The Silver Institute’s August Silver News was released this week and is full of updates on the ever evolving world of industrial and technological silver applications. Silver might hold the key to letting our smart phone batteries last a whole week, while silver’s antimicrobial properties are garnering attention from large universities. Silver News also explains the differences between the various types of silver that are created around the world.
In a post on The Tell, MarketWatch contributor Saumya Vaishampayan summarized Peter Schiff’s analysis of the upcoming replacement of Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve. If you agree with Peter that the Fed can’t prevent the coming economic crisis, then he recommends avoiding dollar-denominated debt and investing in hard assets like physical gold and silver.
It doesn’t matter who takes over as the next chair of the Federal Reserve because the central bank isn’t going to slow its monthly asset purchases.
By Jeff Clark from Casey Research
Despite some positive data, the global economy is showing signs of slowing, a remarkable development in itself when you consider all the money printing and deficit spending that’s transpired over the past few years. According to the IMF’s overview, global growth was less than expected in the first quarter of 2013, at just over 3%, which is roughly the same as 2012. The lower-than-expected figures were driven by significantly weaker domestic demand and slower growth in emerging-market economies, a deeper recession in the euro area, and a slower US expansion than anticipated. The report concludes that the prospects for the world economy remain subdued.
On his blog Of Two Minds, Charles Hugh Smith published a scathing commentary on the supposed recovery from the 2008 recession. By examining a number of under-reported metrics, Smith paints a bleak picture of the ongoing recession that the government has tried to obscure with bogus GDP data.
Peter Schiff’s latest research report, The Powerful Case for Silver (available for download here), noted the wide gap between US Mint sales of American Silver Eagle and American Gold Eagle coins. The numbers continue to amaze. In a commentary on Wealth Wire, Steve St. Angelo goes through the numbers and explains why smart investors are making big plays on physical silver. For those who cannot afford to buy gold right now, silver is a great alternative to consider.
“Ever since the big take-down in the price of the precious metals in April of this year, an interesting trend has taken place in the Gold & Silver Eagle market. While demand for both coins remained strong in the first four months of the year, investors are now overwhelming purchasing more Silver Eagles…
Silver Eagle sales are on track to surpass the total sales for 2012 within the next 2-3 weeks. I forecast that total sales for Silver Eagles by the end of August will be 33 million oz. Of course, we could see a bit more or less depending how the U.S. Mint updates its records.”
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Marc Faber, editor of the Gloom Doom & Boom Report, appeared on CNBC to give his take on the current precious metals market. Faber was skeptical about the health of the stock market, hinted that it is in a bubble, and emphasized the importance of having safe haven hard assets in your portfolio.
I have a preference for physical gold held in a safe deposit box outside the United States… Some experts say they don’t like gold. Well, they never owned a single ounce of gold during gold’s great bull market of 1999 to 2011. So I don’t pay much attention to so-called experts.”
Faber: Gold As ‘Insurance Policy’ from CNBC.
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Howard Davidowitz, an expert retail analyst, spoke with Yahoo! Finance about Walmart’s poor earnings report and what it indicates for the rest of the US economy.
The economy is in a state of collapse… I think there’s a 50% chance we’ll be in a recession next year… That’s after spending $7 trillion dollars, printing trillions, and announcing we were brilliant to have done it… We’re in the tank, and by the way, our debt never goes away… We’ve spent all the money, we’ve borrowed all the money, and we’re in the tank…”
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In his latest article at Forbes, Jack Adamo analyzes the history of government inflation statistics and why gold is still an excellent hedge in spite of the popular narrative that inflation is “under control.”
“The other problem I find with the inflation-to-gold ratio analysis is this: We are truly in unknown territory with the U.S. and world money supply. In 2008, when the Fed geared up its printing press, the entire balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, accumulated in its 95 year existence, was $1 trillion. For the last several years, it has been growing its balance sheet $1 trillion per year.
The only reason we don’t see rampant inflation is that the velocity of money is so low. If the economy ever picks up for real, watch out. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, there seems to be no immediate threat of that.”
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Lewis E. Lehrman, author of the new book, Money, Gold, and History, spoke at the Cato Institute last month about the history of central banking and the destruction of the gold standard. Lehrman’s lengthy talk is a great introduction to the rise and fall of real money. His new book includes 40 years of essays on the classical gold standard.
Working people have also discovered that the credit worthy liquid financial class with access to cheap money at the Fed and at the banks has enriched itself not only by bailout subsidies, but by cheap financing derived from its symbiotic dependence on the Federal Reserve System. This [is] a fundamental cause of the rising inequality of wealth in America.”
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Bob Alderman, Managing Director for the World Gold Council, speaks about the enduring value of gold and the yellow metal’s current role in a long-term investment strategy.
The case for owning gold is a simple supply and demand story, [and] it has always been that way. What’s changed over the past several months is that there is clearly a supply situation where it may be constrained. And from a demand perspective around the world, including here in the United States, there is certainly increased demand for both physical gold, as well as jewelry.”
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