Russia and De-Dollarization and Rebalancing Reserves Russia has spent over a year of de-dollarizing and rebalancing its reserves Russia’s Gold Reserves vs. U.S. Treasury holdings. Russia boosted gold reserves 16% in 2014 while lowering their U.S. Treasury Holdings by nearly 30% as part of its de-dollarization strategy. Russia added 18.7 tons of gold to its … Read More →
European Central Bank Announces Quantitative Easing Program. ECB acts in part on advice from U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman. Will Buy Bonds with a Negative Yield. The European Central Bank Set to Start its own Quantitative Easing Program. European Quantitative Easing Plan to top €1.1 trillion. Quantitative easing has gone transcontiental, now reaching continental Europe. … Read More →
Swiss National Bank Drops Franc Euro Peg. SNB drops libor target range to between minus 1.25% and minus 0.25% from between minus 0.75% and 0.25%. Swiss Franc Soars/Gold Rises Against Other Currencies How To Buy Gold Fractional American Gold Eagles in 1/10, 1/4 and 1/2 oz Sizes for Smaller Budgets Save our Swiss Bank? SNB … Read More →
Perth Mint Sales Figures How to Buy Silver Silver Sales at the Perth Mint Silver and Gold Sales at the U.S., Canadian and Perth Mints Silver Sales Soar at the U.S. and Canadian Mints on Massive Price Drop U.S. Mint Temporarily Sold Out Of Silver Eagles Amid Huge Demand Reuters November 5, 2014 Maple Leaf … Read More →
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 American Silver Eagle or the Canadian Silver Bald Eagle Can’t decide between the American Silver Eagle and the Canadian Silver Bald Eagle Coins? Here are some considerations. Update August 30, 2015 – Premiums on the Birds of Prey Series Soar The American Silver Eagle vs. The Canadian Silver Bald Eagle* Does Face Value Matter … Read More →
The Fed has printed $4 trillion dollars. Attention is now focused on what they will do with interest rates, rather than $4 Trillion on their balance sheet. Podcast Summary: 0:00-6:15 Introduction Deficits Don’t Matter Again 6:15-11:34 Discussion of the renewed focus on the Fed’s policy towards interest rates now that they claim they will stop … Read More →
The Price of Silver Today Live Silver Prices Silver Charts One day, one year, five year and ten year silver price charts. Live Gold Prices Welcome to the Smaulgld.com silver prices page where you can check the price of silver per ounce. The silver price charts show the price of silver today as well as … Read More →
Top Foreign Holders of U.S. Debt. Foreigners and the Fed hold large percentages of U.S. Treasury Bonds. What happens if foreigners reduce their need for U.S. dollars? Update June 16, 2016 Foreign U.S. Treasury Bond dumping most since 1978 Update May 16, 2016: U.S. Treasury breaks out U.S. Treasury Bond holdings of Gulf State Nations, … Read More →