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May 19, 2015Guest Commentaries

Liquidity Is a Cloud Bringing a Flood of Fiat Money (Video)

USAWatchdog interviewed Hugo Salinas Price, a well-known and highly successful businessman operating in Mexico. Born in the United States, Price is now a passionate advocate for sound money and has been pushing for the Mexican government to adopt monetary silver again. Unfortunately, he sees far too much political pressure against sound money, particularly from the […]

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May 18, 2015Original Analysis

Fewer Hires Means Fewer Fires (Audio)

Peter Schiff digs under the surface of the latest economic data. As usual, Wall Street locked onto the headline number last week, which showed the lowest weekly jobless claims in 42 years. Peter asks the question no one else will — is this really the strongest economy America has seen in four decades?

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May 15, 2015Key Gold Headlines

Danish Proposal the Latest Salvo in the War on Cash

The war on cash continues to heat up with a proposed law in Denmark that would open the door to what Jim Leaviss called “the first step towards an economic revolution that sees physical currencies and normal bank accounts abolished,” in a recent Telegraph column. Last month, we reported on the reasons central banks would […]

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May 15, 2015Key Gold Headlines

See No Evil: The Truth of April’s “Goldilocks” Economic Data

The April non-farm payroll report has been called the “Goldilocks” report, because it apparently provided just the right data markets wanted to see. A better-than-expected job creation number “proved” that the US economy continues to recover. However, the report was not strong enough to spur the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates sooner, which could […]

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May 14, 2015Key Gold Headlines

Government Debt Driving Chicago the Way of Detroit

Can the economic health of the nation’s largest cities tell us anything about the health of the greater economy? Perhaps. On Tuesday, Moody’s downgraded Chicago’s credit rating to junk level. The downgrade comes in response to the city’s growing pension liabilities, paired with a new Illinois state court ruling that public pensions cannot be cut […]

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May 14, 2015Key Gold Headlines

Gold Investment Demand Grows in Q1 2015 (Video)

The World Gold Council (WGC) released its Gold Demand Trends report for the first quarter of 2015. The WGC considers 2014 a year of stabilization for the gold market, and the the first quarter of the year saw this trend continue. The supply-demand picture for gold remained relatively unchanged. However, looking to the rest of […]

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May 13, 2015Key Gold Headlines

Surging Solar Industry & Low Production May Boost Silver

The use of silver in emerging technologies, particularly solar energy production, sets the stage for surging demand and rapidly rising silver prices in the future. That means the silver market provides some great opportunities for investors. According to a report in The Telegraph, analysts expect the demand for solar energy to increase 30% in 2015 […]

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May 13, 2015Guest Commentaries

John Williams: Get Ready for New Recession (Video)

John Williams of ShadowStats.com shares Peter Schiff’s expectation of a new round of quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve. Williams believes the United States economy is slowing down and headed into another recession. He sees inflation rising in the coming years as the markets realize that the Federal Reserve is incapable of actually helping the […]

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May 12, 2015Guest Commentaries

Who Will Bail Out the Central Banks in 2018? (Video)

Jim Rickards spoke at the National Center for Policy Analysis in late April. In this long video, the author of The Death of Money first discusses why central banks are always so wrong in their forecasting and policies. He relates how it took 100 years for science to understand and accept that the planets revolve […]

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