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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
A beginner's guide to investing in Gold  |
| One’s motivation for buying gold is fundamental to deciding in which form you should buy it. Are you a speculator, investor or saver? Do you wish to take a short term speculative position in gold? Are you investing for the short, medium or long term? Or are you diversifying, saving or using gold as a form of financial insurance?Wednesday, March 3, 2021 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
 Common Gold Silver Pitfalls to Avoid |
| Investing in gold and silver may seem simple and straightforward, however it is not.
There are many types of ( quote, unquote ) "investments" in gold and silver you will want to avoid.
Gold and silver dealers are no different from any other industry or crowd of people.
Within our industry you will find many good honest professionals and organizations, but you will also find some bad outfits whose practices can be described as underhanded, even criminal.
Being the Managing Director ofMonday, November 16, 2020 |
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| Jan Skoyles Real Asset Co. - The Real Asset Co |
The London Gold Market: What’s behind the smoke and mirrors  |
| In our last two major research pieces we have been looking at the working parts of the gold market and where the heart of it lies. We’re trying to help investors understand where gold prices are really set.
Today we take a look at the London gold market, an older and arguably larger market than COMEX.
A couple of weeks ago we explained how we had ‘found that the COMEX was still the beating heart of the gold market.’ Since this research piece, Bron Sucheki, whose work featured in our last piece,Friday, June 26, 2020 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
| Silver and the Great Future of Mexico |
| Lecture of the author at the solemn ceremony of his appointment as Honorary Professor of Northwest Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy.
Embassy of the Russian Federation
Mexico City
June 27, 2017.
Your Excellency, Ambassador Edward Malayan; Doctor Vladimir Shamakhov, Director of the Northwest Institute of Management of Russian Presidential Academy,members of the Honorable Diplomatic Corps here present, and esteemed audience:
I am greatly privileged to be with all ofTuesday, May 5, 2020 |
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| Confiscation Issue - Goldchat |
| Australian Gold Confiscation |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Watching Palladium Make New All-Time Highs |
| The price action in palladium is eerily reminiscent of early 2001, and this could have major implications for gold and silver in the months ahead.
Back in 2001, the price of palladium spiked to highs above $1100/ounce. At the time, major physical palladium shortages appeared and tremendous strain was put upon the LBMA palladium market in London. Lease rates soared, and it appeared that thWednesday, October 24, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Monetary Metals' Weiner refuses to see anything wrong in the gold market |
| These days there aren't many denials of gold market manipulation by governments and central banks.
As the documentation has piled up, most of the former deniers have fallen silent or struck the pose of 321Gold's Bob Moriarty, who these days writes that all markets are manipulated and everyone should just get over it, as if the identity of the manipulators, their capacity for manipulation, and the degree of their manipulation are of no practical or moral concern.
But Keith Weiner of Monetary MTuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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 | Perth Mint Blog - Perth Mint Blog. |
| Monthly Sales - February 2018 |
| Total ounces of gold and silver sold by The Perth Mint in February 2018 as coins and minted bars: - Gold (Au): 26,473 oz - Silver (Ag): 992,954 oz This chart shows total monthly ounces of gold and silver shipped as minted products by The Perth Mint to wholesale and retail customers worldwide. It excludes sales of cast bars and other Group activities including sales of allocated/unallocated precious metal for storage by the Depository.Thursday, March 1, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Digital Gold Provide the Benefits Of Physical Gold |
| – Will digital gold provide the benefits of physical gold?– Digital gold and crypto gold products claim to combine efficiencies of blockchain with value of gold– They are yet to provide the same benefits or safety as owning physical gold– National mints jumping in on the ‘sexy blockchain’ act – BOE declares bitcoin ‘not a currency;’ Royal Mint launches blockchain gold product– Digital gold, blockchain gold and crypto gold is frequently not fully backed, unallocated, pooled and unsecured gold hoMonday, February 26, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Robert Lambourne: BIS gold derivatives fall in December but remain hefty |
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By Robert Lambourne
Disclosures in the December 2017 statement of account published by the Bank for International Settlements --
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc171231.pdf
-- indicate that during December the bank reduced substantially its use of gold swaps and other gold-related derivatives. The information provided in the BIS monthly statement of account is not sufficient to calculate a precise amount of gold-related derivatives, including swaps, but it appears that the totTuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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| Perth Mint Blog - Perth Mint Blog. |
| Monthly Sales - January 2018 |
| Total ounces of gold and silver sold by The Perth Mint in January 2018 as coins and minted bars: - Gold (Au): 37,174 oz - Silver (Ag): 1,067,361 oz This chart shows total monthly ounces of gold and silver shipped as minted products by The Perth Mint to wholesale and retail customers worldwide. It excludes sales of cast bars and other Group activities including sales of allocated/unallocated precious metal for storage by the Depository.Thursday, February 1, 2018 |
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 | Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| What’s Happening (or Not) at the LBMA: Some Updates |
| This article is in 3 parts and covers a) upcoming trade reporting in the London gold market which is being led by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), b) the recent publication by the LBMA of a Guide to the London OTC precious metals markets, and c) an update on monthly vault reporting which the LBMA and the Bank of England launched in 2017.
LBMA Trade Reporting
The lack of trade reporting in the London gold market is possibly one of the biggest ommissions in global financial markets, sThursday, February 1, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Gold's revaluation is 'just a matter of time,' but then so is everything else |
| Our friend P.C. writes:
"As a long-time GATA follower, I fully subscribe to the understanding that markets generally, and particularly the precious metal markets, are controlled to keep international exchange and trade 'stable' and maintain 'Western' market wealth. But I have a question you may be able to answer.
"If the major players in the futures and paper markets are able to contain prices with impunity, who is on the buying side who can compete? Why is there such volatility and any upward mSunday, January 28, 2018 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
| Silver as a Strategic Metal and Why Prices Will Soar |
| The arguments in favor of silver as an investment asset are growing rapidly. In the opinion of the Jackass, silver is the most under-valued hard asset in existence, with the highest potential for price appreciation on the globe. To begin with, central banks own no silver, but do own huge tracts of gold. Industry has huge demand for silver, but a trifling amount for gold demand. The investment demand is another key factor in favor of silver, but also for gold. Ever since the tech telecom bust in Sunday, January 21, 2018 |
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| Perth Mint Blog - Perth Mint Blog. |
| Monthly Sales - December 2017 |
| Total ounces of gold and silver sold by The Perth Mint in December 2017 as coins and minted bars: - Gold (Au): 27,009 oz - Silver (Ag): 874,437 oz This chart shows total monthly ounces of gold and silver shipped as minted products by The Perth Mint to wholesale and retail customers worldwide. It excludes sales of cast bars and other Group activities including sales of allocated/unallocated precious metal for storage by the Depository.Monday, January 8, 2018 |
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 | FOFOA - FoFOA |
| Happy New Year! |
| 2018
Year of the POP
If you'd like to read "Year of the POP", I'm sure you can guess where it can be found. ;D
At the Speakeasy, we discuss things like bullion, bitcoin, bubbles, banking, and much much more. As I did in Nine, at the ninth anniversary of this blog, and back in May at the second anniversary of the new Speakeasy, I have started a new tradition of sharing samples from the Speakeasy here. For this one, I picked a fun post from back in August. It's about the coat-check room view oTuesday, January 2, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Bailins Coming In EU – 114 Italian Banks Have NP Loans Exceeding Tangible Assets |
| – Italy opposes ECB proposal that holds banks to firm deadlines for writing down bad loans– Italy’s banks weighed down under €318bn of bad loans– New ECB rules could ‘derail’ any recovery in Italy’s financial system– Draft proposal requires banks to provision fully for loans that turn sour from 2018– ECB insists banks have better access to collateral on delinquent debt to solve problem– Investors should secure assets as proposal suggests more bailins on horizon and banks remain at risk
Source: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Bailins Coming In EU – 114 Italian Banks Have NP Loans Exceeding Tangible Assets |
| – Italy opposes ECB proposal that holds banks to firm deadlines for writing down bad loans
– Italy’s banks weighed down under €318bn of bad loans
– New ECB rules could ‘derail’ any recovery in Italy’s financial system
– Draft proposal requires banks to provision fully for loans that turn sour from 2018
– ECB insists banks have better access to collateral on delinquent debt to solve problem
– Investors should secure assets as proposal suggests more bailins on horizon and banks remain at risk
SouTuesday, December 5, 2017 |
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| Perth Mint Blog - Perth Mint Blog. |
| Monthly Sales - November 2017 |
| Total ounces of gold and silver sold by The Perth Mint in November 2017 as coins and minted bars: - Gold (Au): 23,901 oz - Silver (Ag): 544,436 oz This chart shows total monthly ounces of gold and silver shipped as minted products by The Perth Mint to wholesale and retail customers worldwide. It excludes sales of cast bars and other Group activities including sales of allocated/unallocated precious metal for storage by the Depository.Monday, December 4, 2017 |
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| Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| Russia, China and BRICS: A New Gold Trading Network |
| One of the most notable events in Russia’s precious metals market calendar is the annual “Russian Bullion Market” conference. Formerly known as the Russian Bullion Awards, this conference, now in its 10th year, took place this year on Friday 24 November in Moscow. Among the speakers lined up, the most notable inclusion was probably Sergey Shvetsov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s central bank, the Bank of Russia.
In his speech, Shvetsov provided an update on an important development involving Monday, December 4, 2017 |
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