Precious metals news

The Doc sat down with Sprott Asset Management's Eric Sprott this weekend to discuss the European debt contagion, the latest gold and silver massacre, the massive rush into physical metals, […]

Submitted by SD Contributor Marshall Swing Gold COT Report 6/8/12 Commercials sold off a mountain of longs this week -15,611 and picked up a huge 9,802 shorts to end the […]

Spain is poised to seek a bailout for its banks possibly as early as tomorrow, according to media reports. Different estimates put the money needed for a Spanish bank bailout […]

Submitted by SD Contributor Marshall Swing Silver COT Report 6/8/12 Commercials sold off -890 longs but picked up a large 1,301 shorts to end the week with 45.54% of all […]

The Victory Report talks to Jim Willie regarding zero percent interest rates, interest rate swaps, derivatives, the deep trigger, US dollar, and Fort Knox and COMEX gold and silver in […]

The latest Markets at a Glance newsletter touches on a few of the topics that Eric and I discussed in depth this morning in his interview with SilverDoctors which will […]

Because it's Friday....we have a little SilverDoctors' entertainment for our readers. AGXIIK has reprised LFMAO's Party Rock Anthem... Every Day I'm Stackin Some Party Rock  Silver Doctor's Style

Submitted by SD Contributor SRSrocco: There have been a lot of articles written by the gold bugs on how much the HUI and GOLD STOCKS have been manipulated compared to the […]

Our friend Sean from SGTreport.com believes Rand Paul's endoresement of MItt Romney Thursday marks the end of the organized battle for liberty in the US. It has been said that […]

BrotherJohnF is back with another Silver Update:  ZIRP

Veteran and respected gold and silver trader and a former adviser to the Hunt Brothers in the silver market in 1980, Jim Sinclair is now warning on his website,http://www.jsmineset.com/ that […]

What if you don't trust policy-making academics, with track records as bad as the Fed's, to run the economy anyway? What if you want to work, save, invest, and live […]

The Hitler rant parodies never get old...and they just keep coming. In this reprisal, Hitler is informed his stored precious metals listed in his funds' prospectus have been fabricated....his GLD […]

By Peter Schiff Excerpted from the new economic bestseller, The Real Crash.
Today, we're accustomed to thinking of small greenish paper rectangles as the definition of money, and we think of the US government as the only source of money. To honestly discuss sound money, we need to realize where our current money customs came from.
At first, it was every man for himself. You ate or wore what you could pick or catch.
Barter was the first advance. If you had some extra meat, and your neighbor had an extra fur, you might make a direct exchange. If food, water, clothing, and simple tools are the only goods on the market, barter is fine - you can always find someone who has what you want and wants what you have.
But as soon as there's basic manufacturing and prosperity begins increasing, barter becomes inadequate. Say you're a hunter and you want a bed, but the only bedmaker in town is a vegetarian. What do you do then? You would have to figure out what the bedmaker wanted...

Would you walk along the edge of a cliff? Sure, you walk around every day (and you're probably pretty good at it), but knowing that the result of a small misstep would be catastrophic, you'd probably think carefully before walking along a cliff. In fact, you'd probably stay far away from the cliff altogether.
Today, the US economy is walking at the edge of a fiscal cliff. Yes, we've managed our way through crises before, but today the risks of even a small policy mistake are greater than ever before. And if we misstep, we'll fall into the abyss of hyperinflation.
Hyperinflation, defined by economist Phillip Cagan, is a period in which prices rise at 50% or more per month. In some historical cases of hyperinflation, prices rose by a million times over the course of a year! As you can imagine, hyperinflation of this magnitude devastates an economy. However, even a comparatively lower degree of inflation (e.g. 10-20%) can effectively wipe out the purchasing power of savings wit...

By Doug Casey
For many years now, a meme has been floating around that the prices of gold and silver are being manipulated, which is to say suppressed, by various powers of darkness.
This is not an unreasonable assertion. After all, the last thing the monetary powers-that-be want is to see is the price of gold skyrocketing. That would serve as an alarm bell, possibly panicking people all over the world, telling them to get out of the dollar.
It's assumed, by those who believe in the theory, that the US Treasury is behind the suppression scheme, in complicity with a half-dozen or so large bullion banks that regularly trade in the metals.
The assertion is bolstered by the fact that governments in general, and the US in particular, are always intervening in all kinds of markets. They try to control the price of wheat and corn with various USDA programs. They manifestly manipulate the price of credit, keeping interest rates as low as possible to stave off financial colla...

All the action in silver shufflin was in Scotia's vaults Wednesday, as the bank reported the day's only two silver inventory movements, a 560,000 ounces deposit into the eligible, and […]

Submitted by SD Contributor SRSrocco: In 2011 total Silver Eagle Sales in Dollars were 86% compared to Gold Eagle sales. In 2012, that ratio has now moved up significantly to nearly 98%.  2009-2011 total dollar figures […]

The cartel is doing their best Feb 29th massacre impersonation, as silver has now been smashed $1.50 on Bernanke's speech to $28.32 from $29.79, and gold has been smashed $55from […]

Fitch downgrades Spain long term debt 3 notches to BBB from A Short term debt downgraded to F2 from F1 Outlook negative Fitch estimates cost of restructuring Spanish banking system […]