Is Platinum "White Gold", Or Is It Different?
Published Jun 5, 2014 on Goldbroker by Dan Popescu
Silver is poor man's gold. What is then platinum with respect to gold? In a recent article ( The Gold/Silver Ratio - Gold, Silver, and their Relationship) I looked at the relationship between gold and silver, the eternal couple. Let us look now at the relationship, if there is one, between gold and platinum.
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Intraday Average Gold & Silver Price Movements for May
Published Jun 5, 2014 on Goldbroker by Nick Laird
Intraday Average Gold & Silver Price Movements. Charts by Nick Laird
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Steve Forbes: Link Dollar to Gold or Face Great Depression II
Published Jun 3, 2014 on Washingtonexaminer
Influential financial publisher and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes is out with a new warning that the U.S. faces an economic catastrophe due to the Federal Reserve's loose dollar policy, and returning to a strict "gold standard" is the only way to avoid disaster.
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New Global Monetary System Coming
Published Jun 2, 2014 on Cambridge House
Mike Maloney chats with Vanessa Collette about coming changes in the global monetary system and how investors should play this emerging new normal.
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Gold Price Manipulation Was "Routine"
Published Jun 3, 2014 on Zerohedge
Two weeks ago when news broke about the first confirmed instance of gold price manipulation (because despite all the "skeptics" claims to the contrary, namely that every other asset class may be routinely manipulated but not gold, never gold, it turned out that yes gold too was rigged) we said that this is merely the first of many comparable (as well as vastly different) instances of gold manipulation presented to the public.
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Your Personal Gold Standard
Published Jun 3, 2014 on Dailyreckoning
All paper currency has a shelf life. It could be 5 years or 500 years, but at some point, the value of any paper currency eventually reaches zero. That's why, for centuries, people have turned to one shiny metal to safeguard their personal store of wealth.
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Ecuador Transfers Half Its Gold Reserves To Goldman Sachs In Exchange For "Liquidity"
Published Jun 2, 2014 on Zerohedge
This is a great example of how the game works. In a world in which every government on earth needs "liquidity" to survive, and the primary goal of every government is and always has been survival (the retention of arbitrary power at all costs), the provider of liquidity is king.
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Chinese Gold Imports From Hong Kong for April
Published Jun 7, 2014 on Goldbroker by Nick Laird
Chinese gold imports from Hong Kong for april. Net imports of 64.04 tonnes. Charts by Nick Laird
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Bullish Record PM Shorting
Published Jun 6, 2014 on Zealllc
The precious metals plunged last week, knifing through key support zones to unleash an explosion of bearish sentiment. This troubling heavy selling wasn't news-driven, it emerged out of the blue. Who was dumping gold and why? Later data confirmed it was American futures speculators short selling gold and silver at record levels.
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ECB Cuts Deposit Rate Below Zero in Historic Move
Published Jun 5, 2014 on Rt
The European Central Bank lowered its deposit rate to -0.10% as the continent battles deflation after many failed monetary policy attempts. The bank said more extraordinary tools can can be used to prevent the derailment of economic recovery.
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Austrian Central Bank Says Gold Audit is Routine - and Secret
Published May 28, 2014 on Larsschall
The audit of its gold reserves vaulted at the Bank of England that last week was reported being planned by the Austrian central bank has been conducted and was part of a routine series of audits by the bank and its results will not be made public, a bank spokesman said today.
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