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2015: The Year when Economic Reality hits like a ton of bricks- lost control of the oil price, evidence of broken USDollar structure and dismantled Petro-Dollar linkage, with enormous imminent […]

The ironic tragedy is that those whose ‘dare’ to hold physical collateral in their portfolios are constantly plagued with worry over the nominal value measured in uncollateralized figments conjured by […]

The last two years, 2013 and 2014, weren’t good for gold investors. I agree. There was severe scrutiny, and no matter where you looked, the yellow metal was disliked as […]

After her botched Chemistry experiment ended in smoke, little Kiera was charged with possession of a weapon and the assembling of a bomb on campus...

In a taxation regime, the banks are one powerful interest group among many. In a money printing regime in a debt money system, the banks rule supreme. To question money-printing […]

The Charlie Hebdo affair has many of the characteristics of a false flag operation. The attack on the cartoonists’ office was a disciplined professional attack of the kind associated with […]

As 2014 began, the gold bears at the banks sounded more like financial terrorists than economists, and many investors in the Western gold community became extremely frightened. Some even became […]

Oil continues to be the big topic of the day.  At one point in the day, both Brent and WTI traded at identical levels as Europe continues to deflate. The […]

In his latest podcast, Peter Schiff dissects the jobs numbers from December, Obama’s new community college plan, and Charles Evans’ call for more inflation. Peter continues to be one of the few reporting on the reality underlying the headline jobs numbers, though Paul Craig Roberts just published an enlightening article at LewRockwell.com. Roberts looks at the Shadow Stats employment data for December and reveals that real unemployment is more like 23% – not 5.6% as reported by the government.

Lawrence Williams reports for Mineweb that the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) reported more than 2,100 metric tons of gold withdrawals in 2014. The last three trading days of the year alone saw 29 tons of withdrawals. Many analysts have turned to figures from SGE as a better gauge of Chinese consumer demand, because the Chinese government does not release official physical gold import figures.
The Chinese Lunar New Year isn’t until February 19th this year, which means there’s still a lot of time for Chinese consumers to stock up on gold in advance of the holiday. This is one of the strongest times for Chinese gold demand and often sets the tone for the rest of the year, which some think might approach record levels again in 2015.

Edmund Shing, global equity portfolio manager for BCS Financial Group, told CNBC why he still sees gold as an excellent safe haven asset. Just as Peter Schiff has pointed out, investors who bought gold in any currency other than the US dollar last year saw excellent returns. What’s more, Shing agrees with Peter that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise rates in any significant way in 2015.

After years of capping and smashing the gold and silver prices, is 2015 the year the Fed finally comes to the aid of gold & silver investors? 

The U.S. Deep State is in favor of Saudi Arabia's strategy of forcing production cuts on its rivals and marginal producers for two profound reasons...

There is compelling evidence that 2015 will see a global slump in economic activity.   This being the case, financial and systemic risks will increase as evidence of the slump […]

Legendary investor Rick Rule asks: Should we steer clear of the oil sector or look for ways to profit?

The lawful owner of the 8,134 tonnes of official gold holdings of the United States is the US Treasury.  The Federal Reserve handed over the official gold reserves to the […]

Ever since the 1980 time-bombing of the Bologna train station that killed 85 and injured over 200, Western European ‘false flag' operations have become fairly standardized ‘boiler plate' operations. This […]

Why would the government want to punish people that are just trying to work hard, become more self-sufficient and take care of their families? If you use alternative methods to […]

Gold had a boost today with news that the Ukraine has reserves of only 7.5 billion dollars.  They are now within a whisker of default and need help from the IMF. […]

Paper has begun its collapse; it started with the Russian Ruble and will end with the US dollar.   As paper collapses, Gold will rise and then go Parabolic! All […]