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I’m in Shanghai, and the “China Miracle” is in full bloom. Few variables are more important in the world of metals investment than the strength and sustainability of the extraordinary bull run the Chinese economy has enjoyed for years. So many pundits, critics, and cheerleaders keep pouring out opinions on this question that they saturate […]
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 […]
Gold Investment Demand in China to Advance 10% Bloomberg – China’s largest bullion bank expects domestic investment demand to increase by 10% this year. Zheng Zhiguang, general manager of the precious metals department at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC), said currency debasement and the European debt crisis are driving safe-haven demand […]
By Peter Schiff In my latest book, The Real Crash: America’s Coming Bankruptcy – How to Save Yourself and Your Country, I devote a full chapter to the merits of the historical gold standard and reasons to reinstate it. What I did not mention and few investors notice is that central banks are already returning […]
By Doug Casey from Casey Research I think there are only two good reasons for having a significant amount of money: to maintain a high standard of living and to ensure your personal freedom. There are lesser reasons, of course, including: to prove you can do it, to compensate for failings in other things, to […]
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 […]
Emerging Market Central Banks Add More Gold to Reserves MarketWatch – The latest data from April shows emerging market central banks continued to add to their gold reserves. Among the top buyers, Mexico added 94,000 ounces, bringing its total gold reserves to 4.04 million ounces; Kazakhstan added 65,000 ounces, bringing its total to 3.16 million […]
By Peter Schiff Excerpted from the new economic bestseller, The Real Crash. Today, we’re accustomed to thinking of small greenish paper rectangles as the definition of money, and we think of the US government as the only source of money. To honestly discuss sound money, we need to realize where our current money customs came […]
Mark Motive’s Gold Commentary Would you walk along the edge of a cliff? Sure, you walk around every day (and you’re probably pretty good at it), but knowing that the result of a small misstep would be catastrophic, you’d probably think carefully before walking along a cliff. In fact, you’d probably stay far away from […]
Casey Research’s Gold Commentary By Doug Casey For many years now, a meme has been floating around that the prices of gold and silver are being manipulated, which is to say suppressed, by various powers of darkness. This is not an unreasonable assertion. After all, the last thing the monetary powers-that-be want is to see […]
