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 [...]
To understand silver – in every regard, I’ve found it useful, if not a bit frustrating, to understand the market from a number of perspectives.
I should know better than to hope that everyone will see the silver opportunity the way I do.
People are busy and this is a small space. And that goes against the [...]
For silver coin investors, more news from China points to a new phase in dollar diversification, adding orders of magnitude to the bullish case for silver.
A number of reports and some famous commentary have pointed out that efforts are being made by the US Mint and others (China being a stand-out) to encourage its citizens to buy silver coins or bullion.
And the same goes for gold.
At first this seems to be at odds with what one might expect.
Most times it [...]
No other asset has properties where it is useful both for industry and store of value. Not only that, but it also happens to come in the form of a coin that you can buy from a store.