There’s been a significant trend change in the gold market and it has the Western Central Banks worried. Before the collapse of the U.S. Investment Banking system in 2008, annual net physical gold investment was negligible. However, the present situation has changed considerably, putting severe stress on Western Central Bank…
The U.S. suffered another sizable gold supply deficit in 2015. Matter a fact, the deficit was 50% larger than in 2014. In 2015, total U.S.gold demand was 118 metric tons (mt) higher than total supply versus 77 mt in 2014. According to figures put out by the USGS, World Gold…
(By Matt Mushalik) Outside the US and Canada, the world is in peak oil mode for more than 10 years now. There are many events which have brought about this bumpy production plateau. The sequence of these events has never allowed oil production to grow much over a longer time….
According the most recent official data, the U.S. continues to import record volumes of silver. This is quite interesting because retail physical silver investment and industrial demand dropped off toward the end of the year. After the huge spike in physical silver investment from July to September, demand cooled down…
The markets have finally cracked and things are about to become a lot more interesting. Today, the price of gold surged more than $60 and silver $0.60 as the markets crumbled. Even though the markets recovered after some TWO-BIT announcement by OPEC stating that they were talking about “Cutting Production”…
There’s an ongoing catastrophe taking place in Ecuador. Not only has a significant part of the Amazon been polluted by toxic waste oil left behind from the wonderful folks at Texaco when the company started drilling for oil in Ecuador back in the 1970’s, but the low oil price has…