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Gold Sales Pop at Perth Mint as Investors Take Advantage of Low Prices

Gold sales at Australia’s Perth Mint rose to their highest level in nearly a year in August as investors took advantage of gold on sale. According to the mint, sales of gold coins and minted bars surged 30% to 38,904 ounces last month. It was the strongest month of gold sales since November 2017. Sales were […]

Silver News: Green Tech Will Consume Over 1.5 Billion Ounces of Silver Through 2030 Plus Some New Innovations

Green technologies will consume over 1.5 billion ounces of silver over the next twelve years. The Silver Institute highlighted the growing demand for silver in the green energy sector, along with some new technological innovations utilizing the white metal in its latest edition of Silver News. 

Iranians Turning to Gold as a Currency Crisis Grips the Nation

With hyperinflation gripping Iran and sanctions strangling the economy, Iranians are beginning to turn to gold to make everyday transactions, most notably to pay their rent. The Iranian rial has depreciated rapidly since the US announced its withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the reimposition of economic sanctions. After the US formally announced it […]

Peter Schiff: A US Stock Market Crash Is Long Overdue But People Are Oblivious

The Nasdaq had the biggest gain last month since the year 2000. In his most recent podcast, Peter Schiff reminds us what happened right after that 2000 peak. The Nasdaq – it declined approximately 80% from peak to trough. So, the fact that we haven’t had a month this strong since 2000 should give people […]

India Central Bank Buys Gold for the First Time in Nearly a Decade

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) bought gold for the first time in nearly a decade during its last fiscal year. The Indian central bank added 8.46 tons of gold during the fiscal year ending June 30, according to its latest annual report. The additional yellow metal brings India’s total gold reserves to 566.23 tons. The last […]

Russian Lawmaker Calls for Creation of Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency to Circumvent Sanctions

A Russian lawmaker has suggested his country should develop a gold-backed cryptocurrency for payment of arms exports and other goods as a way to circumvent Western sanctions and limit his country’s dependence on the dollar-based global banking system. Vladimir Gutenev serves as first deputy head of the economic policy committee at the State Duma – […]

Peter Schiff: Traders Are Beginning to See the Writing on the Wall

The US stock markets had another big day Wednesday with a number of the indexes, including the Nasdaq and the S&P 500, in record territory. So, what’s with the recent move up in US stock markets? Donald Trump and a lot of Republicans have been taking credit for it, saying their economic policies are causing […]

Focus on Fundamentals: Gold Demand Continues to Surge in India

Indians are buying gold. Imports of the yellow metal into India jumped for the first time in seven months in July and the trend appears to be carrying forward into August, according to a report in the Times of India. Gold sales have surged 15% by volume over last year as Indians took advantage of […]

Government Counterfeiting Squeezes Families, Not Capitalism

It’s all capitalisms fault! What is? Well, everything. At least that’s the narrative you get from the political left, and quite frankly, not infrequently from the political right.

Canary in the Coal Mine? Subprime Credit Card Delinquencies Spike in Q2

There are signs that the air may be coming out of the subprime credit card bubble. According to numbers recently released by Federal Reserve, delinquency rates on credit card balances at commercial banks other than the largest 100 rose to 6.2% in the second quarter of this year. These are credit cards issued by the […]