Clint Siegner

America’s key institutions are broken. More people wake up daily to that reality. They are preparing for the moment this realization dawns on Americans at large, which explains why the markets for physical bullion are so active.

The word on the street was that a hefty $13 price increase was coming, and many wanted to get their coins before prices rose. The news of a price increase isn’t wrong. It’s just that it won’t directly impact anyone except those people buying high-priced coins in specialty packaging directly from the U.S. Mint.

Gold and silver investors may have little in common with Jeffrey Epstein’s teenage victims or violent “Black Lives Matter” rioters, but there is one issue upon which they might all agree. Our system of justice often fails

SPOILER ALERT: Anyone who thinks Biden has a good shot at becoming president should definitely stock up now.

After months of frenetic activity in the bullion markets, physical buying and selling slowed a bit last week. The respite, if it persists, could be welcome news for investors frustrated by scarcity and higher premiums.

Even basics, such as how to make payment, need a bit of explaining. Buying precious metal isn’t complicated, but there are some differences compared with other types of purchases. One of the biggest differences is that paying with your credit card will cost you.

Physical gold and silver are useful as investment and crisis insurance, but it takes a bit of explaining.

Some wonder how they go about actually realizing profits – it’s different than logging into a brokerage account and hitting the “sell” button…

The Federal Reserve has printed trillions of dollars without generating runaway price inflation through the use of a neat trick. It’s quite the racket…

Anyone who is planning to buy bullion and waiting for premiums to drop might want to grab the opportunity now in case prices soon zoom higher.

The price of silver dropped to $12.02/oz on March 18th and gold bottomed at $1,473/oz. The bullion banks – notorious for their concentrated short positions – might have made a killing. But that isn’t what happened…

Protests egged on by the legacy media quickly devolved into large-scale riots and looting over the weekend in more than a dozen U.S. cities. Some important institutions have betrayed the public trust, and Americans facing quarantine and staggering unemployment have arrived at the boiling point.

Unfortunately, shady coin dealers are out in force, trying to capitalize on our current financial situation. We can see it in the proliferation of these dealers advertising on TV and radio with their celebrity spokesmen…

Today the number of ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold is at 113 – very close to those highs – and metals investors are wondering whether or not opportunity is knocking.

Nobody in Washington even wants to know exactly where the Fed’s trillions go anymore. The rest of us, however, can make a pretty good guess just by watching CNBC.

As cracks appear in the COMEX story, it is starting to look like a lot of speculators who hold paper gold and hope to redeem that for actual bars could be disappointed.

It appears that while bars may exist in the U.S., too few are categorized as “registered” and therefore can’t be released for purposes of making delivery. Prices may have to go higher before the owners are willing to part with actual physical bars.

The disconnect between paper prices for precious metals and demand in the bullion markets has never been clearer as nervous investors are frantically buying coins, rounds, and bars.

Stocks have long been priced for perfection and suddenly conditions are looking far from perfect. The coronavirus may be the pin which pricks the latest Fed-blown bubble.

A futures contract is not an asset with intrinsic value. It is nothing more than a wager on the price of the metal on a particular future date. There is ultimately a winner and a loser for each wager.

The road to full accountability for JPMorgan remains long and full of obstacles. But it is certainly nice to see prosecutors treating the bank without the usual kid gloves.

Physical palladium and rhodium markets are buzzing with reported prices for both metals leaping higher in recent days. The story behind palladium’s move is that a physical shortage has developed in London…

Narayana Kocherlakota, the former President of the Federal Reserve bank of Minneapolis wants you to know the Federal Government can never borrow too much money. How? By taxing the very people it owes the money to…

Market forecaster Martin Zweig famously warned investors against underestimating the power of the Federal Reserve Bank to control markets. He coined the phrase “Don’t fight the Fed” back in the 80’s. Precious metals investors are wondering if this is still good advice.

The bankers and government officials behind these fiat currency systems don’t like stable monetary benchmarks such as gold putting their inflation schemes on full display. They absolutely hate that gold works as a refuge.

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