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Gold has some of the most unusual physical properties of any element on our planet. And it also happens to be one of the rarest naturally occurring metals on Earth. Is gold unusually durable? Yes, as webelements.com article points out: Gold is both malleable and ductile. Gold is a heavy metal (density 19.3 g cm-3)Read more

                          Throughout recorded history, human societies have gravitated toward Gold and Silver as forms of money due to their persistent global rarity as elements, durability, and desirable physical properties. Silver has many uses. From Jlab: Silver and silver compounds have many uses. PureRead more

Thursday, June 23rd is the day voters in Great Britain will decide whether their country will leave the European Union, an outcome dubbed “Brexit”. The debate leading up to the vote is becoming fierce, and long simmering disagreements within the Conservative Party to “Leave” or “Remain” in the EU are now boiling over. Prime MinisterRead more

Jim Rickards television interview: Is the Federal Reserve Broke? A number of pundits and economic thinkers have pondered whether the U.S. Federal Reserve System is “broke,” or at the very least, not fully revealing all of its liabilities. Then beyond that, there are troubling recent news stories that the Federal Reserve may have been hackedRead more

Here’s a question that might have you pondering: Is gold a commodity? More importantly, are we doing a disservice to the gold industry by calling gold a commodity? These may sound like silly questions, but hear me out. Last month I participated as a keynote speaker at the Asia Mining Conference in Singapore. There wereRead more

No one can predict the future, but charts can provide a useful roadmap to help guide us through uncertainty. Charts do this because they illustrate price trends – whether up, down or sideways – and it is always important to keep your investment portfolio in harmony with the trend. The following weekly chart of Bitcoin’sRead more

Yesterday’s speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen roiled markets across the globe. Any increase in US dollar interest rates has been postponed yet again. As a consequence, it is not surprising that the dollar tanked, and gold jumped higher in a spell of <frenetic short-covering>. While Fed officials often speak in a nuanced way,Read more

In testimony before Congress in 1912, J.P. Morgan, the leading financier of his day, declared: “Money is gold, nothing else.” A century later a diametrically opposing view was taken by Wall Street legend Warren Buffett who proclaimed that gold “has no utility” and that “anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head” trying toRead more

The following silver chart will be familiar to everyone who follows my work. I first presented this pattern in my newsletter about twenty years ago, and I have been tracking it closely ever since, though recently there has been a twist to the way this pattern has developed. I have been describing silver’s long-term chartRead more

In an interview on July 8th in King World News I noted how gold that day had slipped into backwardation. Since then I have read a lot of commentary on various websites about backwardation, which made clear to me that this term and, more importantly, the implications to the gold price when backwardation appears areRead more