September 22, 2019 by SchiffGold 0 0 Peter Schiff has been saying that the price of gold and silver are going to take off. But why? Peter isn’t just taking a wild guess or gazing into a mystical crystal ball. He’s basing this prediction on the unavoidable economic consequences stemming from decades of Federal Reserve mechanizations. In s… Read More
September 20, 2019 by SchiffGold 0 0 My potty got jacked. There are four words you’ll probably never say. Who steals toilets, right? But your problem is you don’t have a solid gold toilet. If you did, it might indeed get jacked. In fact, burglars snatched a 18-karat gold potty valued at about $6 million out of Blenheim… Read More
Miles Franklin sponsored this article by Gary Christenson. The opinions are his. “Hello, my name is Jerome. I’m a central banker.” “Hello, my name is Janet. I’m a Keynesian.” “Hello, my name is Ben. I’m a monetizer.” “Hello, my name is Alan. I’m an inflationist.” “Hello, my name is Paul. I’m a central banker.” The… Read More
Delighted as we all may be with this week’s news – the new indictments of JPMorganChase employees involved with the gold market, the U.S. Justice Department’s designation of the investment bank as a criminal enterprise, and the prospects of more indictments – we have to admit a couple of things about the situation. First, the… Read More
September 18, 2019 by SchiffGold 0 0 Peter Schiff has been saying that the Federal Reserve is going to take interest rates back to zero and launch another round of quantitative easing in order to reinflate the bubble economy after the next crash. The central bank successfully pulled this off after the 2008 crisis. By dropping rates to… Read More
South Africa’s Public Investment Corp. faces a tough choice: back Sibanye Gold Ltd.’s takeover of Lonmin Plc, and take a hit on its investment, or scupper the deal and risk having to pony up more cash for the platinum miner. When Lonmin shareholder votes are tallied next Tuesday at a meeting in London, the PIC’s… Read More
Sibanye Gold Ltd. reiterated that its increased offer for Lonmin Plc is final, but kept its option open to sweeten the deal for the platinum producer should a rival bid emerge. While its current offer “is final and will not be increased,” the company “reserves the right to set aside the no increase statement if… Read More
One of last year’s best-performing hedge funds says the “trade of the century” is to buy gold and sell stocks as risk assets are due for another meltdown. It’s only a matter of time until the bearish bet pays off big, according to Crescat Capital LLC. While the Denver-based firm has only about $50 million… Read More
Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Later in today’s program Gerald Celente, the top trends forecaster in the world joins me to tell us why the world’s central banks bought a record amount of gold in 2018 and also about what type of wildcard events may trigger a new economic crisis.… Read More
Platinum’s lesser-known cousin keeps going from strength to strength. Palladium, once considered an unattractive byproduct of platinum mining until the rise of catalytic converters in the 1970s, is hitting new records. Spot metal peaked at an all-time high $1,344.41 a troy ounce Wednesday. Over the past month, it’s been more costly than gold, which hasn’t… Read More
(Bloomberg) — South Africa’s gold industry, once the world’s largest, faces an inevitable decline, according to the chairman of the country’s biggest producer of the metal by market value. Output will continue to shrink as miners chase ever-deeper ore bodies while struggling to keep costs down, said AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. Chairman Sipho Pityana. That means the… Read More
Coronet Metals (TSXV: CRF) announced this week that it has entered into an agreement to gain 100% interest in 3,888 mineral claims totalling over 62,000 hectares in the Meguma Gold Belt located in Nova Scotia, eastern Canada. In a press release, the company explained that the claims are adjacent and along trend from Atlantic Gold’s… Read More
GOLD PRICES rallied Wednesday morning ahead of the Federal Reserve’s May meeting on US interest rates, adding 0.5% from yesterday’s drop to within $3 of $1300 per ounce – a level last seen before New Year 2018. Ahead of the Fed’s decision, latest survey data said Tuesday that US manufacturing activity slowed to a… Read More
MOSCOW, April 26 (Reuters) – Russia’s Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) has cut the 2018 production forecast for its new Bystrinsky copper project near the Chinese border due to a problem with equipment which it hopes to fix in the second quarter, it said on Thursday. Nornickel, part-owned by Russian tycoon Vladimir Potanin and aluminium giant Rusal,… Read More
The super powers in the West are doing what they can to provoke Russia and indirectly China and Iran into a world war. Most people alive today were not adults when WWII started and therefore did not follow the lead up to the war. But today the whole world can watch how the West has… Read More
GOLD slipped Friday in London but silver prices spiked to 11-week highs as US President Donald Trump berated the Opec oil cartel for “artificially” pushing energy prices up to 4-year highs by discussing new output cuts. Asian stock markets fell but Europe held flat on the day, keeping the Stoxx Europe 600 Index unchanged… Read More
In a technology-focused partnership that will help make mines safer and more productive, Sibanye-Stillwater and the Wits Mining Institute (WMI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, today launched the Sibanye-Stillwater Digital Mining Laboratory (DigiMine). DigiMine is a simulated mining environment in the Chamber of Mines building on the West Campus of Wits University, whose facilities… Read More
GOLD PRICES rose back above $1320 per ounce versus the falling Dollar in London’s wholesale trade on Friday, heading for the highest weekly close in 16 after new data said the United States added far fewer jobs than analysts expected last month. The official non-farm payrolls estimate also put average annual wage growth in… Read More
– We own gold bullion to “support national security” – Russian Central Bank – Russia warns Washington: Confiscating fx reserves would be “declaration of financial war” – Russia has quadrupled its gold bullion reserves in decade – BRICs discussing ‘the possibility of establishing a single (system of) gold trade’ – Russia, China & maybe Saudi Arabia form alliances… Read More
– Bitcoin tops $10,000, soaring more than 850% since beginning of 2017 – Irrational exuberance arguably main driver of price performance – Google Trends shows search for ‘Bitcoin Bubble’ hit highest level this morning – Buyers need to be aware of hacking and security risks – Other primary risks to widespread adoption is volatility and liquidity risk… Read More