Silver

July 5, 2010

  • Buying Junior Gold and Silver Mining Stocks

    "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from the defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
    John Quincy Adams

    After the wildly enthusiastic response to my piece last week (on selling your gold jewelry) I thought I'd look at what you should do with your new-found cash. (…)

January 29, 2010

September 3, 2009

August 17, 2009

  • China "Suggests" its Citizens Buy Silver

    Huh?  In 1965, our government took silver out of our coinage, and told Americans  NOT to buy it.  Hmmm, with silver trading almost $35 below where it traded in 1980, perhaps it would be a good idea to follow the recommendation of the Chinese media.  The Chinese were on a silver coinage standard for centuries…  Re-education anyone?

July 17, 2009

  • Don't Overestimate Gensler & "Position Limits" on Gold and Silver

    Mr. Gensler feels the need to impose position limits because he's worried that the Chinese or the Russkies might swoop in to the Crimex metal pits, buy a lot of contracts, and request actual physical delivery. This would ruin the game for Gensler's Wall Street buddies. (The darn Asians might even object to the hokey ETF physical delivery and do something unkind like sue for specific performance.) So Da Boyz have to move out in front of this problem and change the rules pre-emptively.

January 27, 2009

June 17, 2008

  • A Hidden Silver Default?

    This from Ted Butler, the best silver analyst I ever read, at www.silverseek.com

    The article is available at this link:
    http://www.investmentrarities.com/06-16-08.html
    Silver is still what - $33 below the price it traded for in
    1980? (…)