Stocks are crashing, bonds are crashing, Bitcoin is crashing…and silver is stable. Hyperinflations never occur in straight lines. They are wild earthquakes that shake everyone’s confidence on every side of every market. And at the end of every single one of these earthquakes, silver does a moonshot. In order to hang on, we must understand …
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It’s been a volatile few months in the silver market. Although just because the COMEX price has declined, that doesn’t necessarily mean that all is normal beneath the surface of the often opaque physical silver market. And while we’re fortunate to have Andy Schectman provide updates on what´s happening on the retail level, in today´s …
Bob Coleman: A look inside the wholesale silver market Read More »
While the Fed is expected to raise interest rates 75 basis points this afternoon, the silver price is rallying higher. This may seem a bit counterintuitive, although much of the hike has already been priced in, and outside of the US, the European and Japanese central banks are each picking up the slack in terms …
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Perhaps it´s somewhat fitting that the silver price was basically unchanged on Tuesday, despite wholesale producer price inflation rising at 10.8% in May. Which would have been a record had it not been for an 11.5% increase earlier this year. Because while inflation continues to soar at levels that we’ve not seen in our lifetime, …
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Despite the outright pounding that basically every financial asset took on Monday in response to soaring inflation in the face of the Federal Reserve´s rate hikes, the Fed is now expected to raise rates by 75 basis points at its meeting on Wednesday. With Goldman even calling for 75 basis point hikes in June AND …
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Many gold and silver analysts are extremely skeptical about the gold and silver ETFs GLD and SLV. And if you want to know why, wait until you hear what GLD slipped into their latest financial filing. Essentially, similar to what the SLV silver trust did back in the midst of the silver squeeze last February, …
GLD will not deliver gold ‘if delivery is impractical for any reason’ Read More »
As the Fed continues to raise interest rates, the mortgage market continues to run into problems. And after Friday’s latest disastrous inflation report, Zero Hedge is reporting that the mortgage-backed securities market went ‘no-bid,’ similar to what we witnessed in 2008 when the whole sector was melting down. To find out more about what happened, …
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Despite silver hovering around the $22 mark on the COMEX, the premium on US Silver Eagles has been soaring. Is it a matter of shortage availability, or another inefficiency of the US Mint? In this week´s physical silver report, Andy Schectman of Miles Franklin checks in to explain what’s going on with the US Mint, …
Andy Schectman: Why silver eagle premiums are soaring Read More »
Let’s go back in time to the late 1970s to see what was happening behind the scenes at the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Yes, we have the transcripts, and they give us an idea of how a Fed actually serious about inflation, really behaves. And check out this major 17-year trend line that silver …
Silver Just Hit This 17-Year Major Support Trend Line Read More »
As the Federal Reserve continues to raise rates, and tell the public that everything in the economy is rock solid, there´s further evidence suggesting that´s not quite really the case. The rate hikes are beginning to pressure consumer retailers like Target, while the housing market also continues to grind to a halt. Which Dave Kranzler …
Dave Kranzler: Fed rate hikes stalling economy & real estate market Read More »