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Opportunistically minded retail customers swooped in and bought large quantities of gold and silver coins, rounds, and bars last week, as precious metals spot prices accelerated to the downside. Trad...
Clint Siegner
September 22nd, 2014
Our precious metals Specialists enjoy addressing the many excellent questions posed by our customers on an individual basis, and we do our best to share some of the most common questions and answers i...
Clint Siegner
September 17th, 2014
At least one official inside our own Treasury Department now has something in common with officials in Russia and China. He believes it is time to put an end to the dollar as the world's reserve curre...
Clint Siegner
September 15th, 2014
In past years, governments and central banks have suppressed gold and silver prices by sending massive amounts of physical metal to market....
Guy Christopher
September 10th, 2014
Merit Gold and Silver goes down in flames. And Tulving closed its doors and filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year, reportedly stiffing customers for tens of millions of dollars....
Clint Siegner
September 4th, 2014
Palladium's outstanding performance this year isn't generating much coverage in the financial media, but it is grabbing the attention of some astute investors. Palladium prices are up nearly 24% for t...
Clint Siegner
September 2nd, 2014
Independent Living Bullion has transformed into more than simply your trusted source for low-cost gold and silver coins, bars, and rounds – we're now ready to offer a full suite of secure, convenien...
Stefan Gleason
September 1st, 2014
The production of precious metals – as well as the base metals copper, lead, and zinc usually found in conjunction with them – presents a certain amount of environmental risk between the time they...
David Smith
August 27th, 2014
The FOMC minutes released last week confirmed the Fed bond purchase program, which has run nearly continuously for the past 6 years, will end in the fall. Meanwhile, they've suggested they will begin ...
Clint Siegner
August 25th, 2014
Over the past few years, a sea change in international finance has been underway which will impact your pocketbook in a big way. Little noticed at first, it is becoming more obvious (and dangerous) wi...
David Smith
August 20th, 2014
This month's dam breach at a waste pond constructed many years ago at Imperial Metals Corp's gold and copper mine has made waves throughout the mining community....
Clint Siegner
August 18th, 2014
Instead of calculating the worth of your gold and silver in dollars, count your precious metals in ounces. This frees you from fretting when the dollar price is down, which should only be a welcome s...
Guy Christopher
August 14th, 2014
The central banks of Russia and China moved last week to seal a currency swap agreement that will allow the two powers to conduct more trade in their own respective currencies....
Stefan Gleason
August 11th, 2014
There is a long list of illegal and legal ways of stealing your money, ranging from fraud, to mismanagement, to hiking your taxes, to destroying your purchasing power through deliberate inflation....
Guy Christopher
August 6th, 2014
Fed Chair Janet Yellen is openly critical of the central bank's response to the 2008 crisis; saying her predecessor, Ben Bernanke, printed too little money too late. It seems safe to say she will not ...
Clint Siegner
August 4th, 2014
The market for Bitcoin is tiny and prone to huge swings. And there are a lot of competitors. To ultimately succeed, it must prove itself as the best mousetrap against a field of 417 other cryptocurren...
Clint Siegner
July 28th, 2014
Like most, you probably store your gold and silver close at hand. After all, that's largely what precious metals are for. Now it's time to take another important step… one you may not have conside...
Guy Christopher
July 24th, 2014
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Esther George said a strengthening U.S. economy and job market means the Fed should begin raising interest rates "relatively soon."...
Clint Siegner
July 21st, 2014
Facing continued charges of corruption, exploitation, and mismanagement, Big Banks have been spending billions of dollars on advertising to persuade the public of the wisdom of opening traditional sav...
Clint Siegner
July 14th, 2014
Paper currency was introduced by the Chinese around 1400 years ago. After a pretty good run as a "money substitute," the authorities got carried away with new issuance, and their currency declined to ...
David Smith
July 10th, 2014
