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I would add that debt creation from banks has created high property prices. Rental yields haven't provided support to property prices as rents have risen at a much slower pace than property prices. If bank lending wasn't sufficiently available long term, then buyers overall would lack the...

SGE calls itself a physical delivery market. But there are stacks of regulations to navigate if you want to physically take bullion out of their system. I recommend a look at their delivery rules........... http://www.en.sge.com.cn/eng_rules_Delivery On that webpage, I've already had a look...

There are price charts. If you click on 'Charts' in the top menu, a new page with a range of exchange rate and PM charts appears.

I'd like to see the fraudsters try to rip-off $1 million by making physical cash withdrawals at a bank. Internet security has proven to be the big risk to dollars held, far more so than physical cash fraud.

In a nutshell - governments have to rip-off the populace with taxes to pay for the war effort. That's why it's popular to conceal wealth from view by holding more PM's. The severity of the war is a factor which may determine how much more PM people hold.

Ainslie, you could offer a more realistic (and dire) diagnosis. To quote your calculation........ "Divided by our population, say 24 million and we all have a government and consumer debt of $112,791." That is, you include ALL Australians in your assessment, as if ALL are able the support the...

There is a variety of advice accessible on the internet. This advice, plus my assessment of world debt based asset failure trends, makes me believe that large buyers of gold or silver are finding it increasingly hard to make purchases in large volumes. They sell their dying in value government...

It seems like there are plenty of perma-bears who aren't aware of the underlying changes in the paper gold or paper silver market. My crystal ball is crude - but I think Skyrocket is on the right track.

Aside from the question of a safe multiple of debt to GDP or personal income - a basic reality check is required. Downward movement in GDP or personal income happens (eg recessions/economic crises happen) , so debt multiples become unsupportable at times (ie lenders liquidate loans). It's...

Welcome Brad.

The fed has supposidly raised interest rates prior to this rising silver and gold trend...

Any discussion of interest rates has to consider the largest debt market in the world - government bonds and in particular US treasury bonds. From what I can see, yields on government bonds have begun trending up in the last several months - that is bond prices going down which indicates...

Gresham's law would happen at a faster rate. People in Utah will be keener to swap their FRN's for silver/gold as confidence in future transaction usefulness of silver/gold is improved by the government bill. Why the rush to transact in gold/silver as value in hand is going up over time while...

The first of the Nixon videos above should wake people up. Official explanations of a rising gold price as being mostly due to speculators is untrue. Nixon disconnected the $US from gold in 1971 and the work of central bank policies has all the time continued to degrade the value of currencies...

According to the video, people were crying manipulation when the gold price rose rapidly from US$35 in the 1960's for no apparant reason. On one level - what's the big deal ! After all, gold has minimal uses (for example compared to copper or oil). I guess the only problem was that the price...