Precious metals news

THE GOOD:  Gold is and has been real money for 5,000 years. THE BAD:  Gold prices will benefit from the following items.  (This is a long and incomplete list.) THE […]

You just can’t make this stuff up. You really can’t.  Another day, another elderly American peasant pursued by a “justice” system in which real crooks receive taxpayer bailouts to pay themselves bonuses, […]

Failure of regulation in the midst of what has become a Wall Street takeover of banking and government financial policy has created the problems that make us perpetually fragile to […]

Are millions of Americans about to become gold owners by accident?? The internet is abuzz with speculation about the new Apple watch coming soon.   According to Apple there will […]

The euro's future could become an important factor.  In today's analysis I point out that the euro's inherent weaknesses may undermine its credibility in coming months. This will have two […]

Mexico’s massive precious-metals belts are some of the world’s finest. As global #1 in silver production they are obviously quite well known for the shiny-white metal. But these belts have […]

The total solar eclipse on March 20th falls on Nisan 1, which is the first day of the first month of the Biblical calendar.  According to Jewish tradition, a solar […]

Because he can’t get Congress to approve the things that he wants to do, Barack Obama has apparently decided to rule by decree for the rest of his time in […]

Will the greatest economic crash in history occur this fall and usher in the Biblicly prophesied Great Tribulation?  Marshall Swing believes so...

This weekend we have three hot spots to cover. The first is the crisis in Greece where it seems that the Greeks have a payment of 1.6 billion euros that it […]

Peter discusses the Fed and Greenspan's recent review

Jessica Fung, Commodities Analyst for BMO Nesbitt Burns, explained her firm's belief that gold has always been and will always be a safe-haven investment. Fung sticks to the mainstream perspective that the Federal Reserve is still planning to raise interest rates in 2015, though she does admit that BMO now predicts the Fed is going to push back that rate hike. It’s interesting to watch a major financial firm dance around the increasingly confused market sentiment and convoluted messages from the Fed.
Investors should take note that major financial players are starting to publicly admit that gold is an essential investment regardless of the supposed strength of the US economy or dollar – exactly what Peter Schiff has been saying for years.

Explore the latest exciting developments in the silver industry with the February edition of Silver News. Its front-page story covers how silver nanowires are being explored as an alternative to widely-used indium tin-oxide. Once testing is complete, silver could become even more essential to the manufacturing of touch-screens, plasma televisions, and other common electronics.
Perhaps even more exciting is the new commercial release of a 3D printer that can simultaneously print conductive silver inks inside plastic designs. Everyday consumers can now print customized electronic devices. This advancing technology could add significant demand to the electronic silver market beyond large manufacturers. You can watch a video about this new printer from Voxel8 below.

Chinese Gold Demand Outpaces World Production Forbes – More than 315 metric tons of gold were withdrawn from the Shanghai Gold Exchange from the beginning of January to mid-February. During the same period, only 300 tons were newly-mined around the globe. The gold demand came in preparation for the Chinese New Year, the country’s biggest holiday. China is already the world’s second largest gold consumer, but its bullion demand will likely surge with changing demographics. In the next 5 years, China’s middle class is expected to grow 66% to 500 million. Read Full Article>>

Derivatives, demographics, and the lack of redundancy and concentration of deposits (liquidity) guarantee that the whole complex will burst with a POP heard around the world...  

Sovereign Risk is the biggest risk out there. You cannot EVER underestimate the desperate tactics and procedures of bankrupt governments. They’ll come up with every creative way possible to relieve […]

Our favorite critic of the Federal Reserve, Jim Grant was back on CNBC to provide his perspective on Janet Yellen & the Fed preparing to hike interest rates.  Grant unleashes […]

FOCUS: Keep your eyes on the size of your growing stack of silver not on the movements of the price. Yes, it would be nice to see a big percentage […]

Most Americans spend their lives working for others, paying off debts to others and performing tasks that others tell them that they “must” do.  These days, we don’t like to […]

The key to understanding the future value of gold and silver is by following the global energy market. Finance does not run the global economy… energy does.