Silver

With the Basel III accord, the most important change for precious metals is that banks would be required to hold reserves against their assets. Under the coming regulations, banks would count unallocated precious metals at 85 percent of their value on the bank’s books in making the determination...

Asset price inflation is now spreading to everyday goods as the velocity of money in circulation increases, in some cases exacerbated by artificially created shortages. It looks as if we have to prepare for shrinking economies and inflation. In this mix, more and more institutional investors are...

As technological developments and markets go parabolic, we observe many market “experts”, even intelligent ones, forecasting that we are now in an exponential economic era. Thus many believe that this will go on forever. This is the typical attitude at market and economic tops and guarantees that...

Faced with this brutal and disorderly rise in inflation, the Fed no longer really has a good solution open to it: either it stops monetizing the debt and provokes a financial crisis, or it carries on monetizing the debt, thereby risking a monetary crisis.

Gold and silver have not at all reflected the massive creation of money in the last 50 years. That catchup phase is likely to start very soon based on both fundamentals and technicals. The upside potential for gold and silver is multiples of the current prices and that is at today’s price levels....

For the time being, the breakout is contained, the gold prices are relatively controlled, and the figures for inflation and the value of the dollar ought to propel gold to greater heights, something that is not the case at the moment. This control of prices comes at a cost, however. Selling paper...

For the last decade or so, BTC has made many rich, and for the next decade or so, could make others even richer. That’s a speculative bet. Fine. But for the last 5000 years, and for many more to come, gold will do what it always does: Preserve your wealth when other assets and “currencies” can’t.

Copper is the thermometer of inflation. Gold is the thermometer of a loss of control by the monetary authorities. Controlled inflation (the phenomenon that made copper rise so high) was manageable, up to a point...but the same cannot be said for uncontrolled inflation, which is starting to have r...

Recently, the Silver Institute published its annual report. The report states that silver could rise by more than 30% in 2021, primarily as a result of the spike in demand. The unprecedented context of the crisis has shaken up the market, and seems to be bringing an end to a long, persistent peri...

In this video, Kevin Wadsworth outlines the 30-year bond yields and the ever-increasing national debt. We're in some sort of final death and debt spiral. Unlike in the past, we can't raise rates so how this plays out is anyone's guess. Patrick Karim discusses how real rates compare with gold and...