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Platinum Group Metals Long-Term Outlook

In light of the recent spikes in the price of platinum and palladium, it might be worthwhile checking out CPM Group’s 2012 Platinum Group Metals Long-Term Outlook Report, released earlier this month. The report is a comprehensive study of the long-term fundamentals of PGMs, looking forward to 2022. “Over the next ten years CPM Group expects PGM […]

Don’t Take Any Wooden, er, Platinum Nickels

Last week, the entire nation avoided the biggest metals scam in history when the Treasury Department announced that it would not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to reduce the government’s debt. The platinum price has been rising, and is expected to perform better than gold this year, but there still isn’t enough of the stuff […]

4 Little Known Facts About Gold Investing

Frank Holmes, a Seeking Alpha analyst, published an interesting commentary today, examining some under-reported bullish facts about gold in relation to other commodities and the stock market: “While the precious metal did not shoot the lights out in 2012, gold’s bull rally goes on. It ended the year up 7 percent, making it a phenomenal […]

Schiff on This Week in Money

Phil Mackesy interviewed Peter Schiff on This Week in Money last weekend. Their conversation covered a lot of ground, from misguided Canadian and Japanese monetary policy, to Jack Lew and the US dollar’s recent decline against the euro. “There’s a new rumor that [Japan] wants to start buying another $500 billion of our debt. That’s […]

Schiff Defends Gold Investing on CBS

On Friday, CBS MoneyWatch published Peter Schiff’s rebuttal to prominent gold skeptic Larry Swedroe, who had challenged Peter’s precious metals forecasting. Peter writes: In an article entitled “Ignore the ‘buy gold now’ crowd” on CBS MoneyWatch this Monday, columnist and equities analyst Larry Swedroe criticizes forecasters who remain bullish on gold despite its monumental decade-long […]

Silver Supply and Demand

News hit today that the US Mint is already out of stock of 2013 silver bullion coins. Due to unprecedented investor demand, they won’t have more coins for sale until the end of the month. Kind of gets you wondering just how much silver is in the world today. Check out this entertaining info-graphic from Visual Capitalist: […]

German Gold Repatriation Raises Questions

Gold is back in the spotlight this week with the news that Germany’s central bank is going to begin repatriating its gold held in the US and France. Germany – the only nation in the EU that seems concerned about fiscal responsibility – has the second largest gold reserves in the world after the US. All […]

LBMA 2013 Precious Metals Forecast

The London Bullion Market Association just released their 2013 precious metals price forecast. While it’s not as bullish as some expert opinions, the LBMA does project more than a 5% increase in the gold price, and even better for silver and platinum. Looks like precious metals will remain safe haven assets in a time of […]

Future Demand for Industrial Silver

Take the time to read the Silver Institute’s “Outlook for Industrial Silver Demand,” prepared by Thomson Reuters GFMS, and released late last year. With everyone talking about gold, little attention has been given to silver’s bullish future. The report notes that industrial silver demand will grow to new highs in the next few years, in […]

Buy Gold Without Getting Scammed

By Peter Schiff Everyone knows the investor’s mantra: “buy low, sell high.” Rather than fretting about lower gold prices over the past month, investors should be seizing this golden opportunity to safely store some wealth in precious metals before gold and silver start ratcheting higher again. I’m not the only one anticipating $2,000 and higher […]