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BrotherJohnF's latest Silver Update:  Silver Conspiracy

Mark writes: Doc, I was wondering why do the fools that play the Comex even put in a stop loss in the first place if they know the game/their job? […]

Jim Sinclair has released an email alert to subscribers stating that next week will see the cartel make one final take-down attempt of the metals, which Sinclair states will fail, […]

By Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com -The LIBOR scandal is an extension of the JPMorgan loss story and the MFGlobal thefts -The LIBOR rates are connected to the Interest Rate Swaps, the […]

*Breaking Reuters reports German regulator BaFin has begun a special probe of Deutsche Bank into possible manipulation of LIBOR rates. As we noted over the weekend, JP Morgan and Bank […]

RBS' NatWest, whose banking ‘glitch' (which began only days after RBS' downgrade) is now nearing 3 weeks with officials now stating accounts will not be functioning until the end of […]

After much kicking and screaming (and 2 years of delays/ feet dragging) the Fed has complied with the Frank-Dodd act and publicly released the living wills (resolution plans) of Wall […]

The Council of Europe presented a preliminary report in Strasbourg Wednesday on massive money-laundering by the Vatican.  As JP Morgan was the Vatican's chief bank until the scandal broke, The […]

Submitted by SD Contributor AGXIIK: For the last 20 years I've been involved the financing of businesses.  One key part of the process was the   interest rates for business.  In […]

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Gold and silver spiked immediately following the jobs report release, with silver spiking to .50 to $27.86, and gold popping $15 to $1611. Obviously this was not acceptable (particularly with […]

(Editor note: readers may also be interested in The Causes & Results of Hyperinflation) Following yesterday’s WGC reports about the role of gold in investment portfolios, this report looks at […]

June Non-Farms Payroll prints at +80,000 on expectations of +100,000 Unemployment rate 8.2%

Paper pushing, flip/flopping Jim Cramer of Mad Money took a letter tonight from a follower of his show concerning diversifying assets into Gold.  With CNBC ratings falling faster than a […]

By Peter Schiff
In my latest book, The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy - How to Save Yourself and Your Country, I devote a full chapter to the merits of the historical gold standard and reasons to reinstate it. What I did not mention and few investors notice is that central banks are already returning to gold as the ultimate safe haven asset.
I believe this change in policy, combined with continued inflation of Western currencies, is creating a stable floor for the gold price and an even brighter upside potential.
A Strategic Shift
The return to gold is unmistakably the product of a strategic, not merely a tactical, shift in global central banking policy. Central banks in the developed world have now altogether stopped selling bullion. This was foreshadowed by their behavior over the past decade, when they sold even less gold than they were permitted to under the anti-dumping Central Bank Gold Agreements. Clearly the concern about dumping gold was out of step...

By Doug Casey from Casey Research
I think there are only two good reasons for having a significant amount of money: to maintain a high standard of living and to ensure your personal freedom. There are lesser reasons, of course, including: to prove you can do it, to compensate for failings in other things, to impress others, to leave a legacy, to help perpetuate your genes, or maybe because you just can't think of something better to do with your time.
But I'll put aside those lesser motives, which I tend to view as psychological foibles. Basically, money gives you the freedom to do what you'd like - when, how, and with whom. Money allows you to have things and do things and can even assist you to be something you want to be. Unfortunately, money is a chimera in today's world and will wind up savaging billions in the years to come.
As you know, I believe we're into at least the fourth year of what I call The Greater Depression. A lot of people believe we're in a recovery ...

In a move that has slipped under the radar of even the alternative financial media, China celebrated Independence Day by handing the US Dollar's reserve currency status another severe flesh […]

The Doc sat down with Turd Ferguson of TFMetalsReport Monday for an exclusive interview regarding gold & silver and the massive exodus of physical metal from the system. In this […]

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone contributing editor, and Dennis Kelleher, president and CEO of Better Markets, analyze the Libor interest rate-rigging scandal engulfing the banking industry with "Viewpoint" host Eliot Spitzer.  […]