Precious metals news

Some high-income business owners could face marginal tax rates exceeding 100% under the Senate’s tax bill, which lawmakers rushing to write the final measure are working to prevent.

Mike Maloney has just issued an Insider Alert

U.S. stock futures were little changed after erasing an earlier climb on reports of an explosion in midtown Manhattan. The dollar fell and Treasuries rose.

Harvey Organ explains how demand for physical gold is very strong and there is hardly any liquidation of positions... 

Rob provides a timely update on the "cryptoization" of gold & silver...

Catherine Austin Fitts says developers are doing the hard work to build out the infrastructure, but the "smart money" is buying up gold and land...

SRSrocco goes into further detail about the Grand Canyon gold (which also applies to the hidden Nazi gold vaults and Yamashita's gold)...

Claudio Grass discusses the various risks involved with cryptocurrency and ways to protect against those risks...

Jayant Bhandari has an update on the War on Cash and the devastating toll it is taking in real-time in India...

"I know the Bitcoin-believers “know” this time is different..."

The SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap podcast combines a succinct summary of the week’s precious metals news coupled with thoughtful analysis. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

How would you like to walk on gold?
You can do it at the Akron Art Museum.
Artist Rachel Sussman has filled cracks in the museum floor with gold.

The US national debt stands at over $21 trillion and neither political party in Washington D.C. seems inclined to do anything about it. In fact, the GOP tax plan winding its way through the political process will add an estimated $1.5 trillion more to the debt over the next decade. And that doesn't even account for the increases in spending that Congress will certainly approve over that timespan.
Of course, all of this government debt has serious ramifications. Corporations are also piling on credit. Last month, Mint Capital strategist Bill Blain predicted that “the great crash of 2018 is going to start in the deeper, darker depths of the credit market.”
Now consider this. China has an even bigger debt problem than the US, and analysts say it could threaten global financial security.

Will Powell Will Do Exactly What Yellen Would Do?

Since the US lifted anchor on the Gold Standard in August 1971 making the US Dollar a Fiat Reserve Currency, the US economy has been propelled forward, no-longer tethered to the principles of Sound Money....

They cannot see an immediate trigger for the financial Armageddon that they accept is heading slowly our way.

We get the same question every time we release a new proprietary GoldSilver product: why should I buy your silver round instead of a standard bullion product like an Eagle? There are several answers to that question—they can be a great way to diversify, they’re unique in the marketplace, and they might reflect values that you share. But the biggest answer of all is this: because you might make a bigger profit.

Dave Kranzler breaks down the current gold price take-down and cartel flush of the specs. Here's an update...

Just as government always lies about its wars & their “progress," they also lie about the economy & inflation.

Some of the same warning signs that emerged before the 1929 to 1933 market crash, the tech mania crash of 2000, & the epic Wall Street meltdown of 2008 are flashing red