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December 11, 2013Guest Commentaries

$20K Gold Is Still to Come

Casey Research published an interview with economist, professor, and financial advisor, Krassimir Petrov, who is a long-term precious metals bull, like Peter Schiff. While Petrov believes gold’s correction is ongoing (meaning it remains a great time to buy), he argues that this is just a temporary setback in a huge bull market that will last […]

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December 10, 2013Guest Commentaries

Gold Remains the Best Insurance against Economic Uncertainty

This week, in a commentary published by The Telegraph, John Ficenec defended gold’s history as the ultimate safe haven asset, arguing that the fundamentals for the yellow metal remain sound even if the price correction has spooked speculative investors. Long-term physical gold bulls continue to hoard the yellow metal to protect themselves from the inflationary […]

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December 4, 2013Guest Commentaries

Time for Goldbugs to Admit Defeat?

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research After a 12-year run, it looks like gold’s wave has truly crested, and many bears are arguing that it’s all downhill from here. A quick glance at a long-term gold price chart certainly seems to confirm this impression:

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November 19, 2013Guest Commentaries

Paul Craig Roberts: The Dollar’s Dark Future (Video)

Earlier this month, Paul Craig Roberts was interviewed by Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog about the perils faced by the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Roberts is a former Assistant Treasury Secretary and believes it is likely that there will be a major dollar crisis sooner than later. Roberts talks about the strong global […]

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November 8, 2013Guest Commentaries

Latest Silver News from The Silver Institute

The Silver Institute released their monthly Silver News this week, and it is full of interesting updates on silver investment and advances in silver technologies. This edition includes articles on silver’s use in bio-batteries made with sewage, the 12th China International Silver Conference, and the US Mint’s staggering amount of silver coin sales this year. […]

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November 7, 2013Guest Commentaries

Silver’s Message: The Bull Is Alive and Well

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research Some readers may want to toss a rotten tomato at the second part of that headline given stubbornly weak metals prices, but let’s see if the data we’ve uncovered below will lower that cocked arm. As of last Friday, silver is down 32% on the year, and down a […]

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November 5, 2013Guest Commentaries

Gold Will Have Its Day: A Defense of Peter Schiff

Bloomberg published a feature article this week about Peter Schiff, attempting to paint him as an irrational gold bug and discredit his predictions of the looming economic crisis. The folks at The Daily Bell have published a rebuttal to Bloomberg’s hit piece, explaining some of the finer points of free market economics and why Peter […]

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October 22, 2013Guest Commentaries

The Silver Bull Is Alive and Well

Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst for Casey Research, published an excellent article about the undiminished investment demand for silver this year. Gold has taken a beating from unjustly bearish investors, but the appetite for silver around the world does not seem to be fading at all. In a recent interview, Peter Schiff noted that […]

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October 16, 2013Guest Commentaries

Doug Casey: The Waning US Economy (Audio)

Enjoy this enlightening interview with Doug Casey on This Week in Money, hosted by Jim Goddard. Casey expounds upon the failing US dollar, the importance of precious metals investing, Asian gold demand, Janet Yellen, and the broader future of the United States. “Confidence [in the US dollar] is going to be lost more and more […]

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October 9, 2013Guest Commentaries

Priced in Gold, American Wages Are Dismal

Forbes published an eye-opening op/ed by Keith Weiner of the Gold Standard Institute today. Weiner first looks at the government’s historical data on the costs of consumer goods and employee salaries. He then looks at the same data in terms of gold ounces, revealing that American workers are laboring longer for dramatically less pay than […]

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