Tag Archive for: yield

Is the Yield on Gold Enough?

Is a Yield on Gold Enough?

Monetary Metals pays investors interest on their gold and silver. The availability of a yield on precious metals, instead of fiat currency, is a value proposition that all types of investors are benefitting from. An Old Idea Made New Again Providing a yield on gold and silver may seem like a new phenomenon . But […]

Keith Weiner on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel

Jay Taylor

CEO Keith Weiner returns to popular radio show Turning Hard Times into Good Times hosted by Jay Taylor. Jay argues that the U.S. government hates gold because its rising price shines the light on the destruction of the dollar caused by the Federal Reserve’s printing press used to finance massive government deficits. The detractors of […]

Lower Prices, Stronger Fundamentals

Lower Prices, Stronger Fundamentals

Since last week’s Report, the price action has been downwards. The price of gold dropped about $50, and that of silver $1.35. The gold-silver ratio rose to its highest level since the end of 2020.   Technical chartists are either throwing in the towel, or tearing their hair out. We advise against tearing one’s hair […]

Gold & Silver ETFs: The Fine Print

ETF

These are exciting times for gold & silver ETFs. Bloomberg reported this week that metal-backed ETFs accumulated more than $50 billion of bullion this year. And Nasdaq shows that iShares Silver Trust (SLV) has experienced a $188.2 million dollar inflow over the past 12 months. Headlines excitedly shout about A Golden Opportunity and ETF Land’s […]

Keith Interviewed by Jordan Goodman, Lode, Amy Peikoff and James Valliant

Jordan Goodman https://youtu.be/2VbKzaFp2ps “Is there a way to earn money while holding precious metals? Why do people invest in gold and silver if all they do is hold it while paying storage fees? What’s the difference between investing and speculating when it comes to precious metals? Why should an investor hold gold? Host Jordan Goodman […]

Silver Backwardation Returns, Gold and Silver Market Report 2 March

The big news this week was the drop in the prices of the metals (though we believe that it is the dollar which is going up), $57 and $1.81 respectively. Of course, when the price drops the injured goldbugs come out. We have written the authoritative debunking of the gold and silver price suppression conspiracy […]

The Ultimate Stablecoin, Report 18 Nov 2018

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away we wrote a series of articles arguing that bitcoin is not money and is not sound. Bitcoin was skyrocketing at the time, as we wrote most of them between July 30 and Oct 1 last year. Back in those halcyon days, volatility was deemed to […]

Useless But Not Worthless, Report 21 Oct 2018

Let’s continue to look at the fiasco in the franc. We say “fiasco”, because anyone in Switzerland who is trying to save for retirement has been put on a treadmill, which is now running backwards at –¾ mph (yes, miles per hour in keeping with our treadmill analogy). Instead of being propelled forward towards their […]

Why Am I Fighting for the Gold Standard?

Life is good. They could not have imagined what we have now, back in the dark ages. So I have never understood why people prep for a return to the dark ages. The only thing I can think of is that they don’t really picture what life is like. 14 hours a day of back-breaking […]

An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Report 1 July 2018

“On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées.” These are the actual words written by Victor Hugo in Histoire d’un Crime (History of a Crime).Translated literally, it means an invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted. However, there are many alternative translations that […]