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Leveraged Assets Beginning to Buckle under High Rates

Forced deleveraging to be chaotic, causing a new Fed and banking panic.

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4 Ways Young People Can Hedge against Inflation

When money becomes less valuable and costs rise, the money you have saved affords you exponentially less. In the short term, you may not notice the difference.

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Must-Know Facts About Insuring Your Precious Metals

Making an investment in physical gold and silver is easy. Insuring these new valuables stored at home is more difficult. It may be outright impossible in larger amounts.

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Monetary Elite from Multiple Camps Plot Currency Strategies

As investors look for clues about what monetary central planners are thinking at Jackson Hole, the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – are holding a summit of their own in Johannesburg.

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Talking Heads Predict No Recession While Shrinkflation Clips Consumers

Precious metals markets are extending their losing streak as the U.S. dollar pushes higher.

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Can Gold and Silver Ever Return to Circulation?

There aren’t many bullion investors who haven’t thought about using their stash to buy groceries one day.

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Gold Versus Silver - Which Is the Wisest Investment?

One of the most common questions we get from clients is whether they should buy either gold OR silver. Anyone researching an investment in bullion can find good arguments for owning either metal.

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Four Precious Metals Megatrends Are Rapidly Unfolding

As the world continues to be rocked by inflation and financial instability, four precious metals “megatrends” have emerged largely undetected by the mainstream – central bank gold buying, rapidly expanding silver uses, a platinum supply breakdown, and capital control schemes.

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Can We Live in a World without Silver?

The World Silver Survey is an annual report published by The Silver Institute since 1990. It provides market participants with supply and demand statistics for critical sectors of the silver market, along with price and trade data.

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Asset Managers, Industry Aggressively Snap Up Silver

Top Silver Mining CEO: "On the demand side, it’s pretty phenomenal…"

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Looming Debt Ceiling Deal to Leave Dollar Locked in Downtrend

As the debt ceiling fight in Washington heads down to the wire with the risk of a technical default looming, investors are growing nervous.

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Holding Gold Is Like Holding a Wildcard

The future of money is uncertain, and speculation about what comes next is all over the place. The Federal Reserve note "dollar" is the world's reserve currency, but its seat on that throne is no longer secure.

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Ongoing U.S. Mint Failures Bring Discredit to America, Raise Costs

We are one third of the way through 2023, and it has certainly been interesting in the bullion markets thus far.

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Why Gold Is a Must-Have During a Banking Crisis

There are many reasons to buy and hold physical gold. The lack of counterparty risk, the diversification, and the hedge against inflation are among the top reasons to own the monetary metals.

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More Bailouts for Bankers Won't Fix a Broken Financial System

The Federal Reserve Board reduced banking reserve requirements to zero in March 2020. So banks in the United States are technically not required to back customers' deposits with anything.