Money Metals News Service

When Will It Be Time to Sell Precious Metals?

Clients often ask when they should sell precious metals. We usually suggest one basic rule around the timing. After that, the decision to sell will depend upon whether your reasons for holding gold and silver have changed.… Keep Reading

Play the Odds: Avoid Gambling in Rigged Markets

Is America becoming a nation of gamblers? The lure of potential cash windfalls is driving rampant speculation in financial markets and record traffic to casinos.… Keep Reading

Where do Gold and Silver Prices Go from Here?

One way to look at the price of gold, is that it dropped from its high around $1,900 in early June. Another way is to zoom out and look at the big picture. Here is a 10-year chart of gold and silver prices.… Keep Reading

Expectations for Fed Tightening Are Misplaced

Stimulus addicted markets ran into headwinds last week. Fed watchers found some hints about interest-rate tightening in the just-released FOMC’s July meeting minutes. That was all it took to rattle Wall Street. Stocks have since recovered some of the i… Keep Reading

The Hidden Costs of War and Inflation

The financial costs of debt-financed spending by today’s decision makers will burden future generations. The pain of printing trillions of unbacked bills isn’t felt immediately, so the gravity of the action is subtle, but the end result is unavoidable… Keep Reading

Gold & Silver: Your Lifeboat in the Perfect Inflationary Storm

Let's get the premise of this essay out of the way right now. I don't believe that the inflation we're seeing – especially in the U.S. – is in FedSpeak, "transitory." The indications and real-world price-increase in so many things I want to buy, if t… Keep Reading

What Trick Did Tricky Dicky Pull 50 Years Ago?

Sometimes, bad luck can strike. But other times, a catastrophe comes from a series of bad decisions, each the reaction to the consequences of the previous one. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon decreed that the US dollar would no longer be redeemable f… Keep Reading

The History Of The Corruption Of Our Money

It is both an oversimplification and an understatement to say that the problem with paper currency is that the government can print too much of it, and it loses its purchasing power. It is in moral terms that we should look at what they have done to our c… Keep Reading

Will the U.S. Currency Regime Fall?

Afghanistan has fallen. The U.S. government’s nearly two-decade-long, multi-trillion-dollar “nation building” effort in the troubled, tribal country may now have nothing to show for itself.… Keep Reading

Debt Ceiling and Budget Battles to Underpin Gold Prices

The gold market has no shortage of issues following Sunday evening’s “flash crash” that saw prices drop sharply at the open. A mysterious $4 billion sell order – suspiciously placed during the most illiquid time of the day – caused a waterfall … Keep Reading