While owning precious metals will be a very wise store of wealth and investment in the future, silver will actually turn out to be the “King of Investment Gains.” A good barometer of the retail gold and silver market is shown by the eagle sales at the U.S. Mint.
In the first three months of the year, investors were purchasing silver eagles at an average ratio of 48 to 1 to gold eagles.... read more
The Fed's preferred measures of inflation are so low they're in the Fed's panic zone. It seems like right now, from their standpoint, the playbook isn't working. What gives?
‘There's an ideal playbook, and it would look something like this,’ explains Jim Rickards, author of Currency Wars, ‘You'd have higher inflation than we'd have today, but not super high. It m... read more
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BEIJING (Caixin Online) — The monetary policies of major economies are diverging for the first time since 2008. The euro zone, Britain and Japan are sustaining quantitative easing, while the United States, China and other major emerging economies are on a tightening path.
The divergence is creating trends in some... read more
Last week we released a report that looked in to the depths of the Shanghai Gold Market. In the report we revealed the volumes that pass through the exchange as well as the huge amounts of delivery taking place.
We concluded that the SGE would not yet be a force for... read more
Be most cautious when there is a growing optimism regarding the trajectory of global economic recovery. Calamity generally hits when the least expected. The need for safe haven investment seems more acute “Now” than ever before. All global money printing presses are still going at full speed. The Eurozone region, Japan and China are very likely to continue stoking their economies. That sh... read more
With gold and silver getting consolidating, today John Hathaway spoke with King World News about what is happening in the war on precious metals. Hathaway also spoke about the gold and silver shares and what is taking place in the industry. Hathaway, of Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., is one of the most respected institutional minds in the world today regarding gold, and... read more
With gold and silver rebounding, today acclaimed money manager Stephen Leeb told King World News that silver is now setting up to eclipse $100. Leeb believes that China, which has been the primary driver in the gold market, is now going to push the silver price over $100 as their consumption of physical silver is poised to skyrocket. Here is what Leeb had to say in this powe... read more
Don’t let depressed commodity prices fool you. They won’t stay depressed too long. The single most important global economic reality remains resource scarcity.
At last, I see short-term commodity price depressants starting to dissipate. Very shortly, the overwhelming consensus against commodities will start to shift, possibly as early as yearend. Then the long-term upward climb of commod... read more
The latest inflation figure of 2.9pc might not seem alarming, but these small increases are continually eroding the value of people's savings and reducing their standard of living.
You may not think prices have gone up much in 2013, but I can assure you they have. You need to focus not on the annual increase, but look instead at the cumulative impact of inflation over... read more
