10 Dec 2021 By Richard (Rick) Mills, aheadoftheherd.com: The Silver Institute predicts that global silver demand will rise to 1.029 billion ounces this year, up 15% from 2020 and exceeding a billion ounces for the first time since 2015. In a November report, SI says every area of silver demand is forecast to rise in 2021, including a […]
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19 Nov 2021 By Jan Nieuwenhuijs, The Gold Observer: In general, the gold price in U.S. dollars is set by long-term inflation expectations and interest rates in the United States. The price of gold in other currencies depends on the exchange rate between a particular currency and the dollar. In a previous series of articles we discussed
6 Nov 2021 By Patrick Barron, Mises Institute: There are many good recommendations promoted by Austrian school economists for improving the economy. Although we enjoy successes periodically, most–such as deregulating trucking and airline pricing–involve eliminating previous government interventions. These successes are to be celebrated, of course. But no one can deny that government intervention into
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15 October 2021 From RT: Russia has reached a historic record in international reserves, ranking fifth in the world after China, Japan, Switzerland and India, the Accounts Chamber said after an audit of the country’s gold and foreign exchange holdings. “The volume of Russia’s international reserves exceeded $618.2 billion [as of September 1]. This is
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14 October 2021 By Jeff Clark, Senior Analyst, GoldSilver.com: It’s frustrating to watch gold and silver languish when they’re surrounded by major catalysts and since, well, everything else is going up. More than frustrating, it’s bewildering. But what if I told you gold and silver have been in a near identical scenario before. And that
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24 Sep 2021 By John Detrixhe, Quartz: Central banks like the US Federal Reserve are printing more paper money than ever. But Cornell University economics professor Eswar Prasad, who published a new book on the future of money, thinks cash has outlived its usefulness. Prasad’s book, The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and
2 June 2021 From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: BoE’s gold is selling at a premium, how silver prices should abandon their lag, and first privy-marked 2021 Morgan dollars sell out in minutes. Gold stored in the Bank
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22 March 2021 By Matthew Piepenburg, GoldSwitzerland.com: We certainly live in interesting times. Yet be you bear or bull, left or right, optimist, cynic or pessimist, one would be hard pressed to pretend that anything is, well, normal. The Controversially Insane Many are questioning why a virus with a death rate of less than .4%
8 Mar 2021 By Peter Schiff, SchiffGold: The use of silver in the automotive sector is expected to surge in the coming years, according to the feature story in this month’s edition of the Silver Institute’s Silver News. With modern cars using more silver than ever in their advanced technology components, analysts project the auto industry will likely need
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24 Feb 2021 By Steve Brown, The Duran A discussion of the ‘earth’s crust’ gold-to-silver ratio is complex; suffice that the ratio of sixty-five ounces of silver per one ounce of gold (per current quoted Wall Street spot price) is an high-end estimate, and the mining ratio to mine the actual product is about 8-to-1. So why
