Precious metals news

The BLS used its fictitiously calculated “Birth/Death Model” plug metric to pad today’s report of 223k jobs added in April with 213,000 “fairytale” jobs. That's right, 96% of the jobs […]

Austria’s Hypo Alpo has taken down 3 small banks in Austria and Germany that were leveraged to 98.5% of their capital.  200 million Euro losses killed these extremely leveraged banks. […]

Ever wondered what the face behind this looks like?

Huge story of the day: Overnight a huge rise in bond yields occurred, then central bank intervention arrived to lower yields.  However, derivatives were detonated on the sudden massive spike: 

Peter Schiff spoke briefly with Ben Bernanke at the SkyBridge Alternatives (SALT) Conference yesterday. Approaching the former Federal Reserve Chairman, Peter warned, “In full disclosure, I’m your biggest critic.” Bernanke didn’t miss a beat: “You have a lot of competition.”

Graham Ledger spoke with Peter Schiff last week about all the official excuses for the poor first quarter GDP. Ledger compared this winter to the epically poor winter of 1984, when the GDP still managed to rise by more than 4%. On top of that, he compared the so-called Obama “recovery” to the Reagan recovery of the mid-80s when GDP stood at about 3-4%. Peter agreed with all of Ledger’s points and shared his strategy for protecting your investments from the economic fallout of the Fed’s monetary manipulation.

HFT, inept regulators & Fed distortion = more flash crashes...

"Nobody knows for sure because it's a new experiment, & yes the boom in the housing market & the stock market are partly the Fed's doing. But on the other hand, we were close to a depression & they had to do something."

While shocking to some, the bail-in strategy is completely legal. Client account holders can only profess ignorance which – when it comes down to it – will not be enough to […]

In the mining sector, mergers and acquisitions can deliver rapid returns to shareholders. Investors in Cayden Resources saw their shares swell by 300% in price late last year, when Cayden […]

This blatant market manipulation activity to me suggests there’s something worse going on behind the scenes than you and I think…All i can see is increasing volatility in the system…this […]

Are you ready for rioting, looting and mindless violence in major U.S. cities all summer long? 

Chinese ambitions to become the world’s leading gold trading hub and international financial hub have taken another step forward:

The old game is Rock-Paper-Scissors in which rock breaks (wins against) scissors, scissors cuts (wins against) paper, paper covers (wins against) rock.  The game is balanced with wins, losses, and […]

According to TD Ameritrade’s CEO, based on looking at 6.5 million customer accounts, the retail investor segment of the stock market is “all in”. Historically, this has been the fatal […]

UK election today expected to yield “hung parliament” Election not seen marked decline in pound as was the case in run up to last election Election ‘chaos’ could trigger a […]

Kitco News interviewed Andre Leyland of Thomson Reuters GFMS about the latest silver demand trends. While demand in 2014 was down very slightly from 2013, Leyland emphasized that 2013 was a record year for silver demand around the world. Looking forward, he expects demand to grow, and with it the price. In fact, Thomson Reuters GFMS is projecting the next couple of years to have significantly higher average silver prices than we’re seeing now.
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The Fed and Central Banks are in serious trouble and certain countries realize it.  This can be seen by the change in the gold price and its impact on U.S. […]

The coup in Ukraine is Washington’s effort to thrust a dagger into Russia’s heart. The recklessness of such a criminal act has been covered up by constructing a false reality […]