Grab a Calculator Before the CTFC Investigation

“What will happen to silver if manipulation is found?” Can you say, payday?

CTFC’s Silver Involvement Grows Serious

For any long term purchaser of silver, there is no agency more important than the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or the CTFC. The CTFC is charged with ensuring that the futures markets are trading fairly at all times and investigating manipulative trades and fraud within the trading system. Now more than ever, the [...]

Hard Assets Are the Fading Dollar’s Replacement

Foreign nations are shedding US dollars quickly, increasing the price of alternative hedges, such as silver. The astute investor can generate a better return by pinpointing not only what nations are selling, but also what they are buying. Thus far, the Japanese yen and the Euro have been the largest replacements for the [...]

Silver Investing As Your Inflation Hedge

While silver investing may hold great potential for the long haul, silver coins – in particular can be used as a great hedge against inflation.
How do you protect yourself from the ravages of inflation? You can take your assets out of the currency being depreciated. Or you can save any leftover dollars you have to [...]

Silver Prices in a Dollar-Denominated World

A recent  Financial Times article where we read that Tim Geithner tried to convince China that “the US would do what was necessary to bring its budget under control”.
He goes on to say that the government of the USA will bring down “the fiscal deficit to about 3 per cent of gross domestic product”.
Of course, [...]