This is our annual analysis of the gold and silver markets. We look at the market players, dynamics, fallacies, drivers, and finally give our predictions for the prices of the metals over the coming year.
SLV's prospectus change is a veiled suggestion designed to divert buying power to conduits the price suppressors control rather than to conduits they do not control.
Buy physical silver and avoid SLV.
The Idaho State House today overwhelmingly approved a bill which enables the State Treasurer to protect state reserve funds from inflation and financial risk by holding physical gold and silver.
To put this into context, the current volume of gold swaps remains larger than the 504.8 tonnes of gold held by the European Central Bank and about 89 tonnes less than the reported gold reserves of the tenth largest national gold holding, the 612.4 tonnes of the Netherlands.
One of the most bullish backdrops for precious metals is an environment of negative real interest rates – that is, when bonds and cash yield less than the inflation rate.
The scheme of the central banks doesn't work if people also start to realize that they can achieve and benefit from an alternative currency only if they avoid the futures markets, which central banks easily can control by virtue of their power to create infinite money and trade infinite amounts of things that don't exist.
The faint heartbeat of this week’s jobs report did not keep the stock market from trying to scramble back up to its record heights. The surging and plunging and scrambling for cash and closing of gates at Robinhood did not stop the rise either.
