A lot is happening in the gold business. Prices are getting low and everybody is losing interest in the precious metal. Demand has dropped in the past few weeks. Despite the worldwide financial crises, gold hadn’t the chance to recovery. The productive industry is hurt too. Enterprises are evolving now to survive. The investors have now the duty of analyse a ...more»

Things are still complicated for the markets. A quick run down of the last few weeks, the financial world has turned upside down in China, the Greek crisis is disturbing the gold trade while investors flock to stocks, the Canadian mining stocks are suffering and the industry showed one of the biggest losses among several mining businesses. China’s revelation on ...more»

The US dollar is currently the world’s reserve currency based on it’s exceedingly high ‘reported’ gold reserves. Gold has been a traditional correlation between its value (in reserve) and the strength of currencies in general. The current global trades are conducted in USD due to the ‘gold backing’ that the US has, which is among the currencies in the IMFs ...more»

Australia’s miracle economy is fast diminishing, the recovery of the USD in comparison is a glimpse into the state of country’s current economic situation. China has been indirectly supporting Australias economy since the GFC with iron ore supply from the main two mining companies down under. Little else in the Australian economy is growing, and while most business is making ...more»

In most situations, when people mention the weight of gold in ounces, they are referring to troy ounces which are not the same as the standard ounces of weight. Troy ounces are specifically used to measure the weights of precious metals in particular (gold, silver, palladium, platinum, and etcetera) whereas goods such as sugar and coffee are measured in standard ounces. Now ...more»

Let’s just put some closure to the “LEAP DAY VIOLATION and with it any remaining pretense that GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSION is not the most important aspect in the fraudulent PAPER gold and silver markets. As far as attack intensity goes, does anyone remember the below article from a few trading days before the “LEAP DAY VIOLATION”  describing how the Cartel UNSUCCESSFULLY attempted ...more»

Following up from yesterday’s post “You Can’t Put The Toothpaste Back Into The Tube” where we posted the video with Chris Martenson explaining the impact of world oil production on the economy, a MASSIVE EXPLOSION of oil prices has occurred over the last few days as a result of the hyperbolic MONEY PRINTING and Western threats of invading the world’s ...more»

Why is it a certainty that your countries economy will implode? Because all economies MUST grow in order to continue to be profitable, thus keeping the people within the economy happy and prosperous. As a good example in 2009 the world economy shrank by 2% and it was a complete disaster. If you really think through the implications of an economy that ...more»

Silver once again is outperforming gold at the end of the week, barely down despite Friday’s gold “walk-down.” I cannot over-emphasize the importance of silver recapturing its 200 DMA after five months below it, and if the Cartel can’t turn the tide quickly, which with all the overt and covert money printing happening in just about all the world’s central ...more»

I want to take advantage of the “relative peace” to hammer home one of the MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENT THEMES OF OUR LIFETIME. I spend 99% of my time writing about the need to think defensively, i.e. not of increasing one’s wealth but protecting it – although owning PHYSICAL gold and silver will certainly achieve both targets. However, I still have two ...more»