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09.23.23- The Bonfire of the Silver Shorts
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09.22.23- A Few More Days Then Everything Starts To Scream Higher
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09.21.23- Gold, Silver Trend Higher Ahead Of Latest Fed Meeting
As many forecasted over the past 10 years during the 0% interest rate decade, it's become a tricky dynamic to maneuver. We've already seen bank failures earlier this year that forced the Fed to launch a new funding facility to take assets that were losing value off of the banks' balance sheet. And as we will cover in today's show, the pressure in the banking system still appears to be far from over. Read More |
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09.20.23- Why Is Gold in China Worth More than Anywhere Else?
Alasdair MacLeod delved deep into a few gold market highlights recently, with the primary story explaining Chinese gold premiums. This isn’t “merely” a case of gold outperforming in a non-dollar currency, as has been the case in virtually every foreign country. No, Chinese gold is, simply put, more expensive to purchase. Last week, premiums on the Shanghai Gold Exchange rose to $120 over the London price. What’s more, Chinese shoppers were willing to pay the higher price. Why? Read More |
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09.19.23- Gold Overcoming Dollar
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09.18.23- Currency wars versus gold standards
There is little doubt that Putin and his advisers are aware of this problem. Plan A was to introduce a new gold-backed BRICKS currency which might be expected to weaken the dollar and euro relative to the rouble. Plan B was more drastic: to back the rouble itself with gold. This is the financial equivalent of dropping a hydrogen bomb on the dollar and the global fiat currency system upon which it is based. Read More |
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09.16.23- Silver whipsawed
Holidays are the speculators’ enemy. Holding trading positions over a weekend is risky, let alone an extended one, such as occurred last weekend. They started to wind down their position last Wednesday, bringing silver prices perilously close to stops, making it simple for the Swaps on Comex to take them out with a few short sales. Read More |
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09.15.23- Transitory 2.0 Is Coming for Gold
Early Warning Signs Throughout 2021, investors were soothed by the Fed’s nonchalant inflation attitude and assumed the central bank had the situation under control. And while we warned that the pricing pressures would eventually rattle risk assets, 2022 brought harsh realities and killed the “transitory” narrative. Yet, with a similar misjudgment keeping optimism uplifted, Transitory 2.0 should rattle gold before this cycle ends. Read More |
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09.14.23- Here's what the gold-silver price ratio tells us about silver
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09.13.23- Why Silver Is One Of The Most Important Elements On Earth
It’s far more than your ordinary metal, silver is a versatile marvel that has fascinated humanity and been used as money for thousands of years. Read More |
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09.12.23- Insider Gold Buying Reaches New Record Level
Central banks are pushing gold investment to the highest level in over a decade Read More |
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09.11.23- 1500-year-old gold treasure discovered by metal detectorist: “This is the gold find of the century in Norway”
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09.09.23- Russia Driving the Multi-Trillion Gold Runaway Train
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09.08.23- Gold & Silver Are Facing 2008-Like Conditions
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09.07.23- Silver: A Sure Thing?
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09.06.23- Here’s Why Everyone Will Need Gold Soon
Why gold, the “king of commodities,” will become increasingly vital Read More |
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09.05.23- What To Expect For Gold If We Enter A Deflationary Period
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09.04.23- Who Wants to Double Their Money in the Next Few Years?
For those of you that may not know who I am, I have been writing publicly on metals now for almost 13 years, and have been providing analysis services to individuals and money managers for almost 12 years. Read More |
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09.02.23- Gold: The Anti-Bubble
Just as a standard financial insurance policy is meant to only pay out when bad things happen, gold will only pay out when bad financial things happen. Sure, it’s assigned price can rise with other asset markets, but it’s price related to risk assets will under-perform when said risk assets are in a bull phase or an unbroken bubble. Read More |
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09.01.23- Piepenburg, Rule and Rickards Agree: Gold’s Role Rises as Dollar Hegemony Falls
Each of the trio share their views on the de-dollarization trend, with Piepenburg and Rule taking a far less optimistic view of any immediate gold-backed trading currency emerging among the BRICS nations in 2023. Read More |
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08.31.23- Metal Markets and Gold
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08.30.23- The West Is Losing Control Over the Gold Price
An important change has unfolded in the global gold market. The East has been driving up the gold price, predominantly in late 2022 and the first months of 2023, breaking the West’s long standing pricing power. Read More |
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08.29.23- Why Gold Keeps Outperforming
What’s the most interesting thing about the current hiking cycle? We’re tempted to go with some of the more obvious facets. Interest rates have seen their steepest rise since the 1970s. Maybe the perpetually-increasing number of recessionary risks this has caused instead? Read More |
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08.28.23- Copper now classified as US critical mineral, and rightly so
On one hand, as one of the most widely used metals on the planet, demand for copper has been consistently on the rise, matching the growth of economies step by step. Now, there’s an added layer of demand due to the increasing need for electrification. Read More |
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08.26.23- The global bank credit crisis
This article looks at the factors that have come together to drive interest rates higher, destabilising the entire global banking system. The contraction of bank credit is in its early stages, and that alone will push up interest costs for borrowers. We have an old fashioned credit crunch on our hands. Read More |
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08.25.23- If you think gold is worth owning, wait until you see uranium
But holding a kilo of gold in your hand, all you can really do is admire it, and appreciate that it is a great store of wealth. Holding a kilo of uranium, you have in your hand a resource that has enough energy to supply a day’s power to 30,000 people. Read More |
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08.24.23- Efforts To Protect US Intensify Amid Global Shift From Dollar
From congressional efforts that would once again back the U.S. dollar with gold to state-level initiatives to facilitate commerce in precious metals, proposals are proliferating. Read More |
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08.23.23- The Dollar Constrictor... The Unfortunate, but Brilliant Trap Being Set for the US Dollar in South Africa This Week
As a boy I occasionally had nightmares involving snakes and the idea of a boa constrictor forcing all of the air out of my little lungs was beyond terrifying. Later in life, I learned that constrictors are far more efficient and that the air isn’t actually forced out of the lungs of their prey, but instead the constrictor adjusts its grip on every out breath until there is just no room for the prey to breathe into, a death by removal of wiggle-room. Read More |
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08.22.23- Gold Miners’ Pain May Be Bullion Investors’ Gain
The flagship VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX), which holds a basket of majors including Newmont, Barrick, and Agnico Eagle, is down 4% year to date. Read More |
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08.21.23- Silver Investing Becoming Mainstream
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08.19.23- Weekend Rant: Government Distorted Markets, Silver Edition
Manipulation is only one type of government distortion. Government’s mere existence is another. Read More |
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08.18.23- A Contrarian’s Take on Gold and Silver
Fundamentals: The Factors Influencing Gold Price It looks like the Fed is done hiking rates, at least for the time being. The probability of another rate hike in September is 11.5%. Read More |
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08.17.23- Centralization & the Death Capitalism, the Middle Class and Democracy
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08.16.23- Only a Retail Gold Standard Could Dethrone the Dollar
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08.15.23- Can Gold and Silver Ever Return to Circulation?
Most of them bought metal in the first place because they know something important about history. Fiat currencies eventually die at the hands of irresponsible leaders, and it can happen fast. People caught with nothing but worthless paper in their wallet will have to resort to barter. Gold and silver coins, rounds, and bars are universally valued. No other asset class is likely to work better during a currency collapse. Read More |
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08.14.23- Gold Open Interest Is at a 5 Year Low, Only Way From Here is Up
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08.12.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Tasting the Forbidden Fruit
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08.11.23- Gold And The Shrinking Money Supply
In this article I will be talking about the possible effects of this contraction as they relate to the gold price. Read More |
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08.10.23- Why Governments Hate Honest Money
The reality is that those who blame capitalism and free markets for the constant erosion of the middle class should think better of it. Massive money printing and constant financing of larger governments with new currency have nothing to do with capitalism or the free market; it is the imposition of a form of statism disguised as an open economy. Read More |
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08.09.23- Discovering the Power of Gold: De-Dollarization and its Impact
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08.08.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Another day, another downgrade for America. Today it’s the banking sector
Last week Fitch downgraded the sovereign debt rating for the United States of America. And late yesterday, Moody’s downgraded the ratings of several US banks. Read More |
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08.07.23- Keeping Your Head
The fact, moreover, that “If” was written by a Victorian era colonial in 1865 as a father’s advice to a son, could easily put its otherwise timeless insights at risk of being cancelled by the woke elite as potentially misogynistic or regionally insensitive… Read More |
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08.05.23- Gold Is Replacing the Dollar
But all will be revealed in three weeks’ time. Meanwhile, this article looks at how gold standards could return in the wake of a new gold-backed trade settlement currency, if that is what emerges, using the currency board model as a template. Read More |
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08.04.23- Is Dollar Supremacy Over?
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08.03.23- A World Dedollarized is Gold Remonetized
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08.02.23- It's All About Economic Survival...
This is the inescapable outcome for the Western world. The world economy should have collapsed in 2008 were it not for a massive Hocus Pocus exercise by Western central banks. At that time, global debt was $125 trillion plus derivatives. Today debt is $325 trillion plus quasi-debt or derivatives of probably $2+ quadrillion. Read More |
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08.01.23- A New Silver Whale?
Data published in the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports over the past four reporting weeks indicate a number of highly unusual changes in COMEX silver futures positioning. One such highly unusual change is the emergence of a big managed money trader on the short side, which appears to be holding a net short position of roughly 10,000 contracts (50 million oz) in COMEX silver futures contracts. Read More |
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07.31.23- Central Banks Could Be Planning Something Huge for Gold Investors
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07.29.23- What's Next For Gold & Silver After Fed's Latest Meeting
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07.28.23- More on the Silver Code Red
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07.27.23- Why the Durban Accords Matter to You
Okay, so that’s their plan – why does it matter? Read More |
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07.26.23- Why was The US Treasury's Silver Eagle Mandate Not Honored?
Summary 1. The American Silver Eagle (ASE) 1 troy oz silver coin produced by the US Mint is the primary bullion investment for many small investors in America. ASE investment is substantial. Over 619 million coins have been bought valued over $15 billion. The silver invested in ASEs contain 17 times more silver than the registered silver backing the entirety of comex silver trading. Read More |
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07.25.23- The BRICS Won’t Kill the Dollar, US Policy Will
Net conclusion: The real death of the USD will be domestic not foreign. The Bell Has Been Tolling for YearsWhen it comes to the “bell tolling for fiat,” we can all hear its loud chimes, but that bell has been tolling since 1971 (or frankly 1968), when the US leadership decoupled the world reserve currency from its golden chaperone. Read More |
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07.24.23- $1,000 SILVER
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07.22.23- China's PBoC Manipulates The Shanghai Exchange Gold Price
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07.21.23- Why the Dollar Is Finished
There is strong evidence that planning for this new trade settlement currency has been in the works for some time and has been properly considered. That being so, we are witnessing the initial step away from fiat to gold backed currencies. Without the burden of expensive welfare commitments, all the attendees in Johannesburg can back or tie their currency values to gold with less difficulty than our welfare-dependent nations. And it is now in their commercial interests to do so. Read More |
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07.20.23- Banking CRISIS is REAL!
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07.19.23- The Best Performing Precious Metal Last Week Was Silver, Up 7.91%
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07.18.23- A Catastrophic Debt Implosion
Just like the Titan Submersible that recently imploded, the global debt bubble can implode “within just a fraction of a millisecond”. More later in the article. Are we now in the third circle in Dante’s Inferno? Read More |
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07.17.23- Gold: a metal with magical powers
I am going to the Edinburgh Fringe this August to do one of my comedy lectures. This one is about gold: its history, its fascination, its future. It really is the most amazing metal, not least because it is, as Spandau Ballet famously sung, indestructible. Life may be temporary, but gold is permanent. Read More |
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07.23.15- Gold Stocks' CPI Surge
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07.14.23- The bell tolls for fiat
This is a mistake. China and Russia know that if they are to succeed in removing the dollar from their sphere of influence, they have to come up with a better alternative. They also know they have to consolidate their trade partners into a formidable bloc, so plans are afoot to consolidate BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and the Eurasian Economic Union along with those nations who wish to join in. It will be a super-group embracing most of Asia (including the Middle East), Africa, and Latin America. Read More |
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07.13.23- The History & Future of Gold & Silver
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07.12.23- Where are the stops?
Below is a detailed explanation of stop orders and why knowing, where they are likely located, can be beneficial to a trader. Read More |
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07.11.23- Breaking: New Gold-Backed Currency Launching August 22nd
Russia announces BRICS gold-backed currency launch, 41 countries on the waiting list worldwide Read More |
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07.10.23- Jerome Powell: Misunderstood Angel or Open Devil?
Becoming Powell’s (and the Devil’s) Advocate? I’ve been thinking, and re-thinking, Powell. Hmmm. It’s no secret that in numerous interviews and articles, Jerome Powell has been on my critical mind. Read More |
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07.08.23- Russia confirms BRICS will create a gold-backed currency
Friday, according to state-run RT, the Russian government has confirmed that Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, also known as BRICS nations, will introduce a new trading currency backed by gold. The official announcement is expected to be made during the BRICS summit in August in South Africa. Read More |
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07.07.23- EU Warns Against Potential "Unintended Consequences" Of Geoengineering
Over 5000 years of recorded history, gold has proven itself to be real money. Gold's value is in its use as money. That value is unquestioned. Whatever arguments are put forth against its use are the attempts of government to free itself from the restrictions that gold imposes. Gold limits the ability of government to inflate and debase its own version of money; i.e., fiat currencies such as the dollar, euro, yen, etc.). Read More |
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07.06.23- No Demand for COMEX Silver
What an interesting paradox we have here at the midpoint of 2023. Earlier this year, an organization called The Silver Institute reported on the latest global physical demand trends for silver. Given the "green agenda" and the growth in interest in all things electrified, it would follow that demand for silver as an industrial component would be soaring—and it is. In fact, The Silver Institute estimated that in 2022 alone, demand for physical silver outstripped supply by nearly 240,000,000 ounces: Read More |
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07.01.23- The Apocalyptic 8000-Tonne Gold Miscalculation
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07.04.23- Major Revaluation Of Gold & Precious Metals Is Imminent
Making that decision before it is too late is likely to determine your financial and also general wellbeing for the rest of your life! Read More |
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07.03.23- What Will You Use As Money
If the dollar loses its status as the international reserve currency - again, not likely anytime soon - that could provoke a massive repatriation of U.S. dollars which puts the end times in motion. Read More |
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07.01.23- The Apocalyptic 8000-Tonne Gold Miscalculation
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06.30.23- Mainstream Says Gold Sucks - A Sign It's Bottomed?
Whether that's due to a desire to keep people focused on the stock market, or just a lack of interest, is a fair debate. However as Dave Kranzler points out in today's episode of the show, on the rare occasions when they do mention gold or silver (typically to say how useless they are), it's often been a sign that a bottom is in. Read More |
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06.29.23- Why we could easily see $5,000+ gold
At that point the Roman Empire had suffered more than a century of extreme turmoil– recession, inflation, invasion, humiliation, and endless civil wars, just to name a few of its challenges. Read More |
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06.28.23- There's Significant Developments Happening in Gold and No One is Paying Attention
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06.27.23- Precious Metals Investor Sentiment Deteriorates As Sweet Silver Setup Ripens
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06.26.23- Peak China Silver: The Looming Extinction Event
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06.24.23- The Prostitution Of Gold
The gold market has become a social gathering place for an odd combination of participants. Those participants range from the gullible and the disillusioned to those seeking the next big thing. Permeating the atmosphere surrounding the commotion are false fundamentals and faulty logic. Fundamental analysis, or what passes for it, gets distorted and perverted beyond recognition. Read More |
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06.23.23- Why Have South Koreans Bought $19M in Gold From Vending Machines in 2023?
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06.22.23- Analyst Predicts Shocking
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06.21.23- China’s Persistent Gold Accumulation: A Seven-Month Surge in Holdings
As per Wednesday’s data from the People’s Bank of China, the nation’s gold holdings saw an approximately 16-ton increase in May. Read More |
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06.20.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Plain, Naked Human Evil
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06.19.23- Silver outshines gold with better short-term performance
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06.17.23- A big move in gold price is coming after weeks of neutral stance - analysts
The caveat is it could be in either direction, Gainesville Coins precious metals expert Everett Millman told Kitco News. "Gold has traded sideways long enough that we are due for a bigger move one direction or the other — retesting the $1,880 level or getting back up to around $2,000," Millman said. Read More |
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06.16.23- 5 Factors that Make or Break
How much should I have saved for retirement? As you’ll soon discover in this article, the answer to that question isn’t a simple one. The good news is, if you take the following five factors into consideration, you’ll be one step ahead of most Americans who are saving toward their retirement dreams. Read More |
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06.15.23- “Biden Bucks” and the War on Crypto
They are digital (but not true cryptocurrencies), which means they are programmable. The Treasury and Fed can use the CBDC ledger to track your purchases, look at your political contributions, look at your religious affiliations and basically profile you as an enemy of the state or “ultra MAGA.” Read More |
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06.14.23- Latest Gold & Silver Market Developments: Into Q3 2023
Recently, I presented the argument that, based on the set-up between the bank net short position and the hedge fund net long position in COMEX gold and silver futures, the prices of gold and silver likely were headed lower, with help from the COMEX banks, based on previous cyclical open expansion and contraction patterns. Read More |
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06.13.23- Central Banks Could Be Planning Something Huge for Gold Investors
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06.12.23- "This Might the Last Warning You Get! Buy Gold & Silver to Protect Your Future,"
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06.10.23- Expect Awakening In Gold Amid Govt Overspending
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06.08.23- The West Debt & Inflation Implosion
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06.08.23- Halftime 2023
It's early June, and the next FOMC meeting is one week away. Will the Fed hike the fed funds rate another 25 basis points or will they pause and take time to assess the economic damage that has already been done? We can't know the answer to that question, but whether they do or whether they don't, the forecast for the remainder of 2023 will remain the same. Read More |
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06.07.23- Five Forces Driving Gold and Silver Higher in 2023
5 reasons why precious metals will rise in 2023 Gold’s fall to $1,950 from $2,000 level wasn’t exactly precipitous, especially considering how much gold has gained over the past few months. It also wasn’t unexpected, with numerous pundits saying that there’s going to be a lot of turbulence before the $2,000 level is claimed proper. Read More |
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06.06.23- Gold: Beware of a cartel trap
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06.05.23- Five Reasons Gold and Silver will Soar
What has transpired so far in 2023 has confirmed that the conditions have been set for gold and silver to soar. Their prices have both seen impressive jumps this year, with gold recently coming within cents of an all-time high, and silver also flirting with price levels last seen a decade ago. Read More |
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06.03.23- Weakening Economy Sets Stage
So in today's show, Dave Kranzler looks at some of the evidence of the slowing economy, and talks about what's coming ahead. He also examines the position this will leave the Federal Reserve in going forward, and how that relates to the gold and silver markets. Where we've seen a selloff in recent weeks, before a rebound in prices over the past few days. Read More |
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06.02.23- Winston Churchill’s Gold Standard Folly
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06.01.23- Significance Of 1980 Gold Peak
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05.31.23- Will Gold Reach a New Record Price This Year?
George Milling-Stanley: Gold still has a solid shot at a new all-time high this year Read More |
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05.30.23- Bank Crisis Will Escalate: Gold & Silver is Your Insurance!
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05.29.23- Gold Stocks Still Undervalued
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05.27.23- Banking Crisis is Around the Corner: Silver & Gold Going Higher?
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05.26.23- Silver Price Forecast: Important Low Setting Up
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05.25.23- Citigroup Projects $30 Silver
With silver currently in the $23.50 range, this represents a possible 27.66% return.
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05.24.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Death of Privacy…
Further, rampant currency debasement is lowering the real value of these ridiculous limits. Read More |
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05.23.23- The Second-Most Popular Investment in America? It Might Surprise You
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05.22.23- Did Argentina Just De-Dollarize?
Let’s be clear: this is not the case. Read More |
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05.20.23- Gold gets lifeline from renewed banking jitters, Powell comments
Spot gold gained 1.2% to $1,981.79 per ounce by 12:30 p.m. ET (1830 GMT). U.S. gold futures settled 1.1% higher at $1,981.60. Read More |
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05.19.23- More Gold & Silver Pain
Given the magnitude of the rallies, it's not entirely surprising to see a correction. And in today's show, Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics looks at the recent sell-off, and talks about whether there will be more downside to come before a resumption to the rally. Read More |
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05.18.23- Lone Star State Considering Own Currency - And It's Not Just Texans
The law would allow the state to mint pure gold or silver coins based on weight and issue debit cards that have their value backed up by gold or silver, according to the Epoch Times. The proposal would allow anyone in the world — not just Texans — to purchase gold or silver to start an account and use that for any legal purpose. The gold and silver would be held at the Texas Bullion Depository. As the value of that gold or silver rises, so does the spending power of the account holder. Read More |
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05.17.23- Will Central Bank Gold Demand Drive Prices to $3,000?
Central bank gold demand last year was undoubtedly one of the main takeaways in the market. That’s an accomplishment of sorts, since central bank gold demand has been one of the primary drivers of gold prices over the past decade. This time, though, was different. During the twelve months of 2022, the official sector bought 1,136 tons of gold, either the largest annual purchase in history or the most since 1950 (you know, back when the world was on the gold standard). Read More |
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05.16.23- A Disorderly Reset With Gold Revalued By Multiples
The next phase of the fall of the West is here and will soon accelerate. It has been both precipitated and aggravated by the absurd sanctions of Russia. These sanctions are hurting Europe badly and affecting the US in a way that they didn’t expect, but was obvious to some of us. The Romans understood that free trade was essential between all the countries that they conquered. But the US administration blocks have both the money and the ability to trade of the countries they don’t like. Read More |
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(Yes, the people oblivious enough to leave their fiat dollars in the banking system are largely the very same people who kept taking covid “vaccine” depopulation booster shots.) Read More |
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05.13.23- Gold Miners Follow This, Not Gold
By the "real" price of Gold, we are talking about the Gold price in real terms. How is Gold performing against the CPI, CRB, or the stock market? The answer clarifies the outlook for Gold miners. Read More |
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05.12.23- China Just Made Gold Money Again
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05.11.23- Economic Turmoil Ahead! Gold to Outperform Most Major Assets!
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05.10.23- It Wouldn’t Take Much For Gold
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05.09.23- Top Billionaire: China Preps for War
Ray Dalio doesn’t like the tensions building up between the U.S. and China. It’s a 2016-style flashback, intensifying quarrels with China over global trade. At the same time, 2016 was a while ago! Read More |
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05.08.23- Texas Committee Passes Bill To Create 100% Reserve Gold And Silver-Backed Transactional Currencies
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05.06.23- We are Heading Toward a Severe Economic Reset!
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05.05.23- Ongoing U.S. Mint Failures Bring Discredit to America, Raise Costs
The year opened with supply and demand for coins, rounds, and bars pretty well balanced. Demand surged when the failure of Silicon Valley Bank awakened investors to the possibility of systemic problems among smaller and regional banks. In the background, gold and silver prices have been drifting higher. For the moment, retail bullion demand has eased, and the markets seem to be taking a breather. Read More |
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05.04.23- "If We Hit $8000 Gold, That Means A Loss of Control & We'll Shoot Straight Past That"
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05.03.23- Platinum May Soon Be In Short Supply
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05.02.23- Forecasting The Gold Price Is A Mug's Game
After all, Gold is the only money that has survived in history but virtually nobody is aware of this vital information. That’s why only 0.5% of global financial assets are invested in gold. Still most people put their trust in paper money.Read More |
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05.01.23- 200 Years of Global Gold Production,
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04.29.23- Silver Towards a Sustainable Supply Shortage?
This demand for silver is the result of both a growth in demand for photovoltaic panels, 5G networks, construction, etc... And while India and Asian countries are capturing most of this demand, this rebound is most notable in the jewelry but also investment sectors. Read More |
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04.28.23- Banking Crisis Worsening;
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04.27.23- The Look And Feel of
It’s starting to look, smell and feel like a sustainable bull market may be unfolding. For the first quarter, gold rose 8.2% and silver was basically flat for the quarter but rose 15.6% in March. The mining stocks, generically using the GDX ETF as a proxy, rose 12.2%. Read More |
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04.26.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Big Lies and Bigger Lies
“If you’re going to lie,” Joseph Goebbels used to say (in German of course), “make it a whopper.” How did that work out for the Third Reich? Today, The New York Times says “Joe Biden” is revving up to run for president again in 2024. Is that so? One DNC strategist, Maria Cardona, was quoted saying, “Democrats complain that he might be too old. But then, when they’re asked, ‘Well, who?’ There is no one else.” There you have the sucking chest wound at the center of the Democratic Party, a malodorous vacuum where, as they like to say, democracy dies in darkness. You understand, this is exactly what you get when all you do is tell lies, always and everywhere, about everything. Read More |
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04.25.23- This Coming Financial Crisis Is Different, but Gold Is the Same as Ever
Stansberry Research’s George Gammon joined Daniela Cambone in an in-depth interview detailing the imminent financial crisis. One of the primary assertions Gammon makes is that the crisis is going to differ from previous ones. That much has already been beaten in, to the point of even the IMF saying it will be unlike previous crises. But what’s the difference? Read More |
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04.24.23- Platinum price hits $1,100 as it outperforms gold and silver, driven
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04.22.23- Banking & Financial Crisis 2.0
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04.21.23- Gold & Silver Ready to Explode in Price! Here's Why!
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04.20.23- Deathblow Coming for the Dollar, People Will Run to Gold:
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04.19.23- COMEX Gold Options Sweet Spot
Price manipulation around COMEX option expiration is something we've been following at TF Metals Report for over a decade. If you like to track the gold price and are unaware of this phenomenon, maybe this post will alert you to follow the monthly shenanigans going forward. Read More |
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04.18.23- Will the Government Take Your Gold?
Readers have sent me more than my fair share of nastygrams over the past decade as gold chopped through a secular bear market. If I marked up a chart that led me to believe the yellow metal was close to another breakdown, my inbox would overflow with letters from angry gold bugs. Read More |
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04.17.23- Gold: The Next All-Time High Is Nigh
But as is Gold’s wont to weaken following geo-political boosts, (the latest being upon Finland’s joining NATO as we detailed a week ago), plus some degree of waning inflation as reported this past week at March’s wholesale, retail and import price paces, the yellow metal, too, sank into week’s end, settling yesterday (Friday) at 2018. Read More |
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04.15.23- Regime Change is Coming
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04.14.23- "If We Hit $8000 Gold, That Means A Loss of Control & We'll Shoot Straight Past That"
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04.13.23- “Lions Led by Donkeys:” The Irrevocable Decline in US Hegemony
The short answer is: No. The reasons, and signals, however, are many, which Piepenburg addresses from both a broad and market-specific perspective. Read More |
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04.12.23- Inflation? Soft Landing? Or?
Professor Antal E. Fekete wrote those words in the 2008 financial crisis. Since then, the velocity of money responded accordingly; plunging in a hyperdeflationary descent to levels lower than even during the 1930’s Great Depression. Read More |
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04.11.23- Steve Forbes Infuriates Global Elite with New Gold Prediction
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A middle aged, upper income highly educated white woman with three children, all born from surrogates, explains how her worldview, everyone needs their safe space to find their best identity, shapes her brand representation. Read More |
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04.08.23- JPM Again
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04.07.23- A Small Portion of Physical Silver May Save an Entire Portfolio-The 5% Solution
Think about it. On January 18, 1980 the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the day at 867.15. Yesterday, August 8, 2022, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at 32,832.54, a multiple of 38.86 times where the Dow was on 1/18/80. Read More |
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04.06.23- Here Is The Set Up
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04.05.23- The Everything Collapse
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04.04.23- “The Ultimate Protection“
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CHART: Demand is soaring, but global mining is not expanding
Global mining’s enthusiasm for brown and greenfield projects has fizzled over the last decade despite near universal agreement that in the coming decades demand for metals and minerals will boom due to the green energy transition. Read More |
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04.01.23- GOLD: Short-Term Pullback Possible, New Record Highs Inevitable
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03.31.23- Five reasons gold and silver
Just recently, gold prices crossed the key $2,000/ounce mark for the first time in a year on the back of insane market volatility, and it did that not once, but twice, in the span of a week. Silver prices, too, surged.Read More |
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03.30.23- It is Risky to be Out of Gold Market Now
These targets may sound extreme, but breakouts from multi-decade bases are rare but very bullish. Furthermore, a breakout from a long-term base to a new all-time high is also very bullish. Read More |
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03.29.23- Most Demand Ever For Gold & Silver; How Does This End?
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03.28.23- Every Bank Crisis Reminds Us What’s Most Important
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03.27.23- Traders pile into bets on gold price rally
Traders are betting on further increases in the price of gold after it touched a 12-month high this week, as investors predict the US Federal Reserve’s cycle of interest rate rises is over and seek safe havens during banking sector turmoil. Read More |
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03.25.23- When Will Gold Stocks & Silver Outperform?
The gold stocks and Silver have underperformed Gold so badly because Gold has been in a secular bear market since 2011. Read More |
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03.24.23- What Really Happened With SVB, & Why It Will Drive Gold & Silver Higher
So in today's show, Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics explains what happened with the assets on SVB's balance sheet, and why they became so problematic at the time that they did. He also talks about how the Fed's monetary policy facilitated the conditions for SVB to end up in the position that it did, and why many other banks are likely still in a similar position. Read More |
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03.23.23- Monetary Madness Endgame
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03.22.23- Has gold finally caught fire?
So where are we at? It’s been over a week since the millennial of the banking world, Silicon Valley Bank, ‘stunned’ markets by filing for bankruptcy and setting off a chain of events that has sent financial markets from one firestorm to another. Read More |
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03.21.23- Crash About To Get MUCH Worse
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03.20.23- Banking on Disaster
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03.18.23- Watch These 3 Gold Indicators Now
Recent events that followed our editorial signal that the inevitable is moving closer to imminent. Due to bank failures, a pending hard landing, and the like, the Federal Reserve will have to cease its rate hikes and ease policy amid not moderate but relatively high inflation. Read More |
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03.17.23- Gold Nears $2,000
The precious metal was trading at $1,936 on Friday afternoon, having started the day at $1,921 – reflecting a hefty bump-up over the week from its opening position of $1,879 per ounce on Monday. Read More |
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03.16.23- Silicon Valley Bank Collapse: Just How Safe Is The Banking System?
On Wednesday, March 8, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced a $ 1.8B loss from the sale of investment securities. Investors and depositors got spooked, withdrawing an estimated $42B+ in cash within a few hours–approx 25% of total SVB deposits, leaving a negative cash balance of $1B by Friday, March 10. Read More |
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03.15.23- What Will Irresponsible Governments
Remember silver? In one of Dominic Frisby’s analyses, he referred to platinum as “the other precious metal.” It feels like silver has filled that role in recent weeks and months. Everyone’s obviously watching gold as the global economy crumbles. There was the big correction in platinum to the upside and palladium to the downside. For as volatile as silver is supposed to be, it’s done surprisingly little in comparison. Read More |
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03.14.23- Gold's crisis-driven surge halted by rising U.S. bond yields
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03.13.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Inflation Smokescreens
Some might say they were ignorant. Read More |
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03.11.23- Tesla Will Be Begging for Silver as Shortage Ramps Up
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03.10.23- Why Credit Needs a Golden Anchor  This article examines the relationship between credit and its anchor in value. Today, that anchor is fiat currency, which is both parochial and unstable. Historically, and in law it has always been gold.
It is a common error to think of credit in a narrow sense, without realising that officially recorded credit in the form of banknotes and deposit accounts with the commercial banks are only a minor part of the total credit in an economy. This article takes a holistic view of credit. Read More |
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03.09.23- MIND-BLOWING Facts About
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03.08.23- $2 Quadrillion In Global Debt Looms Over The Markets, Paper Assets Could Implode
In this thirty-minute interview with Chris Waltzek of GoldSeek Radio, Matterhorn Asset Management (MAM) founder, Egon von Greyerz, covers a wide swath of global financial issues—from inflated asset bubbles and macro inflationary forces (and hence declining currency power) to stressed pension funds, fantasy CBDCs and unsustainable debt levels. All of these factors serve as an ultimate and inevitable tailwind to precious metals. Read More |
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03.07.23- How To Invest In Gold Like The Wealthy
CEO World magazine is written with a specific readership in mind: Chief Executive Officers. These individuals have climbed to the top of the corporate ladder and tend to be rewarded quite well — $1.3 million per year overall, or an average of $18.3 million per yearif they’re lucky enough to run an S&P 500 corporation. These are high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). Read More |
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03.06.23- $13,000 Gold? This Guy Must Be Crazy!!!
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03.04.23- Weekend Rant: Cross Road Blues in the Time of Biden
I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees – Robert Johnson, Cross Road Blues Unelected BureaucratFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has a dreadful job. He lords over tens of trillions of dollars. Yet he only pockets $190,000 a year – a fraction of what most CEOs make. Still, he calls it fair. Read More |
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03.03.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Bogeyman Is Loose!
He is the scourge of Washington. He is the dread of Wall Street. This fee-fi-fo-fum’s return — if the sightings can be authenticated — would have markets wriggling in exquisite torture. What precisely is this creature? And why is he now climbing from the grave? Read More |
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03.02.23- This Relic is Ready for its Close-Up
All the big boys are there; Byron King, Ray Blanco and Dan Amoss… to name a few. Jonathan Rodriguez always arrives armed with reams of statistics. Ace options trader, Alan Knuckman, keeps us from straying too far into pessimism. I’ve learned truckloads about options and attitude since Alan started joining our call. To paraphrase Don Rickles, “Alan is the best; just ask him!” Read More |
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03.01.23- Would ChatGPT Buy Gold
I may be a little late to the party, but I thought it would be worth taking a few minutes to see whether ChatGPT could replace a Birch Gold Precious Metals Specialist. Read More |
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02.28.23- The Gold Investor’s Best Friend: This 500-Year-Old Law
I think about Gresham’s law a lot. Back in the day of the first Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603), her banker, Sir Thomas Gresham, made an observation about currency debasement:
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02.27.23- Gold gains as dollar rally cools,
Spot gold rose 0.5% to $1,818.89 an ounce by 10:08 a.m. ET (1508 GMT). U.S. gold futures were also up 0.5% at $1,825.70. The dollar index fell 0.4% after hitting a seven-week peak, making bullion less expensive for overseas buyers. [USD/] Read More |
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02.25.23- Can Gold Push out the U.S. Dollar as International Tensions Come to a Boil?
In this post, we will explore how gold is playing a pivotal role in this conflict and how that could shape the future of global stability. Read More |
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02.24.23- Gold Investors Still MIA
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02.23.23- Gold Prices Are Knocking On The Door Of New Record Highs
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02.22.23- Gold Futures Stealthed
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02.21.23- When Gold Breaks Above $2000,
Before we get into the charts, let’s take a quick look at interest rates and macro. Read More |
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02.20.23- Sprott Money Precious Metals Monthly Projections - February 2023
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02.18.23- Silver, at key times, remains the
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02.17.23- Gold’s Return as Money
Recently, I have written about the signals emanating from Russia that President Putin is minded to re-adopt sound money by returning to some sort of gold standard. We do not yet know the details, but consider what he said at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in June last year: “Caught in the inflationary storm, many nations are asking, why bother exchanging goods for dollars and euros when they are losing value right before our eyes? Indeed, the economy of imaginary wealth is being inevitably replaced by the economy of real valuables and hard assets." Read More |
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02.16.23- Billionaire John Paulson:
Why? Because he thinks the dollar is set up for long-term depreciation as the world drifts toward dedollarisation. Paulson talked about the dedollarisation trend in an interview with journalist Alain Elkann. Read More |
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02.15.23- No “North Star” for a Global Economy Drifting in Unsustainable Debt
Looking first at the UST market, Piepenburg argues that Treasuries matter simply because debt matters, and debt, by every metric, has passed the Rubicon of sustainability. The obvious distortions (and recessionary signposts) within the Treasury market are made clear by the inverted yield curve and the recent declines in the USD’s relative strength as measured by the DXY. Read More |
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02.14.23- Gold price is going to $2,200 as central banks break the global economy -
In an interview with Kitco News, Thorsten Polleit, chief economist at Degussa, said that he expects gold to continue to shine through 2023 as investors look to protect their purchasing power and hedge against growing economic uncertainty. Read More |
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02.13.23- Gold Prepares for New Record Highs
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02.11.23- China Buying Gold
China was buying aggressively during January, but they have backed off slightly. January was simply the standard 3-month reaction. The strong gold buying from China corresponded to China’s accelerated selling of U.S. Treasuries. Read More |
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02.10.23- Russia to remove euro, only keeps yuan and gold in National Wealth Fund
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02.09.23- Silver Price Forecast: $44 - $50 Silver Following Breakout
Silver’s Short-Term Bull Flag Silver’s short-term trading pattern is known as a bull flag, so named for its resemblance to a flag on a flagpole. Read More |
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02.08.23- Bloomberg’s Gold Investment Advice
Bloomberg is now offering gold investment advice Do Bloomberg’s readers really need a primer on gold investment? Aren’t they all experienced economists and investors who know every asset inside and out? Judging by Bloomberg’s latest step-by-step gold investment guide, we’d say not. It almost seems as if a new group of investors might be getting interested in gold. Read More |
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02.07.23- Keeping Wealth Safe
At that time, local banks stored little or no precious metals and that meant that a safe storage location was needed for the ever-increasing inventory of precious metals. It became necessary for us to lease an old bank premises with a sizeable walk-in safe. Read More |
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02.06.23- Welcome To The Death Spiral
As the story went, governments with unlimited printing presses would spend and borrow too much, forcing their central banks to keep interest rates unnaturally low to make interest costs manageable, which would encourage even more credit growth, causing inflation to spike, and so on, until everyone loses faith in fiat currencies and the misbegotten things fall to their intrinsic value of zero. Read More |
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02.04.23- 2022 was strongest year for gold demand in over a decade — report
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02.03.23- The world's largest silver producing countries in 2022 - report
According to preliminary data released by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), global mine silver output was 26,000 tonnes in 2022, which is 4% higher compared to 2021 (25,000 tonnes). Read More |
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02.02.23- Massive SILVER SQUEEZE
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02.01.23- Gold demand surged to an 11-year high in 2022 on ‘colossal’ central bank buying
Annual gold demand jumped 18% to 4,741 tons (excluding over-the-counter or OTC trading) across the year, the largest annual figure since 2011, fueled by record fourth-quarter demand of 1,337 tons. Read More |
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01.31.23- The Fed’s Crossroads –
The flash US PMI Composite Output Index registered 46.6 in January, up from 45.0 in December. It implies that the decline in business activity softened to the slowest in three months. But it was a further fall, as each number below 50 means a decrease in the economic output. The main drivers of the downturn were the impact of interest rates hikes, uncertainty, and high inflation on consumer spending. Read More |
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01.30.23- Shortages In Key Natural Resources To Define Next Decade
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01.28.23- As West, Debt, & Stocks Implode; East, Gold, & Oil Explode
At Davos he also said:
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01.27.23- Silver Set To Shoot The Moon -
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Gold’s Rise as Freedoms Decline—The New Centralized Normal
Specifically, Piepenburg addresses the blunt and hard realities facing informed investors and independent thinkers in a climate of increasing centralization and political controls masquerading as humanitarian progress or technological innovations. Read More |
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01.25.23- How (And When)
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Is $5,700 gold inevitable? Some mixed data from the world’s top mints on gold and silver demand; and how the global de-dollarization movement insulates nations from sanctions. Compared to stocks, gold is 60% undervalued Read More |
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01.24.23- Gold Or Silver: A Guide To Buying Precious Metals
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01.23.23- Biden Officials Float $1 Trillion Platinum Coin Scheme to Monetize Debt
Among the issues being discussed at this year's World Economic Forum is that of central bank digital currency. A presentation at the meeting based on research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called for central bank digital currency to serve the goal of "redesigning access to money." Read More |
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01.21.23- Gold: The End Of Cheap Money
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01.20.23- Contrarian Thoughts on the Petro-Yuan and Gold-Backed Currencies
Longtime readers know not to expect me to rubber-stamp anything, be it the status quo or proposed alternatives. Our interests are best served by screening everything through the mesh of independent analysis, a.k.a. contrarianism. Which brings us to the two sources of alt-media excitement in the currency space, the petro-yuan and another wave of proposed gold-backed currencies. Read More |
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01.19.23- Japan Is Perhaps the Most Important Risk in the World
The news caught markets off guard: On December 20th, the Bank of Japan surprisingly extended the target range for the yield on ten-year government bonds to plus/minus 0.5%. A move that not a single economist had expected. Read More |
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01.18.23- Sentiment Speaks:
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01.17.23- Metals Poised To Shoot Higher Amid Deep Recession
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01.16.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: A Reality Check to Indoctrinated Woke Students at the Oxford Union
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01.14.23- Gold Buying Only Starting
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01.13.23- The Great 2023 Run on Physical Silver
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01.12.23- Will China Force the U.S. to Restore Gold as Money?
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01.11.23- Nine Days Into 2023, and Gold Is Already Blowing Experts Away
Gold had a great first week of the year. Read More |
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01.10.23- In 2023, Silver Starts With a Bang!
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01.09.23- What Can Stop Gold Now?
It is trending higher and positioned above rising 200-day moving averages when charted against the stock market, bond market, commodities, and foreign currencies. Yesterday it closed at a fresh two-year high against the conventional 60/40 portfolio. To be sure, on a technical basis, nothing will be able to stop Gold when it breaks to a new all-time high. Such would confirm the most significant Gold breakout in roughly 50 years. Read More |
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01.07.23- Weekend Rant: 5 Ways the “Inflation Reduction Act” Is Stealing Your Money
Thanks to this “Inflation Reduction Act,” our lives are about to get even more expensive for just about everyone. If you’re saving money for retirement, heating your home or driving a car, well, get ready to start paying higher prices. Read More |
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01.05.23- Robert Kiyosaki Predicts Gold Price Soaring to $3,800 While Silver Rises
Robert Kiyosaki’s 2023 Gold and Silver Price Predictions The author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, has shared his prediction on how high he thinks the prices of gold and silver will reach in 2023. Read More |
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01.04.23- Market Experts Are Predicting
Here’s where banks see gold going in 2023 Many who follow high-profile private sector forecasts have seen Saxo Bank list gold as a possible black swan beneficiary in 2023. Should circumstances meet their expectations, says the bank, gold could soar to $3,000 this year. A large increase that obviously tells us gold has room to go. Read More |
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01.03.23- 2022 - A Momentous Year
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01.02.23- Paper Currency Is Worthless
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After 40 years of silver price manipulation and suppression on the COMEX, the physical market has experienced a lack of production growth and enhanced demand brought about by too-low silver prices. According to the immutable law of supply and demand, silver is now in a deepening physical shortage in which sharply higher prices are both required and inevitable. The key element that I speak of today is the likely behavior of the short sellers of silver derivatives. Investors hold 2 billion ounces of silver in industry-standard 1,000-ounce bars and a similar quantity in smaller bars and coins. Since these holdings are owned outright, there is no short position as exists in every derivatives contract, including COMEX futures and options and OTC swap contracts. 
Based on the five to seven day rule for a bloodbath phase, bonds are on day one, what it looks like to me, so they probably got four to six more days to go. That means stocks have four to six more days to go before they turn and go back up. Gold may sniff out a little early ahead of the stock market, so it may not have the full four to six days. It may bottom a day or two ahead of stocks, but be prepared here, everything is about to start screaming to the upside once we finish that bloodbath phase in the bonds. 
Once again it's time for another Federal Reserve policy meeting, where they provide their latest update on their balancing act between keeping up their fight against inflation, and avoiding a recession/banking collapse in response to the higher interest rates.
Gold has been vexed in recent months by the US dollar soaring again. Its latest blast higher prematurely truncated a resurging gold upleg again, damaging sector psychology again. Contrarian traders ought to be familiar with this script of Fed hawkishness goosing the dollar which unleashes big gold-futures selling. Yet this recurring gold-bearish theme since early 2022 is crumbling, gold is starting to overcome the US dollar. 
Russia and the Saudis are driving up oil and diesel prices. But these moves are likely to undermine the rouble more than they undermine the dollar, euro, and other major currencies. Therefore, higher energy prices will rebound on the Russians this winter: if they shiver in Germany, they will freeze in Russia. If the dollar is king of the fiats, the rouble is just a lowly serf.
Gold and silver prices fell this week in light trade, with US markets closed on Monday for Labor Day. In European trade this morning, gold was at $1925, down $15 from last Friday’s close, and silver was at $23.05, down $1.10.
While the crowd believed the Fed when it proclaimed inflation was contained, another mistake is unfolding as we speak. 
Silver has underperformed gold this year, providing an opportunity for investors betting on growth in demand for the white metal, as analysts warn of potential challenges to mining supplies. 
This month, we’re shining a spotlight on silver. Did you know that in over 14 languages, the word for "silver" is synonymous with "money"? That's no coincidence...
I have contended for the past near-40 years, that silver has been manipulated and suppressed in price by means of excessive short selling on the COMEX, mostly by commercial traders which happen to be mostly banks. As a result of this decades-long price suppression, the law of supply and demand has become artificially distorted. The low price has reduced supply and current production and increased demand (both industrial and investment) to the point where a wholesale physical shortage has emerged. 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Investment firm sounds off on gold investment in a commodities era, gold standard and why we might have been here before, and did you notice gold hit another ATH in the Japanese yen?
Yea, I know I got you all excited. But, in truth, I am seeing strong potential for doubling your money in the metals mining stocks over the coming several years.
Matterhorn Asset Management partner, Matthew Piepenburg, sits down with Rick Rule and Jim Rickards at the recent Rick Rule Precious Metals Symposium to discuss the future of the USD, the rising BRICS tide and the Realpolitik of any realistic (i.e., immediate) gold-backed BRICS trade currency.
An important change has unfolded in the global gold market. The East has been driving up the gold price, predominantly in late 2022 and the first months of 2023, breaking the West’s long standing pricing power.
Before we realize it, the global copper market is approaching an inflection point.
Globally, further falls in consumer price inflation are now unlikely and there are yet further interest rate increases to come. Bond yields are already on the rise, and a new phase of a banking crisis will be triggered.
Gold has its merits. It has been valuable for thousands of years, and has some industrial applications as well.
With inflation plaguing the economy as the U.S. dollar is increasingly being sidelined in international trade, potentially even at risk of losing its status as the global reserve currency, lawmakers in Washington and state capitals are touting gold and precious metals as the solution.
Constrictors… Are… Terrifying…
Despite the ongoing summer slump in precious metals markets, 
Even though all major lows in the metals and miners are by definition extreme oversold and universally bearish, the majority of retail traders, and many professionals too, throw in the towel at such troughs when they should be buying. Today, I want to provide a contrarian’s perspective on 
The BRICS bloc is 
There aren’t many bullion investors who haven’t thought about using their stash to buy groceries one day.
False price signals distorted by decades of extreme government intervention have compelled Americans into reckless spending, saving, and investment habits. The wide range of mistakes that have taken place are irreversible.
A recent article (
The middle class in all developed economies is disappearing through a constant process of erosion of its capacity to climb the social ladder. This is happening in the middle of massive so-called stimulus plans, large entitlement programs, endless deficit spending, and “social” programs.
In this section, Matthew Piepenburg, partner at Matterhorn Asset Management, discusses the growing distrust of the US dollar and the trend of de-dollarization. He highlights how the Western sanctions against Russia have caused ripple effects and raised eyebrows for other countries, as the weaponization of the world reserve currency has created a sense of distrust. He also mentions the recent BRICS summit in South Africa and the discussion of a gold-backed trading currency as further symptoms of this growing trend. While he believes this is not yet the end of the US dollar as a world reserve currency or fiat money, he emphasizes that the trend of de-dollarization is underway and warns that once the genie of weaponized currency is out of the bottle, it cannot be put back in. 
Another day, another downgrade for America. Today it’s Moody’s Investor Service, one of the three major credit rating agencies alongside Fitch and S&P.
I recently blew the dust off an old Rudyard Kipling poem, “If,” which many have castigated as a bit overly romantic, despite its high praise from Mark Twain and T.S. Eliot to India’s Khushwant Singh.
Financial developments in the Russian and Chinese axis are being generally ignored. The confirmation by Russia that a trade settlement currency for an expanded BRICS is on the agenda at the Johannesburg summit later this month has barely been reported, and even sound money advocates are highly sceptical.
From August 22 through 24th, an extended coalition of over 40 nations which has become known as BRICS+ will meet in Johannesburg, South Africa. Among the likely topics of discussion is the feasibility of setting up a jointly-owned international financial institution. It would be funded by gold deposits, issue a currency, and extend loans tied to the spot value of gold. There are substantial reasons to doubt the workability of the growing consortium’s plan. But to dismiss it summarily, whether as bad economics or rote anti-American propaganda, is to dismiss a moment five decades in the making. 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Central banks could be planning modernize their gold reserves, Wheaton CEO’s gold and silver predictions, and BlackRock’s analysts on gold’s near-term prospects. 
Last week, I made public an edited version of the more extensive weekly review sent to subscribers earlier. As previously stated, I believe there is a current market emergency in the COMEX silver market based upon official data indicating a massive increase in futures positioning of more than 130 million oz (26,000 contracts) as reported in the new COT report, as of July 21. 
If you’re a regular reader, then you already know all about the 
Below we separate the hype from the sad reality of the USD in the face of a new “BRICS currency.”
By obstructing gold import and export the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) greatly amplifies the gold premium or discount on the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) relative to metal traded in London. In the past 12 months the PBoC has restricted gold import to curb capital flight and defend the renminbi, resulting in exaggerated SGE premiums. With these interventions the Chinese central bank risks the gold market it supervises from functioning properly, and stagnates internationalization. 
Last week in my Goldmoney Insight, I analysed the rationale for a new gold backed trade settlement currency on the agenda of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg on 22—24 August. This article is about the consequences for the dollar-based fiat currency regime.
Will the world experience a catastrophic debt implosion?
The gold miners' stocks surged back mid-week after a major Fed-dovish inflation report. The latest US consumer-price-index read came in cooler than expected, continuing this past year's disinflation trend. That lowered Fed-rate-hike odds, slamming the US dollar. So gold-futures buying flared, quickly driving gold and its miners' stocks sharply higher. Bullish technicals argue this sector's autumn rally is getting underway. 
The importance of Russia’s announcement that a new gold-backed trade currency is on the BRICS meeting agenda for August 22—24 in Johannesburg seems to have gone completely over everyone’s heads, with mainstream media not even reporting it. 
Below are today's likely price locations of buy and sell stop orders for the active Comex gold and silver futures markets. The asterisks (**) denote the most critical stop order placement level of the day (or likely where the heaviest concentration of stop orders are placed on this day).
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Russia announces gold-backed BRICS, Larry Lepard predicts total fiat failure by 2030 and Zoltan Pozsar’s take on the new monetary world order.
It’s time to talk about Powell…
The 
As you may know, demand for physical silver is at an all-time high. However, demand for COMEX digital silver is at an eleven-year low. What gives?
The time has now come for the 99.5% of financial assets which are not invested in gold, silver or precious metals mining stocks to grab both the investment and wealth preservation opportunity of a life time. 
The U.S. dollar could someday go the way of all paper-currencies past and be consumed in a hyperinflationary fire. It seems unlikely but it is possible. In some ways, given the reckless policies of the past three years, we should be perhaps surprised that it hasn’t happened yet.
For the most part, it usually seems like the mainstream media just ignores gold and silver, and has little interest in even covering the precious metals at all.
On the 18th of September, in the year 324 AD, 52-year old Constantine the Great finally won the victory that he had been fighting for two decades to achieve: sole control of the Roman Empire.
As part of our desire to shine a brighter light on 
“Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.”
In this month’s conversation with 
On May 2, a Texas House committee passed a bill to create 100% reserve gold and silver-backed transactional currencies. Enactment of this legislation would create an option for people to conduct business in sound money, set the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money, and possibly create a viable alternative to a central bank digital currency (CBDC). 
We are one third of the way through 2023, and it has certainly been interesting in the bullion markets thus far.
Whenever there is an argument about the sufficiency of resources to meet the demands of our voracious industrial economy, those defending the 
Most investors are totally ignorant of the purpose of gold or its historical significance. 
In 2022, the 
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At 8:47 A.M. on August 9, 2022 silver is trading at approximately $20.85. This shiny metal may be the only asset trading at a 
