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The Silver Institute released their World Silver Survey 2013 this week. This thorough report on every aspect of the global silver market shows robust investment demand contributed to silver achieving its second highest average annual price on record in 2012. “Robust global silver investor demand was the dominant driver of silver prices last year, accounting […]

Wealth Wire posted an article today that conveniently overviews the numerous reports about massive physical precious metals sales all around the world. Metals dealers large and small, as well as major mints, are experiencing supply shortages. While we’re not sure if a true run on physical precious metals is imminent, all the evidence suggests that the […]

Casey Research recently published an interview with Walter Block, a well-known Austrian economist who teaches at Loyola University and is a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Block talked at length about the gold standard, the Federal Reserve’s disastrous money printing, and just how bad the economy really is. Enjoy! “I think it […]

In his latest piece on Forbes, Richard Lehmann reviews the simple, intelligent, historical reasons for owning gold, and argues that a sell-off by short-term speculators has not changed gold’s fundamentals. “Not to own gold is to trust government at all levels and in all times to be able to do the right thing to maintain […]

In his latest commentary, Peter Schiff encourages gold bears to stay focused on the big picture: gold is moving from indebted nations to emerging markets that are reducing their dependence on US dollar reserves.

There’s a lot of misinformation circulating about the supposed economic woes caused by the now-defunct gold standard, and the supposed economic boons created by New Deal government spending in the 1930s. Brian Domitrovic’s recent op/ed in Forbes exposes the errors of some of the highest profile gold detractors in the media. He points to the data […]

By Peter Schiff The news of the month comes from the large Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where Keynesian economic planning left the economy facing complete bankruptcy. The result was an unprecedented step forward in the financial collapse of the West: direct forfeiture of bank deposits. Despite official protestations to the contrary, this fallout will spread […]

By Bud Conrad from Casey Research It is my contention that the 70-year debt supercycle has come to an end. To put the current financial situation in perspective, here’s a long-term history of the debt-to-GDP ratio, which reached a record high at the beginning of the current crisis. It was a dramatic change in 2009, […]

Jon Pawelko publishes the web comic Lampoon The System to poke fun at insane economic policies and educate the public on sound economics. Click here for more cartoons and information on his anthology book, available for only $15. Follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on Peter Schiff’s latest thoughts: @SchiffGold Interested in learning about […]

Peter Schiff’s latest commentary looks at what happens when a country becomes addicted to easy money, and explains why the Fed will keep pumping money the US economy until a currency crisis forces it to stop. For years we have been warned by Keynesian economists to fear the so-called ‘liquidity trap,’ an economic cul-de-sac that […]