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By Marshall Swing |
May 4, 2012
The precious metals marketplace is all abuzz about the 7,500 contract trade in gold on Monday. Gold fell $15 in the space of a minute. Speculative traders think the trade could have been a fat finger. Comex floor traders say otherwise.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
April 16, 2012
The US dollar, the euro, the yen, all the world’s currencies, are being de-valued by the massive money creation that has taken place and that will continue to happen. Gold’s not really rising – it’s fiat currencies that are falling.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
January 4, 2012
Since the Federal Reserve's creation in 1913 the dollar has lost more than 96% of its value. The greatest achievement of the Fed has been to transform America from being the world's foremost creditor nation to the world's largest debtor nation.
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By Ben Traynor |
August 2, 2011
We hear a lot today about "imbalances" in the global economy. One of the biggest imbalances is that the monetary unit of international trade is issued by a single nation. Gold was giving a strong signal of this disequilibrium 40 years ago.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
July 27, 2011
What the audit revealed was incredible: between December 2007 and June 2010, the Federal Reserve had secretly bailed out many of the world's banks, corporations and governments by giving them US$16,000,000,000,000.00 - that's 16 trillion dollars.
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By Ben Traynor |
July 21, 2011
Washington's debt ceiling squabble has seen the gold price breach $1,600. The standard explanation is that investors are scared and gold is a "safe haven" investment. But why are they scared? And why exactly are they fleeing to gold?
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By Mickey Fulp |
June 29, 2011
Thorium as nuclear fuel is clean and safe and offers significant advantages over uranium. The technology for several types of thorium reactors is proven but still must be developed on a commercial scale.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
May 25, 2011
With smoke still rising from the ruins of the recent silver crash, I thought I'd touch base with a wizened and grizzled old veteran who still remembered the last time a bubble popped for the white metal.
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By Adrian Ash |
January 27, 2011
Two-thousand-eleven sees a big, but so far little-noted ruby anniversary. Expect to hear lots more about it as Aug. 15 draws near. That day will mark 40 years since the United States' government finally stopped redeeming its dollars for gold.
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By Jim Willie |
May 12, 2010
The key to understanding the continuation of disruptive and chaotic events is the realization that nothing has been fixed.
