Gold and Silver Hang On To Key Price Levels

Gold and Silver Took Big Hits Last Week. Gold Holds Above $1200 an Ounce, Silver, $17 an Ounce. Bitcoin ETF Rejected by Securities and Exchange Commission. GOP Unveils Obamacare replacement. Check out all the Smaulgld podcasts here. Not a Smaulgld subscriber? Sign up here. Donate To Smaulgld.com via paypal Top stories: GOP reveals Obamacare replacement. Read More →

America Needs a War, Any War

Theodore Roosevelt 1897: “I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.” Spanish American War Begins in 1898. The United States Has Been Involved in Dozens of Military Campaigns over the past 120 years since. Many US Wars Have Involved Fighting Muslims or Russians. War is the One Certain Way to Read More →

SnapChat To Go Public With Losses Greater than Revenues

SnapChat IPO Highlights Markets Have Learned Noting From the Dot Com Bubble Implosion of 2001 and the Stock Market Crash of 2008. Or Have They? Is it Rational to Speculate on Money Losing Enterprises? Do Profits Matter Anymore? Smaulgld appeared on Wall Street for Main Street with Jason Burack yesterday to discuss the current state Read More →

Higher Prices Slam American Silver Eagle Sales in February

February American Silver Eagle Sales Fall Flat in February. U.S. Mint Sells 1,215,000 American Silver Eagles in February. Sales of American Silver Eagle Coins in February 2017 Were the Lowest February Total Since 2008. American Silver Eagle Sales Fall 75% in February The U.S. Mint sold 1,215,000 American Silver Eagles in February. February sales of Read More →

Canadian Mint Restates Financial Results as Silver Sales Fall

Third Quarter 2016 Canadian Mint Silver Sales Fall 36% in Third Quarter 2016. The Royal Canadian Mint Sold 6.1 million ounces of silver in the third quarter of 2016. Third Quarter 2016 Canadian Mint silver sales fell 36% year over year in Q3 2016 from 9,500,000 ounces sold in the same quarter in 2015. First Read More →

Trump Turmoil Continues to Boost Gold and Silver

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No End in Sight to Trump Turmoil. Shrink the Fed’s Balance Sheet to Provide Room for More QE? India to Lift Cash Withdrawal Limits. Utah and Texas Legislation Prepare a Greater Role for Gold and Silver. Germany Gets Its Gold Back. Click here to see the Smaulgld commentary video to this report below. You Tube Read More →

Indian Silver Imports Fall 58% in 2016

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2016 Indian Silver Imports fell to 3,546 Tons from 8529 Tons in 2015 December Indian Silver Imports of 286 tons were down 73% from 1045 Tons in December 2015. Silver imports were down 12% from 324 tons imported in November 2016. India’s rupee demonetization and “war on gold” has yet to lead to greater silver Read More →

Congressman Tells Yellen: Cease and Desist!

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Congressman Patrick McHenry (Vice Chairman Committee on Financial Service) Letter To Fed Chair Janet Yellen: Stop Federal Reserve Participation in International Forums on Financial Regulation. Letter states Fed participation in international forums on financial regulation must cease. Congressman calls on secretive prior agreements with The Financial Stability Board, The Basel Committee on Banking and Supervision Read More →

Silver Sales at the Perth Mint Spike 186% in January

Perth Mint Silver Sales January 2016 - January 2017

Silver sales at the Perth Mint in January were 1,230,867 ounces up 186% from December 2016 sales of 430,009 ounces. January Perth Mint silver sales were the sixth month in twelve that sales topped one million ounces. Year over year January 2017 Perth Mint silver sales fell 16.5% from January 2016 sales of 1,473,408 ounces. Read More →

JP Morgan Silver Manipulation Case Dismissal Overruled

Appeals Court Over Rules Dismissal of JP Morgan Silver Manipulation Law Suit. Appeals Court Rejects Lower Court Judge Holding That Plaintiffs Failed to Show that JP Morgan Made “Uneconomic Bids” in Attempting to Rig the Silver Market. Suit Alleges that JP Morgan Was Manipulating the Silver Price Lower to Take Advantage of Pricing Deal with Read More →