The first paper currencies were notes redeemable for gold or silver, or warehouse receipts for stored gold. Eventually, the receipts themselves were exchanged, and became currency in common usage. The link to precious metals became less concrete. As governments needed to buy votes or finance wars, they yielded to the temptation of printing more notes […]
OWNx is a great program to dollar cost average your silver purchases. With OWNx, you can automatically save in silver for as little as $25 a week or $50 a month. I like the dollar cost averaging approach of accumulating silver by investing equal monetary amounts regularly and periodically over specific time periods (such as […]
Here’s a powerful article you really need to read. Gold and silver are lagging in price not because of the true demand situation, or even the dwindling supply/default on physical delivery circumstances. The question no one is asking is why are central banks and their servant governments doing everything possible to preserve the soon-to-be-devalued dollar? […]
In 1965, former French president Charles De Gaulle called for an international return to the gold standard. De Gaulle said a monetary standard based on gold would keep government spending in check and prevent the sort of economic crisis we are now enduring at the hands of the money masters. “The fact that many countries, […]
Last year the Chairman of the Federal Reserve told me that gold is not money, a position which central banks, governments, and mainstream economists have claimed is the consensus for decades. But lately there have been some high-profile defections from that consensus. As Forbes recently reported, the president of the Bundesbank (Germany’s central bank) and […]
Now that Obamacare is the Law of the Land, I believe more strongly than ever that if we are going to survive the financial holocaust this law is bringing, owning physical gold and silver is more important than ever. Despite the numerous new taxes that will be imposed in the coming years, Obamacare is destined […]
The following is excerpted from a longer article by Alex Newman called Fed Manipulations in the Crosshairs. Whistleblowers, and even some government officials, are now taking aim at “irregularities” in the precious-metals market being orchestrated by the banking cartel and its government allies. An ex-Goldman Sachs employee and veteran metals trader in London shocked the […]