Commentaries

What Trick Did Tricky Dicky Pull 50 Years Ago?

On August 15, 1971, President Nixon decreed that the US dollar would no longer be redeemable for the gold owed, even to foreign governments. This bad decision was a desperate attempt..

Nixon Abandoned Gold in 1971 - Bill Holter & Andy Schectman

By Wall Street Silver

Bill Holter & Andy Schectman join us to explain what happened, the negative changes since 1971 and how the market is on the verge of forcing us back onto a gold standard.

Socialist Venezuela to Slash Six Zeros from Its Failed Currency

By Mike Gleason, Money Metals

The 1 million bolivar note is currently worth about 25 U.S. cents.

Why This Wall of Worry Is Different

By Rick Ackerman, Rick's Picks

My gut feeling is that the so-called "everything bubble" is about to pop. It will very shortly be bucking not only seasonal headwinds, but a notorious history of stock market crashes and panics in the September-October period.

50 Years of No Gold Standard - Craig Hemke, David Morgan, James Anderson

By Wall Street Silver

It has been 50 years since Richard Nixon took us "temporarily" off of the Gold Standard. How has that affected our currency? Our standard of living? Our future?

Those Gold Smashes Aren't the Bullion Banks' Doing but Government's

By Chris Powell, GATA

Indeed, it long has seemed that the entities rigging the monetary metals markets have lost all concern about being caught and causing suspicion. It has seemed that they have wanted investors to believe that it is impossible..

Ubiquity, Complexity, and Sandpiles

By John Mauldin, Thoughts from the Frontline

We no longer have business cycles; we have credit cycles. Central banks and governments, not to mention investment banks and investors, are all using credit in formerly unbelievable ways ...

Liquidity Alarm

By Gary Tanashian, NFTRH

Market liquidity is draining from different vantage points.

Is The Fed Bracing For Impact? Got Gold (And Silver?)

By Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock Journal

Wall Street on Parade read through the Fed’s Annual Report for 2020 and discovered a direct correlation between the Fed’s deployment of large repo operations precedes the onset of a financial crisis.

The Bad, The Ugly and The Good

By Ted Butler, Butler Research

As such, it becomes easier to see that there was an intentional and deliberate motive to the bombing of gold and silver prices not camouflaged by movements in other markets. It was clear to see that the smashing of gold and silver was quite unique and specific.

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