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Enjoy Your Future; We’re Spending It Now

Welcome to your future. Your government is spending it right now. And your children’s and grandchildren’s future to boot. The US Treasury plans to borrow $2.99 trillion in the second quarter. The Treasury also plans to borrow another $677 billion in the July-September quarter, bringing the total fiscal 2020 debt to $4.48 trillion. It’s a level […]

Silver Hasn’t Been This Cheap in 5,000 Years

We have financial records dating back some 5,000 years and in all that time, silver has never been this cheap compared to gold. Kanesh was an important trading hub in the Assyrian empire. The city was located in the middle of what is now Turkey, at the midpoint of the route between the Mediterranean and […]

Gold Demand Up in Q1; Supply Plunges

Global gold demand was up 1% in the first quarter of the year as extraordinarily strong investment demand offset weakness in consumer markets even as supply dropped. Overall, gold demand came in at 1,083 tons in Q1, according to data in the World Gold Council Gold Demand Trends Q1 2020 Report. In value terms, global […]

Renewed Calls to Dethrone the Dollar

Last year, we reported extensively on a push toward de-dollarization by countries like Russia and China and their desire to undermine the ability of the US to weaponize the dollar as a foreign policy tool. Europe was even starting to push to dethrone the dollar as the reserve currency. With the Federal Reserve running the […]

What’s Going on in the Silver Market?

Gold has been in the spotlight in recent months with the economic chaos caused by the coronavirus pandemic and governments’ response. Peter Schiff called gold a “no-brainer” investment. But silver is worth paying attention to as well. The Silver Institute has released its World Silver Survey 2020 report featuring a detailed overview of last year’s silver […]

The Fed Can’t Print Gold

The mainstream just went super-bullish on gold. Bank of America raised its 18-month price target to $3,000 per ounce in a report titled, “The Fed Can’t Print Gold.”

The Calm Before the Storm: $119 Billion Budget Deficit in March

The US government budget deficit in March came in at $119 billion, according to the latest US Treasury Department Report. That’s a massive budget shortfall. But it’s actually the calm before the storm.

US Mint Shuts Down New York Production Facility

With all of the economic chaos and uncertainty spurred by the government lockdowns in response to coronavirus, the demand for physical gold and physical silver has skyrocketed. That has put a significant squeeze on the supply of gold bullion products. That squeeze is about to get tighter.

Consumer Debt Was Already Surging Before Coronavirus

The solution to the coronavirus economic meltdown is to borrow our way out of it. The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to zero and the stimulus bill makes all kinds of loan programs available to pretty much anybody and everybody. But American consumers were already up to their eyeballs in debt before the coronavirus lockdowns. […]

Flow of Gold into ETFs Sets Quarterly Record

Inflows of gold into gold-backed ETFs set a quarterly dollar record in Q1 2020 as holdings increased by the most tonnage in any quarter since 2016. Gold-backed ETFs added 298 tons of gold through the first three months of 2020, amounting to $23 billion in net inflows. That pushed total holdings to a new record […]