Category: Economics & Investing

The Little Rascals Of Government Want Your 401K Account – B.B. o o o U.S. Shale To Kill Off Oil Price Rally. Oil prices have been showing signs of weakness last week, affected by bearish production and inventory data from the U.S. o o o Gold’s Blistering Gain This Week Rewarded Contrarian Traders…But Can The Rally Continue? o o o Why Fractional-Reserve Banking Would Be Limited in an Unhampered Market o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Is The U.S. Government Insolvent? Sorry, But Its Accountant Can’t Tell You – H.L. o o o Let Businesses Decide for Themselves Where to Make Their Products o o o Gold Sees Modest Selling Pressure After Mixed Retail Sales Numbers o o o The Chinese Have A Jaw-Dropping $22 Trillion In Bank Deposits – What This Means For Gold & China Bears o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

PRECIOUS METALS INVESTORS: Are You Prepared For The Great Financial Enema? o o o Gold Prices: Correction Or Crash? o o o Fed Pays Banks $12 Billion on “Excess Reserves,” Taken from Taxpayer Pockets – H.L. o o o Christmas Fizzles: Retail Sales Except Autos, Gas, Fall Flat o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Investors Bolt Mexico as Peso Enters Free Fall – G.P. o o o The Fed Needs Competition, Not Rules o o o Gold Holding $1,200 As Weekly Jobless Claims Rise By 10K o o o John Hathaway – China Is Preparing To Radically Reprice Gold Higher As Demise Of The COMEX & LBMA Accelerates o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Three former London-based traders face US charges over currency rigging – G.G. o o o Lincoln Cent Roll Searching: What I Found in a $25 Box of Pennies – DSV o o o The “Curse” of Labor-Saving Machinery Is Nothing New o o o Record 95.1 million Americans not in the labor force. The challenge of having an army of non-working adults. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

It is notable that spot gold is now at around $1,187 per Troy ounce, while platinum is down around $978. This nearly $200 price disparity means that you can buy slabbed (PCGS graded) platinum U.S. Mint Liberty bullion coins for less than equivalent weight gold U.S. Mint Liberty bullion coins that are loose (ungraded). In my estimation, that makes platinum a screaming “Buy!”, especially with President Trump’s tax cuts just around the corner. (Those cuts should encourage an economic revival, which will likely mean a return to the historic norm of platinum selling for more than gold.) – JWR o …

After some profit-taking after flirting with the $1,000 USD mark, the value of Bitcoins has dropped to around $894 USD. It’s not shabby, for those who invested in Bitcoins when 1BTC cost less than $20. o o o The U.S. Empire Would Have Collapsed Decades Ago If It Didn’t Abandon The Gold Standard o o o Here’s a unique sign of inflation o o o Gold And Silver Price Forecast: This Week’s Price Action Being Crucial To Trend o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

A major danger of paper money: Rupees cancelled – DSV o o o Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Spends Nearly $6M On Vacation While Nation Starves. For more details about what is happening in Zimbabwe, read Cathy Buckle’s heartbreaking newsletters. o o o More Older Americans Taking Out Student Loans – G.G. o o o Prince Was Apparently Hoarding Gold Bars – G.G. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Yes, this is true. However, while I have not searched a lot of boxes of halves, pretty much I have found at least one or two per box searched with the most being 12. Yes, getting them back to a bank can be a pain, but they can be spent or brought to a counter. It’s kind of fun to search and find the silver at face value. ?- DSV

“Depressed” Millennials Are Convinced The Trump Economy Is Going To Implode – H.L. o o o Money-Supply Growth Accelerates in Late 2016 o o o Factory Orders Plunge 2.4% Taking Away Most of Last Month’s Rise o o o Jobs Report Jump Starts Dow and Dollar o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

James and Hugh, I stopped searching about eight years ago; I found that I used 1000 bucks eleven times. I found zero silver coins. (I’m not saying it’s all gone, just that I had bad luck.) My luck was bad enough that I decided that the only thing I was finding was a lower gas gauge on my little car while driving from my pickup bank to my dump bank. I did manage to get part of a walking liberty half book filled the year before. I’m just saying that the guys doing coin roll hunting for halves have a …

Record 95,102,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Number Grew 18% Since Obama Took Office in 2009 – G.G. o o o The False Economic Recovery Narrative Will Die In 2017 – B.B. o o o Video: Gold “Gold is now in the advancing phase of a new intermediate cycle. Bearish sentiment at the recent bottom was among the most extreme readings we have seen in the past 40 years. This should be the fuel to drive a really big rally”. o o o Yuan Intervention Poised to Fail: All Not Well in Middle Kingdom o o o SurvivalBlog and its …

Americans Fleeing High-Tax States According to National Movers Study – H.L. o o o The $1,000 Kennedy Half Dollar Roll Search – DSV o o o The Elite’s Dream of a Cash Ban is Now Closer Than Ever – B.B. o o o Has U.S. Gasoline Demand Peaked? Since 2014, U.S. gasoline demand has soared as inexpensive oil has seen gas guzzlers gain popularity, but EV’s and high oil prices may soon change that. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

British consumers borrow at fastest rate in 11 years as inflation threat rises o o o What Is This “Neutral” Interest Rate Touted by the Fed? o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: ‘Audit the Fed’ bill gets new push under Trump Federal Debt Climbs $1,054,647,941,626.91 in 2016 50 days of pain: What happened when India trashed its cash – I do like how it shows you the value of cash taken out and the value of the cash put back in and how to explain this is supposed to work? o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not …

Welcome to SurvivalBlog’s Precious Metals Month in Review, where we take a look at “the month that was” in precious metals. Each month, we cover the price action of gold and examine the “what” and “why” behind those numbers. What Did Gold Do in December? Gold started December at $1,177 an ounce, a 10-month low. The Trump Rally in both stocks and the dollar showed no sign of slowing down, with precious metals and bonds taking a hit. Gold fell 1% after the far-right candidate’s loss in December 5th’s Presidential election in Austria eased safe haven demand in Europe. The …