Freshly back from speaking at the Sprott 2020 Natural Resources Symposium , David Smith, the Sr. Analyst at The Morgan Report, returns to Liberty and Finance / Reluctant Preppers to offer highlights and key takeaways from the conference, and to answer our questions about precious metals, mining, and the historic times we are traversing!David H. Smith is senior analyst for The Morgan Report, and a...Read More

"I think when you look around, racism isn't the only thing that plagues our society, that plagues our nation, that plagues our world, and I think coming together on that message that we want to get pastContinue...Read More

Topics discussed include how to handle the rest of this pandemic and the next one, the power of the mask, geronticide, and soul in the game.Continue...Nassim Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader and, after closing 650,000 option transactions and examining 200,000 risk reports, he changed careers in 2006 to become a scholar and philosophical essayist. Taleb is currently Distinguished Profes...Read More

One analysis says that landlords could wind up losing more than $22 billion in rent over the next four months as a result of the economy. Chuck Sheldon, who manages about 1,650 apartments in Continue...Read More

A senior executive from AstraZeneca, Britain's second-largest drugmaker, told Reuters that his company was just granted protection from all legal action if the company's vaccine led to damaging side effects.Continue...Read More

Just in case Americans - the most obese nation in the world - needed another reason to lose some weight, here it is.Continue...Read More

Traders on the main gold futures exchange in New York just issued the largest daily physical delivery notice on record.Continue...Read More

Sector expert Michael Ballanger offers his latest analysis of how current economic circumstances are driving the gold and silver bulls. Gold barsBefore I begin this weekly missive (which is being penned on a Wednesday due to my impending cruise to the northern habitats of Georgian Bay), I need to present one quote that for me summarizes everything there is to know about risk management in the cap...Read More

No matter what shape the recovery is, the epidemic will likely have lasting, positive effects on the gold market.During the most acute phase of the pandemic and the following economic crisis, there was no time to analyze various WGC’s reports on the gold market. Let’s make up for it!I’ll start with the report “Recovery paths and impact on performance” about the gold m...Read More

Our trading team witnessed a big drop in Platinum and Palladium prices early this morning while Gold and Silver continued to push moderately higher.  We began to question this move and investigate any historical relevance to previous patterns.  Our research team pointed out that both Platinum and Palladium rolled lower just 3 to 4 days before the breakdown in the US stock markets on Febr...Read More

Yesterday’s session was indeed volatile around theFOMC, just like we warned,and gold even moved to its previous high, likely forming a double-top pattern.Even though gold moved higher on an intraday basis, it didn’t invalidate itsprevious breakdown, which was a bearish sign. Gold was likely to decline, andit is declining so far in today’s pre-market trading. The above chart show...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday July 31 that are worth another look.Pig iron export prices from Brazil continued to climb in the week to July 31 on new sales to China and the United States.Chilean copper producer Codelco will restart...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday July 31 that are worth another look.Pig iron export prices from Brazil continued to climb in the week to July 31 on new sales to China and the United States.Chilean copper producer Codelco will restart...Read More

This is only PHASE ONE of the collapse in global silver production. The world will find out that silver is one of the most undervalued assets on the planet... by Steve St Angelo of SRSrocco ReportAccording to the data released by Mexico and Peru's governmental mining data, domestic silver production continued to be depressed in May. Interestingly, the production data just released from Mexico's...Read More

This is the 1970s on steroids...by Peter Schiff of Peter Schiff PodcastJuly ends with record monthly closes.Apple becomes world's most valuable company.Gold settings records.Silver has its best month since 1979.US Dollar has lost better than 99% of its value.Slow orderly decline could turn into rapid disorderly crash.10 and 30 year Treasury Bonds close with lowest yields in history.This is the 197...Read More

RAPAPORT... Diamcor's average selling price rose to just under $112 per carat at its latest rough tender as demand shifted to higher-value goods, the miner reported last week.The company garnered $271,263 from the sale of 2,427 carats it produced at its Krone-Endora at Venetia mine in South Africa, which has been on care and maintenance since March. The price was 4.7% higher than the $107 per...Read More

RAPAPORT... Dubai has embarked on an eye-catching campaign to attract the global diamond industry to the emirate - and has lit up the world's tallest building to mark the launch.The story of a diamond's creation recently appeared on the side of the 830-meter Burj Khalifa skyscraper, promoting the city as a future hub for the trade, the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) said Friday. The di...Read More

RAPAPORT... Indian industry leaders have renewed their calls for limits on rough imports during the Covid-19 crisis, noting that diamond demand remained uncertain.The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and four other trade bodies have told members to "maintain self-discipline" and only to buy rough in line with current demand. They also urged them to "exercise great caution"...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The IDEX Polished Diamond Price Index was flat throughout July, closing just a fraction up on the start of the month. It rose by 0.29 per cent, compared with a slight fall of 0.35 per cent in June. May was another straight-line month, down by a negligible 0.04 per cent. The index rose by 0.7 per cent in April, prompting hopes of a post-COVID recovery, but there has been little...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Israel's government is facing calls to set up an international free trade facility to kickstart the recovery of the country's crisis-hit diamond industry.A delegation from the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE), led by its president Yoram Dvash, presented its case for increased government aid at a special hearing of the Knesset Economics Committee.The committee is calling on t...Read More