By Silver Shield, on March 13th, 2011 I have a little theory that I’ve been kicking around for a couple of years. The theory is that there will come a time that you will not be able to buy silver at any price. It will not be because there is not any silver around to … Continue reading
A growing number of states are seeking shiny new currencies made of silver and gold. Worried that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. dollar are on the brink of collapse, lawmakers from 13 states, including Minnesota, Tennessee, Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia, are seeking approval from their state governments to either issue their own alternative … Continue reading
Oil rose to near $100 a barrel Thursday in Asia after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would keep interest rates at record lows at least until 2014 to help jump-start the world’s biggest economy. As we suspected yesterday, crude oil prices edged higher after an overtly dovish FOMC announcement sank the US Dollar. The … Continue reading
Whether it’s pirated software, poison-infused baby formula, cancer-causing drywall, luxury purses, or fake medicines, if you need a knock-off, China has traditionally been the go-to country, with a counterfeiter always willing to oblige. Now, with precious metals prices on the cusp of possibly the biggest price explosion in centuries, fake gold and silver products are … Continue reading
Many people in the markets are looking at the looming questions behind the possible defaults surrounding Greece, Portugal, & Ireland. On August 24, the CME raised gold margins, a step that’s proved difficult for silver to handle only a few months earlier, but there was more to gold’s decline. The reasoning and warning provided in the August … Continue reading
“In the third quarter, we are going to see strong investment numbers, because of the European crisis, the debt downgrade in the United States and poor economic figures coming from the United States which have created a concern in investors’ mind that we may be heading back to another recession,” World Gold Council Managing Director … Continue reading
Gold prices have been on a tear lately, topping a fresh record high above $1,900 an ounce early Tuesday — just two weeks after rising above $1,800. Gold prices first crossed the $1,900 mark in after-hours electronic trading Monday. Early Tuesday, prices hit an all-time high of $1,917.90 an ounce, before pulling back to about … Continue reading
Gold vaulted 1.4 percent in the first two hours of trading Friday amid mounting concerns the U.S. economy is heading into another recession and as some European lenders faced a short-term funding crunch, highlighting the risk of a banking crisis. Nervous investors fled to the safety of core government bonds, Swiss francs and gold, which … Continue reading
Gold rallied to its second record high in a week on Thursday, driven by growing investor unease over the outlook for the U.S. economy after data showed an unwelcome pickup in inflation, and over the lack of resolution to the European debt crisis. Asset such as stocks, corporate bonds, industrial commodities and higher-yielding currencies slid … Continue reading