Precious metals news

The unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve have decided that the time has come to slightly taper the amount of quantitative easing that it has been doing.  On Wednesday, […]

Just like I warned people in 2004 that the housing market would collapse - which it started to do in mid-2005 - I am warning everyone again that the housing […]

Dollar collapse is about as far from the mainstream concern as the next major earthquake - both inevitable and natural events.

Compiling all the figures  for the past three years, the United States has a negative 171 mt of net gold supply so far in 2013.  This means that the U.S. […]

In this excellent interview with Sprott's Ask the Expert, David Morgan dives into gold, silver, bitcoins, and manipulation. Should PM investors exit the manipulated gold & silver markets for the […]

Swallow the blue pill and chase it with a half-pint of whisky if you want the easy and well-traveled road of collective delusion. But as Ayn Rand said, “We can […]

Since the adoption of a private banking, money creation venture, the dollar has lost virtually its entire store of value. The currency has lost its universal acceptance, as multiple alternatives […]

On the day after taper gold has been slammed under $1200 for the first time in 5 months, and is within a mere $20 of testing the June 28th low […]

According to an absolutely shocking study that has just been released, one area of the Pacific Ocean floor was 98 percent covered by decomposing sea creatures in July 2012.  But […]

Fed tapers QE to $75 billion/month beginning in Jan! Bernanke threatens further tapering: `Fed is likely to further the reduction of asset purchases at each future meeting!' As expected, gold […]

The Wall Street Transcript released its Gold and Precious Metals Report, which includes an interview with Peter Schiff on gold's performance in the past year and what to expect in the physical precious metals market going forward. The full report is available for download here. Yahoo! provides an excerpt from the interview:
TWST: Gold has been not a great performer this year. What's going on?
Mr. Schiff: Well, obviously some of the people who made a lot of money in gold over the years may have decided to cash in, but I think - more likely I think the speculators, who finally, finally got into the gold market over the last couple years decided to get out and cut their losses, because I think they saw the big run-up in the stock market, they believed all the hype about the recession being over, about the Fed being ready to tighten and take away the QE, and I think they believe that the case for gold was undermining.
So they sold their gold and went back into the stock mark...

At the recent Whitman Expo in Baltimore, former US Mint Director Edmund C. Moy who ran the mint from 2006-2011 opened up on visiting Fort Knox during his tenure as […]

Ahead of the Fed's December FOMC statement, The Interest Rate Observer's Jim Grant was on CNBC today debating the effectiveness of the Fed & Bernanke's QE policy with bankster apologist […]

During 2013, America continued to steadily march down a self-destructive path toward oblivion.  As a society, our debt levels are completely and totally out of control.  Our financial system has […]

In this interview with unconventional finance's Elijah Johnson, Bill Murphy of GATA how a Fed tapering of QE would likely affect precious metals, whether China is involved with gold suppression, […]

Taper or No Taper?  Will the cartel attempt to smash gold & silver below the June 28th lows of $1179 and $18? SDLive debuts as an Open Interactive Thread for […]

In his latest video update, Tekoa da Silva discusses gold and whether trying to time/capture the bottom perfectly is advised in the wake of a 2+ year correction, and re-examines […]

Watch Ben Bernanke's LAST FOMC Press Conference LIVE below at 2:30pm EST!

There is inevitable speculation that tapering might be announced at the FOMC meeting this Wednesday. It should be noted that this is Ben Bernanke’s swansong, and if tapering is to […]

The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is set to exceed a whopping $4 trillion today, prompting warnings its ultra loose monetary policies are inflating asset price bubbles and will lead to […]