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It is common knowledge that Japan is in extreme financial difficulties, and that the currency is most likely to sink and sink. After all, Government debt to GDP is over 250%, and the rate of increase of retirees has…
Read the articleWhile the gold and silver markets generally had a more neutral week after recent gains GoldMoney customers have been buying across the board in the busiest week's trading of the year. Head of Dealing and Settlements at…
Read the articleAlasdair Macleod speaks to Alex Iszatt on Dukascopy TV's Commodities Corner. Dukascopy Bank is a Swiss innovative online bank providing Internet based and mobile trading services (with focus on foreign exchange, bullion…
Read the articleThe Northern Miner recently invited James Turk, the London-based gold analyst and founder of GoldMoney, and mining legend Rob McEwen of McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX), to discuss their views on a number of issues…
Read the articleWith continued turmoil in major markets, James Turk told King World News that despite concerns about Friday's COT report, the gold and silver markets may now be set for a monster short squeeze that will make history. He…
Read the articleIt is three weeks since the managed money category on Comex placed their biggest bet ever recorded in recent times that silver was going lower, and also bet big-time that gold would sink below $1200. As is often the…
Read the articleA recent report by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) entitled Global Public Investor 2014 discussed the investment strategies of 400 government investors split into 157 central banks, 156…
Read the articleGold has been trading at two-month highs with the outbreak of violence in Iraq and a weak dollar bringing its safe haven qualities back in the spotlight. This week, investors became more nervous about shares with the…
Read the articleWe're facing a future in which the economic growth the world has enjoyed over the past century can no longer continue. Over-indebtedness, mal-investment, cronyism, manipulation, and misguided policymaking have all…
Read the articleWith the Eurozone going to the extreme of negative interest rates and the IMF belatedly revising downwards their expectations of US economic growth, deflation is now the favoured buzzword. It is time to untangle myth…
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