Precious metals news

How is it possible that in a stock world where institutions and individuals have both been net sellers of stocks since the 2008 crisis, stocks have soared? Thank the Fed and Fed-funded corporate buybacks.

Adam says gold's drop has been on the large side this year, but the selling is quickly exhausting. Here's what it means for gold moving forward...

Is sound money picking up steam? Ron Paul talks about all the different efforts at legalizing gold & silver as money again...

With all the "reset" talk lately, and with that "he who owns the gold makes the rules" thing, it may be good to know who has the biggest stacks...

State laws regarding gold and silver are passing fast. Here's a recap of what's been done recently. Is your state on the list?

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Is it just me, or has modern American politics devolved into little more than petulant playground namecalling devoid of substance?
I stumbled across this latest outrage as I was perusing the depths of the internet the other day - presidential "challenge coins." Apparently, according to the mainstream pundits, President Donald Trump can't even get a fun little presidential tradition right.
The New York Times did an entire feature story on how Trump has ruined presidential challenge coins. I'll bet most of you haven't even heard of challenge coins. But they're a thing. And according to our intrepid NYT columnist, Trump's execution of this august tradition is a complete outrage!

Technology will play a key role in driving precious metals demand in the coming years according to reports released this week by the World Gold Council and the Silver Institute.
The World Gold Council Gold Investor report for July focused on the growing use of gold in technology. According to the report, over the past decade, the tech sector accounted for more than 380 tons of gold demand annually. That's 13% ahead of central bank purchases during the same time period. The demand for the yellow metal for tech applications logged its sixth consecutive quarter of gains in Q1 2018.
Technology is transforming the way we live, work and play, changing almost every aspect of our world, from industry to financial services to healthcare. Gold plays an integral part in this societal shift," WGC CEO Aram Shishmanian said.

And on gold Eric says, "it looks like they’ve cleaned everyone’s clock for the last six or eight weeks, and we’re ready to go back up..."

Global central banks abruptly changed monetary course in 2010, and for eight straight years have been stockpiling gold. This is how world governments prepare for the collapse of the US dollar.

"In hindsight, imagining there was some limit to speculative recklessness was my greatest error in over three decades as a professional investor."

The exhausted global bull warily eyes the Fed as tightening into weakness sets international equity markets on the edge of a precipice.

As the unwinnable-by-definition trade war escalates, Russia takes action against the US, allying itself with fellow gold-hoarder China.

Marshall just put on his last trade before the Global Economic Collapse of July 20 - 27, 2018. Here's the details and what's coming to gold & silver...

Juerg Kiener, CIO and Managing Director at Swiss Asia Capital, tells it like it is. Gold's current COMEX trading price is completely detached from the reality of the physical gold market.

What do you do when you must raise rates to ward off inflation, but can't raise rates because the increase in debt expense will choke out the economy? The stuff a recessionary zero hour is made of.

"based on the data we have available to us, the balance of information suggests..."

In the Fed's grand tradition of fixing things that aren't broken, they've conjured a new recession indicator. Because when the deadly accurate inverted yield curve spells a reality you don't like, create a new reality!

Who says you can't be all things to all people all the time? Government data reports more jobs created, yet higher unemployment, while the primary wealth-gap driver, hourly wages, continue to go nowhere fast.

The dollar is at risk of losing 94 after the report, however. Here's what that could mean for gold & silver...