Precious metals news

The average gold bear already looks a bit like the wolf character from the fairy tale, “The Three Little Pigs”. The wolf repeatedly blows hot bearish analysis air at the […]

Only the Resolute Bulls Will Be Left Standing to Experience a Moon Shot to $2000 in 2014!  Once all but the Resolute Bulls are wiped out, Gold and Silver will […]

“Messenger appears to have more spyware type code in it than I’ve seen in products intended specifically for enterprise surveillance.” - Jonathan Zdziarski, expert in iOS related digital forensics and security

Unsound money and finance are fuel for the fires lead to panic and chaos.

Listening to the financial media, you might be convinced that the precious metals – gold in particular – are simply not considered reliable investments anymore. This is a viewpoint peculiar to the West, as Peter Schiff has repeatedly emphasized. However, every now and then, the mainstream media shares some news reminding us that while Americans and Europeans might be disenchanted with the yellow metal, other countries are still very concerned with protecting their savings with the hard asset that has served as a safe-haven for thousands of years. Often that news comes from countries that have a much longer history of troubled economies, and therefore a greater understanding of what assets carry real value in this world.
Today, for instance, Bloomberg published two stories about central bank and Chinese gold demand. In the first, "China May Boost Gold Reserves Amid Imbalances in Holdings", Bloomberg reports on research from the London-based Official Monetary and Financial Institu...

Scottish voters finally have the opportunity to fulfill William Wallace's dream of a Scotland that is free and independent of England forever.  All they have to do is vote yes […]

In the early 1970s silver went from “ho-hum” to “enthusiasm” to “wow, who would believe it could go to $6.40?”  After the 2008 crash silver went from “going back to […]

This is 2005/2006 all over again.   You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of reality.

Precious metals prices remain range-bound over the short-term after a devastating three year run. From a technical standpoint, it doesn't look great; we are stuck in this limbo of tightly […]

On September 30th, 2013 the U.S. national debt was sitting at $16,738,183,526,697.32.  As I write this, the U.S. national debt is sitting at $17,742,108,970,073.37.  That means that the U.S. national debt has […]

In his latest interview with Finance & Liberty, Hat Trick Letter Editor Jim Willie discusses how the escalation of Russian sanctions will impact European & the US economies, the irony […]

The failure of a monetary system is never a smooth road paved with gold. It is rocky and undulating, with twists and turns that don't appear on any map. But the destination is always without question: The eventual price of gold always accounts for an expanding fiat currency supply.

Singapore and Hong Kong appear to be competing for the a new global gold price benchmark. Further details emerged at the weekend about the planned launch by Singapore of a […]

Gold analyst Bo Polny has been predicting since May that gold will trade at $2,000 in 2014.  In the wake of the latest smash to $1225, is Bo changing his […]

Gold and silver have been pounded lower over the past month, contrary to their bullish seasonals.  This selling pressure has come from the usual suspects, American futures speculators.  They’ve been […]

If you’re thinking about retiring to Florida for the warm weather, lack of state income tax, and plentiful medical care facilities, you might want to reconsider. The world is truly […]

On the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, Tod Fletcher of Consensus911.org joins us for a power packed show, discussing:  Latest PM smash as gold trades down towards $1225 and […]

What will $1 million buy in New York City? A diamond-encrusted Cartier men’s watch. A small fleet of 2014 Bentley Continentals. Or maybe your very own parking spot in SoHo. A […]

Thanks in large part to China’s slowdown, junior mining / exploration companies are one of the most degraded asset classes in the market right now. Case in point: exploration spending […]

The gearing of total world money and credit on today's monetary base is forty times, but this is after a rapid expansion of the Fed's balance sheet in recent years. […]