The Fed attempts to maintain control of various rates (including inflation, unemployment and long-term interest rates) through its monetary policy decisions. In the past, poor choices arguably led to both the dot-com bubble and the Great Recession. But that’s old news.
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“Money is a matter of functions four: a medium, a measure, a standard and a store.” Or at least so says an old rhyme once used in economics books. And let’s face it, three of these functions are clear. A medium of exchange is what people use to pay for goods.
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In recent months, the numbers of people standing for delivery of the metal on their futures contracts has spiked. If that trend continues in March, which is the next delivery month, it may be a bigger “Come to Jesus” moment than the shorts had in March of 2020.
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For this weeks Q&A I’m talking with Mike Greenacre. Mike’s initial career was in the geophysical exploration industry, working in Africa, US, Middle East and Asia, beginning his trading and brokerage career in Switzerland, with an initial focus on steel and iron ore.
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In some cases, the idea of a “near-zero interest rate” is a good thing. For example, if you qualify for 0% interest when you buy a car, you save money…
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What’s driving these “energy” metals? Besides ongoing currency depreciation and the risks of higher inflation, which will help boost all hard assets over time, rising demand for electricity in general and electric vehicles in particular.
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Americans interested in investing in precious metals often ask about doing so through an IRA, or Individual Retirement Account. But what exactly is an IRA and can and IRA hold numismatic coins like American Silver and Gold Eagle Proofs?
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In the last two weeks, there has been a greater awakening about the silver story – its growing industrial uses, its growing investment demand, and the pre-existing bullish posture of the silver market itself.
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Stories include: U.S. Mint can’t keep pace with demand again, Goldman chief calls silver a supercharged version of gold, and amateur prospector unearths a long-lost golden treasure from Medieval times.
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One of the most bullish backdrops for precious metals is an environment of negative real interest rates – that is, when bonds and cash yield less than the inflation rate. […]
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Jim Rickards said back in 2016: “The dollar won’t lose its reserve currency status overnight” — and he was right. But a new and disturbing signal could finally be revealing the end game.
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As extreme market conditions drive tremendous volatility in silver spot prices, buyers are exerting unprecedented pressures on retail physical bullion products.
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This week’s TalkMining interview is with Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo Executive Director at Georgette Barnes Limited, Volunteer President at Women In Mining, Co-Founder of the Accra Mining Network and volunteer Elected President of the Association of Women In Mining In Africa.
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Stories include: Day traders piling into silver as analysts predict $50 price, gold’s reign as the top asset, and $400 million of civil war gold buried in Pennsylvania might have come to the surface.
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Having been reading about the great WallStreetBets #SilverSqueeze all weekend and watching zoom call after zoom call of excited precious metals experts getting ready for Silver’s moonshot this week I started to get a strange sinking feeling…
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SILVER surged Monday morning towards 8-year highs at $30 per ounce after “the call-to-arms” on Reddit brought record new interest to precious metals
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You’ve read about housing market bubbles, stock bubbles, and even credit bubbles. But the next bubble you’re about to discover could be even more dangerous, and may have even more far-reaching consequences.
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GOLD PRICED in terms of sister metal silver fell near its cheapest in 4 years in London’s bullion market Friday, despite rising near 3-week highs of its own in the aftermath of silver’s dramatic jump after users of the Reddit chatroom called on other readers to buy shares in the cheaper precious metal’s largest ETF trust.
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Because no matter what the headlines say, tangible physical assets can act as a hedge against inflation and diversification helps protect your savings no matter which direction the stock market heads. Take the steps you need to keep your retirement on track with a “sleep well at night” savings strategy.
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As Treasury Secretary Yellen together with her protégé Jerome Powell at the Fed prepare to pursue “weak dollar” policies and coordinate globally with other central planners, investors may find that the world’s strongest currencies are physical precious metals.
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America will face an increasingly authoritarian federal government ruling over a largely apathetic populace… Gold bugs aren’t betting on bridges being built any time soon – demand for physical metal ratcheted up to a new all-time high in January.
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The recent explosion of money printing and debt-funded spending by the U.S. in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a renewed interest in the key role gold and silver play in hedging against systemic risks.
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Anyone who owns precious metals, mining shares or metals’ ETFs knows the drill. First, gold and silver begin to establish an uptrend on the charts. Analysts (like us) start writing about how prices are getting ready to make an upside run…
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Last year provided extraordinary challenges to Americans as well as people around the world. Hundreds of thousands of deaths were attributed to the Chinese coronavirus. The economic carnage and the attendant death and suffering along with the loss of civil liberties was grossly underreported.
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On Wednesday, the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump for a second time – this time with just a few days left in his term. It was a mostly symbolic rebuke. Financial and precious metals markets barely budged on the news.
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Gold is Not the Only Precious Metal – Matt Watson’s pick of metal investments for the next decade includes some less well-known choices with enormous upside potential…
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It’s happening again. Even before the conflagration occurred in Washington DC last week, retail demand for gold and silver had been rising sharply since late last year.
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GOLD PRICES fell Friday in London even as infections, deaths and economic lockdowns in the winter wave of Covid-19 worsened worldwide and new US data said the world’s largest economy shed jobs last month rather than expanding as Wall Street expected.
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