(By Gary Christenson) What storm? The stock and bond markets in the US are doing great, the media has sold the strong employment story, and all those nasty wars are far, far away. So the top few percent are doing well and are sheltered from the storm, but what about…
(By Art Berman) U.S. tight oil production may fall 600,000 barrels per day by June 2015 based on reasonable projections of current rig counts. I compared the decrease in rig counts that began in late 2014 to the rig count decrease in 2008 and 2009 following the Financial Crisis. I…
There’s many good reasons to own silver. However, one of the most important is shown in the chart below. Investors don’t realize the huge problems facing the U.S. and world going forward. While some more enlightened investors understand the upcoming calamity due to our highly leveraged debt-based fiat monetary system,…
The U.S. Mint just released its FY 2014 Annual Report and the total Dollar sales of Silver Eagles surpassed Gold Eagles by a wide margin. Unfortunately, the U.S. Mint’s Annual Reports are based on Fiscal Year accounting, so their figures do not correspond to the data released on their website….
Mexico is the largest silver producer in the world. The only two countries that come remotely close to Mexico’s number one ranking are Peru and China. However, these countries trail Mexico by more than 50 million ounces. According to the INEGI, Mexico produced a record 186 million ounces (Moz) of…
The U.S. economy has gotten considerably weaker since the investment banking collapse in 2008. Nothing has improved, except the fundamentals for owning gold and silver. However, there are many conspiracies that confuse people if you don’t look at the numbers. One such conspiracy is the one claiming the world has…