Precious metals news

Was JPM stockpiling physical silver over the past 24 months to DUMP it on the market into the next massive bull leg? Ted Butler weighs in...

Maurice Jackson interviews one of the most respected & trusted names in the Natural Resource Space, David Morgan.

This article was written by Stefan Gleason and originally published at the Tenth Amendment Center. Find it here.
Is America on the cusp of a revolution that will usher in a new monetary order? The lessons of history tell us that no fiat currency retains its value for long or lasts forever. And as Shakespeare noted, “what’s past is prologue.”
Major episodes in monetary history often stem from political revolutions. Just as there are boom-bust economic cycles, there are cycles of optimism pessimism that drive cultural, geopolitical, and war cycles. American history reflects the ebbs and flows in social sentiment.
The Founders wrote gold and silver into the Constitution as legal tender. They did so not because the American Revolution was financed with sound money – quite the opposite. The Founders were keenly aware of the dangers of unbacked paper money because the Continental Congress printed huge volumes of it to pay for the Revolutionary war.

If you want to see the value of gold in a currency crisis, just look north.
When people tell you “gold is down,” you should always ask an important question: compared to what? If you bought gold in Canadian dollars (CAD) last year, you’re probably pretty happy. Gold is up 7.9% in the Great White North, and 17% over two years. Even if you bought gold in Canadian dollars five years ago, things still look pretty good. The price is up a healthy 5.8%.
We tend to talk about everything in terms of dollars, but the USD is not the only game in town. And the bullish market for gold when looking at it in Canadian dollars reveals the yellow metals intrinsic value. It historically protects wealth during a currency crisis.

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As we interviewed the investing stars in 2015, we saw some patterns develop. Whether it was in the wake of terror attacks, bond defaults, currencies (we are looking at you, […]

It is not normal for the United States to experience massive wildfires and giant tornadoes right around Christmas. The huge wildfire that erupted northwest of Los Angeles on Christmas Day […]

Something stinks...

Just because we have been calculating a fundamental price for gold that is well over a hundred bucks above the market price, does not mean that the market price has […]

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump predicts tough times ahead for the US economy. If something bad were to happen, better it happen during the Obama administration, than the next one, […]

In this excellent update, Koos Jansen provides a thorough examination of cross-border gold trade between Australia and the Chinese mainland:

Three Canadian law firms are launching a class action against the Gold fix participants:

Today’s debt-serf is indentured to banks and stripped of opportunities to own assets that the rich use to accumulate ever-greater wealth and income.

This is where economics began, on the shores of the Nile.

The breakout in the prices of the precious metals during the 1970’s and 2000’s was due to this reason.  The coming explosion in the values of gold and silver will […]

The latest large increase in Russia’s gold reserves – a “buying spree” as reported by Reuters has again gone largely unnoticed by most analysts. Indeed, the important monetary and geopolitical ramifications continue […]

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The bill directly targets every semi-automatic firearm in the United States including handguns, shotguns and rifles… Would blanket the country with new restrictions.

Marc Faber: "I believe were already entering a Recession in the United States"

Ned Naylor-Leyland joins us from London for his thoughts on the precious metals markets. Baring a systemic collapse, Naylor-Leyland makes the case for a Turn-Around in gold in 2016...