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Gold Heads for Longest Run of Quarterly Gains in 3 Decades Bloomberg - This month, gold marked its tenth straight quarterly gain and silver its ninth - the longest rallies for both since 1975. Unrest in the Middle East has piled on to existing concerns about the stability of the dollar and the euro to drive the precious metals. An analyst from price-tracking site The Bullion Desk forecast that as long as unrest continued and a low interest-rate environment prevailed, the extended bull market should continue as well. Gold and silver's gains may have even been restrained this quarter by renewed optimism of a US recovery. If the recovery doesn't materialize, there may be another big move up. Read Full Article>>
China's New Gold Rush: Nervous Citizens Help Fuel Bullion Boom The Australian - China's insatiable demand is broadening from industrial commodities to precious metals. After decades of building up a massive pool of savings, China's citizens and government are now worri...

While silver may be nearing a short term high, the following charts we present indicate why SilverDoctors is nowhere near even considering releasing any of our physical gold and silver […]

For those who somehow don't yet quite comprehend the fiscal situation the US Government finds itself in currently, we present the US' debt dilemma from a suburbanite perspective. From Market […]

Horrible news out of Japan tonight- radiation has now killed 2 workers on site. Radiation levels in reactor 2 are now at 1 Sievert/hr. And the worst news:TEPCO has begun […]

While we all know silver is headed much higher long-term, what are its near-term prospects? While we have been calling for a target of $45-$50 by November, it is always […]

As black swan events seem to have become as common as your typical white swan, predicting black swans to come, and preparing for them has become a necessity in the […]

This is why its critical to own gold and silver insurance NOW. When disaster strikes, whether that's a currency collapse, a tsunami, a revolution, etc, its too late to buy […]

SilverDoctors has been calling for $1800 gold by November, but Ben Davies is one-upping us. In an interview with Eric King, Davies called for $1850 gold immanently- once gold clears […]

King World News has a piece out today describing what the current backwardation record in silver means going forward. The fact that silver remains in backwardation even AFTER its recent […]

Food stamp participation rate has now gone from 26 Million in 2008, to 44.1 Million in Jan 2011. We've now almost doubled US poverty in under 3 short years. Nice […]

If Blythe didn't know what a Myocardial infarction is, she does now as her cardiologist explains the meaning of her chest pain- panic stress induced MI.Non Farms Payroll Report gold […]

Rainwater samples taken from UC Berkeley LAST WEEK (March 23) indicated radioactive Iodine-131 levels 181 times the Federal Drinking Water Standard! Imagine what the levels are now, after the core […]

Neithercorp's latest piece details the latest flock of Black Swan events and examines the MSM's attempts to rationalize and trivialize these series of events. The phrase “Black Swan” is really […]

Gold and silver are down like a rock with this morning's NFP release of +216,000, and Unemployment Rate dropping to 8.8%. Gold has sold off from $1435 to the $1420 […]

The NIH has released details of a thyroid cancer study of those living near the Chernobyl accident. The "researchers found no evidence, during the study time period, to indicate that […]

Radioactive iodine levels in groundwater near Fukushima is now 10,000 times the legal max. No word whether this is 10,000 times the old standard legal max, or the new and […]

Yes, you read that headline correctly. The World Gold Council, the world's largest gold advocacy organization, has submitted comments to the CFTC in OPPOSITION to proposed position limits in gold […]

Silver closed at $37.80 today, up .33, to close out Q1 2011 at an all time record high quarterly close. The previous record quarterly close was $32.20 for Q4 1979. […]

Forbes‘ new piece discusses 4 options for a gold standard to replace the current fiat dollar system. Excellent discussion for the mainstream financial media, but there are more gold standard […]

Relax. Gold is going to $1800 this year, and silver to $50. You don't need to click refresh on kitco.com every 3 seconds. Gold and silver are both up big […]