Tag Archive: gold price

What Went Wrong With the 21st Century?

2017-08-11

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2017-08-11

Lydian gold stater minted under King Croesus ~540 BC.
POITOU, FRANCE – “So how much did you make last night?” “We made about $15,000,” came the reply from our eldest son, a keen cryptocurrency investor. “Bitcoin briefly pierced the $3,500 mark – an all-time high. The market cap of the entire crypto market shot up, too… with daily trading volume also rising.

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Bitcoin Forked – Precious Metals Supply and Demand Report

2017-08-08

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2017-08-08

Gold and silver prices
Keith Weiner’s weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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Gold Consolidates On 2.5percent Gain In July After Dollar Has 5th Monthly Decline

2017-08-06

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2017-08-06

Gold in USD, Jan 2013 - 2017
Gold consolidates on 2.5% gain in July as the dollar has fifth monthly decline. Trump administration and vicious “civil war” politics casting shadow over America and impacting dollar. All eyes on non farm payrolls today for further signs of weakness in U.S. economy. Gold recovers from 1.7% decline in June as dollar falls. Gold outperforms stocks and benchmark S&P 500 YTD.

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Bitcoin, Gold and Silver

2017-08-01

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2017-08-01

Banksy’s “Keep it Spotless”
Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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Against Irredeemable Paper – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-07-26

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2017-07-26

Gold and Silver Prices
Something needs to be said. We are against the existence of irredeemable paper currency, central banking and central planning, cronyism, socialized losses and privatized gains, counterfeit credit, wealth transfers and bailouts, and welfare both corporate and personal.

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Fighting inflation with FX, a real traders market

2017-07-20

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2017-07-20

Gain Change, Currencies Popularity, Reward: Risk Ratios, Average Holding Time
The much anticipated document (press release and link to full document) released by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the Trump administration aimed to reduce the U.S. trade deficit by improving access for U.S. goods exported to Canada and Mexico and contained the list of negotiating objectives for talks that are expected to begin in one month.

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Stockholm Syndrome – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-07-18

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2017-07-18

Charles Ponzi
Stockholm Syndrome is defined as “…a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity.” While observers would expect kidnapping victims to fear and loathe the gang who imprison and threaten them, the reality is that some don’t.

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A Look at the Gold and Silver Price Drop of 3 July, 2017

2017-07-08

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2017-07-08

Luckless Goldbug
Keith Weiner’s weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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What Really Happened When Gold Crashed, Monday June 26?

2017-07-05

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2017-07-05

Gold Price Versus Gold Basis
Keith Weiner’s weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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What Is the Fundamental Gold Price? Precious Metals Supply and Demand [extended version]

2017-06-27

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2017-06-27

US Gold Price vs Gold Fundatamentals
Keith Weiner’s weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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New Gold Pool at the BIS Switzerland: A Who’s Who of Central Bankers

2017-06-13

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2017-06-13

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Headquarters
A central bank Gold Pool which many people will be familiar with operated in the gold market between November 1961 and March 1968. That Gold Pool was known as the London Gold Pool.

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Gold Prices Steady On UK Election Risk; ECB Meeting and Geopolitical Risk

2017-06-08

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2017-06-08

U.K. Gold Price, January 2013 - June 2017
Gold held steady on Thursday as investors awaited cues on market direction amid a number of geopolitical events later in the day that could boost the safe-haven demand for the metal.

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Gold Prices Break 6-Year-Long Downtrend On Safe Haven and 50percent Surge In Chinese Demand

2017-06-07

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2017-06-07

Gold prices technical 2008-2017
Gold prices break 6 year down trend on safe haven demand (see charts). Chinese gold demand set to surge 50% to 1,000 metric tonnes. Chinese demand for gold bars on track to surge more than 60 percent in 2017. Geopolitical risk internationally leading to safe haven demand. UK election, terrorism and rising tensions in Middle East supporting gold after attacks in London and attacks in Iran today.

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Stocks, Bonds, Euro, and Gold Go Up – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-06-06

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2017-06-06

Margin Debt, 1965 - 2017
Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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Gold Data Science – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-05-30

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2017-05-30

High Stakes Poker
Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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New Gold Pool at the BIS Basle: Part 2 – Pool vs Gold for Oil

2017-05-26

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2017-05-26

Gold Price, Spetember 1979 - April 1980
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. The series focuses on collusive discussions and meetings that took place between the world’s most powerful central bankers in late 1979 and 1980 in an attempt to launch a central bank Gold Pool cartel to manipulate and control the free market price of gold. The meetings centered around the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basle, Switzerland.

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The Gnome Underpants Gold Model – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-05-23

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2017-05-23

Getting rich quick
Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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An update on SGE Vault Withdrawals and SGE Price Premiums

2017-05-20

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2017-05-20

SGE Gold Withdrawals, 2008 - May 2017
In 2016, withdrawals of gold from the Shanghai Gold Exchange totalled 1970 tonnes, the 4th highest annual total on record. This was 24% less than SGE gold withdrawals recorded in 2015, which reached a cumulative 2596 tonnes (See Koos Jansen’s 6 January 2017 blog at BullionStar “How The West Has Been Selling Gold Into A Black Hole” for more details of the 2016 withdrawals).

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A Bumper Under that Silver Elevator – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

2017-05-16

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2017-05-16

Book - A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top
Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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Bi-Weekly Economic Review

2017-05-09

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2017-05-09

The economic reports since the last economic update were generally less than expected and disappointing. The weak growth of the last few years had been supported by autos and housing while energy has been a wildcard. When oil prices fell, starting in mid-2014 and bottoming in early 2016, economic growth suffered as the shale industry retrenched.

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