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09.14.24- ING Bank: This Gold Rally Is Just Getting Started
The Dutch financial group cites the prospect of a Federal Reserve rate-cutting cycle, geopolitical risks, and uncertainty going into the presidential election as potential catalysts to drive gold to new record highs. The report also noted several bullish trends supporting the gold price. Read More |
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09.13.24- Why Chinese Traders May Soon
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09.12.24- How To Instantly Know the True State of the Economy
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Federal Reserve finally signals rate cuts, Russia is buying gold like it's 2015 and silver price’s growing disconnect from reality. Read More |
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09.11.24- How to Hedge Anti-Heroes?
Left, right or center, our policy makers – from parliaments and executive branches to central banks and think tanks – have taken the world closer to war, immigration disasters, infrastructure failures, credit traps, wealth inequality, social unrest and currency destruction than any other time in recent memory. Read More |
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09.10.24- Russia selling oil for gold in September
The Russian Finance Ministry announced it will exponentially increase its gold purchases beginning Friday. According to Russian news agency Interfax, the government will increase its gold purchases from 1.12 billion rubles per day to 8.2 billion rubles per day for the next month. Read More |
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09.09.24- What We're Told About "Sound Money" Is a LIE
Step back with me, for a moment, to just four years ago. When you went to the grocery store, when you paid your power bill, was the cost the same then as it is now? Read More |
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09.07.24- Russia to Increase Its Gold Purchases by WHOPPING 732%. The West Will Have to Answer by Gold Hoarding
These skeptics seem to have fallen victim to the intentional gaslighting orchestrated by fiat currency proponents, who aim to suppress interest in alternatives to Federal Reserve notes. Read More |
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09.06.24- The Contrarian Opportunity In Gold Stocks Today
And yet, despite the bull run, gold stocks—those companies that mine, process and sell the metal—are trading at historically low valuations relative to the market. Read More |
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09.05.24- Deep Dive: How Fast
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09.04.24- Central Banks Fuel Gold Rally While Western Investors Sit Out
Gold defied expectations, in some circles, of a summer slump. The question seems to be how high the monetary metal will go heading into the fall. Read More |
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09.03.24- $1 Million Gold Price & Exchange Controls
So, now we are there. The price for a 400-ounce gold bar has now reached $ 1 million. Read More |
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09.02.24- Kamala Is Going To Drive Gold
The reality is, there’s a very good case to be made that gold is still quite cheap compared to its trajectory. It’s possible that in a few years, $2,500 gold could look remarkably inexpensive. Not to be overly dramatic, but Kamala Harris is a big reason why. Read More |
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08.31.24- 250 Million Ounces Silver Shortage
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08.30.24- Can Palladium see explosive price action?
“Prices still need to break north of $1000/oz to catalyze the next large-scale buying program, but considering the massive net short position held by discretionary traders, we estimate substantial scope for subsequent buying in the current set-up. In fact, there are already signs that discretionary shorts are under pressure, in stark contrast to previous set-ups where this cohort held a large margin of safety in the form of paper profits to withstand an attempted squeeze.” Read More |
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08.29.24- What Is Liquidity, and Why Is Liquidity Important?
I believe it’s extremely important to understand liquidity and its role in investing. So I’m going to take you on a deep dive (if you’ll pardon the pun). I’ll define liquidity, explain why liquidity is important (with examples) and talk about how we measure liquidity. By the time you finish this article, you won’t have ANY questions about liquidity…Read More |
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08.28.24- With Record Prices, How Much Is a Gold Bar Worth?
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08.27.24- This is the key driver for higher gold prices in 2025: Citi
After a prolonged period of de-stocking, Citi analysts expect a significant turnaround in the physically backed gold ETF market, which has historically played a pivotal role in driving gold bull markets. Read More |
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08.26.24- China's strategic silver takeover: A calculated move to drain the west
A Hidden War for Economic Dominance While the world has been focused on the geopolitical tensions between China and the West, a more subtle battle has been unfolding in the global financial markets. China, through a series of calculated moves, has been quietly accumulating vast quantities of gold and silver. This move has signaled a potential shift in the global economic landscape and highlights the developing countries’ need for exorbitant amounts of resources. Read More |
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08.24.24- My $3,000 Gold Prediction Is Conservative!
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08.23.24- Why Gold Shines In Dark Times
Piepenburg squarely addresses some of the most pressing topics of our time, including:
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08.22.24- What prompted Iranians’ rush to buy gold on Sunday?
Photos and videos posted on social media showed big crowds outside jewelry shops in many areas of Tehran and other cities from the early business hours of Sunday. Read More |
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08.21.24- $1 Million Gold Bars
No wonder so many central banks and investors are piling up the yellow metal. We hit the $1 million gold bar milestone on Friday when the price of gold topped $2,500 for the first time. The price of gold is up about 22 percent on the year and has set several new records along the way. Read More |
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08.20.24- Gold Soars, Experts Call 2024 “The Year of the Metals”
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold's record-breaking run to $2,500, the modern economist's take on the gold standard and why gold revaluation would be bad business for everyone who doesn't own gold. Read More |
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08.19.24- Gold’s Next Explosive Move
What are the underlying factors pushing the gold price higher? Doug Casey: Three emotions typically move the gold price: prudence, fear, and greed. At the moment, only prudence is dominant, and certainly not greed. Or even fear, even though there’s plenty to be afraid about. The public seems quite unaware that gold is pushing all-time nominal highs. The gold bull market will likely remain intact, at least until the public is clamoring to get in. We’re no where near that stage. Read More |
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08.17.24- Why Goldman Sachs LOVES Gold Right Now
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Saxo Bank says gold is facing biggest tailwind since the lockdowns, the normalization of the gold/silver ratio and Chinese citizens might finally get easy access to genuine gold. Read More |
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08.14.24- Silver & Gold Are Set to Skyrocket! Are We Heading for a Bank Collapse?
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08.13.24- Gold’s Moment of Truth: Central Banks About to Buy a Ton More Gold
“I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.” ~ Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006 – 2014 Gold’s moment of truth already happened. Over 13 years ago, central banks proved gold’s value. (These are the people who are supposed to be manufacturing trust in their fiat system more than gold as an “asset” class.) Read More |
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08.12.24- A Fresh Look at Platinum
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08.10.24- Why Precious Metals Are Set to Shine: Gold and Silver on the Rise
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08.09.24- What Just Happened?
Monday was a busy day at Birch Gold. The labor market and inflation have cooled enough that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is openly contemplating cutting interest rates in September. Read More |
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08.08.24- Gold to All-Time Highs As Mideast War On Knife's Edge
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08.07.24- Gold Price Looking Explosive
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08.06.24- Morgan Stanley Predicts Gold Prices to Soar to $2,600 by Q4 2024
Gold prices are on the brink of hitting new record highs, with Morgan Stanley forecasting a surge above $2,600 per ounce by the fourth quarter of 2024. This bullish outlook comes as gold has already risen 50% from its 2022 lows and 25% since mid-February, positioning the precious metal for a strong finish to the year. Read More |
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08.05.24- Stocks Get Slammed on Bad Economic News, Gold Remains Buoyant
The official debt held by the public has just ticked past the $35 trillion mark. Of course, with all the billions and trillions being spent by the government on various projects using money it doesn’t have — and the tens of trillions more in unfunded entitlement commitments — it can be difficult to keep track of just how much spending is taking place. Read More |
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08.03.24- Why I Invested in Monetary Metals
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08.02.24- Silver Lining: Shining Insights into Investment, Demand, and Market Potential
Silver and Gold as Inflation Hedges Silver has long been valued by investors for its ability to protect against inflation, and gold has also played a similar role. In times of rising prices, both metals have proven to be among the best assets to hold. Read More |
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08.01.24- Gold and The Art of War
I say “unusually” because the gold price could - in normal times - be relied upon to give a measured view on the state of the world - both economic and geopolitical cycles ; so, over and above its own supply/demand fundamentals, it is regarded as a scorecard of sorts. Given that the gold price reacts to a very wide selection of economic indicators has prompted the comment that it represents “the sum of all fears”. As a gauge, it shoulders quite a lot of responsibility. Sometimes a little dull, but often reliable. Read More |
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07.31.24- Going for gold: Is it time to invest in the precious metal as prices rise? You have options
There’s a gold rush going on right now, and experts say there are several ways to invest in the precious metal. Read More |
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07.30.24- Morgan Stanley: BRICS Can’t Dethrone the Dollar, But THIS Can
Morgan Stanley says gold will go to $2,600 soon (but not because the dollar is going anywhere) Read More |
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07.29.24- The New Abnormal: Social Unrest, Market Volatility & Currency Debasement
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07.27.24- Gold: An asset that ‘cannot be hacked, erased or degraded’
Some 154,000 tonnes of gold have been mined since records were kept, compared to 1.5 million tonnes of silver. Read More |
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07.26.24- Gold’s Potential Game Changer Approaching
Precious Metals must work through this technical damage before they can resume their new uptrends. Read More |
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07.25.24- Avoid The Coming Debacle With Your Personal Gold Bank
Sadly, no one takes any notice – YET! Global debt has already tripled this century, with the dollar and most currencies having lost 98.5% of their purchasing power since 1971. Read More |
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07.24.24- Gold Price Changes Ahead! Experts Reveal Their Predictions
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07.23.24- Suppressing Silver Prices Has Been Official U.S. Policy Since 1965
In the July 18 edition of Gold Newsletter, editor and publisher Brien Lundin wrote about the failure of silver prices to keep up with gold prices.
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07.22.24- Why Gold & Silver Are Your Shield Against Financial Depression
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07.20.24- Morgan Stanley sees gold prices rising over $2,600 by Q4
According to Morgan Stanley commodity strategists, this surge is driven primarily by the physical market, with central bank purchases doubling in 2022/23 compared to previous trends. Retail buying has also increased this year, especially in China, where bar and coin demand is very strong. Read More |
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07.19.24- Gold vs. Silver:
I was in my mid-20s at the time and just starting to teach myself about financial history, the national debt, and central banking. Read More |
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07.18.24- Gold Keeps Rising No Matter What Powell Says
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold hits $2,424 on speculations of a rate cut, shifting our understanding of the gold market, and Africa's turn to gold is sending us signals. Read More |
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07.17.24- "Gold Price at $3000 by 2025: Don't Rule It Out"
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07.16.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Why Did It Take The Secret Service So Long To Protect Trump?
First of all, we have learned that a very large ladder was propped up against the AGR building. I find it difficult to believe that the Secret Service could have missed someone climbing up this ladder on to a roof that had a direct line of sight to the platform… Read More |
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07.15.24- Is the USD Really Too Big to Fail?
But amidst the surreal, the dollar, as many believe, is our rock, our immortal albeit often unloved constant. Whatever one thinks of the dollar, we can’t deny its centrifugal force, exorbitant privilege and entirely unequaled market power (from the current SWIFT and Eurodollar systems to the derivative and petrodollar markets). Read More |
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07.13.24- 5 Reasons for a New Gold Playbook
The showdown in the gold price we predicted in the In Gold We Trust Report 2023 has passed. What is remarkable is that all of this is happening in an environment where, according to the previous playbook, the gold price should have fallen. Read More |
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07.12.24- Gold-Silver Ratio Could Indicate The Early Stages Of A Silver Breakout
The gold-silver ratio indicates how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold given the spot price of both metals. In other words, it tells you the price of gold in ounces of silver. The current gold-silver ratio is hovering just about 76-1. That means it takes 76 ounces of silver to buy one ounce of gold. Read More |
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07.11.24- Why Commodities Like Silver, Oil And Gold Are Soaring Amid Inflation
That may not seem like much, but this inflation has a compounding effect on commodities. Research from Goldman Sachs shows that a 1 percentage point increase in U.S. inflation has historically led to a real return gain of 7 percentage points for commodities. Meanwhile, the same trigger caused stocks and bonds to decline by 3 and 4 percentage points, respectively. Read More |
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07.10.24- As Political Parties Fall,
As political parties, currencies, stocks, bonds and other bubble assets fall, the indisputable winners will be gold and silver. Read More |
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07.09.24- Three Reasons To Buy Gold This Week
A good part of the past month involved us cautioning investors against panic selling, which headlines appeared to be encouraging. As soon as gold dipped below $2,300, and only by $5, the media was willing to go as far as to suggest investors profit-take their bullion. Read More |
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07.08.24- Silver & Gold Prices
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07.06.24- The Collapse of Banks: Impact on Gold and Silver Prices!!!
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07.05.24- Gold hits near 2-week high as soft US data lifts Fed rate-cut bets
Spot gold was up 1.2% at $2,357.06 per ounce by 02:08 a.m. ET (1808 GMT). U.S. gold futures settled 1.5% higher to $2369.40. Read More |
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07.04.24- Next Leg Higher in Gold is Major Inflection Point
However, Gold has yet to break out in real terms. A breakout and strength in real terms is imperative for capital to flow beyond only Gold and large gold producers. Read More |
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07.03.24- “On the road again” –
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07.02.24- Gold Predicted To Soar - World Central Banks Expect This Shocking Price
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07.01.24- Why Gold & Silver Prices Could Skyrocket in an AI World
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06.29.24- What in the World Happened in 1971?
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06.28.24- Martians Are Wrong About Gold
That is, the business is senseless. It is pointless. It is juiceless. At first blush, our space man is justly puzzled. Why indeed would humans shovel up metal merely to lock them away, idle? Read More |
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06.27.24- Most-active gold futures mark lowest settlement since early May
Gold futures tallied back-to-back losses on Wednesday, sending the most-active contract to its lowest finish in more than seven weeks, as prices on the spot market dipped below a key technical level of $2,300 an ounce. Prices for the most-active August futures contract, however, only fell to as low as $2,304.70 during the session. Read More |
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06.26.24- Bank of America Eyeballs $3,000 Gold
According to a report released by the big bank, gold prices could potentially hit $3,000 an ounce in the next 12 to 18 months as the Federal Reserve begins cutting interest rates and rising debt drives economic uncertainty. Read More |
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06.25.24- Gold vs. “Bad Cocktails” of Staggering Credit, Equity and Currency Risk
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06.24.24- Gold Stocks Reloading
Reloading always reminds me of target shooting, which was a fun part of my life growing up. Back then liberals hadn’t demonized guns yet, they were part of the cultural fabric. At my high school, its parking lot was full of kids’ pickups with loaded firearms hanging in their back windows! Most teenagers hunted with their fathers, and some participated in a local trap-shooting league along with my town’s police officers. Read More |
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06.22.24- Profit From the 21st-Century “Gold Rush”
As I’m sure you know, artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the attention of Wall Street and Main Street alike. Optimistic investors have driven shares of stocks tied to the AI trend sky-high. Read More |
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06.15-24- Gold Consolidating High
From mid-February to mid-April, gold blasted a powerful 20.0% higher in a remarkable breakout surge. Fully 19 new nominal record closes were achieved in that short span, which really excited traders! The lion’s share of that upside wasn’t fueled by gold’s usual primary drivers, speculators buying gold futures and American stock investors buying gold-ETF shares. Read More |
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06.14.24- Silver Price Forecast: $47 - $50 Silver by Q3 2024
A once-per-four-year signal says silver is about to rapidly surge higher within the coming months, and should achieve a price target of $47 - $50 per ounce by the end of the third quarter 2024. Get ready! While the Federal Reserve meets today and prices could be volatile following the interest rate decision, our pending surge signal is already in the books as of mid-May. Read More |
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06.13.24- What's Next For Silver Prices
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06.12.24- Gold is Misunderstood, Alright
In Wonderland what is, it wouldn’t be. The subject of this post has been made anonymous, as I’ve decided to release it to a wider audience. Said subject anonymized those he was critical of and so, turnabout is fair play. Read More |
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06.11.24- Gold Hit With One-Two Punch
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06.10.24- There’s Just One Thing
Does this strike you as strange? A “stronger economy” means a productive economy, one that’s creating goods and services that make our lives better. Exporting them, even – improving the lives of people around the world. Read More |
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06.08.24- South Korea Has Gold Bar Vending Machines...And They're Selling Out
One way or another, it looks as though the public wants gold. Bloomberg reported this week that in Seoul's upscale Gangnam district, a GS Retail Co. convenience store features a vending machine selling gold bars, ranging from less than 1 gram to 37.5 grams, with prices starting at around 88,000 won ($64) and fluctuating daily. Initially launched in 2022, these machines are now in 30 stores nationwide. Read More |
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06.07.24- This Silver Bull Still Has Strong Legs!
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06.06.24- A Keynesian Window for Gold Buyers
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06.05.24- China-Taiwan Conflict Raises Concerns for Semiconductors and Gold
In a pointed “celebration” of Lai’s recent inauguration, Chinese military aircraft and warships have been conducting large-scale drills around the island. China considers Taiwan a strayed member of its territory and hasn’t ruled out the use of force to assert its claim. Read More |
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06.04.24- Why People Value
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06.03.24- Gold Overtakes Euro in Global International Reserves
Often when financial analysts draw charts on the distribution of international reserves they focus on foreign exchange (omit gold) and start when the euro was introduced in 1999. Based on such charts the dollar’s share of total reserves appears to be falling slowly, from a peak of 72% in 2001 to 58% in 2023. In addition, it seems there is not one specific currency that is competing with the dollar. Read More |
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06.01.24- Did FDR Really Confiscate
The short answer is... well, there isn't a short answer. It's a complicated subject with more nuance than most people give it. Yes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt did try to take most of the gold out of the public's hands. But the scheme didn't go quite as well as many people claim. Read More |
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05.31.24- Price Inflation Isn't an Accident;
They can’t tell you exactly why prices keep rising, but trust them... they’re doing their best to stop it! Read More |
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05.30.24- Steve Forbes Believes the Gold Standard Is Coming Back
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Steve Forbes believes a return to the gold standard is coming, one respected analyst forecasts $4,821 gold by 2030, and analysts are now eyeing $50 silver as an inevitability. Read More |
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05.29.24- Gold/Silver: Interest rate decisions cannot produce more Silver
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05.28.24- Marin Katusa: Time Is Running Out
In normal times, the best investing strategy is to ignore FOMO (fear of missing out) and instead accumulate great stocks slowly via low-ball bids, dollar cost averaging, and put writing. A variation of this advice appears at the end of every recommendation in this newsletter. But there’s another take on (especially) the gold miners, which is that they’re beginning an epic run destined to produce life-changing gains for those who 1) choose the right companies and 2) board the train early (i.e., now). Commodities analyst Marin Katusa just posted a compelling case for this strategy. Here’s an excerpt: Read More |
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05.27.24- Gold loses momentum on ebbing rate cut speculation
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05.25.24- Bullion prices pause…
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05.24.24- Bonds’ Decades-Long Lead Over Gold Vanishes as Debt Worries Grow
Investors traditionally flocked to US debt as a super-safe investment paying steady income, and backed by the world’s economic powerhouse. For buyers ranging from individual savers to sovereign nations, these attributes made it a superior investment to gold, which doesn’t generate cash flows as bonds do, though it is still coveted as a scarce commodity and inflation hedge. Read More |
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05.23.24- Navigating Economic Uncertainty
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05.22.24- Gold, silver and platinum’s red-hot rally still has further to go, strategists say
Precious metal prices got a major boost Wednesday after softer-than-expectedU.S. inflation data heightened the near-term prospect of rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. Read More |
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05.21.24- Even Goldman Sachs’s Lowball Gold Forecast Shatters Records
Analyst consensus is that gold will attempt to make the move this week. How high could it go during this run? It seems that $2,400-$2,500 projections are the norm, and that upwards forecasts are what captures the most attention. One might say, the most daring forecasters in the gold market. Read More |
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05.20.24- What is Good Money?
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05.18.24- Gold's Bull Run Is Just Getting Started – And We Have the Math to Prove It
Right now, one thing that seems to be in short supply is trust. Almost no one in their right mind trusts what is going on in today’s chaotic economy. Read More |
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05.16.24- Central Banks Are In MASSIVE TROUBLE! Why Gold & Silver
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05.15.24- Why the Entire Financial World
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05.14.24- $27,000 Gold
My latest forecast is that gold may actually exceed $27,000. I don’t say that to get attention or to shock people. It’s not a guess; it’s the result of rigorous analysis. Of course, there’s no guarantee it’ll happen. But this forecast is based on the best available tools and models that have proved accurate in many other contexts. Read More |
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05.13.24- Silver Outlook: Technical Setup Supports Summer Price Spike
Confirmation of this trend would be a breach above $30.00, likely triggering a surge towards $40 between June and August. Should prices fail to overcome the $30.00 mark in May, the next opportunity will arise following the next intermediate cycle low expected in the first half of June. Read More |
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05.11.24- Bear squeeze in silver and gold resumes
Gold and silver had a better week, with gold up $67 from last Friday’s close at $2369 in European trading this morning, and silver at $28.60 up $2.10 over the same time frame. There was a little more volume in the Comex gold contract, but silver’s was vanishingly low, as shown below. Read More |
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05.10.24- As The Dollar Falters, Gold Becomes Insurance, Not Speculation
“Young people are not wearing grandma’s jewels. Most of the young people, they want an Apple watch. They don’t want a pocket watch,” Tobina Kahn, president of House of Kahn Estate Jewelers told Bloomberg. Read More |
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05.09.24- Why We Are at the Start of a Multi-Year
The past decades have been characterized by an elevated trust in credit instruments that blew the global financial system to colossal proportions. Now tensions between East and West, debt saturation and inflation are chipping away this trust, the balance between financial instruments with counterparty risk (credit) and without counterparty risk (gold) will go through a process of adjustment in favor of the gold price. Read More |
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05.08.24- More Good News On The Silver Deficit
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05.07.24- Gold Price Beats Expectations in the Best Way Possible
Gold’s price defies “hawkish” sentiment from the FedThe last weeks and months have obviously had a guess-the-driver theme, with everyone wondering what exactly is pushing gold prices so high. In doing that, analysts have perhaps lost track of the main driver of gold price today, which is inflation. Read More |
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05.06.24- Gold Sector: The Early Stages of a
Using previous examples, the bull market could be long, global and at times euphoric. History shows that some have run for two decades, culminating in the discovery of a storied alluvial deposits. Such as the last great rush for gold at the surface – the Klondike – which was a form of madness driven by the long rise Gold’s Real Price. The Depression naturally featured high unemployment that was suffered virtually around the world. Read More |
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05.04.24- Why Gold's Correlation
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05.03.24- Putting Gold on a Blockchain
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05.02.24- Citibank’s New
Corrections shouldn’t impede gold’s move to $2,500 and above Some of last week’s headlines will say that gold has had a “correction” to varying degrees. Technically, a “correction” means a 10% price drop, although most people don’t use the word in a technical sense. I wonder, though, whether it’s correct to say that it has been a tepid week of gold price fluctuations considering the historic price level of $2,330… Read More |
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05.01.24- Citibank’s New Gold Price Prediction Revealed
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03.18.24- 2024 Gold Price Targets Surge
Gold passes $2,150 again and 2024 price targets rise Read More |
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03.16.24- Silver Alert: "It's Time To BUCKLE UP"
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03.15.24- Copper Surges on Supply Threat as Iron Ore Shows Economic Risks
Copper surged almost 5% this week, ending a months-long spell of inertia, as investors hone in on risks to supply at mines and smelters. Tentatively, traders are also warming to the idea that the worst of a global downturn is in the past, particularly for metals like copper that are increasingly used in electric vehicles and renewables. Read More |
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03.14.24- Five Traps to Avoid When Buying and Holding Precious Metals
To be sure, bad actors have sold metals with lower purity or less precious metal content than claimed. Sometimes it requires special equipment or knowledge to detect such fraud. And there are other ways for novice investors to be scammed. Read More |
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03.13.24- Gold Hits NEW All-Time High – And “Experts” Aren’t Sure Why
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03.12.24- Gold: We Have Liftoff!
In early 2002 we made major investments in physical gold for our investors and ourselves. At the time gold was around $300. Our primary objective was wealth preservation. The Nasdaq had already crashed 67% but before the bottom was reached, it lost another 50%. The total loss was 80% with many companies going bankrupt. Read More |
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03.11.24- Gold - Catch it if you can
In European trade this morning, gold was $2167, a new record and up $85 from last Friday’s close, while silver at $24.49 was up $1.18. Comex volumes in both contracts were heavy, but the startling increase was in gold’s Open Interest, which has surged by 100,000 contracts since 20 February: Read More |
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03.09.24- Physical silver buyers
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03.08.24- Central Banks Boost Gold Reserves to Diversify from the Dollar
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03.07.24- The New Bull Market in Gold & Bitcoin
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03.06.24- Silver Surges: Anticipation of Rate Cuts Sparks 4% Price Jump in a Week
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03.05.24- Gold Sets Record High Closing Price – What’s Next?
Gold’s price closes at record high: This week’s moves will be in the limelight Read More |
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03.04.24- Is Silver The Next Uranium?
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03.02.24- Buy Gold and Silver to Hedge Against Counterparty Risk
What exactly is counterparty risk? In simple terms, it is the possibility that the party on the other side of a transaction might not fulfill its obligation. Read More |
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03.01.24- The Case for Silver: An Undervalued Asset with HUGE Potential!
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02.29.24- Massive Metal Rally Ahead? What is Next For The Markets in 2024
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02.28.24- Silver Sunrise
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02.27.24- What’s Gold Doing?
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02.26.24- Locked and Loaded
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02.24.24- Gold & Silver Update:
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02.23.24- War + Inflation = Gold
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02.22.24- What Will It Take for Metals to Break Higher?
Bullion has outperformed the mining share indexes, but sentiment in the physical markets has still suffered. In order to get higher metal prices, the sector is going to need more love from investors. Read More |
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02.21.24- Justification For Gold
Fundamentally, there is only one basic reason to own gold – to protect and preserve wealth; but, why should that be the case? Seemingly, there must be some “value” associated with gold ownership that justifies holding it. There is, and there is historical precedent to help explain that value and its applicability to us today. Read More |
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02.20.24- The Gold-to-Silver Ratio Is
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02.19.24- Gold’s Record Streak
It’s one of the most stable assets. It preserves value over generations. But when the 18.6-year real estate cycle enters the stage that I call the “Eleventh Hour,” it’s frenzy everywhere. Everything changes… and gold, like other assets, from real estate to stocks and beyond, soar. Read More |
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02.17.24- Mainstream Money Tiptoes
Two possible conclusions can be drawn from this: Either the relationship between gold and its miners is fundamentally broken, or this divergence is signaling an opportunity. One way to decide is to look at the miners’ earnings. If they’re making lots of money from $2000 gold, then the operational side of the story is intact, and share prices should follow. If not, not. Read More |
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02.16.24- Piepenburg, Williams, Schechtman and Martin Agree: The World Is Dramatically Shifting, Gold is Essential
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02.15.24- 2 Horsemen, USD & Gold/Silver Ratio: Status
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02.14.24- The Incoming Gold Shortage
When private money follows central banks, will there be enough gold to go around? Read More |
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02.13.24- Why Gold? Why Now?
Headline CPI (the kind Americans actually pay, not constructs like “core” and “super-core”) was 3.4% in December. That compares to 3.1% in November and 3.0% last June (the January numbers will come out tomorrow). Read More |
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02.12.24- Hunt Brother’s Floor Trader Talks with the Morgan Report
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02.10.24- Informed accumulation of gold bullion
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02.09.24- World Gold Council: "Blistering Central Bank Buying" Fuels Strong Gold Demand
Last week, the World Gold Council (WGC) released its Gold Demand Trends report, which tracks developments in the demand for and use of gold around the world. Excluding over-the-counter (OTC) trade, 2023 gold demand fell slightly from 2022 to just under 4,500 tonnes. With OTC demand accounted for, last year’s demand peaked at 4,899 tonnes. Read More |
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02.08.24- Hard Landing' To Hit
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02.07.24- What the Postponed Fed Pivot
Gold, along with just about every other investment sector, continues to sell off in the wake of last week’s Fed meeting. Read More |
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02.06.24- Gold prices to hit $2,200 and a ‘dramatic’ outperformance awaits silver in 2024, says UBS
“We are expecting gold to be pushed higher by a Fed easing. Also this comes with a weaker dollar” said the investment bank’s precious metals strategist Joni Teves, who expects the metal to hit $2,200 per ounce this year. Read More |
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02.05.24- A Big New Development
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02.03.24- Weekend Rant: World War 3 Closer Than We Think? 'Signs Are Moving in That Direction’
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02.02.24- Uranium stocks extend surge after Kazakh miner cuts output
Uranium miners extended a rally that’s made them the best-performing Australian stocks this year after the world’s biggest producer of the metal used to produce nuclear fuel cut its output target. Read More |
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02.01.24- What is Money? Who Controls Money?
J. P. Morgan famously said this in his testimony before Congress in 1912: “Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” J. P. Morgan was the founder of JPMorgan Chase & Co., an American multinational financial services company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest bank in the United States and the world’s largest bank by market capitalization as of 2023. Read More |
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01.31.24- How Much Does a Pound of Gold Cost?
It actually depends on what you mean by "pound." Yes. There is more than one kind of pound. We typically talk about the price of gold in terms of ounces. As I write this, the spot price for gold stands at $2,046 per ounce. Read More |
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Analysts: Gold Is About To Have
CPM Group: Gold has another two great years ahead Read More |
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01.29.24- Gold in 2024
Gold currently near all-time highs Gold prices are now hovering around US$2000 per ounce, which is around the all-time highs. What makes it unusual is that gold is at these levels despite a very significant increase in real interest rates in the US over 2022 and 2023. Read More |
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01.27.24- China Public Now Buying Gold
On Thursday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced its Gross Domestic Product estimate for the fourth quarter. It beat expectations, with GDP growth coming in at 3.3%. Read More |
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01.26.24- Top Picks in Silver
Analyst Bob Moriarty, founder of 321 Gold and 321 Energy, spoke with Streetwise Reports about recent downturns in the gold and silver market. Moriarty believes that current events, especially rising tensions in Israel and Ukraine and recent tensions between Iran and Pakistan, will have an impact on precious metals as uncertainty rises. Despite this, Moriarty said that precious metals are in a neutral position. Read More |
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01.25.24- U.S. Mint Ramping Up Silver Eagle Sales
The U.S. Mint has sold nearly 5 million Silver Eagles in the first three weeks of the year compared to only 87,500 oz of Gold Eagles. This is a Big trend change compared to the previous three years, as the Silver-to-Gold Eagle buying ratio has more than doubled. Read More |
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01.24.24- Gold & Silver Frenzy – JP Morgan Analysts Forecast Huge Moves
JP Morgan’s analysts issue rare recommendation for gold and silver Read More |
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01.23.24- Viewing Gold In Its Proper Context
Not a few of the predictions for a new, higher gold price are just wild guesses. Some of the reasons given to support those guesses include a Fed pivot and reduction in interest rates, geopolitical concerns, a recession and weak economic activity, and a collapse in the U.S. dollar. There are others, but for now, lets look at these. Read More |
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01.22.24- Gold ETF Outflows Have Dented the Outlook, but is a Turnaround in View?
The gold ETF outflow trend is continuing in 2024. Market recalibration around Fed rate-cut bets is dampening the outlook. Will investors return to gold ETFs when the Fed starts to cut? Read More |
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01.20.24- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Goldilocks Economy Is a Fairytale
People should probably read the end of the story because Goldilocks dies. Also – it’s a fairytale. Read More |
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01.19.24- From Dystopia to Utopia in Gold & Silver
This article will be short but very sweet. We’re finally approaching the lows in Goldand Silver, which will coincide with the peaks in the 10-Year Yield and the DXY. The Banks are racing to cut their short positions in the precious metals. They cut their net short position in Silver by 50% last week alone. Read More |
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01.18.24- Von Greyerz & Piepenburg: Golden Answers to War, BTC and 2024 Risk Levels
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01.17.24- Gold Builds Support at $2,000;
But short-term sentiment aside, there are plenty of reasons to remain bullish on the yellow metal. Read More |
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01.16.24- 2 Undeniable Gold Trends
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01.15.24- Catch the Gold Wagon or Lose Your Fortune
If you have never been a goldbug, this is the time to become one. Read More |
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01.13.24- The Geopolitical Year-Ahead: BRICS, Gold, & Israel Gone Rogue
As a lost cause, the war in Ukraine will be abandoned by America and NATO in the next few months. The dangers in the Gaza situation are likely to escalate, with the US being played by Iran acting in collusion with Russia through the Houthis. Read More |
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01.13.24- Gold & Silver Are About to Make MAJOR Moves?! This is What's Coming Next!
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01.11.24- Gold isn’t responding to shifts in US interest rate like it used to
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01.10.24- Silver is underpriced given supply and demand dynamics
And silver isn't currently priced for this dynamic. Read More |
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01.09.24- The “Silver Guru” David Morgan reveals gold, silver, dollar and fiat currency
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01.08.24- More Golden (and Black-Gold) Proof: The Dollar is Totally Screwed
Ever since day-one of the predictably disastrous and politically myopic insanity of weaponizing the world reserve currency against a major power like Russia, we warned that the USD had reached an historical turning point of slow demise and increasing de-dollarization. We also warned that this would be a gradual process rather than over-night headline, much like the slow but steady death of the USD’s purchasing power since Nixon left the gold standard in 1971: Read More |
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01.06.24- Three Factors Driving Gold Bulls
Gold just wrapped up its best year since 2020 with a 13 percent gain, and the yellow metal has new records in its crosshairs as we move into 2024. Read More |
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01.05.24- Gold Set To Make History In 2024
How high will gold go? Much depends on how low interest rates and the U.S. dollar go. The Federal Reserve ended its rate hiking campaign last fall. It is expected to pivot toward monetary easing later this year. That should work to the benefit of gold and other hard assets. Read More |
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01.04.24- An Insight Into Russia’s View on Gold
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01.03.24- Gold Prices Predicted To Hit Record Highs of $2,300 In 2024
In 2023, gold prices jumped from around $1,823 per oz. to $2,062 per oz.—an increase of over 13 percent—making it the best year for the yellow metal since 2020. On Dec. 4, gold hit a record-high price of $2,135.40 per oz. For 2024, experts predict gold prices to move higher. Read More |
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01.02.24- Debt’s Toxic Ripple Effects: Gold Flowing Toward Historical Repricing
With markets rising on Powell’s projection of 2024 rate cuts, Piepenburg unpacks the Pavlovian nature of artificial (Fed-driven) rather than natural (balance-sheet-driven) markets and recognizes the near-term bull-case for risk assets in such a dovish backdrop. Piepenburg reminds, however, that there is a massive difference between artificial market moves and Main Street realities. Read More |
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01.01.24- Gold in 2024
To support this thesis, the relative price volatility for commodities and energy in dollars and gold are compared. Gold wins hands down as the objective value in commodity transactions. It is hardly surprising, bearing in mind that gold is legal money and currencies are credit with counterparty risk. Read More |
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12.30.23- Gold Is Now Definitely An Impulse Buy
Recently, Costo began selling gold bars on its website (see Did Gold Just Become An Impulse Buy?). The bars were a big hit, generating revenues of $100 million in the most recent quarter. Now Walmart has opened its own Precious Metals Shop: Read More |
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12.29.23- This Will Send Gold Off To The Races
While the price of gold has been slowly climbing, especially over the last couple of months, Peter conceded he thought it would have run much higher. But he remains bullish on gold. Read More |
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12.28.23- The Seven Biggest Lies Told (and Believed) about Gold
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12.27.23- Gold Poised for a Breakthrough 2023: A good year for gold in-between some historic ones? James Stanley presents us with a technical outlook on gold over the past two years along with rather bullish expectations for 2024. He calls 2022 a “doji” year for gold: a trading term that here means a lot of rangebound or stale trading. Read More |
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12.26.23- As the dollar goes to ZERO, Gold will reach unthinkable heights.
With necessary humor and humility, Egon discusses how this otherwise serious and destructive debt and currency cycle, warned decades ago, is reaching its objective (and exponential) culmination following the American closing of the gold window in 1971. Read More |
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12.25.23- Five gold rings? I’d rather have silver
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12.23.23- Gold Stocks’ Lost Year
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12.22.23- Sound Money Movement
Against the backdrop of high inflation rates and geopolitical uncertainty, states are increasingly enacting measures that encourage saving in precious metals and even using gold and silver as money. With five bills signed into law in 2023, sound money reforms are gaining momentum across the United States. Read More |
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12/21/23- Deficits to Power Gold Higher
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Why Gold and Silver Just Surged
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12.19.23- ‘We Sold Over $100 Million of Gold During the Quarter’: Costco CFO
Wholesale retailer Costco sold more than $100 million worth of gold in the most recent quarter, with gold bars seeing high demand from customers. Read More |
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12.18.23- Silver’s window of opportunity is closing, with prices poised for an
Silver prices could be headed for an “explosive” rise in 2024 if global supplies continue to fall short of demand, and the Federal Reserve makes good on its plans to pivot to interest rate cuts in the coming months, according to metal-markets analysts. Read More |
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12.16.23- A Glimpse Of The Future
One of the (many) disappointing things about the gold/silver miners has been their failure to respond when precious metals have gone up. Gold, though not exactly on fire for most of 2023, did touch a new all-time high in early December. But (as far as I know) not a single gold/silver miner was anywhere near a 12-month, let alone an all-time high. Read More |
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12.15.23- Silver Rush: Precious Metal Powers Toyota & GM's Clean Speed Machines
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12.14.23- Final Resistance for Gold & Silver
It had cleared monthly resistance at $2000 and weekly resistance near $2030 before surging intraday to over $2100. Gold has settled in the $2000s with strong support, around $2000. Although Gold has not broken out on the daily chart, the monthly and weekly breakout is more significant and implies a daily breakout will eventually follow. Read More |
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12.13.23- $15,000 Gold
The key for investors is to stay focused on the long-term attributes of gold and not get caught up in day-to-day price moves. The dollar price of gold is volatile. For example, gold’s down over $17 today. But that’s not significant. Read More |
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12.12.23- Gold Not Yet, Copper Will Retest $4
Gold Gold on December 1st hit $2,075 for the first time, breaking the previous record high set in August 2020, of $2,072. The precious metal continued to climb over the weekend, with spot gold marking a new record in Asia trading of $2,135.99 an ounce. Read More |
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12.11.23- Just Another Bullion Bank Intervention
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12.09.23- The gold market has a big hill to climb as prices lose 3% after hitting all-time highs
After hitting a record high around $2,150 an ounce at the start of the week, goldprices are heading into the weekend down more than 3%, testing critical support just above $2,010 an ounce. With a $141 swing this week, the gold market saw the most volatility since mid-August 2020, just after gold established its previous record high. Read More |
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12.08.23- A Rising Stock Market Does Not Drive Economic Growth
The view that the stock market drives economic growth originates from the observation that changes in stock prices precede changes in economic data. We suggest that various economic indicators are heavily influenced by money supply, which also drives stock prices. Read More |
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12.07.23- The Reckoning Begins…
A major rally in gold is now underway. Gold moved from $1,831 per ounce on Oct. 6 to $2,091 per ounce on Dec. 1, a 14.1% rally in just eight weeks and a new all-time high price for gold. Read More |
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12.06.23- Gold Price Spikes to All-Time High, Will It Happen Again?
$2,100: The most remarkable all-time high for gold in the last decade Read More |
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12.05.23- Silver Looks Like a Real Bargain
Gold went on a run late last week, setting an all-time record high last Friday and breaking the $2,100 level for a brief time in overseas trading Sunday night. Silver also rallied but continues to lag behind gold. In fact, silver looks significantly underpriced based on both its historical relationship with gold and the supply/demand dynamics. Read More |
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12.04.23- Gold, Always Believe In Gold!
Gold has hit new record dollar levels – reflecting not just current uncertainty, but also the de-dollarisation narrative and it’s attractions as an inflation and market hedge, and long-term value. It’s worth keeping an eye on. Read More |
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12.02.23- Can The Rally In Gold and Silver Continue?
Obviously no one knows the future (although wouldn't it be great if we did?), but in today's show, Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics looks at the different factors that are affecting the market, and analyzes the most probable outcomes. Read More |
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12.01.23- Gold: Monthly Closing Above USD 2,000 Triggers Breakout Rally
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11.30.23- Gold Price Forecast: Breakout Alert
New all-time highs appear to be on the precipice for the precious metal. In this article, we will detail the trigger points for gold’s breakout, the pathway forward for the precious metal, and how investors should prepare. Read More |
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11.29.23- Gold Prices Over $2,000/oz
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11.28.23- The COMEX Silver Dilemma...
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11.27.23- Is Gold A Manipulated Market?
Some readers responded to last Wednesday’s post on gold’s trading pattern (Gold: Resistance Is … Finite) with shock that I didn’t know gold is a manipulated market where technicals don’t matter. This gives us a good jumping-off point for a look at several forms of gold manipulation that have been practiced over the years: Read More |
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11.25.23- Silver – The Perfect Investment
Silver – A bridge between industrial and precious metals Read More |
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11.24.23- Gold: Resistance Is...Finite
Today’s gold chart is a classic example. Read More |
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11.23.23- What We Know About Gold
Gold’s value is in its use as money. Its price has nothing do with its value. In fact, the price of gold has nothing to do with gold at all. The higher price of gold over time is a reflection of the loss of purchasing power in the U.S. dollar. Read More |
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11.22.23- An Overt Manipulation
As I've observed COMEX precious metal trading over the past thirteen years, I've seen price management and manipulation nearly every day. Sometimes the manipulation is more covert, like the price swings that surround the twice-daily London Fixes. Sometimes the manipulation is more overt, like the battle to avoid a weekly close above $2000 that we saw two weeks ago, culminating with a close of $1,999.90. Read More |
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11.21.23- DC Cancelled Common Sense
That is, even a high-school freshman would foresee the likely mis-match in supply and demand. After all, unwanted assets, including USTs, can often have more supply than demand. In other words: Common sense matters. Read More |
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11.20.23- Positioning in metals for economic recovery
Two cases in point: this week’s APEC summit meeting between US President Biden and Chinese President Xi, and a very interesting development coming out of Taiwan. Read More |
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11.18.23- An Answer Long-Overdue
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11.17.23- We Finally Figured Out Why
The “Oracle of Omaha” is undoubtedly the most celebrated and revered living businessman in the U.S. today. He made his fortune by investing in businesses based on fundamental analysis, and Berkshire Hathaway has grown twice as fast as the typical American business. Read More |
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11.16.23- Gold & Silver New All Time HIGH? What's Next for the Shiny Metals?
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11.14.23- Dollar Weakness May Send Gold Surging to This Staggering Figure
Experts forecast a shaky dollar will send gold to $2,500 next year Read More |
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11.13.23- Playing into Putin’s hands – again
We shall have to see how both will play out. Meanwhile, energy prices are set to keep inflation and interest rates high, undermining governments, banking systems, and businesses dependent on cheap credit. Read More |
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11.11.23- Gold Clings to Its War Premiums
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11.10.23- Gold Stocks: The Time is Now
What actually happened was what often happened in the great age of bubble making (by monetary and fiscal policy). Gold and the miners led a recovery that eventually included commodities and later, stock markets. The rest is history; a long and bubbling history spanning two decades. Read More |
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11.09.23- Gold Prices Record Their Strongest October Surge In Nearly Half A Century
The price of gold had its best October in nearly half a century, defying tough resistance from surging Treasury yields and a strong U.S. dollar. The yellow metal rallied an incredible 7.3% last month to close at $1,983 an ounce, its strongest October since 1978, when it jumped 11.7%. Read More |
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‘They’re Gonna Print the Money’: Investor Luke Gromen Says US Government Will Be Forced Into QE To Avert Crisis
In a new interview with Peter McCormack on the What Bitcoin Did podcast, Gromen says that with the combination of diminishing productivity and rising costs, the US will face a simple choice between printing more money or defaulting on its debt. Read More |
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11.07.23- Markets, Riots, War and Peace
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11.06.23- AI Boom Could Boost Demand For Precious Metals
Metals Focus, an independent precious metals research consultancy, released a note recently that said it expects the increased demand for chips powering AI technology to drive “widespread support for a range of precious metals bearing components.” Read More |
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11.04.23- Why Silver Could Do
Looking at the long-term chart for silver going way back to 1980 it is remarkable to observe that it is still below the level it was at in 1980 and this is in nominal terms. Read More |
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11.03.23- Debt, Inflation, War & the Incontrovertible Case for Gold
The pat answer is “it all depends”; which is true, but, it’s an inadequate answer. A bigger problem might be the question itself. Why would someone who is planning to buy gold now decide to wait? Some people might hesitate because they haven’t seen the price action they expected. For others, it might be a lack of commitment. Read More |
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11.02.23- $2,000 gold is just the beginning. Here’s what might happen next–
You know how most laws passed by Congress have some fancy name– like the “Inflation Reduction Act” or the “USA PATRIOT Act” or some such nonsense? Read More |
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11.01.23- When Investors Sour on Risk,
Forecasters predict $2,050-$2,075 as the next key targets for gold price The last week has shown us two things, if everything else remains a little muddy: gold’s price was driven in some degree by the Israel-Hamas conflict. While having its ups and downs over the past week, gold sat above $2,000 since Friday. Read More |
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10.31.23- Gold’s New Major Upleg
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10.30.23- Inflation Deception Enables Cheerleaders to Claim Economy Is Growing
Third quarter GDP came in on Thursday at a better than expected 4.9%. That represents an acceleration of economic growth, at least officially, despite the Federal Reserve's ongoing campaign to cool demand. Read More |
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10.28.23- What Does The US Dollar Have in Common with a Mermaid?
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Why have all Chinese banks disappeared from the LBMA Gold Price auction?
These departures have gone uncommented by the LBMA, the FCA, the mainstream media, the auction administrator ICE Benchmark Administration, and by the Chinese banks themselves. The exit of the Chinese banks raises questions as to what this has done to the auction liquidity and price discovery as the auctions are not reflecting supply and demand of gold from China – the world’s largest gold miner, gold importer and gold consumer. Read More |
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10.26.23- Debt, Inflation, War & the Incontrovertible Case for Gold
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10.25.23- Are the Chinese Selling Dollars
It sure looks that way. Chinese investors sold $21.2 billion in US assets in August alone – primarily US Treasury bonds. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has been buying gold at a steady pace. Writing at FXEmpire, analyst Vladimir Zernov said there are two dynamics driving the Chinese to sell US assets. Read More |
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10.24.23- ECONOMIC CRISIS is About to UNFOLD: Should You Get Gold & Silver Now
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10.23.23- The Gold Price And Geopolitical Concerns
Here is the definition of the term from Oxford Languages ... adjective: geopolitical; adjective: geo-political
Our concern is the use of the term to justify recent activity in the gold market based on the perceived role of gold as a safe haven asset and the accompanying predictions of much higher prices. Read More |
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10.21.23- The Sun is Setting on Faltering West and Rising for Gold
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10.20.23- Implications of False Breakdown in Gold
That surge occurred days after a bullish intraday reversal from $1823/oz on October 6 and a gap higher on October 7. Then Gold continued higher for a few days before Friday’s explosion. In September, Gold broke down and lost support at $1900, losing the 40-month moving average and 50% retracement around $1850/oz. Read More |
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10.19.23- Every Signal Indicates That War With Hezbollah Is About To Start As Iran Raises
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10.18.23- Gold & Silver Prices About To BURST! What's Next?
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10.17.23- The Only Asset People Want During War
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10.16.23- Don’t rely on GDP
I explain why GDP is simply the total of accumulating currency and credit which is wrongly taken to reflect economic progress — there being no such thing as economic growth, only the growth of credit. Once that point is grasped, the significance of this basic error becomes clear, and the fiat currency paradigm is revealed for what it is: a funny-money game that will go horribly wrong. Read More |
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10.14.23- The True Costs of a “Cashless Economy”
Naturally, there are both benefits and drawbacks to such a radical change. Because of the required technological progress, many reports focus on the advantages of an economy that goes cashless. For example, the IMF claims outlawing cash would “increase our economic welfare”: Read More |
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10.13.23- Shades of the Seventies
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10.11.23- Gold price ends nine-day losing streak but still negative for the week
Although gold prices can still fall further in the near term, some analysts have said there could be some light at the end of the tunnel. The precious metal is looking to end Friday's session with modest gains, ending a nine-day losing streak. Read More |
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10.10.23- The Spectacle, Gold
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10.09.23- Defense Metals
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10.07.23- ETFs Backed by Gold Are Now on Track
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10.06.23- Gold Forecast: The Next Bond Crisis Will Send Gold Soaring
The US may be approaching a crisis if long-term Treasury yields continue to spike. Read More |
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10.05.23- Back On Crash Watch
Let's think of this in meteorological terms. For example, a Tornado Watch is issued when the conditions are present for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. A Tornado Warning is only issued once a tornado is sighted or suspected to be forming. Maybe think of it this way: Read More |
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10.04.23- Gold: Good News Is Bad News
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10.03.23- Costco Gold Rush Triggers New Wave of Mainstream Demand
Last week, we covered State Street’s survey which showed that the Western investor remains very unaware of gold. Can that really be true, we wondered, after the last few years? Considering gold’s historical track record and the unique benefits of physical gold ownership? Read More |
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10.02.23- Gold's selloff doesn't change the long-term bullish outlook - Saxo Bank
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09.30.23- Copper and silver: the electrical metals
In recent years, the global transition towards clean energy has stretched the need for the tawny-colored metal even further. More copper will be required to feed our renewable energy infrastructure, such as photovoltaic cells used for solar power, and wind turbines. Read More |
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09.29.23- The Silver Denarius and the Fall of Rome
The tale of the Roman Denarius offers not just a glimpse into the past but also a warning for the future. But before we get into that, here are some silver tidbits you might find interesting... Read More |
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09.28.23- Bank Collapse INCOMING: What's Holding Gold & Silver Back?
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09.27.23- This Is What a Minsky Moment
During my recent discussion on global de-dollarization with Dr. Ron Paul, I briefly described the business cycle as described by the economist Hyman Minsky. If you’ve heard of him at all, you’ve probably heard references to a “Minsky moment.” Today I’d like to take a little time to explain Minsky’s theories, and why they’re vital for understanding the U.S. economy today. Read More |
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09.26.23- Everyone Would Buy Gold
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09.25.23- Estimated World Official Gold Holdings Reach Record High
The new record in world gold reserves reflects a desire by central banks the world over to diversify away from the US dollar with its ever more evident counterparty risks. Read More |
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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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It was always inevitable that the GOLD price would reach $ 1 million!
China hoarding silver, price 10% higher than West. Secret weapon or economic warfare?
“They must be on to something” I thought as I walked down the hall of the hotel lobby. This was after seeing Keith Weiner and Saad Zein hold more meetings with potential clients than there are hours in a day. 
Silver and Gold have been on a wild ride, and it’s not stopping anytime soon. Let’s dive into why these shiny metals are becoming a favorite for investors.
Unusually, gold is not itself these days. 
There are many ways to invest in gold — bars, coins, exchange traded funds and even stocks in mining companies — but only if it aligns with your long-term strategy.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Morgan Stanley's views on gold and the U.S. dollar, gold's correlation to bitcoin and copper is misunderstood, and why is the Royal Mint downsizing despite record demand?
In his latest conversation with the 
Gold is one of the oldest assets in existence and one that “cannot be hacked, erased or degraded”. While its price keeps breaking records, few may know that its precious metal cousin silver has been mined more throughout history – by tenfold.
Gold’s breakout failed and fell back into the previous consolidation zone at $2300 to $2400/oz. Silver reversed hard and is threatening support at $29.
The failure of Western financial structures, including the currency system, is in its final stages. 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold hits new all-time high of $2,460 in a highly volatile week, and the Bank of Japan pretends it can restore the yen. 
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold is approaching its record highs, rising 50% from its 2022 lows and 25% since mid-February.
The rise in the gold price this spring was undoubtedly spectacular. In just a few weeks, the gold price rose by almost 20% in USD terms, with a gain of 21.7% for the first half of the year alone. In EUR terms, gold increased 16.4% in the year’s first six months. 
(Reuters) - Gold prices rose more than 1% to a near two-week high on Wednesday, driven by increased bets for a September interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve after recent U.S. data suggested that the labor market was softening.
History will reflect on Gold’s breakout in March from a 13-year cup and handle pattern as extremely significant and the major turning point for a new secular bull market in precious metals.
Every year at the beginning of July, millions of Americans hit the road. The 4th of July celebrations commemorate the ratification of the US Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Moreover, the “birthday” of the US marks the start of the US summer travel season. This season, we ask ourselves whether travelers in the USA are sweating because of the summer heat or because of gasoline prices. 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: BofA forecasts $3,000 gold as central banks keep buying, taking apart some narratives against gold, and mysteries surrounding Chinese gold abound.
Amidst signs of a potential U.S. rate cut, silver prices soared over 4% within a week, driven by a slowdown in U.S. manufacturing and declining consumer sentiment. Key Federal Reserve officials hinted at monetary policy adjustments, while global silver demand is forecasted to rise by 1%, led by record industrial demand and a resurgence in jewelry fabrication, despite a projected 6% decline in silver investment. 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold sets new all-time-high closing price as analysts wonder what’s next, are our national gold reserves finally coming into question? and silver as a symbol of Poland’s strength.
Owning 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Ronald Stoeferle explains why gold has been an outperforming asset worldwide, how the U.S. will rein in budget deficits with your money and are European silver investors finally getting a break? 
We have now reached the point in silver (and gold) where it is difficult for me to see how prices don’t quickly explode. Everything I look at, from a physical supply/demand perspective to the paper positioning set up on the COMEX, tells me we are at the point where only an upward price surge makes any sense. Yes, I am well-aware of the thoroughly corrupt behavior of the collusive commercials on the COMEX and how their manipulative success over the past 40 years makes it nearly impossible to pinpoint in advance the exact moment such a long-term scam and fraud will come to an end – but recent developments scream out to me that the manipulation’s end is at hand. 
All the fundamentals are now in place for the above equation to be true: 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: How a slight rebalancing to savings could shake the gold market, more bullish forecasts for gold and gold’s movement other currencies hints at its future trajectory.
Despite the Wall Street happy talk about the Federal Reserve winning the battle against inflation, that battle has not been won.
Gold and silver moved sideways for yet another week, exhibiting a bullish undertone. In European trade this morning, gold was $2032, down $7 from last Friday, while silver was $22.62, almost unchanged on the week. Silver volumes on Comex picked up to reasonable levels on bargain-hunting, while gold volumes were subdued, as the screenshot below illustrates. 
Total gold demand hit an all-time high in 2023, 
As we predicted, Jerome Powell threw a bucket of cold water on gold and the rest of the markets, and we’re now experiencing sell-offs as expectations reset.
Gold and silver are expected to climb further in 2024 on expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates, UBS forecasts.
A recent development in COMEX silver futures positioning has been unusual enough that I didn’t detect it at first, because it has been somewhat gradual. Over the past five reporting weeks, from the COT report as of Dec 19, 2023 to the most recent report as of January 23, 2024, the number of long traders in the Other Large Reporting Traders category has increased by 29 traders, from 49 to 78 traders – which I believe is both the largest increase and largest number of long traders in this category ever. 
Natural uranium product coming from Kazakhstan accounts for more than 45% of the global primary supply. (Image courtesy of 
Gold is money! Silver is money! Everything else is credit!
How much would it cost to buy a pound of 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: CPM Group says 2024 and 2025 will be even better for gold, why silver stayed dormant in 2023, and gold is getting pricey in Egypt.
When interest rates rise and real rates on government bonds turn positive, the price of gold usually falls, but that is not what has happened over the past 18 months.
As superficially upbeat economic data propels the stock market to new highs, precious metals investors are questioning the story being told by Wall Street cheerleaders and government bureaucrats.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: JP Morgan is very bullish on gold and silver, gold in the context of the main economic themes of 2024, and something mysterious is going on with Russia’s gold reserves…
Viewing gold in its proper context seems to be difficult for most gold bugs. The excitement associated with anticipation of gold at $3000, $10,000, or higher tends to overide real fundamentals and common sense.
There are three factors driving gold bulls as we move into the new year – the demand factor, the Fed factor, and the January factor.
The gold market is poised to make history in 2024. It enters the New Year within striking distance of new all-time highs.
It is a year since Sergei Glazyev, Commissioner for Integration and Macroeconomics within the Eurasian Economic Commission, disclosed his views on gold and its value in trade. Undoubtedly, his opinion carries weight not only with President Putin to whom he is very close, but he also influenced Russian proposals for a new trade settlement currency for BRICS which failed to make the Johannesburg agenda last August.
After prices jumped in 2023, gold is entering 2024 with many experts suggesting the safe haven asset could hit record highs this year.
In Part I of this two-part conversation with Michelle Makori of Kitco News, Matterhorn Asset Management Partner, Matthew Piepenburg, looks at the key financial themes of 2023 and the critical trends to impact the year ahead.
To market observers, gold appears ready to break into new high ground measured in all the major currencies. In fact, it is the currencies’ collapse in their values, rather than gold rising. Appreciating this distinction is vital for understanding the future of the gold/currency relationship.
Peter Schiff 
It’s hard to say which lie about gold is the biggest whopper.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: $2,050 to $2,075 as the new resistance for gold, silver seems to be getting attention, and what’s in the small print of New Hampshire’s proposed gold as legal tender bill.
Matterhorn Asset Management founder, Egon von Greyerz, sits down with Darryl and Brian Panes from as Good as Gold Australia to discuss the major economic and precious metal themes, including the slow and now more imminent demise of the global financial system in the wake of irrational and destructive credit expansion.
The gold miners’ stocks have suffered something of a lost year, with this small contrarian sector largely overlooked. Investor apathy remains high despite miners’ soaring earnings fueled by much-higher gold prices. But 2023’s unusually-subdued gold-stock price action was driven by several major anomalies that have run their courses. As markets normalize in 2024, gold miners have lots of mean-reversion rallying to do. 
My estimation of global official gold reserves hit 38,764 tonnes in Q2 2023, breaking its previous record from 1965. The new high confirms the world has entered a new era of gold. Central banks will continue to accumulate gold and the metal’s role in the international monetary system will increase to the detriment of the US dollar.
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.
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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 
The following analysis and commentary is an excerpt from the latest issue of the Mining Stock Journal. You can learn more about this newsletter here: 
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 
