precious metals

The stock market, for years a friend to anyone with money in the market, has now turned. Flat is the new up and down is the new normal. On the…

Last year I speculated that 2015 was going to be a tougher year for equities than what we’ve been used to seeing and gold prices would rebound. So far 2015…

For investors saying that 2015 started off with a bang would be a massive understatement. While it was fairly easy to see that volatility was coming, the size of the…

Predicting the future is always a risky enterprise because the future has a way of making fools of us all. That’s particularly true when it comes to investing. If we…

The price of silver has increased 5% since the beginning of the year, reflecting healthy investor and industrial demand, according to a report from the Washington, DC-based Silver Institute. Silver…

When it comes to gold, the investment community suffers from a kind of financial Bipolar Disorder. It swings back and forth, from a pure lust for gold… to unmitigated contempt.…

When it comes to precious metals IRAs, there’s only one person I would turn to for advice, and that’s Trevor Gerszt, president of Goldco Precious Metals. Trevor’s company specializes in…

When Barclays plc became the latest big bank to get caught trying to manipulate the London Gold Fix, the benchmark price for gold traders around the world, it was a wake…

Last week, the state of Oklahoma made it official — as of November 1st of this year, gold and silver will be legal tender. The Sooner State is the fourth (following Utah, Texas,…

Half-billionaire publishing heir and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes called for the United States to return to the gold standard this week, speaking in a web video hosted on Newsmax.…

Right now, there are about 170,000 metric tonnes, or about 187,000 tons, of gold above ground on the planet Earth. If it were all melted down and cast into a…

It’s been talked about for years. It’s been the subject of angry debates and dynamic investment seminars. But each time the subject comes up, it’s summarily dismissed as the ranting and…