As the increasingly volatile stock markets bounced back higher today, JP Morgan experienced one of the largest withdrawals of gold from its inventories this year. In just one day, a stunning 321,500 oz of gold (10 metric tons) were removed from JP Morgan’s Eligible inventories. Total gold inventories at JP…
While the Fed and Western Central Banks continue to prop up the entire market, investors took advantage of the manipulated low silver price by purchasing a record amount of Silver Eagles in October. Silver Eagle sales were also extremely strong last month as total sales reached 4.1 million in September….
(By Dan Popescu) We can’t speak about the manipulation of the gold price today without understanding the derivatives market. Right after the crash of 2000 in the stock market I became alarmed by the exponential increase of derivative products but especially by the complexity of those products. I am sure…
(by Charles Savoie) “GOLD HAS NO USEFUL PURPOSE TO SERVE IN THE POCKETS OF THE PEOPLE”—Pilgrims Society member Alan Sproul, president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, addressing the anti-precious metals American Bankers association meeting in San Francisco (Vital Speeches of the Day, December 1, 1949, pages 108-114). “LONDON,…
According to the financial media, the global economy is supposedly rolling over causing a glut of inventories producing a deflation in the prices of many commodities. If this is the case… someone should tell that to King of base metals… Copper. Something doesn’t seem to be making sense in the…
The first primary silver miner in the industry just announced that it suspended sales of silver during the 3rd quarter due to the low market price of silver. First Majestic suspended sales of 35% of its Q3 silver production. This was a significant amount as it was nearly 1 million…