Precious metals news

U.S. gold coins sales have been at record levels this week. Lower prices and the tragic events in Boston may have contributed to increased buying due to concerns about the […]

BrotherJohnF discusses silver's technicals and whether a force majeure default by the COMEX is imminent in the wake of the Kennecott mine collapse and Barrick's Pascua Lama shutdown in his […]

Outgoing Bank of Canada Governor (& Goldman alum and incoming BOE Governor) Mark Carney just released an epic Freudian slip today during a televised speech in Washington regarding the Western […]

*Update: Whistle-blower testimony completely removed from the final cut...while Jeffrey Christian insisting Fort Knox contains all the gold advertised is included.  Guess we'll have to do this the hard way […]

In his latest piece on Forbes, Richard Lehmann reviews the simple, intelligent, historical reasons for owning gold, and argues that a sell-off by short-term speculators has not changed gold's fundamentals.
"Not to own gold is to trust government at all levels and in all times to be able to do the right thing to maintain the economy on a steady course and manage the affairs of man in a fair and orderly manner. I could stop there and have won the argument, but that would not be fair to gold’s critics, so let me give them some things they can shoot at.
Gold is criticized as a relic of the past, but that is precisely why it is still so relevant. At no time in history has it lost its appeal as a store of value and, in fact, it represented the universal money until nation governments and warfare made the creation of paper money a necessity."

We woke up this morning to a "new pricing structure" in the precious metals.  But what has been the response to our "new pricing structure"?  Dealers across the US have […]

The US House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA). Lawmakers in the House voted 288-to-127 Thursday afternoon to accept the bill. Next it […]

With the financial experts claiming, some gleefully, that gold has "lost its safe haven status" in the aftermath of its biggest tumble in 30 years, many commentators  thought (hoped?) that […]

In the wake of bail-ins as the new bank resolution method of choice throughout the entire Western world, our friends at Demonocracy have released a MUST SEE infographic on the […]

SilverDoctors.com Exclusive By Eric Dubin Numerous questions have been raised about Sprott's recent sales of Sprott Physical Silver Trust (PSLV).  SilverDoctors.com has never had any reason to doubt the integrity […]

The $20 billion gold futures sale and concentrated selling of gold futures on the COMEX on Friday and Monday is far more likely to be “nefarious” than the gold fixings […]

Gold and silver have been greeted to yet another waterfall plunge as the first trading since the CME hiked margins in both metals by 18% after today's COMEX close.  Silver […]

American Silver Eagles are holding strong, even if the supply ebbs and flows, and they are definitely

A"default" can occur if too many longs stand for delivery.  This very well could happen and the likelihood has risen in just the last 2 trading days as open interest […]

Shortly after the collapse take-down of MFGlobal in October of 2011, Ann Barnhardt walked away from Barnhardt Capital Mangement, and published a prescient prediction on the coming collapse of the […]

With the record-setting trading volume Monday and on Friday, I would not be surprised if JPMorgan had eliminated its concentrated silver short position. JPMorgan the big concentrated short seller and […]

Somebody out there is sure getting prepared for something really big.  We have just witnessed a takedown of gold and silver unlike anything that we have witnessed in decades.  On […]

The COMEX will default in the next week or several weeks and people will be "settled" with Dollars, no more metal will be delivered!  So, knowing that "game over" has […]

Here we go again!  With the cartel's gold smash stalled at $1386, breaking across the wires is a Bloomberg report that Cyprus Finance Minister Haris Georgiades has just stated that […]

Submitted by Stewart Thomson: When gold was trading at $1923, the four key price areas to buy gold were $1577, $1432, $1266, and $1033.  I call them HSR zones (horizontal […]