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By Adrian Ash |
January 17, 2013
Full-year 2012 gold data from Thomson Reuters GFMS yesterday estimated gold demand from all central banks, as a group, at a half-century high of 536 tonnes, up 17% from 2011.
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By Eric Sprott, David Baker |
November 30, 2012
If global banks’ are realistically going to improve their balance sheet diversification and liquidity profiles, gold will have to be part of that process. It is ludicrous to expect banking to regain a sure footing through the increased ownership of government securities.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
November 27, 2012
The lame duck may well throw a life preserver to the black swan to keep it afloat temporarily. However, the golden eagle and the silver loony are hovering overhead. Gold and silver are making cup and handle patterns which is historically indicative of major breakouts.
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis |
September 10, 2012
In a tiny market such as silver, where a few big players typically dominate and manipulate global price discovery, being invisible may be the real and only power held by those who would one day choose to buy or continue to accumulate precious metals.
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By Axel Merk |
August 23, 2012
The purest form of a debt free asset is gold. Gold is true money, the only form of money that isn’t someone else’s liability. While central banks might be able to lower the gold price by dumping their own reserves, central banks cannot print more gold.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
July 23, 2012
Mark Twain called the late nineteenth century the "Gilded Age” – meaning that the period was golden on the surface but underneath the thin veneer was a cesspool of banksterism.
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By Eric Sprott, David Baker |
June 25, 2012
We note the contrast between the reporting companies who by law cannot lie about their fiscal realities, versus central planners who admit that they must lie to preserve calm and control. We'll leave it to you to decide whose version of the truth you want to believe.
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By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
June 7, 2012
The Fed has pumped trillions into the worldwide financial system as part of misguided stimulus efforts that should be incredibly inflationary. Yet, instead of a disastrous repeat of the Weimar Republic, the US dollar has strengthened considerably.
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By Brett Heath |
May 22, 2012
The powers that be have total control over money, as they set the price for capital via manipulating the interest rates. So it is not a stretch that they would be concerned with a rising gold price because gold is a threat to how the current fiat regime functions.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
May 18, 2012
It is folly to look at the day to day gyrations of our wealth in the earth selections. There are those critics who might question the absence of risk management in precious metal selections. They miss the basic point completely.