News Articles
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Dutch Bank Wont Deliver
(Read More)In letters received by customers of the large Dutch bank ABN Amro over this past weekend, the bank announced a customer service policy change taking effect on Monday, April 1.
Currently, the bank has stored physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium for their customers. Beginning next week, the bank will no longer allow customers to take physical delivery of the precious metals that they own and are stored at the bank . . . . -
Texas May Start Hoarding Gold…Secession Next?
(Read More)We all know the cliché: ‘Don’t mess with Texas.’ Well, a new piece of legislation is being proposed to send that message to Washington, when it comes to protecting Texas’ gold.
A lawmaker has proposed a bill to create a Texas Bullion Depository ... If passed, the Texas bill would tell Washington to “shove off” under the 10th amendment power given the states . . . .
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Gold Use in India Gaining; May Weaken Attempt to Curb Deficit
(Read More)Gold use in India, the world’s biggest buyer, may climb for the first time in three years as rising incomes and inflation boost investment demand, undermining efforts to narrow a record current-account deficit . . . .
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Arizona lawmakers back Gold, Silver as currency
(Read More)Arizona lawmakers say the global economy is on the precipice of financial ruin and the U.S. dollar could soon be worth less than the paper used to make it.
These doomsayers are pushing forward legislation that would declare privately minted gold and silver coins legal tender, no different under state law than the U.S. dollar printed by the federal Department of Treasury . . . .
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Central Bank Diversification Strategies
(Read More)Today the World Gold Council released a study on the Diversification Strategies being used by Central Banks to move from holding U.S. Dollars and Euros, into Gold.
I believe this is well worth reading at
http://www.mintstategold.com/Central_Bank_Diversification_Strategies-WGC_032013.pdf -
Chinese must buy gold to hedge increasing dollar exposure
(Read More)Chinese must buy gold to hedge their increasing dollar exposure explains gold guru Jim Sinclair -
"There is no doubt in my mind that the price of gold is going to and through $3,500 with unimaginable volatility. All that anti-gold forces can accomplish is to add outrageous volatility to the gold market which will continue and increase in price spread for both the ups and downs . . . ."
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China Reserves Ample to Buy World’s Gold Twice
(Read More)China’s foreign currency reserves, which have surged more than 700 percent since 2004, are enough to buy every central bank’s official gold supply -- twice . . . .
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Golds price may have changed but the fundamental drivers havent
(Read More)Gold prices may have fallen in the short-term, but this bull market is far from over
Only a week ago, the price of gold plunged below $1600 due to the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee minutes from its latest meeting at the end of January. Although prices began to slip ahead of the release of the minutes, the selling accelerated after the minutes hinted that the Fed could possibly end its QE3 debt-monetization campaign sooner rather than later . . . .
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Money printing damage to markets is done whatever Fed does next, Gold’s time still coming
(Read More)Stocks tumbled by the most in three months yesterday after news that Federal Reserve members are divided over the effectiveness of money printing through QE. The markets reacted as though the inflation of . . . .
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Is the U.S. Treasury’s NY Fed gold audit really smoke and mirrors?
(Read More)An audit by Treasury’s Inspector General’s Office of the Federal Reserve’s NY vault gold and a L.A. Times story on the audit may be misleading, an economist maintains . . . .