Precious metals news

Greenback losses against G10 peers since Trump's inauguration

As the tide turned and the sexual harassment issues blew up into the mainstream, so too will the biggest financial market scandal in U.S history blow up...

In addition to gold possibly surging higher, Captain Ewave says that the stock market is in danger of a very big collapse. Here's an update...

Eric Dubin says there will come a time when gold pays off as an insurance policy, but you need to own it before the house burns down. Here's more...

Navigating this really cool interactive map shows that gold has more of a role in our everyday lives than most people realize... 

Many state legislatures kick off their 2018 sessions this month and that means continuing efforts to facilitate gold and silver ownership at the state level.
Bills introduced in Tennessee and Alabama would repeal state sales taxes on the sale of gold and silver bullion, and an Arizona bill would build on a foundation set last year and take another step toward treating gold and silver as money. These efforts not only help expand the market for gold and silver in the US, they also have the potential to undermine the Federal Reserve's monopoly on money.

There is a lot of talk about Bitcoin versus gold, but the blockchain technology that serves as the foundation for Bitcoin may become an important part of the gold market in the future.
According to a Bloomberg report, the London Bullion Market Association (LMBA) plans to seek proposals including the use of blockchain to track gold ownership.
Markets in commodities from crude oil to diamonds and even tomatoes are looking at using the digital ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin — known to some as ‘digital gold' — to track ownership. Tracing gold supply is key to preventing metal that funds armed conflict from entering world markets, identifying owners and maintaining security from mine to vault."

Gold was mostly unaffected by the US government shutdown; platinum off highest in more than four months

Steve St. Angelo says "it takes a great deal more energy to produce gold than the market realizes." Here's the details...

The United States is heading for a recession as soon as 2020, economists have warned as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Davos announced they believe a world recession may be a lot closer than some may think.

A month after blacklisting 17 countries for refusing to cooperate on tax evasion, the European Union (EU) has announced it is delisting half of them.

Is anyone paying attention? I don’t know, but the cost of carrying debt has been rising and it’s already showing measurable impacts despite the Fed Funds rate still being very low. My c…

The elite gather at Davos by day to tackle problems plaguing the planet. And then by night it’s back to hitting the slopes, sipping champagne and networking.​

China’s financial regulator has vowed to rescue the Chinese banking system immediately to avert a banking crisis when the bubble bursts

"..can't be certain that there are no asset bubbles forming... worrying about financial stability is an equally complementary part of the Fed’s mandate..."

The LBMA has pushed ahead with efforts to modernize a trade that until recent years relied on phone auctions to set a key benchmark price for the market.

Will central bankers have really try to take the punch bowl away in 2018?

U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R.-Fl) and Robert Menendez (D.-NJ) have denounced Venezuela's planned cryptocurrency in a new letter.

The Fed is likely to raise interest rates at this week’s FOMC meeting, another step will have been taken in the Fed’s “Normalization” plan.

Financial institutions have fewer tools to deal with a crisis than ever before, according to the Harvard economist.