Precious metals news

Harvey Organ suspects MASSIVE short covering by the bankers - Mentions short covering not yet happening in silver.  Are we seeing that short covering this morning in silver as shown by […]

Against the back drop of a weak economy, commodity prices have been rising over the last five years.

“Home prices continue to climb and outpace both inflation and wages,”

SD Exclusive Weekly Outlook: "If anything comes out of left field, a quick repricing in the metals could follow"

Despite a tumble in 'hard' data, and a plunge in Bloomberg's economic expectations, it appears record high stocks are working to pump Americans up.

Steve Inskeep of the Brookings Institution about why the U.S. economy is having trouble boosting its rate of inflation.

The global financial markets turn their attention to monetary policy on Tuesday, with the US Federal Reserve set to begin its two-day meeting in Washington

Gold steadies ahead of the two-day, US Fed rate-setting meeting starting on Tuesday.

This is a structural change in the global gold market 7 allows a considerably greater influence of the physical gold market [primarily Shanghai] to impact the gold price and diminish the impact of the ‘paper gold markets of COMEX

Let me be absolutely clear: - we are now at the threshold of a barn burner rally in the Precious Metals sector, & silver is set to scream higher driven by a massive short covering panic

Jim Rickards shows you why all the conditions for a crash are in place, just waiting for the catalyst to start the chain reaction. Read on...

What did catch our attention (besides the ‘Russian Alliance’ –consisting of Russia, Belarus & Kazakhstan – buying more gold), was the behavior of Turkey.

When asking seasoned miners about this year's so-called gold rush in Northern California, it can be a challenge to obtain trustworthy information."People who are smart don't…

This is essentially the “causation” or “correlation” argument which has been a point of contentious debate over the last several years as debt levels in the U.S. have soared higher.

Almost all board members see greater downside risks for prices

In September 2015, the U.S. Federal Reserve cited risks from China as a key reason for delaying its first interest rate hike in a decade. A wall of Chinese debt maturing in the next few years could jolt the country back into the U.S. central bank's policy deliberations.

Pundits and government officials keep telling us the economy is strong. Everything is great. After all, GDP is growing.
But a lot of people recognize things aren't all that great. Some prominent economic analysts have said a major crash is looming. Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller called stock market valuations “concerning” and hinted that markets could be set up for a crash. Several other notable economists have recently expressed concern about surging stock markets, particularly in the US. Marc Faber has predicted “massive” asset price deflation  – possibly of a drop of as much as 40% in stock market value. Billionaire investor Paul Singer recently said the financial system is not sound. And former Ronald Reagan budget director David Stockman said we should get ready of “fiscal chaos.”
So, how is it that some see a meltdown on the horizon while most of the mainstream sees nothing but unicorns and roses? If the economy is growing, how can anybody things recessio...

The war on cash may have hit a snag in Europe.
A lot of people apparently don't want to play along.

Bullish traders who insist that US economic fundamentals remain rock-solid despite tepid growth, inflation a&other signs the post election “Trump bump” in consumer confidence is already beginning to fade