I never said they were targeting a desired price point. I said that there was never needed this much downward pressure to reach the current price...
Platinum is getting hit hard as an industrial metal as is copper. Gold and silver are actually faring pretty well in comparison as the monetary...
The Fed may raise rates a quarter of a percent or something miniscule to maintain face, but regardless they will be printing money on the back end...
Even if Butler is way wrong, that doesn't change the data which indicates one thing to me, that there has never needed to be this much downward...
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Pulled the trigger for the first time in a while late last night for a modest amount of silver, gold, and platinum before the news from China came...
A metal standard is simply backing the amount of dollars in circulation with the amount of metal on hand. Whatever that ratio is is what the ratio...
Supply and demand don't mean much with precious metals. The supply is electronic, and the demand is leveraged in both directions. Trying to...
I completely agree, and I also disagree. Insider information is only inside until it's outside, and then it's outsider information. Accurately...
The funny thing about herd mentality is that the more something goes up in value, the more desirable it becomes. As long as fiat currency is...
1. I don't pay crazy premiums because I'm not betting on being able to recoup them. Premiums are beneficial in a downward market because they help...
Thanks longnine :) Good to be back. I fail to see what isn't evil about extracting profits from the financial system without providing a good or...
Thankfully silver is more a monetary metal than an industrial metal. That's why when gold goes one way and copper goes the other, silver always...
I can't give you a specific number, but I can give you a specific answer: As many ounces as you can afford to lose. It defeats the purpose of...
There is a lot of talk here about the bull market being over. Silver and gold are both up 300% since the bull market began. But who thought we'd...
I don't disagree. IMO we are approaching another Lehman moment, as shadow banking defaults in China are ever increasing, and their QE dwarves even...
Metal backed currency cannot be printed out of thin air. The alternative being that corrupt politicians get to control our money and we suffer the...
There is a solution to this problem. Have the metal in your currency be the baseline for pricing instead of measuring the price of metal in an...
If history is any indication the price will go lower before it goes higher, but there is always the looming possibility of a silver shortage which...
One important distinction is that QE has only been in effect for 5 years. Even if the shelf life of fiat currency was 1000 years, at this point...
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