Precious metals news

The United Nations proposes both that social networks proactively police every profile and post, and that government agencies only “license” those who agree to do so.

F. William Engdahl dissects Obama's UNGA speech...

Last month, we wrote about the recent "Death Candle" for the S&P 500. Equity investors everywhere should be sure to note with extreme caution that history is once again repeating […]

When the price of gold moves up, traders expect the price of silver to move up even more. As we continue to warn, that may not be the case this […]

Silver just staged a very interesting breakout, from a multi-shouldered inverse head and shoulders bottom pattern. In the short term, a quick pullback to the $15 area is possible, but […]

“The Fed can cause massive inflation in 15 minutes.  They can call a board meeting, vote on a new policy, walk outside, and announce to the world that effective immediately, […]

The collapse that many have suggested will take place at some point in the future is actually happening right here and now...

When Gerard LaRocca, a senior bank executive at Barclays Capital reviewed the Lehman Brothers bank account at JPMorgan on September 23, 2008 he noticed something odd. $7 billion from Lehman’s […]

Jim Rickards has seemingly issued a hard date to watch for his "global reset" forecast to come to fruition. As a reminder, Jim has predicted another major financial crisis (worse […]

Can the Obama Administration not think a single step ahead?

Two persistent myths convince gold bears that the price of gold will remain low – a looming series of interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve and the fact that gold did not rally during the last round of quantitative easing. Peter Schiff explains why both of these myths are ready to die following Friday's terrible job report. The silver price surged significantly higher on Friday’s news, and Peter thinks it won’t be long before gold also breaks out of its trading range. Investors are quickly running out of time to take advantage of these low prices.

Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane dug through thousands of years of historical data and found interest rates now sit at the lowest levels in some 3,000 years.
Wonkblog economic affairs reporter Matt O'Brien places the historic state of interest rates in vivid perspective in a Washington Post op-ed:
This is the best time to borrow money in recorded history…Now, it is true that rates almost got all the way down to zero during the Great Depression, but they have gotten all the way down there today. Indeed, interest rates are all-but-zero in the United States, the United Kingdom, the euro zone and, for the past 16 years now, Japan. Those are economies that, in nominal terms, make up more than half of the global economy.”

In this MUST LISTEN and timely interview with Hat Trick Letter editor Jim Willie, the Golden Jackass discusses the takedown of Glencore and Volkswagen, the Fed’s hidden $1 Trillion of QE […]

After panicking the market by cutting Authorized Dealer allocations to 750,000 coins in mid September (reportedly due to a die machine breaking according to Mint officials), the US Mint has […]

Something occurred in the banking system in September that required a massive reverse repo operation in order to force the largest Treasury collateral injection into the repo market IN HISTORY... […]

How do you find the stocks that are most likely to return 100-1 gains?  That’s the question Chris Mayer wanted to answer. After a year-long study of the biggest performers […]

By now, all of you will have read about the U.S. military’s recent bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. What you may not be aware of, […]

Bix Weir joins Finance and Liberty to discuss the growing Silver Eagle shortage- is it merely a market driven event from unprecedented demand, or is the US Mint intentionally witholding Silver […]

The effect on commodities: If NIRP looks like becoming a reality, commodity markets should begin to adjust to a general state of backwardation, reflecting the anticipated cost of holding cash […]

With silver spiking to 3 month highs, is the breakout just beginning?   Peter Schiff weighs in: "Ultimately gold is going to follow silver's lead, and breakout to NEW HIGHS..."