All Entries Tagged With: "gold"
Ron Paul Isn’t Worried About Falling Gold Prices
By David Weigel, Slate, April 18, 2013 It was the steepest two-day decline in gold prices in 33 years, a 13 percent fall in two days of trading. After years of surging value, of investors hedging against inflation, there was a sudden sell-off that might have been a reaction to… well, to inflation not actually increasing. Over at Business [...]
French ‘alchemists’ to cash in on turning water into gold
29 October, 2012, 02:53, RT A small company near Paris has pioneered technology which can “turn water into gold.” Other precious metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium can also be extracted using the same methods. Magpie Polymers, based 80 kilometers southeast of Paris, has developed the technology from a procedure perfected by the prestigious [...]
The Gold Standard and the Myth of Price Stability
By: John Carney Senior Editor, CNBC.com Something very strange has happened in response to reports that the Republican Party’s official platform will call for a commission to study a return to a gold standard. (Read more: Republicans Eye Return to Gold Standard) In a piece for the Atlantic, Matthew O’Brien attempts to demonstrate “Why the Gold Standard Is [...]
The Doug Casey Interview: How to Prepare for When Money Dies
If dollar-dumping turns from a trickle into a flood, look out. Exploding prices (aka exorbitant inflation) resulting from the devaluation of the dollar will compound the problems we saw in 2007-2009. Catastrophe will come when everybody realizes that the dollar is an “IOU nothing.” That’s the downside in the decade(s) ahead, according to Casey Research [...]
Peter Schiff’s Gold Report – On The Recent Gold Pullback
by Peter Schiff The past couple weeks have seen a strong pullback in both commodity prices and stocks. Gold fell sharply off its peak after soaring just past $1,900. Volatility in commodity, currency, and equity markets has been very high recently, and these short-term price movements have Wall Street pundits in an uproar. As [...]
Ed Steer’s Gold and Silver Daily 9-27-2011
By: Ed Steer Yesterday in Gold and Silver Gold sold off a hair at the open…and then recovered its losses by 9:00 a.m. Hong Kong time on Monday morning…which was 9:00 p.m. Sunday night in New York. Then the selling started…and by the time the bloodshed ended just minutes before the London open, the bullion [...]
Physical Versus Paper
By: David W. Young It is the age-old question posed by virtually every prospective precious metals buyer, “What form should my allocation to the precious metals asset class take?”. As a tangible asset broker who only deals in the physical metal for delivery to clients or their designated depositories, of course, I am prejudiced as to [...]
Financial Cataclysm and Gold Unimaginably Higher: Nigel Farage
YESTERDAY IN GOLD AND SILVER By: Nigel Farage Almost from the Far East open, gold was under pressure…but the real selling began at 9:30 a.m. in London. Starting from that time, gold got sold off in many separate bouts of selling, with distinct rallies in between. The most interesting part about yesterday’s sell-off was the [...]
Special Report: Gold Sends Failure Signal To Western Policymakers
Special Report: Gold Sends FailureSignal To Western Policymakers by Paul Craig Roberts Gold traders detect the hands of Western central banks in large gold sales into a rising market on September 6 during evening hours whentrading is thin. (See Trader Dan’s Market Views) No rational seller would sell gold in this way. This has led traders to [...]
