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Market Report: Consolidation continues

This week precious metals continued to consolidate January's gains in volatile financial markets, with both gold and silver range-bound. Platinum and palladium are up on the week, noticeably stronger than gold and…

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Sovereign Bonds

Today's obvious mispricing of sovereign bonds is a bonanza for spending politicians and allows over-leveraged banks to build up their capital. This mispricing has gone so far that negative interest rates have become…

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Historic Revolt

James Turk spoke to King World News to say that a historic revolt against corrupt Western banksters is now underway. He also cautioned that a "ticking time-bomb" is set to explode and discussed what this will mean for…

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More euro-tragedy

Despite the uncertainties ahead of the Greek general election, the European Central Bank (ECB) went ahead and announced quantitative easing (QE) of €60bn per month from March to at least September 2016. What makes this…

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Market Report: Consolidating gains

Gold and silver prices consolidated recent gains this week, both having become overbought short-term, and they now appear to be building a base before an attempt to convincingly attack higher ground, though yesterday's…

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