the financial dangers confronting the world, particularly in Europe and the U.S. As for timing he said, “it is happening right before your eyes.” Read More |
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12.18.18- Why it makes sense to
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12.17.18- Palladium?
Palladium (Pd) is a by product of nickel, copper and zinc refining usually. It is mainly used for catalytic converters. It is sometimes alloyed with gold to form white gold. Other uses are in ceramic capacitors for electronic devises and for the purification of hydrogen gas. Read More |
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12.15.18- Gold - A Perfect Storm For 2019
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12.14.18- Is The Buyer’s Market For Silver Coming To An End?
The upshot for investors is that they can now obtain silver bullion at both a low spot price and a low premium above spot. How long this buyer’s market will is unknowable last. But given silver’s manic-depressive personality, prices could launch explosively higher at any time. Read More |
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12.13.18- The Role of Silver Historically as well as Recent Moves in the Market
While they sound impressive, and while I understand the reason for their construct, I actually take umbrage with the linkage of debt to slavery because slavery is a man-induced condition whereby one man is responsible for the enslavement of another while debt is often (but not always) a choice made by the individual. Read More |
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12.12.18- Gold and Global Financial Crisis Redux
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12.11.18- Gold & Silver Prices Rise As The Markets & Oil Decline
Now, I am not saying that the metals prices cannot fall any lower, but a lot of the leverage in the gold and silver market has already been removed and is now at a near all-time low. So, even though we could see weaker precious metals prices, the overwhelming leverage and bubble asset prices are in the stock and real estate markets. Read More |
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12.10.18- Watching Gold
Fundamentally, it shouldn’t as the Fed is tightening the screws on liquidity, the ECB is ready to stop the printing press, and international reserves continue to decline. Check out the chart Higher lows since August, a breakout of a crude cup-and-handle formation, and what looks like the coming test of the 200-day at 1257, which has rejected the gold price over the last year almost as many times I was in high school asking girls out on dates. Read More |
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12.08.18- Is An Inverted Yield Curve Bullish
The 2-year yield and the 5-year yield have inverted but not yet the 2-year yield and the 10-year yield, the curve that is watched most. However, “2s and 10s” as bond traders would say appear headed for an inversion very soon. We know that an inversion of the yield curve precedes a recession and bear market. That is good for gold. But timing is important and the key word is precedes. Read More |
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12.07.18- Gold, Silver & the Markets:
While this sounds counter to the notion that falling oil prices will drive higher consumer demand, we also must remember that it will negatively impact the U.S. shale oil industry. A lower sustained oil price, as I wrote about in my previous article, IT BEGINS… Rapidly Falling Oil Prices First Guts Tar Sands, Then Shale Oil will begin to destroy the oil industry, especially the unconventional oil industry. I don’t believe Americans or the investors realize the tremendous amount of economic activity it takes to produce shale oil. Read More |
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12.06.18- Why buy gold now?
Then, in 2013, gold took a nose dive, losing over 27% of its value. It was widely reported that the Swiss National Bank, the former bastion of monetary conservatism, lost $10 billion that year just on its gold holdings. As you probably know, central banks hold a portion of their reserves in gold. The practice goes back to when central banks actually had to have gold on hand to trade in and out of paper money (or even trade for goods and services). Read More |
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12.05.18- Gold Will Rally If The Trade War Resumes
With those words, the Godfather, Don Corleone, played by Marlon Brando, ended the war among the five mafia families in New York. This peace was hammered out at a dinner among the heads of the five families. This weekend the eyes of the world were on Buenos Aires, where President Trump, China’s President Xi Jinping and some top aides had a private dinner to discuss the current China-U.S. trade war. When I saw the photos of the dinner on Sunday morning, my mind flashed back to the dinner scene from The Godfather. Read More |
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12.04.18- By Their Actions, Central Banks Guarantee Gold & Silver Prices Can ONLY Go Up
But the support from West and East is very different. Western central banks have not been friendly to gold for decades as they have significantly reduced their holdings. Read More |
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12.03.18- Asset Allocation Made Easy
Last month Bill Bonner wrote an interesting article about trading the Dow/gold ratio. He recommended selling the Dow and buying gold when the ratio was above 15 (the Dow is too high compared to gold) and selling gold and buying the Dow when the ration was below 5 (the Dow is cheap compared to gold). I did a quick back test and found that simple strategy yielded an 8+% yearly average over the last 100 years with only 6 swaps. I then back tested trading the gold:silver ratio back and forth (from a ratio of 75 high down to 50 low) during those times that you held your gold position. Read More |
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12.01.18- Silver Price Scandal
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11.30.18- INVESTMENT DEMAND: Still The Largest Growth Sector In The Silver Market
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11.29.18- Love. Fear. Inflation…
Going forward, there are – and will continue to be – three primary drivers of global physical gold (and silver) demand. During certain times in the past only one or two of these elements provided most of the momentum. However, as we move into 2019, and for possibly the next 5-10 years, all three will be in play. They will operate synergistically to consistently motivate increased precious metals' buying around the globe. This will happen, even as meeting that demand with sufficient new supply becomes problematic. Read More |
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11.28.18- Reliable Chart Suggests Gold’s Time
A chart that might give hope to gold bugs Few could argue that the dollar’s rally since the start of the year hasn’t been excessive. After running lower for consecutive years, the greenback reversed course around January and has resisted a correction. Read More |
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11.26.18- Metals Moving in Unison for a Massive Price Advance: Part II
We left off in Part I showing a number of supply and demand components and briefly highlighting our newest research using a custom Gold/Silver/US Dollar ratio index. Our attempt at finding anything new that could help us determine the future outcome of the metals markets and to either support or deny our future expectations that the metals markets are poised for a massive price advance was at stake. Read More |
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11.26.18- Gold remains exceptionally oversold
In early European trade this morning (Friday), gold and silver prices have been marked lower, leaving gold up $2 on the week at $1222 and silver down five cents at $14.28. The active December contract expires next week, and 233,000 contracts will have to be liquidated or rolled forward. But if the shorts are reluctant to roll positions forward, then a bear squeeze should ensue. Traders will be looking for news and rumour for guidance, and ahead of the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, there are likely to be plenty. Read More |
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11.24.18- Why Gold Is Money
Now, why do I say that? Historically, many things have been used as money. Cattle have been used as money in many societies, including Roman society. That’s where we get the word “pecuniary” from: the Latin word for a single head of cattle is pecus. Salt has been used as money, also in ancient Rome, and that’s where the word “salary” comes from; the Latin for salt is sal (or salis). The North American Indians used seashells. Cigarettes were used during WWII. So, money is simply a medium of exchange and a store of value. Read More |
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11.23.18- How Will the Rollback of Dodd-Frank Affect Gold?
In May, President Trump signed the rewrite of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law passed earlier by Congress with rare bipartisan support. The bill is the biggest rollback of bank rules since the financial crisis. According to the new law, lenders with less than $10 billion in assets will be exempted from the Volcker rule that bans proprietary trading. Read More |
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11.22.18- Another Great Oxymoron: "LBMA Transparency"
A summary of the report, along with a brief interview of LBMA CEO Ruth Crowell, can be found at this link:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20… Here are the three main takeaways from the LBMA’s “disclosure”: Read More |
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11.21.18- Metals Moving In Unison For A Massive Price Advance : Part I
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11.20.18- Majority Of Silver Miners Sustaining Cost Significantly Higher Than Market Price
Only one silver mining company out of the group posted a profit of $6.8 million for the quarter, and that was Fortuna Silver Mines. The biggest loser was Coeur Mining which suffered a $53 million loss for the period. Even the largest silver miner in the group, Pan American Silver, reported a surprise loss of $9 million Q3 2018. Read More |
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11.19.18- China’s monetary policy must change
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11.17.18- Gold Re-Monetization Is Much Closer Than Many Realize
This is very true for gold. Gold was formally de-monetized in 1978 with the Jamaica Accord. It is now being re-monetized. This paper aims to answer the questions of how and why. Read More |
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11.16.18- JP Morgan Silver Web Unweaving
– Ted Butler / November 10, 2018 On the heels of the US Department of Justice‘s commodity fraud and conspiracy guilty plea by a former 13-year JP Morgan silver and other precious metal derivative trader ( now a self-admitted spoofer ). Read More |
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11.15.18- This precious metal has almost NEVER been so cheap
The air is just starting to be let out of the 10-year “everything bull market” caused by a decade of ultra-low interest rates and the Fed printing trillions of dollars. I don’t know if the volatility we’re seeing today is just a blip or the start of a much larger correction. But I do know we’re closer to the end of this cycle than the beginning. And a correction is due. Read More |
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11.14.18- Silver Could Surprise With New Strength By Year-End
Analyst: Silver will show strength before the end of the year After a middling October, Kitco reports that silver has spent the first week of November catching up with gold and now looks ready to stage its own upturn. A recent analysis by Metal Bulletin’s Boris Mikanikrezai asserts that silver could surprise investors towards year-end due to the favorable gold/silver ratio. Read More |
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11.13.18- The Fall Of The US Dollar: Is The Return To A Gold Standard Inevitable?
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11.12.18- The End Of The 'Nanny State' & What Happens To 'Prices' When Gold Is Money
It is hard to think of a life without Nanny State giving us her money-tokens to buy our sweets, telling us what to eat and what medicine to take. But Nanny State is getting long in the tooth. When she was younger, she was less controlling. Her constant refusal to allow us, the ordinary people, to do what we want is a source of friction. Read More |
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11.10.18- The End of a Supercycle
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11.08.18- This Myth About Gold Could Be Costing You Serious Money
…Specifically the idea that high rates hurt gold. That’s a myth… one that could cost you serious money in the months ahead. More on that in a second. But first, let me tell you why many investors believe high interest rates are bad for gold. It’s a simple idea. Read More |
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11.07.18- JP Morgan’s Ethereum-Based Quorum Blockchain Will Tokenise Gold Bar
The ethereum-based blockchain will afford sustainable miners the opportunity of earning a premium on the global market. In a report on popular news website Financial Review, the development was described as “an indication of new trading opportunities the disruptive technology will create over the coming decade.” Read More |
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11.06.18- 2019 to See a Rise in Gold and Silver Prices
In their latest report on commodity prices, French bank Natixis outlined why precious metals have a strong couple of years ahead of them as the U.S. economy slows. According to an article on Kitco, the report states that after a remarkable year, the dollar will finally begin to trend lower as the Fed puts the brakes on its tightening cycle. Read More |
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11.05.18- Silver, The S&P and Sanity
The S&P 500 Index has risen for over 9 years, from a low of 666 to a high of 2,940. It sits in late October at about 2,641. Massive debt increases, central bank created low interest rates, fiat currency devaluations, stock buybacks and debt based optimism fueled the rally. A correction is occurring. Read More |
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11.03.18- Infinite growth in a finite world?
It should be clear to you now, the “unwind” has begun. Jim and I tried to tell you this a couple of months back, now there is absolute evidence. Look at real estate in many parts of the world. Australia, China, London, Vancouver, New York and now even San Francisco. The most important thing to look at is “volume”, as price always follows. Read More |
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11.02.18- Silver Needs To Make A Move - A Halloween Head Fake Inspired By The Dollar
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11.01.18- A Stock Market Guy Gets It: The 10-Year Gold Bull Market…Starts Now!
“If only I could go back and invest at the start of this 10-year bull market…” It seems like every week I hear some variation of this statement. People are frustrated that they didn’t invest when the market was on sale in the wake of the financial crisis ten years ago. Read More |
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10.31.18- What Can Kill a Useless Currency
Redemptions Balanced With Deposits No national currency is gold-backed today. In a gold backed currency, each currency unit begins life with someone who chooses to deposit his gold coin in exchange for the paper currency. And it ends life with someone redeeming the paper to get back the gold coin. Read More |
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10.30.18- 2018 Marks First Annual Central Bank Gold Demand Increase in 5 Years
According to a report by Metals Focus Ltd, 2018 will mark the first annual increase in central bank gold demand in the last five years. According to a recent article on Newsmax, the consultancy projects that net purchases of gold in the official sector will rise to 450 tons before the end of the year, up from 375 tons in 2017. Read More |
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10.29.18- Precious Metals Storage at Home
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10.27.18- The biggest of big pictures
That is the purpose of this article. It can be bewildering when a casual observer tries to follow global events, something made more difficult by editorial policies at news outlets, and the commentary from most analysts, who are, frankly, ill-informed. Accordingly, this article addresses the topic that dominates our future. The most important players in the great game of geopolitics are America and China. Read More |
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10.26.18- Gold Gains Nearly 1% On Week As Global Stock Markets Fall Sharply
Here is our Friday digest of the important news, commentary, charts and videos we were informed of this week. The old Wall Street adage is that they "never ring a bell at the top" but there was a real sense this week that we may have seen a turning point. U.S. stocks including both the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 have seen sharp falls already this week of 4% and nearly 5% respectively. Read More |
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10.25.18- Gold’s Official Price is $42, and maybe that’s a Good Thing
"They're just trying to keep gold down," is a complaint I've heard more than a few times. But in this post I'll show that the monetary authorities have sound reasons for keeping the price of gold at $42.22. Below, I've charted out the history of the U.S.'s official gold price. As you can see, the $42.22 price has been maintained since 1973, an odd-seeming state of affairs given that gold is currently hovering at around $1225. Read More |
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10.24.18- How The Midterm Elections Might Affect Gold And Silver Prices
Let’s break down what the potential voting outcomes might mean for the factors currently driving the metals. Let’s start with the equity markets. Stocks got a boost from President Trump’s election and subsequent tax cuts. Last week, the President floated the idea of additional tax cuts and he wants to pass a major infrastructure spending bill. Read More |
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10.22.18- Inflection Point for Gold
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10.20.18- The Outlook For Gold
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10.19.18- Has China Finally Lifted Its
The Yuan price of gold surged overnight to above CNY 8500 per ounce which is a major breakdown But it’s also indicative of something that has long been suspected during this gold bear market. China doesn’t want the price of gold to rise. Those accumulating gold — China and Russia — have zero incentive to accumulate at higher prices. And the gold chart of the last three years bears out that they have had to come in at higher prices on pullbacks because market bottoms keep coming in higher and higher. Read More |
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10.18.18- The Price Of Gold Bottomed, And Silver Miners Might Offer An Epic Buy Opportunity
Precious metals were quite weak in recent months, and, as always, there was a stream of bearish news in the same month that gold and silver bottomed. That was in August of this year, and InvestingHavenrecommended readers to stay calm and focus on the leading indicators and gold’s chart suggesting a major bottom was being set. Read More |
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10.17.18- Is The Price of Silver About To Explode?
Fortunately, the exact conditions described above, as well as a unique set of events that most in the financial markets remain largely unaware of, have led to what could well be one of the most explosive (and profitable) events in financial market history. Representing a potentially life-changing opportunity to those who recognize it before it’s too late. Read More |
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10.16.18- Last Week Was Just A Taste Of The Coming Gold Short Squeeze
These are historically huge imbalances that – if the action in the paper markets still has predictive value – point to a gold short squeeze in which the speculators who are now betting that precious metals will fall are forced to cover those positions by buying, in the process sending the price up dramatically. On Thursday we got a sense of what that might look like. Stock markets around the world sold off, which sent capital scurrying for cover. Some of that capital flowed into gold, which chased futures speculators out of some of their shorts. The result was a nice pop in gold: Read More |
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10.15.18- As The Markets Sell-off The Precious Metals Rebound
However, even though we could see a late-day rally in the markets, and even higher stock indexes over the next few months, the bear market for stocks is still coming. The Dow Jones Index has now suffered two large sell-offs in the past ten months: Read More |
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10.13.18- There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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10.12.18- Gold Set To Climb Over $1300? BofA Thinks So
The head of global commodities and derivatives research, Francisco Blanch has stated that gold could average $1,350 an ounce of 2019 due to the U.S fiscal balance.
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10.11.18- "Gold Is On The Cusp" Of An "Explosion Higher" As Tech "Crash Is Coming"
Few investors have a deeper understanding of the tech sector than Fred Hickey. The renowned editor of the popular investment newsletter «The High-Tech Strategist» draws alarming parallels to the bursting of the dotcom bubble in the year 2000 and spots high risks in stock market darlings like Amazon and Apple. For the industry veteran, one important reason to be concerned are rich valuations. He also sees troubles ahead with respect to the rise in interest rates and the mountain of debt around the world. Read More |
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10.10.18- What to Expect When the Democrats Lose the Midterm Elections
The Importance of Predictive Programming Anyone who follows my work, knows that I have spent significant time analyzing popular shows and movies for recurrent themes which are predictive of what is coming. Read More |
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10.09.18- Gold’s UPCOMING DECLINE Will Generate THE ENERGY For The COMING RISE
As you know, several factors could counter this trend that seems to have started, and I may be wrong. I would even say I’d be glad to be wrong. First, here is a big picture of the gold chart in US dollars, on which we can see Fibonacci fans radiating since the start of the bull market. Curiously, we can see on this chart that the bull market started in 1984. There has been an upward push of gold, along with resistance that stopped its rise five times between 1984 and 1988, and that was tested again in 2011. The other Fibonacci fans of this rise initiated in 1984, have also been usedsince then. Read More |
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10.08.18- The Toxic Stew
Of course, in hindsight, it makes sense that durable negative interest rates would lead to permanent backwardation. What use to de-carry gold—i.e. sell the metal, buy a future, and use the cash for some productive purpose—if there is no productive purpose? Read More |
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10.07.18- Prepare For A Gold And Silver Price Rally
The Daily Gold chart, below, shows our Fibonacci modeling system suggesting that $1235 to $1250 are the upside target ranges. Near these levels, we should expect some price rotation before another leg higher begins. Currently, support near $1180 is the floor in Gold. Read More |
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10.06.18- Hot Economic Warfare:
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10.05.18- The Surge Is GUARANTEED With The IMMINENT Revaluation Of Gold & Silver
So has the Silver Rocket just started? Last week I talked about the coming silver explosion and we could be seeing the beginning of it right now. I have often talked about the Gold-Silver Ratio as the key to the turn up in the precious metals. Read More |
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10.04.18- Look at how well gold has retained its value from 1,000 years ago
Rahman was just 21 when he ascended to power, and he remained there for nearly 50 years as one of the wealthiest and most powerful monarchs in Europe. Historians Denis Cardonne and Edward Gibbon calculate his annual tax revenue at 12 million gold dinars… which was a LOT. Read More |
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10.03.18- Now is the Time to Buy Gold Barron’s: Time to Buy Gold Despite persistent faith in the U.S. dollar and assurances that rate hikes will continue into 2019, gold has plenty of room to take back its losses and make new gains, reports an article on Newsmax. Barron’s contributor Andrew Bary notes that gold’s lower prices come at a time when global inflation is bound to go up as governments look to deal with mounting sovereign debt. Read More |
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10.02.18- Silver VS Gold Standard
Thank you for your input JK ANSWER: The entire world has NEVER been on the gold standard simultaneously. Asia was on a silver standard while the West was on a gold standard. Above is the first coin struck in Hong Kong in 1866 which was the Hong Kong Dollar. The West struck Trade Dollars during the 19th century to pay for goods from Asia and they were silver – never gold. Here is an example of both the British and American trade dollars used in payments particularly with China. The Spanish 8 reals Americans called Pillar Dollars and slicing this up into pieces like a pie gave rise to the term for a Piece of Eight – 2 bits, 4 bits, 8 bits a dollar. Read More |
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10.01.18- Precious Metals Sentiment Hasn't Been This Bad Since 2001, Get Ready For A Turn Like February 2016
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09.29.18- Gold Risks Lower Lows Next, But The Outlook Remains Bullish
China has devalued the yuan relative to the dollar in response to U.S. tariffs. Given the relatively fixed range for gold in yuan terms, XAU/CNY, the higher USD/CNY exchange rate has led to a dramatic decline in gold in dollar terms, XAU/USD. However, at least officially, China has said it will not devalue the yuan further. Read More |
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09.28.18- Take the Precious Metals Tide or End Up in Miseries
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09.26.18- Gold Through the Ages... Civilization’s Love Affair with the Yellow Metal
Gold artifacts are found in the Varna Necropolis, a gravesite in present-day Bulgaria . These are the earliest evidence of mankind’s ornamental use of gold. The Sumer civilization came into existence around 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and used gold for jewelry and headdresses. 2600 B.C. – 1500 B.C. Egyptians are the first gold miners. Hieroglyphics depicting gold date back to 2,600 B.C. The vast quantity of gold discovered in the Nubia region makes Egypt wealthy and establishes gold as a standard for international trade. Read More |
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09.25.18- Gold Set to Soar Above $1,300, Bank of America Says
Gold is set to surge over the next year as concerns deepen about the widening U.S. budget deficit and a tariff-driven trade war starts to damage the country’s economy, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Bullion could average $1,350 an ounce in 2019 as corporate tax reforms worsen the U.S. fiscal balance, Francisco Blanch, head of global commodities and derivatives research, said in a phone interview last week. Spot gold traded at $1,198.82 on Monday and has averaged about $1,285 this year. Read More |
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09.24.18- Gold Is Cheap. Inflation Is Coming.
Long seen as the investment choice of the cranky and the fearful, the metal yields nothing; as Warren Buffett has said, it just “looks at you.” This year has been especially lackluster for gold. Its price has slumped 8%, to about $1,200 an ounce, and is off more than 35% from its high of $1,900 in 2011. Adding insult to injury, Vanguard will soon rechristen the largest gold-oriented U.S. mutual fund and shift its focus away from the metal. Read More |
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09.22.18- Why the Next Silver Rally Will Be
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09.21.18- The Next Stock Market Crash Won’t Take Gold Down With It
Not surprisingly, many investors think the next crisis will look like the last…all asset classes will fall in price including gold (although gold will fall less than the others). Gold will then rocket higher as central banks confront the crisis. Read More |
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09.20.18- Which Precious Metals Are Likely To Be Better Investments During The Next Market Crash?
This article will focus on the top four precious metals, gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Even though Rhodium and other metals are considered precious, the ones listed above take the lion’s share of the investment market. Furthermore, while platinum and palladium are purchased as investments, they have a much larger industrial component than gold or silver. Read More |
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09.19.18- Silver, Trump’s Trade War, Mining Stocks And The Fed’s Gold
With the massive net short position in both gold and silver Comex paper precious metals, offset by the historic net long position of the “commercials” (banks, mining companies, users, hedgers), numerous rumors are swirling around the precious metals market. For certain, the availability of physical gold bars in London that can be delivered to the large eastern hemisphere buyers who demand delivery is growing tight. Apparently the retail silver coin/bar market is starting to feel supply strains. Read More |
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09.18.18- Earthquakes Turn Water Into Gold
Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a model published in the March 17 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. The model provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between gold and quartz seen in many of the world's gold deposits, said Dion Weatherley, a geophysicist at the University of Queensland in Australia and lead author of the study. Read More |
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09.17.18- The Paper Gold Market Is Screaming “Short Squeeze”
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09.15.18- Bad Money
We’re all going to have to be a lot more resilient in the future. The “long emergency”, as James Howard Kunstler puts it, is now upon us. If ever there was a wake-up call from Mother Nature, it’s been the weather events over the past 12 months. Last year, the triplet Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, and Irma resulted in thousands of deaths (mainly in Puerto Rico) and tens of $billions in destruction. Read More |
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09.14.18- Central Banks Go On Gold Buying Spree Over Dollar Worries
But this time the motivations of the buyers are different than they were back in the 1950s, and they are worrying. That's why investors should take note, including anyone who owns the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) exchange-traded fund, which holds bars of solid bullion. In the distant past, central banks had to buy gold because of its vital role in the global financial system. Now they are choosing to do so because they are worried about the dollar. In other words, they've been scared into this bullion buying binge. Read More |
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09.13.18- Memoirs Of A Man Fighting For Silver (And With Little To Show For It)
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09.12.18- Setting Up For The Next
The situation is so much more favorable today than when it was trading at $20 at the peak in 2007. I will go one step further and say that the current silver indicators are even better than when the silver price fell to $9 at the end of 2008. Read More |
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09.11.18- ALERT: Gold-to-Silver Ratio Spikes to Highest Level in 27 Years!
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09.10.18- The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world
This yearly ritual has become part of the news cycle, and the inequality it exposes has ceased to shock us. The very rich getting very much richer is now part of life, like the procession of the seasons. But we should be extremely concerned: their increased wealth gives them ever-greater control of our politics and of our media. Countries that were once democracies are becoming plutocracies; plutocracies are becoming oligarchies; oligarchies are becoming kleptocracies. Read More |
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09.08.18- 2018 Bullion American Silver Eagles Temporarily Sell Out
According to U.S. Mint spokesman Michael White, the agency sent the following information to its APs: "This is to inform you that due to recent increased demand, the United States Mint has temporarily sold out of its inventories of 2018 American Eagle Silver Bullion Coins. All orders received prior to this communication shall be honored. Read More |
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09.07.18- The Dark Years Are Here, Part Two
In spite of not normally looking back, I have had a look at a Newsletter that I wrote in July 2009 when gold was just over $900 and the Dow 9,100. It was called “The Dark Years are here” and received quite a lot of attention at the time. This was at the end of the sub-prime crisis when the Dow had just declined by 60% and gold had risen from $250 in 1999 to $925. Read More |
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09.06.18- Get Ready for the “Strongest Commodities Bull Market of All Time”
Sentiment’s so bad that The Vanguard Group—one of the world’s biggest money managers—is overhauling its gold fund. Not only that, speculators are shorting (betting against) gold more aggressively than ever before. Regular readers know what I’m talking about. I laid this all out in the August 28 Dispatch. I need to repeat a critical point of that essay. This sort of bad press sends investors running for the hills. And it keeps other investors from wanting anything to do with that asset. But not us. Read More |
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09.05.18- Alert! Physical Silver... Buy! Buy! Buy!
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09.04.18- Gold And Silver Are Set-Up To Soar
The hedge fund long position in US dollar futures is also at an extreme right now, with the banks taking the other side. Unless there’s something devious going on behind the scenes in the reporting of this data (possible but not probable), the banks are positioned for a huge move higher in gold and a sell-off in the dollar. The only question is timing. Read More |
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09.03.18- JP Morgan's Opportunity of a Lifetime in Silver
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09.01.18- Are Silver and Gold 'at the Flood'?
Thus begins one of the most famous quotes ever uttered, taken from Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. Brutus, talking to Cassius, says, "There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune..." A flood tide takes place at the very crest in the water's height. Once the "tide turns," there is no stopping its ebb until, much later, it reaches an extended, even a minus low. Read More |
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08.31.18- The Last Hurrah Before the Dark Years
We are now seeing the Last Hurrah for stocks, bonds, the dollar and most asset markets. The world economy has been living on borrowed time since the 2006-9 crisis. The financial system should have collapsed at that time. But the massive life support that central banks orchestrated managed to keep the dying patient alive for another decade. Lowering interest rates to zero or negative and printing enough money to double global debt seem to have solved the problem. But rather than saving the world from an economic collapse, the growth of debt and asset bubbles has created a system with exponentially higher risk. Read More |
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08.30.18- "JPM Buying Back as Many Short Silver Positions as They Can"
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08.29.18- Who Would Invest in a Gold Bond?
“Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.” I have recently written about how a government with gold mining tax revenues can use gold. The benefits of issuing gold bonds include reducing risk, and relieving debt at a discount. Pretty useful, eh? As to his second point, one should never confuse suppressed with impossible.By President Roosevelt's edict in 1933, the government made it illegal for Americans to possess the metal—as in a go-to-prison criminal act. The government busted every gold bond. Of course, under such conditions, gold could not be useful or procreative. If they wanted to keep their gold, people kept it well hidden. Read More |
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08.28.18- Gold at the Crossroads
The article was published in early-May and states that the U.S. is in a mid-to-late stage recovery. While that statement was probably correct at the time, evidence has since emerged that the economy has entered the “Late-Expansion” stage. Read More |
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08.27.18- Insure Your Wealth or Lose it All
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08.25.18- COMING BREAKOUT: The Gold & Silver Setup Today vs. 2008
Also, it’s important to understand that when I discuss this information, I am not concerned about what happens to the precious metals or the markets today, tomorrow, next week or even next month. Rather, I am focused on the trend change. Which is precisely why I show these charts using a “monthly timeframe.” Read More |
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08.24.18- John Law – 300 years On
The most valuable bubble empirically for the purpose of our elucidation has to be the Mississippi bubble, whose central figure was John Law. Law, a Scotsman whose father’s profession was as a goldsmith and banker in Edinburgh, set up an inflation scheme in 1716 to rescue France’s finances. He proposed to the Regent for the infant Louis XIV a scheme that would be based on a new paper currency. Read More |
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08.23.18- Global Funds IN FAANGs Today, BANNGs Tomorrow?
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08.22.18- Gold output in key countries to slump to ‘generational’ lows — report
Gold output in key producing countries, such as Australia and Peru, is set to slump to generational lows in the mid-term even though bullion production grew for nine consecutive years, reaching an all-time high in 2017, a new report shows. While S&P Global Market Intelligence does expect output to rise reach new highs this year, to 108 million ounces, as well as in 2019 and 2020, it doesn’t see growth across the board. Read More |
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08.21.18- The Bullion Banks Are Net Long Gold For The Very First Time
History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes. – Mark Twain I decided that before I sat down to write the weekly recap and outlook for the gold and silver markets that I would go to a few of the great commentary sites such as Streetwise, 321Gold, Goldseek and Gold-Eagle and read what the other “experts” are saying about the precious metals markets before I attack the keyboard. Earlier in the week, I had been working on a Western Uranium Corp. story and was astounded how stress-free it was writing about an energy deal as opposed to a sound money deal. Read More |
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08.20.18- The next major gold rally
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08.18.18- Gold & the Changing Fundamentals
It would be very helpful. PL ANSWER: You are correct, that concerns over U.S.-Russian relations, coming talks on the Korean Peninsula, action in Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attacks and uneasiness over trade conflicts would normally be the battle cry to buy gold. Traditionally, this would form a cocktail of geopolitical uncertainty that would lead to screams buy gold! The uncertainty has not led to support for gold. They are proving to be a narrative that no longer seems to be factors for the bulls. Read More |
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08.17.18- Gold Seen Fighting Back in Battle With Dollar for Haven Role
Bullion has lost out in a paradigm shift where the metal’s no longer viewed as the traditional refuge when investors are in a risk-off mood, but that won’t last, according to Rick Rule, chief executive officer of Sprott U.S. Holdings Inc. Investors are favoring U.S. Treasuries, and that’s seen the dollar get stronger, Rule said in an interview from Vancouver on Aug. 15. But the greenback’s strength is relative, not absolute, and the overwhelming faith that the global saver has placed in the U.S. currency is “probably partly misplaced,” he said. Read More |
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08.16.18- Gold to Soar Above $6,000
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08.15.18- Gold & Silver Being Hit Like In 2008 To Cover-Up Impending Global Financial Crisis
Currently the price of gold and silver are being dismantled by what appears to be massive hedge fund shorting of Comex paper gold. As of last Tuesday, the “managed money” trader category as detailed in the Commitment of Traders report showed that the hedge funds were short a record amount of paper gold. Read More |
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08.14.18- Top 10 Reasons I Buy Gold & Silver
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08.13.18- Spectacular COT Report: Prepare For A Huge Six Months In Gold & Silver No need to mince words anymore. If the futures market still influences gold’s price, then that price is going to spike. And silver is better than gold. Since January, gold futures speculators have been trending from extremely bullish to scared short. And in the week ending last Tuesday (the most recent data available) they appeared to capitulate, adding a massive number of short positions while marginally cutting their longs. They’re now about as close to neutral as they’ve ever been. Based on the history of the past decade this is hugely bullish, since speculators tend to be wrong when they’re fully convinced they’re right. Read More |
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08.11.18- When The World's Greatest Bubbles Pop, You Better Own Some Precious Metals
According to a recent update by Savills, a global real estate services provider listed on the London Stock Exchange, global real estate values reached a new record of $281 trillion at the end of 2017. That is a BIG number because their last update in April 2017, stated that world real estate values were $228 trillion for 2016 yearend. How could global real estate values jump that much in a year?? Read More |
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08.10.18- The Next Silver Run To $50 (And Beyond)
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08.09.18- Fort Knox Gold?
Fort Knox gold questions are like corruption and gravity. There are issues but we move on. Consider:
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08.08.18- Mad Money Host Says Major Breakthrough in Gold Market Near
In Tuesday’s episode of CNBC’s Mad Money, host Jim Cramer shared his view that a major breakthrough in the gold market could be near, reports Kitco. Cramer said that large speculators in gold are a good indicator of the metal’s direction and that, given the many short positions and the metal’s contrarian nature, we could see a spike in gold prices. Read More |
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08.07.18- Wait until you see the price of gold in Venezuela right now
But that was July. Prices in Venezuela are doubling roughly every 18 days. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) now projects inflation to hit an astronomical 1 million percent by the end of this year. Read More |
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08.06.18- Gold Futures Market At Extremes, Suggests Gold Price Bottom Set For 2018
Astute readers remember how we published our Gold Price Forecast For 2018 almost a year ago when the price of gold was testing its support $1200 to $1220 level. We were bearish at that point in time. However, right after our publication the futures market, one of our leading indicators, changed its shape. We updated readers about this event, and early this year the gold futures market confirmed its new trend which was also reflected in the price of gold. Read More |
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08.04.18- Gold: The Bull In The China Shop
Sun Tzu – the Art of War (5th Century) In essence, if you are going to war, make sure the costs of war is borne by the enemy, not your own people. Instead of saying, “trade wars are good and easy to win”, Mr. Trump would be wise to follow the ancient general’s advice. Winning a trade war is not so easy, history shows that tariffs which are like taxes will hurt his own people in many ways. Read More |
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08.03.18- Hyperinflationary Gold at
But the elite, and central bankers have had other plans. Instead of replacing the hair with a solid metal chain, the sword is today hanging by a very fragile thread that can break at any time. Read More |
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08.02.18- Ancient Dollars and Gold Bullion
But don’t blame the candy industry, coffee distributors or automobile manufacturers. Fiat currencies create the problems.Why do we need to fix our currency? Because commercial banks (via fractional reserve banking) and the Federal Reserve print dollars by the trillions, devalue all existing dollars, and increase prices on almost everything. Do you remember McDonald’s prices in 1961? Read More |
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08.01.18- GOP Congressman Investigates Undisclosed Gold Market Intervention by China and the Exchange Stabilization Fund
Washington, DC (July 31, 2018) – A member of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee is calling out the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury for dodging questions about their activities involving America’s gold reserves. In a letter dated July 27, Representative Alex Mooney (R-WV) wrote to Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, after receiving perfunctory responses to his April 24th letter, noting “a few questions were either not addressed at all or not fully addressed.” Read More |
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07.31.18- Top Gold Miners Production Declined 15% While Costs Escalate
While many analysts focus on the company’s profits or net income, I like to pay attention to its free cash flow. Free cash flow is nothing more than subtracting capital expenditures from the company’s cash from operations. Because the gold mining industry is very capital intensive, the company’s free cash flow is a better indicator of financial health rather than the net income. Read More |
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07.30.18- Gold's Groundhog Day
Many are still calling the bottom in gold, which only indicates that there is room to the downside. The groundhog may or may not see his shadow but as it looks now, there will be six more weeks of selling. Read More |
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07.28.18- Silver – Depressing and Exciting!
Silver looks oversold and ready to rally. Examine the weekly RSI (a timing indicator) and the MACD (a moving average indicator). These indicators suggest silver prices are low and could rally. Medium Term: Silver closed July 24 at $15.42, which for silver bugs is depressing or exciting: Why? Read More |
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07.27.18- POP QUIZ: What’s The Difference Between “Junk Silver”, “Constitutional Silver”, And “90% Silver”?
Article originally written by Paul Eberhart and guest posted at SD Bullion Junk Silver Coins, Constitutional Silver Coins, and 90% Silver Coins are all ways to refer to the same thing: pre-1965 / pre-1964 90% silver dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollar coins. Read More |
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07.26.18- Crying Wolf
The price of gold fell another ten bucks and that of silver another 28 cents. Perspective: if you’re waiting for the right moment to buy, the market is offering you a better deal than it did last week (literally, the price of gold is a 7.2% discount to the fundamental vs. 4.6% last week). If you wanted to sell, this wasn’t a good week to wait. Which is your intention, and why? We have written many times that the quantity of dollars does not cause the price of gold to rise. Two weeks ago, we showed a graph of M2 overlaid with the gold price. Read More |
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07.25.18- Disregard The Noise: Here's Why Gold And Silver Prices Are Going Much Higher
Gold and silver have been victims of steep declines in recent weeks, with gold dropping by roughly 7%, and silver by about 12% since the Fed's decision in mid-June. But despite the recent declines, the backdrop for precious metals remains very strong. Inflation is already spiking, but trade tariffs and other factors should accelerate the inflationary process going forward. Read More |
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07.24.18- Ted Butler: New Hope
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07.23.18- The Truth About Inflation And The Coming Crash
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the recent news that inflation in the United States reached an 6 year high. |
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07.21.18- How To "Measure" Your Precious Metals Holdings
Now that the "summer doldrums" for the metals and miners seem to be upon us – which may or may not last until after Labor Day – it might be worth your time to "measure" your precious metals' holdings. Let's start by taking a look at the terms and (simplified) definitions for foreign and domestically-listed mineral resource-sector companies that are listed on a Canadian stock exchange. Called the National Instrument (NI) 43-101, this reporting review was put together in an effort to protect investors, after a "fake mining story" of truly epic proportions erupted in the late 1990's... Read More |
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07.20.18- The Silver and Platinum Express
Inflation is directly responsible for the price increase of everything. That doesn’t mean that all commodities or financial instruments go up in unison, they don’t. But soybeans or silver are not inherently more valuable today than they were a hundred years ago. What has changed is the value of the dollar, not the commodity. Markets search constantly for the correct price. That is why prices go up and prices go down. The market never quite knows what is the right price for anything so it searches until buyers and sellers are satisfied with price and make a transaction. Read More |
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07.19.18- Signal vs. Noise in the Gold Market
Last week more than a handful of subscribers alerted me to Jim Rickards’ beliefthat China has pegged the SDR (an IMF reserve currency) Gold price from 850-950 SDR/oz and this is what is impacting the Gold price. Rickards writes that the peg is too cheap given the scarce supply of Gold and that the IMF will print trillions of SDRs during the next global financial crisis. Read More |
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07.18.18- Gold Price Forecast: Will Gold Prices Ever Bottom?
It’s been 30-weeks since the last 6-month low (December). The intermediate cycle has averaged about 23-weeks, so we are well overdue for a bottom. Interestingly, while gold crashed nearly 10% in 2-months, gold miners remained relatively stable. Currently, they linger just 6% below their April highs; their resilience should not be ignored. It speaks of a hidden energy that once loose, should deliver brilliant gains. Read More |
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07.17.18- Goldcorp Chairman Warns World is Running Out of Gold
Mining experts warn that the world is running out of gold Could the gold market be facing the prospect of dwindling mine supply? According to industry experts, the phenomenon known as “peak gold” is an imminent threat that will become reality in less than a year. In fact, some believe the decline may already be underway. Read More |
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07.16.18- South African Mint Gets it Right with 2018 South African Silver Bullion Coin
Many precious metal bullion buyers have been hoping for a competitively priced 1 oz Silver Krugerrand bullion coin. After last year’s higher price limited issuance, it appears the South African Mint has heard silver bullion buyers loud and clear having just released their first competitively priced Silver Krugerrand Coin. Read More |
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07.14.18- Everyone is Hoarding Gold
The tiny nation of Kyrgyzstan has big plans. Caught between its giant trading partners, China and Russia,Kyrgyzstan is stockpiling gold. It wants to increase gold from 16 percent to 50 percent as part of its international reserve. Tolkunbek Abdygulov of the Kyrgyz Central Bank has stated that any currency, whether dollars, rubles, or yuan, has become too vulnerable. The small mountain nation, with a population of 6 million, relies heavily on Russian and Chinese imports. With the possibility of global trades war on the horizon, Read More |
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07.13.18- Gold Should be Viewed as Money —
Peoples’ enthusiasm is understandable: From 1965 to 2017, Buffett’s Berkshire share achieved an annual average return of 20.9 percent (after tax), while the S&P 500 returned only 9.9 percent (before taxes). Had you invested in Berkshire in 1965, today you would be pleased to see a total return of 2,404,784 percent: an investment of USD 1,000 turned into more than USD 24 million (USD 24,048,480, to be exact). Read More |
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07.12.18- Is There A Massive U.S. Gold Deposit Hidden In The Chocolate Mountains, California??
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07.11.18- Another billionaire says we’re running out of gold
Simply put, mining companies are no longer finding vast, new deposits of gold to replace their aging mines. I quoted Pierre Lassonde, the billionaire founder of gold royalty giant Franco-Nevada and former head of Newmont Mining:
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07.10.18- Incrementum AG Says Gold’s Hardships Could Soon Be Over
Incrementum AG: Gold has bottomed out and will soon go up In a recent interview with Kitco, Incrementum AG’s fund manager Ronald-Peter Stoeferle said that gold’s hardships could soon be over as the metal readies for another bullish run. Stoeferle sees numerous tailwinds for gold, not the least of which is a potential reversal of the dollar’s gains. Read More |
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07.09.18- Top 10 Countries with Largest Gold Reserves
For six consecutive years the Russian Central Bank has been the largest purchaser of gold, increasing its holdings by 224 tonnes in 2017 and overtaking China to hold the fifth spot, according to the GFMS Gold Survey. Read More |
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07.07.18- Gold and a Drive Down Memory Lane
Times have changed. In 2018 we live with the Internet, fast communications, and huge piles of unpayable debt. The consequences of massive debt include:
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07.06.18- Silver will be gold on steroids!
In an interview it was said that during the Weimar experience, gold performed extremely well but silver lagged. It is for this reason they suggested not to pay attention to the current out of whack silver to gold ratio north of 80-1 and it will not narrow. This is just wrong for so many reasons. First, the ratio of silver to gold worldwide at the time was roughly 15-1. Silver was priced at $1.385 per ounce while gold was at $20.67 per ounce in dollar terms. Read More |
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07.05.18- Crucial Factors Why Silver Will Increase More Than Gold During The Next Financial Collapse
For example, Lynette Zang, at ITM Trading, has suggested in recent videos, that the gold to silver ratio will increase significantly during the upcoming currency reset. Read More |
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07.04.18- Life-Changing Gains
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07.03.18- Imminent EU Financial Crunch Could Signal Big Gold Price Jump
The EU may be that ship, and could it take a big economic hit come March 2019 to the tune of $38 trillion in uncleared derivatives contracts. Derivatives allow trading of assets that derive their value from elsewhere. For example, credit swaps and options are two common derivatives. Business Insider reported on this explosive development: Read More |
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Gold at its low yesterday was within $9 of that low, and silver 30 cents. By early European trade this morning (Friday), gold had fallen $19 from last Friday’s close to $1251 and silver by 25 cents to $16.09. It often happens that gold and silver prices hit low points in June and December, before rallying sharply. The reason is not hard to understand: traders at the bullion banks close their books at the year and half-year ends and are almost certainly instructed by their superiors to reduce their trading positions to as low a level as possible. This is because the banks wish to report balance sheets that reflect low risk exposure for the purpose of making regulatory returns. Read More |
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It's been a while since I've covered the precious metals in an article. They've been range-bound for much of the past year, with few notable sector developments to report. But I feel compelled to write about them today for two reasons:
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06.29.18- About The Coming Second American Civil War: Gold, Silver, And The Dollar Aren’t Buying It At All
Is the United States really on the brink of civil war? Which I’m sure the trendies are calling Civil War 2.0, as if war was somehow cool. I don’t think so. Or at least things aren’t as deadly serious as they sound. Read More |
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06.28.18- Silver & Gold Will SKYROCKET! - The Crypto Revolution Has JUST Begun
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06.27.18- The Petroleum Age
Suppose you have the opportunity and the means to create a gold mine, and decide to undertake the challenge; you invest in the building and installations of the gold mine, and in all the related salaries to carry out the building of the mine, by paying for all expenses in gold; finally the gold mine is selling the gold it produces, in exchange for dollars. So now you have an abundant income in dollars, because your mine has been a successful venture. Hurray! But think about this: when you get those dollars of income from your mine, are you really registering profits? Read More |
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06.26.18- Gold and Silver: A Rarer Than Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
Of course, all of those ships have sailed. We live in a reality where past fiduciary mistakes are “corrected” by amplifying those same mistakes, as if the solution to having our heads buried in the sand is that we just haven’t buried them deeply enough; that maybe the tsunami created by generations of criminal, federal, financial mismanagement and unsustainable promises will disappear if we can just duck around this next corner and close our eyes long enough. Read More |
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06.25.18- How Long Can This Last?
Let’s look at the chart below. As one can see, the U.S. long-term interest rates have been rising since September 2017. And they breached 3 percent in the second quarter of 2018, attracting investors’ attention all over the world. Chart 1: Gold prices (yellow line, left axis, London P.M. Fix, in $) and the 10-year U.S. Treasury yields (red line, right axis, in %) from January 2017 to May 2018. Read More |
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06.23.18- The Gold Price Manipulation “Mask” Gets Ripped Off
And that makes sense. Ideally you want to enter at a price that is low enough, so you can store as much value in your portfolio as possible. But a challenge arises when there are factors you can’t “see” that affect that entry point. For example… When you take a look at the standard “gold price” in the chart below, you can see the 5-year trend. Any “breakout” remains in check, with prices failing to break $1400: Read More |
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06.22.18- Gold At 6-Mo. Low,
The specter of a global trade war continues to dent trader and investor confidence and is pressuring world stock and commodity markets. Gold and silver continue to act like the raw commodities they are, instead of safe-haven stores of value. Read More |
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05.21.18- Own A “Bit Of Gold” As We Are Moving Ever Closer To A Trump Trade War
The Shanghai Composite Index ended the session down 3.8% to close at a two-year low, notes Bloomberg. What’s wrong? Investors are starting to worry that Donald Trump is deadly serious about his enthusiasm for a trade war, that’s what’s wrong. Trump has a point on China, although that doesn’t mean this is a good idea. Read More |
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06.20.18- The Deviant Conundrum Called Silver
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06.19.18- 5 Reasons The Drop In Gold Prices Shouldn't Worry Investors
But the truth is it shouldn't be worrying. Here's what you need to know: Gold bars manufactured in Kasimov. Photo by Alexander RyuminTASS via Getty Images The price of bullion fell more than $20 a troy ounce between Thursday and Friday, hitting a low around $1,279. News reports declared, "Gold Solidly Down [...]" and "Gold Prices Take 2% Hit [...] Fresh 2018 Lows." Here's why gold investors shouldn't worry. Read More |
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06.18.18- Inflation Trade, In Progress Since Gold Kicked It Off in Q1 2016
Then came December of 2015 when gold and silver made bottoms followed by the gold miners in January of 2016. Then by the time February had come and gone the whole raft of other inflatables (commodities and stocks) had bottomed and begun to set sail. Read More |
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06.16.18- Follow Swiss Pension Fund- But Gold - "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
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06.15.18- Donald Trump's "Madness"
In my ignorance, I did not know that a man named Triffin had already pointed out that problem, which became known as “Triffin’s Dilemma”. The problem is really very simple: If the dollar – such as it is – is going to be the basis of the world’s monetary system, and therefore required by all Central Banks as Reserves, there is only one way that these CBs can obtain those Reserves: Read More |
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06.14.18- Silver’s Not-so-subtle Outperformance
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06.13.18- Gold and Silver Setting Up for
Well, the recent G7 meeting and President Trump's meeting with Kim Jung Un in Singapore may spark a little interest in these shiny metals as they setup a “rope-a-dope breakout” for those not paying attention. Read More |
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06.12.18- WHY HARRY DENT’S $400 FORECAST FOR GOLD IS WRONG….
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06.11.18- He Ran Into My Knife Ten Times
Those seven words suggest anger, bleeding and murder… The American people have “run into a financial knife” many times in the last century. (Solutions listed at the end.)
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06.09.18- Gold Should be Viewed as Money - Not as an Investment Instrument
Peoples’ enthusiasm is understandable: From 1965 to 2017, Buffett’s Berkshire share achieved an annual average return of 20.9 percent (after tax), while the S&P 500 returned only 9.9 percent (before taxes). Had you invested in Berkshire in 1965, today you would be pleased to see a total return of 2,404,784 percent: an investment of USD 1,000 turned into more than USD 24 million (USD 24,048,480, to be exact). Read More |
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06.08.18- Stock Market More Important for Gold than US Dollar
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06.07.18- Gold’s Break-Out Must Occur Within Months But It Looks Imminent
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06.06.18- Gold’s Monetary Rehabilitation
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06.04.18- Gold and the Monetary Blockade on Iran
The set of sanctions that the U.S. began placing on Iran back in 2010 can be best thought of as a monetary blockade. It relied on deputizing U.S. banks to act as snitches. Any U.S. bank that was caught providing correspondent accounts to a foreign bank that itself helped Iran engage in sanctioned activities would be fined. To avoid being penalized, U.S. banks threatened their foreign bank customers to stop enabling Iranian payments or lose their accounts. And of course the foreign banks (mostly) complied. Read More |
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05.02.18- How silver changed the world
It can be argued that when Spain instituted a common currency in the form of the Real de a Ocho, also known as Pieces of Eight, or the Spanish dollar, globalisation’s first chapter had been written. The acceptance of the dollar coins for commercial transactions throughout Asia, the Americas and much of Europe, resulted in a cultural exchange between nations, as well as the relatively free movement of people and goods between the three continent. Read More |
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06.01.18- Gold - The Only Money That Can't Be Debased
In the same period, gold went from an average price of around $650 in 1980 to $1,300 today. So whilst global assets have gone up 26x since 1980, gold has just managed to go up 2x. Admittedly gold started at $35 in 1971 so it had already benefitted from a substantial rise by 1980. Read More |
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MMT is the socialists’ dream. It officially stands for Modern Monetary Theory but a more appropriate name would be More Money Theory. Because MMT is just a fancy name to justify more money printing, more deficits and more debts. Socialists love MMT, because for a sovereign nation, it justifies constantly living above your means.
Life in the world of gold bullion is full of mysteries. Each mystery is like a straw in the wind, which individually means little, but tempting us to speculate there’s a greater meaning behind it all. Yes, there is a far greater game in play, taking Kipling’s aphorism to a higher level.
Perhaps the underlying manipulator of gold & silver hasn’t been JP Morgan, but perhaps it has been the US government itself? Here’s why… 
One of the Fed’s three main objectives is to maintain stable prices. But they have never achieved that at least not since 1971. Again, the Fed did a volte face because they have a total inability to read the economy. The clueless Fed overslept and realised a few years too late that the US economy was overheating. So at the time when the economy was turning down, the Fed started to increase rates and implement QT (quantitative tightening). But now they are panicking and reversing policy again. I discussed 
The manipulated price of Gold is now trading at $1,291.50, down $2.80 with the low right here at $1,285.90 and the high to beat at $1,297.80. The manipulated price in Silver is now at $15.085, up 1/10th of a penny with the low right here at $15.065 with its high at $15.175. The US Dollar is also as flat as the precious metals with its trade at 96.92, down ½ of a 100th doing the exact opposite of the real money sector and is closer to the high at 96.94 than the low at 96.81. All this of course was done way before 5 am pst and before the Comex Open. Venezuela’s currency situation now has Gold priced at 12,898.86 Bolivar losing 23.97 overnight with Silver pegged at 150.661 Bolivar gaining .749. After yesterday’s EXPLOSIVE Ted Butler article and the facts he presented, it is our opinion these price swings in the emerging market currencies, are about to happen in the primary currencies (imo) because of the CFTC’s past hidden transgressions against the price of Silver and Gold. 
A recent interview with former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton nearly knocked me off my feet because it confirmed what I have alleged, starting more than 12 years ago. I’ll include the interview later, but first I will set the background of the subject and timeline in order put Chilton’s words into the proper perspective. The subject is JPMorgan’s manipulation of the silver market. The timeline is important because Chilton does misstate some facts that need to be corrected. I’m not a big fan of articles that include lots of links to past articles, but in this case it’s unavoidable. 
A number of commentators have predicted that the rules of the Basel III bank regulations will cause gold to skyrocket (no, this article is not about our view that gold does not go up, that it’s the dollar going down, that the lighthouse does not go up, it’s the sinking ship going down in the storm).
Commerzbank looks for gold to climb as high as $1,400 an ounce and silver to $16.50 before the end of 2019.
As we’ve been suggesting for months, expect continued moderate price weakness in Gold and Silver through most of April 2019 and possibly into early May 2019 before a strong price rally will setup and push Gold prices well above $1500 before the end of 2019. Our Adaptive Dynamic Learning predictive price modeling system has been calling for this move for many months (see the chart below). This advanced predictive price modeling system is suggesting that in May/June of 2019, we will likely see a bigger price rally unfold in Gold and Silver which may be paired with some type of geopolitical or global economic event. 
Silver expert David Morgan tells Silver Doctors he expects $1400 gold in 2019. Above that level, there’s not much resistance until $1600…
The yield curve followed suit of the Fed and also inverted. Inverted yield curve is a sign of an incoming recession, they say. However, what is the background of this yield inversion and how will gold react to its emerging story?
The astonishing Fed again proved the consistency of its inconsistency.
This week, 
Have the Ides of March been delayed in 2019? Normally the Ides of March just means the date March 15th. Shakespeare made the expression ominous as it was the day that Julius Caesar was murdered. Today in 2019, the 29th of March seems more significant than the 15th. Because on the 29th, we first have the conclusion of Brexit. Or maybe we don’t! Brexit has been a tortuous process that after 3 years has got nowhere. All it has done is to reveal the EU elite’s megalomania as well as their intransigence. It has also revealed the complete incompetence of the UK government as well as Mrs May’s total indecisiveness and her inability to distinguish between activity and achievement.
Most precious metals investors expect to reap a profit on their gold and silver as a result of higher spot prices. 
With the latest release by the USGS, silver production in the U.S. is now the lowest in more than 70 years. We have to go all the way back until the year after World War II ended to see U.S. silver production less than it was in 2018. While many reasons can be attributed to the decline, the main factors are falling ore grades and mine economics.
The original silver dollar, created at the birth of the United States, was based upon the silver Spanish “Pieces of Eight” minted at the Royal Mint in Mexico City, under Spanish rule at that time. This was a very widely used coin throughout the world. Because in its early years the US had no mint, the first US silver dollars were minted in Mexico, for the Revolutionary Government of the US. The US silver dollar contained .774 ounce of pure silver. 
Palladium soared to a new record high over $1600 an ounce overnight, up 27% year-to-date, as global supply concerns dominate slumping-auto-demand fears.
In 2018, central banks added nearly 23 million ounces of gold, up 74% from 2017. This is the highest annual purchase rate increase since 1971, and the second-highest rate in history. Russia was the biggest buyer.
In Energy & Gold’s latest conversation with 
It’s important to understand Gold’s fundamentals as it will help us confirm a new bull market.
Gold is set to shine in 2019 
Silver recently started outperforming gold again, a watershed event. For long years this white metal has mostly lagged the yellow one, relentlessly battering silver sentiment. But gold surging into year-end 2018 finally sparked some life into moribund silver. This is a bullish sign, as silver has soared in the past once rising prices reach critical mass in attracting new investment capital. Silver looks to be nearing that point again.
Official gold purchases reached a new record in 2018 as central banks continued to diversify away from the U.S. Dollar. Not only was 2018 a banner year for central bank gold purchases, but it was also the highest amount for more than five decades. Central banks haven’t bought this much gold in one year since Nixon ended the convertibility of the U.S. Dollar into gold in 1971. 
Two years ago at a conference during which I both presented and attended, a Keynote speaker, "Rich Dad" Robert Kiyosaki, introduced me to a different way of looking at things. He posed the question, "How many sides does a coin have?"
It’s well-known that you have to make a declaration if you physically transport $10,000 or more in cash or monetary instruments in or out of the US, or almost any other country; governments collude on these things, often informally.
Are you sick of your 
What if I were to tell you that gold is within earshot of all-time highs. You’d call me crazy. But I’m not.
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pledge allegiance to the flag...
Despite a period of uncertainty— US-China trade war concerns, sanctions on Iran, fall in the rupee, etc.—silver, unlike gold, has not seen a rally. The market not recognising the dual status of silver—bullion and industrial commodity—is the prime reason for the metal’s underperformance. “The market is treating 
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1
Even though interest in precious metals has fallen over the past few years, investment demand is still the largest growth sector in the silver market. Yes, it may be hard to believe, but physical silver investment has grown the most since the 2008 financial crisis compared to the other sectors. And while industrial users consume the highest amount of silver in the overall market annually, its total demand has fallen over the past decade. 
The US’s Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday has thinned Comex markets, though volume figures for gold have held up reasonably well. Doubtless, this is due to the December contract running off the board. 
The next credit crisis poses a major challenge to China’s manufacturing-based economy, because higher global and yuan interest rates are bound to have a devastating effect on Chinese business models and foreign consumer demand. Dealing with it is likely to be the biggest challenge faced by the Chinese Government since the ending of the Maoist era. However, China does have an escape route by stabilising both interest rates and the yuan by linking it to gold.
It’s important to keep in mind that the mining stocks have been sold to levels well-below their intrinsic value – in the case of larger-cap producing miners. Or their “optionality” value – in the case of junior mining companies with projects that have a good chance eventually of converting their deposits into mines. “Optionality” value is based on the idea that junior exploration companies with projects that have strong mineralization or a compliant resource have an implied value based on the varying degrees of probability that their projects will eventually be developed into a producing mine. 
The gold price already bottomed, says InvestingHaven’s research team. The upside potential in gold’s price near term is 7 percent while gold’s price may rise 12 pct into 2019. Best case, though, if gold would get a bid with global markets continuing their sell-off we may see 25% upside. That’s when silver miners will do exceptionally well, similar to their epic rally in 2016.
The gold and silver futures markets got even more unbalanced last week, with speculators (who are usually wrong at the extremes) going as short as they’ve ever been and commercials going even more long. 
To the surprise of many investors, the precious metals have rallied while the broader markets continue to sell-off. Currently, both gold and silver are solidly in the green while the major indexes were all the red following a huge sell-off yesterday. The Dow Jones Index has lost nearly 1,000 points in the past two days while the gold price is up nearly $25.
According to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch, gold is set to take a run over the next year due to the constant cloud of uncertainty with regards to the U.S budget deficit alongside concerns over trade wars. 
Bill Pawelec taught me the meaning and importance of predictive programming. As a result, I am going to reveal a partially redacted, but very relevant email from a member of my audience about the extreme relevance of predictive programming. And then I am going to allow the predictive words of my late friend, CIA contract agent and former Air Force Intel operative, Bill Pawelec, who revealed what is coming and I fear we will not have to wait very long this to happen.
Below is a technical analysis of gold. Please don’t shoot the analyst.
Last week, we shined a spotlight on a crack in the monetary system that few people outside of Switzerland (and not many inside either) were aware of. There is permanent gold backwardation measured in Swiss francs. Everyone knows that the Swiss franc has a negative interest rate, but so far as we know, Keith is the only one who predicted this would lead to its 
Our modeling systems are suggesting that Gold and Silver will begin a new upside rally very quickly. We wrote about how our modeling systems are suggesting this upside move could be a tremendous opportunity for investors over 2 weeks ago. Our initial target is near the $1245 level and our second target is near the $1309 level. Recent lows help to confirm this upside projection as the most recent low prices created a price rotation that supports further upside price action. What is needed right now is a push above $1220 before we begin to see the real acceleration higher.
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet famously dismissed gold.
Even though the gold price increased in 2018, the top gold miners production declined while costs continue to escalate. Output at three of the top gold miners in the world fell in the first half of 2018 compared to the same period last year. With rising costs due to higher energy prices, on top of decreasing production, the top gold miners free cash flow declined precipitously in 2018.
Gold and silver sold off last week, and as shown in our headline chart, have lost nearly all the gains made since the last major turning point on 11 December 2017.
The main objective behind the sea route plied by Spanish galleons was to establish trade with China. These European vessels became known as China Ships. They transported silver from the Americas to exchange for goods in Asia, mostly commodities of Chinese origin.
In 1980, global assets, including property, were less than $20 trillion. Today almost 40 years later they have grown to $524 trillion. That is a compound annual growth rate of 9% which is quite remarkable for a 38 year period. Global assets have gone up 26 fold during this period.