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3-D Printed Nanosilver & Other Silver Industry News

Enjoy the December 2013 edition of the Silver Institute’s Silver News. This issue includes articles on silver’s use in 3-D printing electrical componenets, testing for cystic fibrosis, and drone cloud seeding to control weather in California.

Cheer Up, Goldbugs – You’re In Good Company!

Some goldbugs might be feeling glum this holiday season after a rough year for the yellow metal, but there are still plenty of contrarian voices advocating gold investment. Casey Research has published a valuable article highlighting the long-term gold bulls who haven’t lost faith. Besides renowned investors like Jim Rogers and Marc Faber, persistent goldbugs […]

2014 Supply Crunch Means Higher Gold Price

In his latest piece with Casey Research, Jeff Clark lays out the main factors that might lead to a gold shortage in 2014. The trends Clark cites have been apparent for several years, but 2014 might be the year that Western purchasers of gold really start to notice the squeeze.

$20K Gold Is Still to Come

Casey Research published an interview with economist, professor, and financial advisor, Krassimir Petrov, who is a long-term precious metals bull, like Peter Schiff. While Petrov believes gold’s correction is ongoing (meaning it remains a great time to buy), he argues that this is just a temporary setback in a huge bull market that will last […]

Gold Remains the Best Insurance against Economic Uncertainty

This week, in a commentary published by The Telegraph, John Ficenec defended gold’s history as the ultimate safe haven asset, arguing that the fundamentals for the yellow metal remain sound even if the price correction has spooked speculative investors. Long-term physical gold bulls continue to hoard the yellow metal to protect themselves from the inflationary […]

Time for Goldbugs to Admit Defeat?

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research After a 12-year run, it looks like gold’s wave has truly crested, and many bears are arguing that it’s all downhill from here. A quick glance at a long-term gold price chart certainly seems to confirm this impression:

Paul Craig Roberts: The Dollar’s Dark Future (Video)

Earlier this month, Paul Craig Roberts was interviewed by Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog about the perils faced by the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Roberts is a former Assistant Treasury Secretary and believes it is likely that there will be a major dollar crisis sooner than later. Roberts talks about the strong global […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]