Precious metals news

The FOMC minutes have just been released and as the normal MO for the cartel, the monkeys were simultaneously released on  silver-however the sharp brief smash has been met with […]

The silver producers are being hurt by the actions of the Fed & Central Banks.  The silver mining companies are producing both a necessary industrial metal as well as an […]

Today's must see Chart(s) of the day depict a massive waterfall decline in gold.  No, we're not talking about the daily COMEX open futures chart (or the chart on the […]

Does being a prepper show a lack of faith in God?  Should good Christians reject prepping altogether?  Yesterday, someone actually accused me of being "anti-faith" because I am encouraging people […]

Gold is little changed near a one-week high, and is marginally higher in dollars as the dollar has retreated from a three-year high, and higher in most currencies. The gold […]

Yesterday marked the beginning of extended trading hours (night trading) for the Shanghai futures exchange (SHFE), and volume was superb.  The average trading volume during the day is about 90,000 […]

We face something that has not been visited upon the human race since the fall of the Roman Empire. That fall caused 1,000 years of darkness. It’s taken 500 years […]

It appears that silver is at a potential bottoming area, and very close attention to how price develops from today forward may provide key information from which one can profit.  […]

In a new commentary on Forbes, Todd Ganos steps back and looks at gold's recent volatility through the lens of the yellow metal's traditional role: gold as stable, incorruptible money.
"Recently, there has been quite a bit of volatility in the dollar price of gold.  It certainly can’t be that the fundamental value of the United States dollar is experiencing wide swings.  We don’t see the dollar price of bacon or bread or a car wildly gyrating.  But, given that gold is money, in a sort of cross-currency context, the prices of bacon, bread, and a car ARE wildly gyrating . . . relative to gold.  Of course, history would suggest to us that the price of bacon, bread, a car, gold or most anything should be stable relative to each other over the long run.  So, it would seem that the recent price swings in gold are driven by speculation as opposed to fundamentals."

When you get into too much debt, really bad things start to happen.  Sadly, that is exactly what is happening to Italy right now.  Harsh austerity measures are causing the […]

By Eric Dubin Remember those cartoon puzzles, "Where's Waldo"?  Finding Waldo is easier to than calling a bottom in PMs.  But the set-up for a bottom to be in is […]

Our good friend Ned Naylor-Leyland of Cheviot Asset Management is back with a MUST READ update on gold. In light of the deep sell-off in the Gold price, I present […]

Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says new Trade deals with the EU and Asia are meant to backstop the dollar. Dr. Roberts contends, “Washington is arranging that […]

Did you know that the U.S. government considers the U.S. border to be a “constitution-free zone”?  Did you know that customs officials can take your computer away from you, keep […]

Gokhran, the State Precious Metals and Gems Repository, is a state institution under the Russian Ministry of Finance, responsible for the State Fund of Precious Metals and Precious Stones of […]

The Fed is F*CKED. Almost no media that I'm aware of, mainstream or otherwise, has reported what I'm about to tell you.  So, listen up.  I'm going to give you […]

The trillion dollar question is what is really going on with metals?  No one is selling, everyone is buying, drying up supplies and sending premiums through the roof. I will […]

Broke nations are bailing out other broke nations with borrowed money.  Round and round we go - where we stop nobody knows.  As of April, 41 different countries had active […]

Successive US administrations over the decades have supported all sides in Egypt, from dictator to demonstrator to military. There is only one side that the US government has never supported: […]

Are the central banks of the world starting to lose control of the financial markets?  Could we be facing a situation where the bond bubble is going to inevitably implode […]