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Clean Gold: A Game Changer for Mining

Clean Gold: A Game Changer for Mining

Meet the Technologies that are Cleaning up the Gold Industry. Kevin Fell co-founder & Group CEO of Clean Earth Technologies discusses some of the ground-breaking solutions they are bringing to the mining world.

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New Gold Price Record Likely

New Gold Price Record Likely

GOLD PRICES tried but failed to match yesterday’s new 9-year US Dollar peak on Thursday while silver peeped above $19 per ounce for the first time since September as confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the United States rose above 3 million and Tokyo reported a record daily rise in new infections.

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Top Question for New Precious Metals Investors

Top Question for New Precious Metals Investors

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…

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More Fed Help For The Big Boys – Nothing For You

More Fed Help For The Big Boys - Nothing For You

The fact the Fed is buying corporate bonds at all signals favoritism toward big existing players — indebted lumbering behemoths that can’t innovate. It’s not as if the Fed is going to take the largesse it creates from thin air and spread it around to a plucky but capital-starved startup, right?

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Gold Drops On US Jobs Data

Gold Drops On US Jobs Data

Gold Prices Erase Post-ISM Rally as US Jobs Data Beat Forecasts, Both for Gains and New Benefit Claims Bullion.Directory precious metals analysis 02 July, 2020 By Adrian Ash Head of […]

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Big Banks Win, You Lose (Again)

Big Banks Win, You Lose (Again)

Part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, the “Volcker Rule” was intended to prevent big banks from taking irresponsible risks. But in spite of an already-uncertain economy, regulators are now proposing to ease these rules…

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These Are The Times That Call For Gold

These Are The Times That Call For Gold

In a volatile trading environment for equities, a big move in one direction tends to beget a big move in the other. We’ve already seen a big move lower earlier this year – and a subsequent move higher that was nearly equal in magnitude.

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The Fed’s Cash Scam Explained…

The Fed's Cash Scam Explained...

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…

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How to Pick a Gold Bullion Dealer – Without Getting Stung

How to Pick a Gold Bullion Dealer - Without Getting Stung

As an investment, Gold can be hard to beat – but picking the wrong bullion dealer can cost you much more than time, money and stress. So how do you ensure you choose a dealer best suited to your needs?

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Surging Bank Deposits May Collapse the Dollar

Surging Bank Deposits May Collapse the Dollar

In another episode of “Strange 2020”, banks have become flush with deposits. But not in the way you might expect. In one month, deposits grew by $865 billion, which beat the record for an entire year

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Gold Set to Extend it’s Uptrend

Gold Set to Extend it's Uptrend

GOLD PRICES rallied from $20 below yesterday’s new 8-year high near $1780 per ounce in US Dollar terms in Asian and London trade on Thursday, but edged higher against other major currencies as world stock markets extended Wednesday’s 2.6% drop in US equities.

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Coronavirus: Social Security at Risk

Coronavirus: Social Security at Risk

As if Social Security didn’t already have enough challenges ahead, we now have yet another complication. Not surprisingly, it’s a ripple effect from COVID-19. Before coronavirus hit the scene, experts agreed that if nothing was done, Social Security would be facing a 21% cut by 2035.

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Why People Have Always Held Gold

Why People Have Always Held Gold

The current phase of the gold bull market, which started last year, is – we believe – the third and final wave of the secular bull run tracking back to 2001. It’s going to create a tidal bore of immense size and power

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Key Levels to Watch for Gold’s Next Move

Key Levels to Watch for Gold’s Next Move

Gold prices have been trading within a well-defined $100 range over the past two months. Gold’s chart shows strong support at $1,675/oz and a zone of resistance at $1,750-$1,775. A breakout above the trading range could quickly send gold prices to $1,900/oz

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U.S. Debt Has No Meaning Anymore (Until It Eventually Does)

U.S. Debt Has No Meaning Anymore (Until It Eventually Does)

The national debt currently looks like a runaway freight train. Not only is it clocking in at $26.1 trillion at the moment, but it has made the jump of the last few trillion dollars fast… Really fast.

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WARNING: U.S. Banking System ISN’T as Strong as Advertised

WARNING: U.S. Banking System ISN’T as Strong as Advertised

Whereas previous financial crises were marked by a surge in bank failures, hardly any have gone under so far in 2020. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reports that only 1% of FDIC-insured banks are on the “problem list” for financial weakness.

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The Gold-Backed Token that Even Gold-Bugs Love

The Gold-Backed Token that Even Gold-Bugs Love

CACHE Gold’s gold-backed crypto tokens are causing quite a stir – so in this interview with Brian Hankey CACHE’s Co-Founder, I look at what’s making this particular ERC-20 token so appealing to gold’s biggest fans

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Gold’s Dip Has Created Buying Opportunity

Gold's Dip Has Created Buying Opportunity

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.

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Gold is a BUY as Second Covid19 Wave Hits Stocks

Gold is a BUY as Second Covid19 Wave Hits Stocks

GOLD PRICES dropped Monday in London as European stock markets and crude oil tumbled amid widening reports that a second wave of the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic is taking hold.

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Comex Premium Evaporates On Negative Interest Rate Announcement

Comex Premium Evaporates On Negative Interest Rate Announcement

GOLD and SILVER PRICES edged back from 1-week highs in London trade Thursday, but kept half of last night’s 1.7% and 3.4% spikes against a falling US Dollar after the Federal Reserve gave a dire forecast for the world No.1 economy’s recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic and shutdowns.

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David J Mitchell: Investing During a Crisis

David J Mitchell: Investing During a Crisis

We’re in the grip of a severe deflationary collapse, widely predicted ahead of time. This has been an ongoing development and has been picking-up speed since the major cycle turn of December 2015. Hard data actually points to the major cycle turns between 2002 and 2003 when data…

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Gold Keeps Pace With Covid Winners

Gold Keeps Pace With Covid Winners

GOLD PRICES recovered more of last week’s 2.6% plunge in Asian and London trade Tuesday, rallying to what was a new 7.5-year Dollar high in April at $1715 per ounce as industrial commodities fell back, longer-term interest rates fell, and world stock markets retreated after Wall Street’s S&P500 index of US corporations rose back to New Year 2020’s level

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Bullion Bank Retreat Puts Floor under Gold and Silver Prices

Bullion Bank Retreat Puts Floor under Gold and Silver Prices

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…

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Gold Drops on Bond Yield Jump

Gold Drops on Bond Yield Jump

GOLD PRICES sank to 4-week lows at $1681 per ounce in London trade Friday, losing over $45 for the week as major government bond prices also fell, pushing interest rates higher, following a shock jump in the US government’s employment estimate.

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Is America Headed for a Post-Apocalyptic Currency Collapse?

Is America Headed for a Post-Apocalyptic Currency Collapse?

Just when it seemed as though we were on a path to reopening and gradually returning to normalcy… just when the prospects of panic-induced social unrest seemed to be behind us… America’s cities erupted into flames.

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As PMs Slip Metal ETFs Expand Again

As PMs Slip Metal ETFs Expand Again

GOLD and SILVER prices slipped and rallied in London trade Wednesday after the two precious metals’ largest New York-listed ETF investment trusts expanded for a 5th session running.

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US Social Unrest Rises as Confidence Falls

US Social Unrest Rises as Confidence Falls

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.

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NY-LON Gold Premium Gap Slams Shut

NY-LON Gold Premium Gap Slams Shut

GOLD PRICE gaps between London and New York whipped violently once more on Thursday, cutting what was a $100 premium for Comex futures contracts in March to a $10 discount per ounce as US warehouses continued to see fresh deliveries.

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