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Forensic Analysis of Fed Action on Silver Price

  Forensic Analysis of Fed Action on Silver Price The last few days of trading in silver have been a wild ride. On Wednesday morning in New York, six hours before the Fed was to announce its interest rate hike, the price of silver began to drop. I...

Time for a Silver Trade?

  Time for a Silver Trade? The price of silver has been going down,and then down some more.From over $28 a year ago, and over $26.50 a month ago, its now at a new low under $22.50. Four bucks down in a month. However, its been behaving differently...

Oil, the Ruble and Gold Walk into a Bar…Part III

  What A Gold Standard Isnt Can we all recognize the simple fact that every government price-fixing scheme, ever, has failed? For example, banana republics have declared their pesos to be worth $1. But when the market decides to redeem pesos for d...

Oil, the Ruble, and Gold Walk into a Bar…Part II

  The Missing Link Often, Narratives pile up lots of baggage. To effectively deal with it, one must unpack it. One bit of luggage sticking up from the heap is the assertion that now the ruble has a link to oil. This is an indirect appeal to the we...

Oil, the Ruble, and Gold Walk into a Bar…

  Part I – Unpacking the Narrative of how Russia is going to change the global monetary system. There is a Narrative about Russia and how it will change the monetary system. Many analysts in the gold community are promoting this story. Theres ju...

The HaloEffect

  The Halo Effect Its not fair. It seems everything claims to be <something something> gold. Oil is black gold. Melted cheese is liquid gold. Theres even red gold, a tomato company. Its just not fair! It seems like a one-way street. They g...

Human Action in the Silver Market

  Human Action in the Silver Market We have recently seen an increase in social media posts about the big increase in short positions by the bullion banks. What would motivate them to short a commodity during this period of inflation, much less a ...

Gold and Silver: Breaking Out?

  Gold and Silver: Breaking Out? Or Fundamentals Breaking Down? Two weeks ago, we published This is NOT the Silver Breakout Youre Looking For. The silver price had gone from $24 to over $26 and the gold price was up about $50/oz over the same peri...

Mapping the Conflict in the Ukraine

  Dear Readers, the following post has been published on the 3rd of March 2014. Due to the recent historical events we are reposting it, conscient of the prescience of the meanwhile passed author, Pater Tenebrarum. Michael, Editor   Russian T...