Precious metals news

It’s getting harder and harder to quarantine the selloff in Treasuries from equities and corporate bonds.

World stocks were in their biggest two-day dive in six months on Tuesday and commodities were also jammed in reverse, as rising U.S. borrowing costs cooled financial markets' euphoric start to the year.

Jack Chan updates his charts for this last week of January to ask, "has gold finally bottomed"? Here's what he found...

Everybody seems bullish on the economy. Nobody is worried about anything, even though there is everything to be worried about. Peter Schiff said he feels like he's in Alice in Wonderland. In his most recent podcast, he referenced a Morgan Stanley analyst interviewed by CNBC.
She's unquestioningly bullish on every front. Everything is bullish. There is nothing at all to worry about. In fact, the only thing she said that anybody is worried about is that there's nothing to worry about. It's that things are so good, they're wondering what are we missing. Maybe we should be a little bit worried because nobody is worried because everything is good. I mean, there are so many things to worry about. That is the reality. But they're not worried about any of them."

Over the last two years, the Federal Reserve has been nudging interest rates higher and their efforts are starting to bear fruit in the marketplace. Bond yields are beginning to climb.
The question is how high can rates go before the house of cards the central bankers built comes tumbling down?

The world’s two largest silver mines have seen their productivity decline substantially due to falling ore grades and rising costs. Gone are the days when silver mines could produce silver at 15-20 ounces per ton.

The Turkish Gold Trader behind the oil-for-gold scheme shows and tells how the two nations skirted the Iranian sanctions...

The next bear market will spread across the entire financial ecosystem. Pensions, welfare, markets, debt, real estate, and savings.

Yes. The Federal Government currently owes the Social Security Trust Fund $2.85 Trillion Dollars. That’s $2,850,000,000,000.

Criminal and civil enforcement actions initiated against three banks and six individuals involved in commodities fraud.

...the explosion in dollar-denominated debt outside the USA which means a rise in the dollar will see a massive debt crisis

Have you ever seen this much gold in one place? In this video, Mike Maloney shows the remarkable images coming out of Russia that are evidence of their recent surge in gold reserves. What do they see coming? Is this a subtle challenge to Fort Knox and their ongoing lack of transparency?

Despite the endless media rah-rah about “growth” and “recovery,” it is self-evident to anyone who bothers to look beneath the surface of this facile PR that the pie is now shrinking. This dynamic is increasing inequality rather than reducing it.

"I think Stockton is absolutely ground zero for a lot of the issues we are facing as a nation."

The biggest risk, as noted last week, is a significant rise in interest rates the “pricks” the debt-bubble.

With 97.1% Renting Their Dwelling (Fed Policies Distort Homeownership)

Gold is up across the board of major global currencies

They’re willing to entertain an eye-popping wager: Borrowing $107 billion and letting it ride in the financial markets.

Keith says don't focus on manipulation and other attractive nuisances to predict gold & silver price movements, but instead do this...

Alaska projects 240,000 people will rely on the Medicaid health-care program next year, and demand for food stamps has spiked. Lawmakers are asking if the programs are sustainable.