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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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October 4, 2013Guest Commentaries

Uncle Sam: Big Believer in Gold

Brett Arends published an excellent article on MarketWatch today, revealing that US Treasury officials have no intention of selling gold reserves. As one Treasury spokeswoman told him: “Selling gold would undercut confidence in the US both here and abroad, and would be destabilizing to the world financial system.” “Grab any Wall Street trader in a bar, […]

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October 3, 2013Guest Commentaries

Chinese Housewives vs Goldman Sachs

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research Goldman Sachs is once again predicting that gold will fall, setting a new near-term target of $1,050. Never mind the schizophrenic gene that would be required to follow the constantly fluctuating predictions of all these big banks; it’s amazing to me that anyone continues to listen to them after […]

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October 2, 2013Guest Commentaries

Dollar Is Being Dethroned as World Reserve Currency (Video)

Ned Goodman, a Canadian billionaire businessman, addressed Cambridge House’s Toronto Resource Investment Conference a few weeks ago. While Goodman’s delivery is subdued, his message could not be more important. Goodman believes the US is already in a recession and reviews the reasons why the international community is beginning to turn its back on the US […]

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October 1, 2013Guest Commentaries

Why Is China Buying So Much Gold?

Cameron Alexander wrote an interesting article on Chinese gold demand in CME Group’s publication Open Markets. The Chinese have rushed to take advantage of low gold prices this year, and China’s central bank is talking about easing restrictions on gold imports going forward. China is on track to surpass India in global gold demand this […]

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