Bullion Market Tools & Resources

All that is paper does not glitter

April 21, 2010

The following article by Adrian Douglas of GATA provides an overview of the recent CFTC hearings into silver market manipulation by big investment banks such as JP Morgan and HSBC. GATA also label the London Bullion Market Association (LMBA) a giant 100 to 1 leveraged ponzi scheme. It is important to note that all the worlds Mints, many governments, ETF's, Exchanges, banks, bullion dealers, hedge funds and large investors own or hedge gold and silver positions via the LMBA. If the market realises the LMBA is in fact a huge naked short paper ponzi scheme we could see a short squeeze that makes 1980 look like a minor blip. To quote a key LBMA executive when he was asked what happens if 2% of holders request physical metal delivery........."we then go into price discovery". Got your physical gold and silver?

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Gold is better value today at $1100 than it was at $300

January 07, 2010

Global investing guru Marc Faber believes that gold is less expensive today at $1100 per ounce than it was below $300 in 2001 due to an explosion of foreign exchange reserves in the world, zero interest rates, the huge debt overhang, and the expectation of further money printing

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The psychology of buying silver

January 02, 2010

Accumulate on dips. Thin market volume and downside volatility in Gold and especially Silver, presents a wonderful accumulation opportunity for precious metal investors

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Shoebox in Sydney or a chateau in France

May 10, 2009

Professor Steve Keen of the University of Western Sydney said he expected the Australian housing market to crash spectacularly. "We are going to see huge levels of unemployment, people will be forced to sell their houses and this will bring prices crashing down. "I'm expecting a depression out of this economic crisis and house prices will simply not hold up when a depression is occurring."

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