Category: Economics & Investing

Hugh, Yes, this is true. Most banks do not have any halves on hand. It’s been a few years since they have even been minted for circulation. Ordering a box of $500 is the minimum, and they will expect you to take the box. Some banks even have $1000 min to order. Some banks do not want to be bothered at all. Most likely a bank that you [regularly] bank with will order them, and then you have to dispose [of them]! The bank you order them from will not want them back. Maybe the first time, but not thereafter. …

Conference Video: The Gold/Silver Ratio – Mike Maloney & David Morgan o o o It is noteworthy that President DJT has gone on record as stating that the U.S. Dollar is “too strong” and therefore “hurting exports”. So it is safe to assume that he will pursue weaker Dollar policies. The prospect of these policies is already showing influence in the FOREX market. Be ready for an interest rate crisis and then a Dollar crisis, folks! Hedge into silver, and perhaps a bit into Swiss Francs. The easiest way to do that is to convert most of any lingering positive …

JWR, I have now asked for rolls of $0.50 pieces at two branches of my own bank (in the greater KC area) and one branch of a bank I do not use. All three of them could not produce a single roll. The second branch of my own bank whined about how “they would have to buy a box of 1,000 to get a roll, and they just can’t do this”. So much for culling silver halves. – DAB HJL’s Comment: This is not an unusual occurrence, especially in smaller banks. You may have to actually visit a large bank …

Silver Will Be Too Valuable To Waste As Money – Interview with Bix Weir o o o BIG MOVEMENT AHEAD IN THE SILVER MARKET… Serious Trouble In Paper Markets o o o Social Security has a looming $11 trillion shortfall – B.B. o o o Video: The Dollar is Headed Down. Everybody is going to be caught on the wrong side of this market ad sentiment is excessively bullish. The dollar is going to be due for a three year cycle low sometime in 2017. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please …

The Precious Metals Advantage: Are Silver and Gold a Good Investment? o o o 47% of Jobs Will Disappear in the Next 25 Years, Says Oxford University – G.P. o o o Physical Gold Will ‘Trump’ Paper Gold o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: What ‘border adjusted’ tax means — and why it could be coming to America Peak Prosperity- Mad as Hell o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

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.