Precious metals news

In a recent article I introduced the concept of allowing for the increased quantity of above-ground gold and the expansion of the quantity of dollar currency over time when trying to […]

Employers are cutting full-time employees back to part-time to avoid the requirement of providing health insurance under Obama Care. Trader Karl Denninger says, “As the Obama Administration runs against the […]

US President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of […]

The cost of borrowing gold remains near its highest level since January 2009, reflecting a lack of supply from bullion banks and resilient demand for physical gold products, especially in […]

The global crisis is a financial crisis driven primarily by global trade and capital imbalances.  This is the macro theme we have pursued these past 7 years. We believe the […]

John Williams, founder of ShadowStats.com, published an excellent commentary with Casey Research last week. Williams compares his truthful, adjusted economic data with the nominal data that the US government points to as signs of recovery. He paints a very clear picture of how close we are to another dramatic economic crisis and emphasizes the importance silver and gold will play in protecting investors from the inevitable inflation and collapse of the dollar.
"Nothing is normal: not the economy, not the financial system, not the financial markets and not the political system. The financial system still remains in the throes and aftershocks of the 2008 panic. A number of underlying problems of that time, tied to the risks of a near-systemic collapse and the related, extreme economic downturn, were pushed into the future—not resolved—by the extraordinary liquidity and systemic-intervention actions taken by the Federal Reserve and federal government. Further panic is possible, and...

GoldMoney's Alasdair Macleod has released an excellent interview with our friend Ned-Naylor Leyland. Ned discusses his recent paper (Gold- What Has & Hasn't Happened) and his view that gold has […]

The U.S. Economy is still heading for a train-wreck, but you wouldn’t know it if you pay attention to the information and data coming out of the Main Stream Media.  […]

Naked shorting of silver is not really the issue, as silver analyst, Ted Butler has been pointing out for decades, it is more about the extreme concentration of short silver […]

"If the dollar cycle has topped on week three like I think it has, then gold should deliver an extremely powerful rally over the next 4-5 months. If the dollar […]

GATA's Bill Murphy joins RT's Bob English on Prime Interest (which has essentially replaced Lauren Lyster and Capital Account) to discuss the manipulated smash in gold over the past 2 […]

Have you ever seen a disaster movie that is so bad that it is actually good? Unfortunately, we are witnessing something just as ridiculous in the real world right now.  […]

Cash-strapped consumers are losing almost 80% of the value of their gold jewellery when they sell it to cash for gold companies. In a major survey of cash for gold […]

Real unemployment is increasing in the U.S.A., and has now risen to a record 23.4%! This is significant not only because of the devastating impact on the poor souls who […]

Both gold and silver have experienced parabolic price declines. The good news for embattled bulls is that this type of chart action usually happens at the end of a decline. […]

Gold’s biggest psychological overhang this year has been the fate of the Fed’s third quantitative-easing campaign. Gold futures traders hang on every word of Fed officials, extrapolating them into a […]

Don't say I didn't warn you about your 401k's and IRA's.  Orrin "Magic Underwear" Hatch has introduced legislation to "create a new public retirement plan in which insurance companies pay […]

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said this week that inflation in the United States needs to be higher.  Yes, he actually came right out and said that.  It almost seems […]

Chris Duane has released the 5th coin in the SBSS series, The Warbird. With the caption Spreading Debt & Death, the coin is produced by the Golden State Mint, and […]

Peter Schiff had a friendly conversation with Rick Santelli this morning on CNBC's Squawk on the Street. They discussed how the Fed's quantitative easing has become uncontrollable and why this will make the next crisis even worse than the last.
I think eventually you're going to see a real attack on the dollar and the US Treasury market and the Fed's ability to maintain artificially low interest rates without destroying the dollar... Eventually the Fed is going to lose control of this. And I think the biggest danger is when you start to see the bond market and dollar selling off simultaneously. You throw in a rally in gold and that's basically the triple threat - you've got all the warning bells that the end is near."