Media Botches Unemployment Reporting
Investors reacted to the jobs data as the financial media trumpeted unemployment "falling" to 5.5% in last week's jobs report....
Clint Siegner
March 9th, 2015
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Investors reacted to the jobs data as the financial media trumpeted unemployment "falling" to 5.5% in last week's jobs report....
Clint Siegner
March 9th, 2015
Whether later this year or further down the road, it's only a matter of time before currency turmoil spreads to the United States....
Stefan Gleason
March 4th, 2015
Americans once walked down the street with gold and silver jingling in their pockets and thought nothing of it. Today, precious metal coins are so marginalized some customers wonder if they might one ...
Clint Siegner
March 2nd, 2015
Safeguarding a portion of your savings by moving it outside of the system (not just holding everything in banking or traditional retirement accounts) is like wearing a seatbelt. There's no downside. B...
David Smith
February 25th, 2015
Producing a beautiful silver round is a whole lot harder than it might seem. Money Metals Exchange utilizes some of the best run mints in the country to produce our rounds, and we have toured them all...
Clint Siegner
February 23rd, 2015
The Fed's decision to lavish money on these bankers was hard for Americans to stomach and didn't seem at all wise or fair. Today a whole lot of folks are no longer willing to simply accept what Fed of...
Clint Siegner
February 17th, 2015
Shortly after Sen. Paul introduced S. 264, the Wall Street Journal online, in a column that reports on Global Central Banks, carried a headline "Yellen Prepared to Fight a Revived 'Audit the Fed' Move...
Money Metals News Service
February 12th, 2015
The number of Americans with full-time jobs as a percentage of the population is at the lowest level in 40 years. Bureaucrats shift the perception by simply not counting long-term unemployed people....
Clint Siegner
February 9th, 2015
In balloting conducted over a two month-period ending on January 31, Money Metals Exchange topped a field of 422 eligible dealers in the United States. Ultimately, precious metals customers and indus...
Money Metals News Service
February 3rd, 2015
Government employment statistics distort the true human misery of 102 million out of work – 43 million men and 59 million women over age 16 – who cannot provide for themselves or their families wi...
Guy Christopher
January 27th, 2015
The U.S. is currently losing in the global race to devalue currencies. Rather than falling, the dollar began moving higher relative to other major currencies late last spring when the Fed assured mark...
Clint Siegner
January 26th, 2015
The Swiss exited their costly euro peg ahead of a widely expected quantitative easing announcement this Thursday from the European Central Bank. Europe's central bankers have been grappling with an a...
Stefan Gleason
January 19th, 2015
One of these days, China may reveal just how much gold it does hold, alongside a possible decision to enable a newly gold-backed currency, the Yuan, to make its debut on the world's financial stage....
David Smith
January 15th, 2015
The bullion market is extraordinarily competitive. Speculating in "rare" coins, when the entire business model of many prominent dealers is to capitalize on customers' inexperience, is not an investme...
Clint Siegner
January 12th, 2015
The moment of truth is fast approaching for Fed officials who went "all-in" on Keynes' prescriptions following the 2008 financial crisis. Sometime this year, their convictions may be put to the ultima...
Clint Siegner
January 5th, 2015
The "year that was" brought mostly disappointment to precious metals bulls. Silver prices fell for the third straight year, while gold mostly flat-lined around the $1,200 per-ounce level....
Stefan Gleason
December 31st, 2014
Debt is a rock, and spending reform is a hard place. The taxpayers of today and tomorrow are saddled with crushing obligations....
Clint Siegner
December 29th, 2014
"Sound money" has a clear message recognized for centuries around the world. It describes the musical, metallic ring of a gold, silver, or copper coin dropped on any hard surface of glass, stone, woo...
Guy Christopher
December 24th, 2014
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) introduced the notion that the timing of interest rate hikes will be tied to price inflation. With CPI currently well below their 2% - 3% target (and falling),...
Clint Siegner
December 22nd, 2014
The Federal Open Market Committee meets again this week, and investors will be watching the announcement that follows closely....
Clint Siegner
December 15th, 2014