April in Precious Metals by Steven Cochran of Gainesville Coins
…includes using their U.S. subsidiary, Citgo, as collateral for a $1.5 billion loan from Russian state-owned oil conglomerate, Rosneft. If the Venezuelans default on this loan, Russia will gain all Citgo refineries, oil terminals, and pipelines, becoming the largest foreign owner of U.S. oil infrastructure. This would enable Putin to threaten to bring America to its knees by disrupting the flow of oil from wellfields to refineries, if sanctions over the Russian invasion of Crimea aren’t lifted. Mining Justin Spittler at Casey Research says “Get Ready For The Biggest Gold Move In Years”, saying “the trend is your friend” and the trend is moving into gold. The largest gold mining companies in the world are exhausting their existing gold deposits. So it’s only natural that they have become really interested in the new high-purity gold strikes happening in the Yukon. The small gold exploration companies who bet everything that the…