Gold Chat

On Friday there was a big move in precious metals, with gold up $25 to around $1135 and silver up $0.70 to around $15.20. In percentage term...

Temporary coins shortages first started in 2008 after the global financial crisis and they have occurred repeatedly since then. Don’t ge...

Well it hit us a lot quicker than I thought, with a big increase in demand for our products out of the US and Europe for both gold and silve...

Some thoughts/observations on the US Mint suspending silver eagle sales http://research.perthmint.com.au/2015/07/10/silver-coin-shortages-ag...

FastMarkets are reporting intermittent shortages of 400oz bars in London with premiums for physical delivery "as high as" $0.50 ...

The extraordinary demand for precious metals coins following the 2008 global financial crisis caught the minting industry by surprise, resu...

Readers have asked me to comment on Koos Jansen's report of tight physical supply. There are a few interesting observations made in the...

Those who are not bored to death with the backwardation/gold bank run narrative may find my comments on this PM Bug forum thread of interes...

In my last post I was not saying that what we see now on COMEX and with GOFO is not important – remember the mugger in Crocodile Dundee st...

To understand what is going on with COMEX stocks, don't look at the stock level - it will lead you astray. You need the metric I presen...

Two "insiders". First Adrian Ash of Bullion Vault on This Week in Money podcast (19:32 minute mark): "Silver is a very inte...

Some good questions from a thread on my shortage interview at silverstackers.com forum, cut and paste below: Bron In that interview I w...

Fear mongering is the stock in trade of most gold commentators/spin merchants it seems, so here is my modest contribution in this interview...

Been stockpiling the following for comment: Silver shortage vs coin shortage I've been on this issue for a long time , now I have ba...

There has been some heavy criticism of the Perth Mint running out of retail size silver bars on the SilverStackers forum. Some good question...

Update 25 July: I contacted Sprott Asset Management and they clarified that they could do a PSLV secondary at any time however the time lag ...

Gata and ZeroHedge have picked up on this Wall Street Journal article on bankster owned warehouses restricting deliveries out to the minimu...

I have been going on about the coming shortage of coins due to limited minting capacity in the industry for a while now. This interview wit...

Interesting resurrection of a Kitco post from October 2008 about silver premiums. There was a lot of heated words and a bit of sillyness. I...

I was recently asked the following question: There was always enough coin production capacity under the gold standard when a gold coins were...