Helping You Thrive While We Watch The Dollar Die
Over the past two weeks the Fed has been doing a series of overnight repo market operations, that some have suggested are just routine end of the quarter maneuvering by the banks. Yet as the operations continue on now two weeks later, and have grown in size, that premise is starting to seeming less and less likely. Unfortunately at this point it remains unknown exactly why the transactions have been […]
In part 2 of my interview with Ted Butler, we talked about how over 120 million ounces have been reportedly added to the silver ETFs over the past few months. And whether he thought that could have been possible while seeing silver only rise $4-5. Ted also talked about the possibility of an investor converting SLV shares into physical, and how this all plays out. Whether it’s reasonable to have […]
Last week the Department of Justice not only charged several JP Morgan traders with manipulating the market, but even invoked the RICO act, which is traditionally reserved for organized crime cases. Of course for those who have been following Ted Butler’s research in recent years, the news hardly comes as a surprise. Although it does certainly add a new volatile element into the equation, which Ted was kind enough to […]
With central banks around the globe cutting interest rates and restarting quantitative easing, it’s looking like they’ll get plenty of the inflation they’ve for some reason been asking for. Which isn’t good news if you’re a citizen in one of these countries and are unprepared for it. Yet fortunately Ronald-Peter Stöferle of Incrementum AG (an asset management firm) and author of the “In Gold We Trust” report was kind enough […]
Just two days after the Department of Justice went as far as to call JP Morgan’s precious metals trading desk “a criminal enterprise”, the gold and silver bullion banks were back at it again on Wednesday. Hammering the price of both gold and silver during the Federal Reserve’s announcement of another quarter point interest rate cut. Going into the meeting, while it was largely assumed that the Fed would cut […]
While gold and silver often get the majority of the attention that goes to the precious metals, the platinum market has also seen an increase in investment and industrial demand. And with fewer sources of information available about the platinum market, I was fortunate to catch up with Trevor Raymond of the World Platinum Investment Council at this year’s Sprott Symposium to talk about the market. In our interview, Trevor […]