While owning precious metals will be a very wise store of wealth and investment in the future, silver will actually turn out to be the “King of Investment Gains.” A good barometer of the retail gold and silver market is shown by the eagle sales at the U.S. Mint.

Rabobank Defaulting on Gold by Halting Delivery of Bullion, Paper Supply vs Physical Demand, Big Withdrawals of Gold & Silver From the Comex, Physical Gold Shortage Now Reaching Extremes, What If All Prices Were Manipulated ?, Gold Backwardation, Why Detroit is good for gold

Grant Williams provides an all-encompassing collection of the facts, explanations, charts, and data of the whats and whys of recent gold price action

There is an ongoing clash between the forces of paper supply and physical demand – paper supply has won the latest round, but its objective of satisfying and slaking demand for the real metal has failed entirely.

Rabobank has just followed in the footsteps of ABN Amro which effectively defaulted by halting deliveries of gold bullion in April, as the Dutch bank will close customers’ gold accounts effective September 1st!

Physical Gold Will Give Investors Peace, Gold Wars, China Reportedly Planning to Back the Yuan with Gold, The Fed & German Gold Is Gone, Bernanke Tells Congress: I Don't Really Understand Gold, A New Danger Looming For Banks : Interest Rates Going Up

The gold is gone. It’s been hypothecated and rehypothecated. Not only do the Fed and the U.S. Treasury not own 8,000+ tons, they probably own nothing.

Gold has played a central and positive role in human history since the dawn of civilization. Speech given by Ferdinand Lips at the University of St. Gallen on 24 June 2004 as part of the International Finance & Security lecture series.

Gold Prices Like In 1976, The Physical Gold Market Will Prevail, Bill Murphy on the Manipulated Gold Drop, Your Money is not Safe in an Insured Bank Account, The Golden Backwardation Rabbit Hole Gets Deeper, Gold Market Tightens Signaling Possible Price Recovery, Here Is The Investment Opportunity O...

Think Your Money is Safe in an Insured Bank Account? A trend to shift responsibility for bank losses onto blameless depositors lets banks gamble away your money.

Press Review: How Germany Disrupted the World's Gold Market, Gold Bug Bashing, Russia and China Building their Gold Reserves, « Draghigate » looming, The true importance of gold lies in its possession, not its price

Why couldn't Germany have the return of its own property for seven years? Think about this. And perhaps what is happening now will become more clear. It is all a part of the credibility trap, wherein past actions of officials must be hidden in order to protect careers and ensure the orderly function...

China Showing Some Cracks, Are Gold And Silver Finding A Bottom?, Physical Gold Market In Disconnect As Premiums Hit Record, Bull Market Far From Over, Russia Leading In Anti-Manipulation

A reassessment of economic prospects should be supportive of precious-metals prices in this year’s second half

Bull Market Far From Over, Massive Shift In Physical Gold, Gold Bears Ignore Half the World, Long-Term Fundamentals for Gold Still Intact, 222 Years Of Gold, Wars, Inflation, Economies, And Presidents

The only protection as I see it that investors have to offset the long-term effects of these policies is to own precious metals and to own the physical precious metals because paper gold can’t be trusted.

There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the fundamentals for world gold supply and demand have changed dramatically over the past ten years at least.

Physical demand for gold & silver coins remains strong. For the 3 months thru June, gold coin sales are 120k oz’s (46%) higher than for the 3 months leading up to the $1900 gold peak in 2011

Paper Money Hides The Truth, Roubini attacks the gold bugs, Are the Gold Bugs Wrong?, Is Gold at a Turning Point?, Stunning Images From China, Public Deficits Getting Out Of Control in France

Interview of Jim Willie, Gold & Silver Inventory Reports Are Fraudulent, Shortage Of Physical Gold, The Current Level of Physical Gold Trading Is Incredible, Possibility of Gold Confiscation