Once you start down a road and get yourself in too deep, you have to keep pushing on.  Going back is no longer an option.  So we’ve seen this desperation with the way the gold market has been handled over the last few years.  We’ve seen these egregious price smashes in the paper gold market on big volume...   This takes place even when the gold isn’t available in the physica... read more
If you've been wondering if the US Federal Reserve will ever destroy the trillions of dollars it has printed since 2008, wonder no more… Since 2007, the US monetary base has soared from $800 billion to $3.7 trillion. Such unprecedented inflation is the product of round after r... read more
Update: the UK mint was kind enough to advice that "only" Sovereigns are sold out. More expensive coins are still available: Just 2 day safter their release, The U.K.’s Royal Mint said it ran out of 2014 Sovereign gold coins [10] “due to exceptional demand.”
VIDEO: Axel Merk, President and Chief Investment Officer at Merk Investments, describes his reasons for liking the precious metal despite 2013's steep losses. VIDEO AT SOURCE
Video: In @ 4:09 - Jim Rickards, author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis" and the upcoming book "The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System " sees the dollar-based fiat currency system coming to end. He spoke to us about where we are in the process. Also, Jim Hamilton, Professor of Economics at University of California, San Diego gave... read more
The year 2013 was a great year for the S&P and a terrible year for silver and gold investors. There are many indications that it is time for a reversal. If a market moves too far (up or down), too fast, or for too long, expect a reversal. Examples:
  • The S&P 500 index has moved MUCH higher during the past 57 months – a very long time. Expect a reversal soon.
  • Si... read more
As everyone rings in the New Year with a toast and a cheer for a prosperous 2014, Wall Street started celebrating many months ago and is ringing in the New Year with a glass of Dom Pérignon. They surely have a reason to celebrate as 2013 brought them good fortune and financial prosperity, having rung in the New Year with new all time highs on many of the US-based major indexes. While there... read more
Gold will reach $7,000 to $9,000 an ounce or possibly higher in the "intermediate" term, thanks to the dollar's weakness, says James Rickards, senior managing director of Tangent Capital Partners. The move won't happen right away, he tells Bloomberg. Gold fell 28... read more
Many analysts today claim that Gold is dead as an investment due to its having fallen from a record high of $1900 per ounce to roughly $1200 per ounce today (a 36% drop).   However, this price movement, while dramatic, is quite inline with how commodities trade. Gold has a... read more
It’s ironic that in a day and age where Keynesian economics is the “accepted view” we still don’t pay enough attention to what Keynes said about inflation.
"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate,... read more