Harvard professor and economist Ken Rogoff is once again leading the chorus of high-level academics and officials who declare cash is only for criminals. He made his case in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial called the “Sinister Side...
A small handful of outfits in our industry recently sprang up and started heavily promoting a so-called “self-storage” or “LLC” IRA. The pitch is for you to establish an LLC company to store the metals on behalf of your IRA in your home (...
The nation’s pre-eminent central planners just held their annual gathering at an exclusive resort just outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming. They discussed how to interfere even more deeply in markets. In a speech entitled “The Federal Reserve’s...
Gold and silver investors have strong opinions about third-party storage of metals. Privacy, the lack of counterparty risk and precious metals’ role as “crisis money” are among the most attractive features of physical bullion. So it is no...
Precious metals prices recently fell sharply on renewed concerns the Federal Reserve will be raising interest rates sometime this fall. Friday’s jobs report painted a picture of healthy growth, fostering a new round of speculation that...
After years of buying based on progressively lower metal prices, bullion investors find themselves facing a dynamic that has been missing for a while: higher prices. That leaves them in a bit of a quandary -- and many are sitting on their...
Confidence is slippery, even when you are a metals investor sitting atop the best performing assets of 2016. It doesn’t help when four years of a miserable bear market remains fresh in our memories. Any weakness in prices and it can feel...
This year’s presidential election is getting lots of attention, and many are wondering how the outcome might impact the gold and silver markets. How will a Donald Trump victory affect gold prices -- and what will be the impact of a...
A respectable number of Americans hold investments in gold and silver in one form or another. Some hold physical bullion, while others opt for indirect ownership via ETFs or other instruments. A very small minority speculate via the...
It was no fun investing in precious metals for most of 2011-2015, but the past few months have sure been a blast for buy-and-hold investors. Silver prices are up 22.5% year to date, and gold isn’t far behind.