...redemptions are not outright selling of the metal, simply a transfer of the exposure to physical metals.

Silver is finally stepping out of gold’s shadow...

One Big... Lie?

On the heels of the major escalation of tensions in the MidEast overnight, gold prices (along with oil) have surged higher, breaking back above $3400, looking likely to end with a record closing high on the day...

Central bank gold stockpiles approach record-high set in 1965

When gold haters try to call a top, they often act as if our country’s financial situation has stabilized...

...trim, keep a core position and play to add back on dips...

After many years of dormancy, silver finally woke up. 

For the masterminds of the paper gold market at JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, the less said about gold the better. They need to keep the game going...

"...don’t think there’s any doubt that we’re heading into a massive monetary crisis. The dollar is going to lose value at an accelerating rate because of the US government’s profligate spending policies."

It was blatant theft...

...the news prompted significant futures length initiated... 

Modern physics has managed to turn lead into gold. Is the end of scarcity in sight? Look to oil, rubber, and diamonds for clues...

...when we ask questions about gold leasing, we are essentially “tampering with the primal forces”...

All signs point to a historic shift: Trump is eyeing a dollar reset, gold is quietly moving into US vaults, and the debt crisis is reaching a breaking point...

...but that might be changing.

"If the Fed can’t control interest rates, we are monumentally screwed as a financial system.  That’s kind of what we are headed for now..."

Gold has been mankind’s most enduring form of money for thousands of years...

Gold thrives in uncertainty...

The facts of a surreal yet broken (and hence increasingly controlled and desperate) financial system are becoming harder to deny and ignore...