A number of people have been inquiring about coins as an investment for parking money. Keep in mind that the best market for coins or stamps tend to be the country of origin. Thus, US coins will bring the highest prices in the USA just as German will bring the best price in Germany. […]

The hike in VAT to 19% targeting collectors that will apply to silver coins is a bit convoluted yet, but so far it appears that buyer’s purchasing from German auctions and living in Germany will have to pay that tax. There is a lot of negotiating still going on at moment so we’ll see once […]

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the Northeast Coast of Japan creating a small tsunami that hit Japan’s eastern coast – where the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is located. The government insists there was no damage, According to reports, the tsunami reached waves of only 30cm (1ft) in the region. Nonetheless, Japanese Prime Minister’s government is planning […]

Be it Europe or the USA, the drive to eliminate democracy is underway. Politicians are doing their best to prevent the voice of the people to have any impact. This is what sets the stage for revolution. It goes hand in hand for when government tries to simply dictate to the people, eventually the whole […]

The NSA has had access to financial transactions in Europe and their abuse of power is being noticed everywhere. The EU has now voted to block the access of the NSA to financial records in Europe. Many people are now looking at Switzerland as a safe harbor not for money, but for data. They are […]

The debate in Europe emerging is just unbelievable. The Socialists are trying to outlaw all speculation for in their mind it is speculation that is causing prices of commodities to rise. These attitudes against capitalism are just off the wall and this is what we need to fight against when everything turns down. http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsnachrichten/warum-wir-spekulanten-brauchen-1.18171876

QUESTION: Your insight into the Saudi’s supplying the chemical weapons and arms to the Syrian Rebels long before anyone even had a hint of that was astonishing. I recently met someone in London who worked at your City Office. He said even Margaret Thatcher would ask you what was really going on in Russia. He […]

The view of the American budget crisis from outside the USA is one that is blaming Wall Street and the banks and calling for the next crisis to be the final meltdown of Capitalism. This view is rising around the world. The fact that it is just pushed off into January with the funding ending […]

The fundamentals are really worthless because you can always extract just the ones to support your current view to “talk your own book” as they say. The Dow Jones Industrials bottomed within the channel nicely on the daily level and the target was on point as well the first week of October – the 9th […]

QUESTION: You mention the following comment recently. ”I am very concerned about are precious metals even going to be viable. Will this confiscation of wealth turn to those assets as well?”  Could you expand on this please. ANSWER: This is merely my personal observation. India has virtually stopped the buying of gold there driving it underground. Many are […]