Homes Priced In Ounces of Silver

Chart showing the number of ounces of silver required to buy the average home from 1963-2014

How many ounces of silver does it take to buy the averaged priced home in the United States? Homes Priced in Silver In late 1979 early 1980, a home selling at the average sales prices could have been bought for about 2,500 ounces of silver. In 2003, it took over 52,000 ounces of silver to Read More →

The Fed Calls Its Own Bluff On Raising Interest Rates

The Fed has been talking about ending quantitative easing and its zero interest rate policy for six years. Recently, it seemed that they might just do it. Well, maybe not. Will China or Russia Revalue the Price of Gold? How To Buy Gold How to Buy Silver Podcast The Fed calls it’s own bluff on Read More →

Short Open Interest of Silver Traders

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Short Interest of Silver Traders Massive silver short selling continues on Comex. As of September 30, 2014, it would require 130 days of silver mining production to cover these positions. How To Buy Gold How to Buy Silver As of September 30, 2014 the open silver short interest of CFTC traders would require 135 days Read More →

Silver ETF Holdings Increase

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Silver ETF Holdings Silver ETFs continue to experience inflows, as gold ETFs experience outflows. How To Buy Gold How to Buy Silver Silver EFT Holdings Increase. Holdings in silver ETFs continue to rise as holdings in gold ETFs decline. Last week gold holdings in ETFs fell 0.54 million ounces, while silver ETF holdings rose 2.4 Read More →

The Shanghai Gold Exchange Update

The shanghai gold exchange delivered over 46 tons of gold for the week ended September 26, 2014

The Shanghai Gold Exchange The volume of gold delivered on the Shanghai Gold Exchange since 2009 passes 7,200 tons. How To Buy Gold How to Buy Silver The Shanghai Gold Exchange Has Delivered over 7,200 Tons of Gold Since 2009. For the week ended September 28, the Shanghai Gold Exchange delivered 46.3 tons of gold Read More →

The Rise of the Dollar

Why is the value of the Dollar Rising? The Dollar has risen recently on the supposed strength of the economy and Fed announcements that it may soon raise interest rates. Will this strength last? How To Buy Gold How to Buy Silver Live Silver Prices Live Gold Prices Podcast Summary: 0:00 – 3:26 Introduction Alternative Read More →

Bitcoin, Gold or Silver – Which is the Best Store of Value?

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Bitcoin Gold or Silver Bitcoin’s 60% price drop in 2014 has ruled it out as a reliable store of value. Gold, in contrast is down less than 3% this year. Gold Has Been The Best Store Of Value in 2014 Among Gold, Bitcoin and Silver. Bitcoin Price Action in 2014 Proves Bitcoin Is No Store Read More →

Top Fifteen Smaulgld Blog Posts From June – September 2014 & All Time

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Traffic to Smaulgld.com Surges in Second Quarter of 2014. Smaulgld.com Receives Visitors From 179 Countries. Smaulgld.com Passes 100,000 Unique Visitors Smaulgld.com was launched on April 28, 2013 with the blog post “Student Loans and Unemployment are Holding Back the Economy and Real Estate Market” (808 views) Since then we have published over two hundred posts Read More →