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Why Young Chinese Consumers Are Shunning Gold
Generational shifts can be jarring, especially these days
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Will Silver Prices Rise in 2020?
As we head toward year-end pundits are going public with their views on next year. As you know your friendly Gold Enthusiast hates this annual exercise, mostly because predictions are almost always wrong for complex
Read More »The Reason Billions of Gold & Cash Are Disappearing
Your friendly The Gold Enthusiast is not a conspiracy theorist. But looking around you have to think something funny is going on. Central banks say they have things under control – yet they’re buying gold.
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Could There Be Turbulance Ahead for Gold?
Boris Johnson led the Conservatives to the win in yesterday’s UK elections, which promises more turbulence ahead. Johnson promised a Brexit deal would get to the House of Commons in January. But that doesn’t mean a
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Silver Prices Pop After Recent Fed Statement
After last week’s outstanding employment figures, investors expected a fairly dull FOMC release yesterday. After all, what more is there to say other than “gee, things seem to be going well, so we’re going to
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Why India Sovereign Gold Bonds Are Failing Big
In 2015 India launched its Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme – really. Yes, someone actually officially named it that way. The idea behind the “scheme” seems normal enough: People could buy gov’t paper backed by gold in
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Silver Price Forecast: Investors Should Be Bearish
Silver hasn’t given traders much to cheer about lately. Following the peak in September it’s been a story of aborted pops and failed follow-through. But is the chart starting to say a different story
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Gold’s Volatility to Continue This Week
Gold faces a volatile week ahead as uncertainties abound
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Why is Gold Sinking Today?
Gold and silver prices are trading lower in the wake of a very upbeat U.S. economic report that falls squarely into the camp of the U.S. monetary policy hawks, who do not want to see the
Read More »How Much Silver (SLV) Is Above Ground?
One key factor when trying to figure out a market is How Much Of (it) Is There? If (it) is rare, then prices are likely to be held up by a lack of supply. Everyone knows gold is
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