History of Precious Metal Prices

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THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA
Our forefathers were opposed to the “Free Trade” system. They believed America’s political independence (national security) depended upon industrial independence. That is why the United States had the highest industrial tariff rate in the entire world from 1830 to after World War II. For more than 150 years, the American System protected U.S. labor and industry from […]
Why Buy PHYSICAL Gold? Charles Dupont’s True Story
This true story was told by Robert Strebel at a Financial Times World Gold Conference in Vienna, Austria in 1988. Strebel was a Member of the Executive Committee of the bank J. Vontobel & Co. Ltd. of Zurich, Switzerland. He ended his talk by telling “the story of a friend of mine, Charles Dupont.” “At […]
Weimar: First DEFLATION Then INFLATION
Today, the entire global economy is deflating. Industrial demand and manufacturing are collapsing worldwide. Once economic deflation is underway, debt snowballs. The Federal Reserve will turn the money spigots wide open to mitigate the paralyzing effects of deflation on the U.S. consumption-economy. For now, the dollar is strong because the yen and the Euro are weakening […]
FEDERAL RESERVE DOUBLE WHAMMY
The currency of the United States was backed by silver and gold for one hundred-eighty years (from 1792 to 1971). During this era of sound money, the rise in the over-all prosperity of the citizenry of the nation was meteoric. The poorest immigrants enjoyed upward economic-mobility. If you are wondering why the living standards for […]
The Federal Reserve is a Cartel.
Three years before Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, representatives of European and American banking families clandestinely gathered at an exclusive get-away owned by J. Pierpont Morgan and John Davison Rockefeller. After more than a week of intense negotiations, they hammered out the agreement for the “United Reserve System” [today’s “Federal Reserve System”]. FORMATION OF THE GREATEST […]
The “MONEY” Follows Gold & Silver.
In 2013, gold futures had the first annual drop since 2000. That is what happened in the PAPER gold market. The New York Commodities Exchange (COMEX) sells derivatives; the exchange sells the same ounce (1 oz) of PHYSICAL gold or silver hundreds of times. Take a look at what happened in markets that traded actual […]
Hunt Brothers & 1980 Silver Short Squeeze
The last major silver short squeeze was in 2011. During the 1980 squeeze, the New York and Chicago exchanges halted silver trading several times. Whenever markets were disrupted, the prices quoted in New York did not match the prices buyers had to pay per ounce for actual bars of silver. Premiums above the spot price for […]

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