(Chris Powell, Money Metals News Service) Headlines like this have been pummeling the monetary metals sector in recent days: "Gold Is Getting So Expensive That Even China's Central Bank Stopped Buying."
According to this particular report:
China's central bank gold-buying streak has been a major driver of prices that hit record...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Silver use by the solar energy sector is one of the primary factors driving the overall demand for silver, and there is reason to believe photovoltaic silver off-take will continue to increase in the years ahead.
Not only is the demand for silver panels...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) Gold has been the headline performer in the first half of the year – breaking records and commanding attention. But in the second half of 2024, silver may be set to steal the show.
Silver has been quietly outperforming gold since February. Silver prices...
(André Marques, Money Metals News Service) Central banks’ monetary policies are the most perverse government intervention. Their consequences are dire, last for a very long time, and people don’t perceive them as problems or don’t comprehend the damage they are doing. Monetary policy (monetary expansion and artificially low interest...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Last month, silver cracked the key resistance of $30 an ounce level for the first time in over a decade. It’s been quite a bull run for silver, and Chen Lin thinks it has plenty of legs left.
Lin is the founder of Lin...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) You are paying more and getting less thanks to persistent price inflation. Politicians and talking heads on financial news networks often point to “strong” retail sales data to support the claim that the economy is doing great.
“You see! The economy is rolling right...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) – Congress is investigating California’s $128 billion high speed rail project, demanding the California High Speed Rail Authority provide information on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “justification for continuing to fund the California High-Speed Rail project.”
California’s high speed rail project has completed environmental clearance...
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(Money Metals News Service) In a recent episode of the Money Metals Exchange podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviewed economist Dr. Peter St. Onge.
The two discuss St. Onge’s early success and subsequent financial loss during the dot-com boom, the recurring nature of economic cycles, and the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Did the U.S. government really try to confiscate Americans' gold? The short answer is... well, there isn't a short answer. It's a complicated subject with more nuance than most people give it.
Yes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt did try to take most of the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) India imported more silver through the first four months of 2024 than it did in the entirety of last year.
Indian silver imports totaled 4,172 tons of silver from January through April. That compares with 455 tons during the same period in 2023.
India imported...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison, the first of the lieutenants of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for their roles in the 2022 collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.
Salame, 30, was a...
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) As hopes for rate cuts fade, metals markets are giving back some of their recent gains.
On Wednesday, minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting showed central bankers are frustrated by the lack of progress on inflation. After several months of official inflation...