Precious metals news

Are Slovenian depositors about to get Cyprus'd with a wealth/deposit confiscation?  If the intensity of the denials by Slovenian officials are any indication, a bank crisis is imminent for the […]

The precious metals have seen dramatic sell-offs before, although the primary difference between previous precious metal declines and the recent drop is the current shortage of physical metal.  Major dealers […]

Submitted by Adam Hamilton, Zeal Holy cow, not even the most vociferous gold bears saw that one coming!  Gold just suffered what can only be described as a panic.  This […]

The crash of the price of paper gold on Monday has unleashed an unprecedented global frenzy to buy physical gold and silver.  All over the planet, people are recognizing that […]

The Forex market may actually be seeing the beginning of the crack up boom where traditional currencies like silver and gold will naturally reassert themselves just as world monetary expansion […]

Thursday, we alerted readers to the CBC documentary The Secret World of Gold, which was set to release whistle-blower testimony on gold & silver manipulation. While the CBC's legal department […]

On today’s SD Weekly Metals & Markets, we’ll discuss a number of subjects, including: * Physical market trends and Doc’s direct market intelligence on the rapidly growing shortage in physical […]

Submitted by Deepcaster: “On Friday, April 12, the Fed’s agents hit the market with 500 tons of naked shorts. Normally, a short is when an investor thinks the price of […]

By SD Contributor Marshall Swing: Gold & Silver COT Report 4/19/13: Commercial longs added 581 contracts to their total and 5,155 shorts to end the week with 46.34% of all […]

Casey Research recently published an interview with Walter Block, a well-known Austrian economist who teaches at Loyola University and is a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Block talked at length about the gold standard, the Federal Reserve's disastrous money printing, and just how bad the economy really is. Enjoy!
"I think it was Lenin who said that the best way to destroy an enemy is to debauch that country's currency. That's what these guys are: currency debauchers. Ben "the paper hanger" Bernanke is going berserk with his quantitative easing. There's no more quantitative easing one, two, or three, its quantitative easing forever. Every month, billions of new dollars are pumped into the economy.
So the last thing the government wants is this barbaric relic to limit their spending to what they can actually tax and borrow. And that, of course, is why people like you, me, Doug, and like-minded others, favor the gold standard; we want the government handcuffed...

Former bank regulator and Professor William Black says, “Apparently, regulators are much more sophisticated than we were because we had never thought of leaving felons in charge of our largest […]

The Secret World of Gold is a documentary exploring the power and politics of gold, a precious metal with more allure and fascination than any other. Valued for its permanence, beauty and scarcity, people will lie, cheat, steal and kill in the name of gold.

Is the United States about to experience another major economic downturn?  Unfortunately, the pattern that is emerging right now is exactly the kind of pattern that you would expect to […]

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has quietly joined the growing parade of western nations who have quietly re-written banking laws to allow depositor bail-ins upon the next banking […]

After today's London close, Fitch joined Moody's in downgrading the UK to AA+ Fitch slashes UK 1 notch to AA+ Outlook stable Fitch cites increased levels of government debt while […]

Jeff Nielson from Bullion Bulls Canada joins Sean of SGTreport.com to cover the pure desperation of the Banksters. We cover it all in this one; the Comex raid, the decoupling […]

SD has discovered the manuscript of a 1981 article by The Globe which reported that 7,000 tons of gold bullion were removed from Fort Knox from $1973-74, and the only […]

The cartel showed their hand and the "free press" portrayed what happened to gold and silver last Friday and Monday as a "selling panic". They were correct 100% in their […]

Today we are proud to announce the debut of the SD Bullion Buy Back program!!  Offering the most competitive buy back prices on the world wide web! Do you have […]

Friday the 12th and Monday the 15th of April were memorable days. It is clear that both silver and gold paper markets were taken down via a devastating attack of […]