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Submitted by SD reader F I sympathize with SilverDoctors' reader T, who was forced to liquidate two-hundred ounces of his physical silver because of an accident that was no fault […]

BrotherJohnF is back with another Silver Update: Silver Optimism

For those who missed last night's Tonight Show with Jay Leno- Ron Paul was the main attraction. Amazingly, Leno gave Paul an excellent an unbiased interview- and perhaps even more […]

This holiday season, I came up with a not-so-original idea to buy (or give from stock) silver* as my trademark gift. Not only is it an educational tool that brings up questions about investing and the future of the dollar-based system, but it's also worth a nice chunk of change. As we speak I'm packing for a family get together where I'll be presenting my father with a nice 1 oz. bar of silver. It's worth cash if he wants to cash it in, possibly even more cash if he wants to hold on to it for a while, and is a great collector's item if he chooses to see it that way. I'm sure he will be thrilled!
The average spending habits of individuals, around Christmas, add up to about $650. If you take today's silver prices and divide that up, you've got a gift for over 20 people on that list. Just think, people are getting gift cards, scarves, new socks, and toys (all wonderful and thoughtful, of course) but when they open your gift, even if they don't appreciate it in the moment they'll ho...

This just gets worse by the day. The MF Global trustee (with strong ties to JP Morgan) is attempting to force all MF Global clients with warehouse receipts for physical […]

Ron Paul's campaign set a Money Bomb goal of $4 million on yesterday's anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. While Paul did not quite reach the goal of $4 million, […]

We thought we would share something we received last night from SD reader T, for the purpose of allowing the SD community to encourage him during a difficult time when […]

The Senate has passed a $1 T budget bill, extending the 2% social security payroll tax cut, as well as delaying the scheduled 27% slash in payments to physicians treating […]

Zerohedge is on top of their game this morning- discovering that in a single day in the week ending Tuesday 12/13, The Fed lent out $2.5 Billion via the discount […]

Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital gives his thoughts on why he requested delivery of his fund's COMEX gold futures. "My opinion is very simple as a fiduciary… to the extent […]

Nomi Prins, former Goldman Sachs Managing Partner turned bankster-fighter weighs in on Jon Corzine's Senate testimony this week on the MF Global bankruptcy.

Jim Sinclair has provided the Ellis Martin Report with his thoughts on this week's smash in precious metals, which Sinclair believes was triggered by Merkel's statements indicating Germany is more […]

Ann Barnhardt recently shut down her brokerage BCM Capital out of concern for the safety of her clients' funds. In the wake of the MF Global segregated funds theft, her […]

Much has been made about the CFTC's ruling to implement position limits in silver, in compliance with the Frank/Dodd legislation. Many precious metals advocates (The Doc included) do not expect […]

Jim Rogers has some advice for those fleeing the Euro for the perceived safety of T-bonds: "Buying U.S. government bonds at this stage is a terrible mistake; it is one […]

As suspected, the commercials covered 2,214 naked silver shorts (11.07 million ounces) in the week ending Tuesday 12/13/11. With the brunt of the silver smash not occurring until Wednesday and […]

Simply massive inventory volatility to report from COMEX warehouse silver inventory movements Thursday. We had adjustments of registered silver in 3 different vaults, 4 deposits, and 1 withdrawal to report, […]

Guest Post, from AGXIIK: When the bigs like Jim Willie note SD was way ahead of the game on these insights you are going to attract some attention. SD was […]

After revising Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland, and Cyprus' outlooks to Negative this morning, Fitch has just added France to the group. -France ‘AAA'- Negative Outlook- Belgium ‘AA+'Negative Outlook - […]

Tracing where the MFG segregated funds went is not the hard part. MF Global Holdings Ltd.’s U.K. administrator says it found all of the British unit’s segregated client funds and […]