By: Ira EpsteinGold is sitting at 18-month average, sideways since 2017 -- a phenomenal base or top forming. Weekly gold, under 18-week moving average, bears in control of the market - $1,309.10 resistance:Read More

Underfunded FuturePension Fund Underfunding Is a Local ProblemMake the Children PayThe Strategic Investment Conference and Possible RecessionsOne difficulty in analyzing our economic future is the sheer number of potential crises. When so much could go wrong (and really right, when the exponential technologies I foresee get here), it's hard to isolate, let alone navigate, the real dangers. We...Read More

Is it time to be looking to buy Silver?Into the Feb 2019 highs, traders had turned verybullish on the metals, understandably so, as the metals had been rallying for anumber of months from their respective 2018 lows. Upside targets were beingincreased from the precious metals Gurus, and traders/investors were buying theshort term bullish hype. However whilst many traders had arrived late tothe part...Read More

May 10th, 2019(S14-E695)Featured GuestsDavid Morgan & Bill MurphyPlease Listen HereInterview Recap05/08/2019 MAJOR FINDING - "Off-World Rosetta Stone" decoded in FRB 121102 reveals English to ancient off-world text deciphering via a proprietary method.(05/09/2019) 2nd US Patent - "Rosetta Stone Algorithm for Deciphering Interstellar Messages"Signalhunters.net notes the US Patent Office processe...Read More

By: Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price didn't do much of anything in Far East trading on their Friday -- and the low tick of the day, such as it was, came minutes after the London open. It chopped quietly and unevenly higher from there, with every tiny rally attempt turned back before it could get too far. The high tick, such as it was, came at noon in Ne...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold is sitting at 18-month average, sideways since 2017 -- a phenomenal base or top forming. Weekly gold, under 18-week moving average, bears in control of the market - $1,309.10 resistance:Read More

Underfunded FuturePension Fund Underfunding Is a Local ProblemMake the Children PayThe Strategic Investment Conference and Possible RecessionsOne difficulty in analyzing our economic future is the sheer number of potential crises. When so much could go wrong (and really right, when the exponential technologies I foresee get here), it's hard to isolate, let alone navigate, the real dangers. We...Read More

RAPAPORT... Leo Schachter, whose famed international diamond company has borne his name for almost 70 years, has died. Schachter launched Beck and Schachter Company on New York's47th Street in 1952, having learned the trade from his father, Max. The firmbecame a De Beers sightholder in 1966, and expanded beyond the US to Israel,Africa and the Far East. It remained a family business, with many of S...Read More

RAPAPORT... Shares in Mountain Province rose 12% Friday after it increased its production guidance for the Gahcho Ku?(C) deposit. The Canada-based miner has made plant modifications at thesite that will allow it to process between 3.2 million and 3.3million tonnes of ore in 2019. Mountain Province had previously stated it expected toprocess between 3.1 million and 3.2 million tonnes. The chan...Read More

RAPAPORT... The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) will offer rough lab-grown diamonds at tender for the first time, as it aims to diversify the emirate's trade. The sale, which will be run by Hong Kong-based diamondtrading firm Tony's Auction World, will feature 50,000 carats of synthetic stones created using chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The tender will take place in the Almas Tower a...Read More

RAPAPORT... Lucara Diamond Corp.'s revenue nearly doubled in the firstquarter, as it introduced a new tender process which enables it to sell its higher-value stones faster.  Revenue rose 92% to $48.7 million, as sales volume increased50% to 95,057 carats. The average selling price climbed 28% to $512 per caratfor the three months ending March 31. During the quarter, the company's new c...Read More

The Australian Financial Review reported that according to filings with the Australian Securities and Exchange Commission (ASIC), that profits generated in 2018 by Rio Tinto's diamond mine Argyle rose to their highest levels in a decade. The Argyle diamond mine, which is scheduled to close in 2020, registered $370.6 million in revenue which was 26 percent higher than in 2017 and was the mine&...Read More

The Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF) concluded today the results of the Fancy Color Diamond Index' first quarter of 2019. the overall prices decreased by 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2019, influenced by a decrease in the yellow category. pink diamonds increased by 0.5 percent, blue diamonds showed a very slight decrease of 0.2 percent, and yellow diamonds decreased by 1.5 percent...Read More

RAPAPORT... Gem Diamonds' revenue faltered during the first quarter, as it recovered fewer large diamonds from its Let??eng mine. Sales plunged 51% to $51.9 million for the three months ending March 31, as the average price dropped 42% to $1,900 per carat. During thesame period last year, the miner sold the 910-carat Lesotho Legend for $40million, raising the average price for the period...Read More

GIA is organizing two seminars of interest during the upcoming JCK LV show. Identifying Laboratory-Grown Diamond Seminar Learn the techniques used to identify laboratory-grown diamonds, including HPHT and CVD, through interactive, guided discussion and a hands-on lab. Previous Gemological training and/or experience is recommended. Friday, May 31 - two sessions available: 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. a...Read More

Two reportedly illegal diamonds miners were killed in clashes between protesters and Angolan security forces who they blamed for the deaths of other illegal diamond miners. The protests were staged in Calonda, in Lunda Norte province, after reports that 17 illegal miners had died in a diamond mine. The demonstrators argued these 17 miners had been killed by police, or by the mine's security f...Read More

What happens when the self proclaimed BEST HOI4 PLAYER, TommyKay plays France in a noob HOI4 Multiplayer game? The end will suprise you...Seriously it actually will okay. Tommy hasn't played a lot of France and we are finally back with a game and it should be solid. Man the Guns has changed the France meta quite a bit. Now it's not even that smart to hold France and it's better to build navy or ju...Read More

SBTV had a great conversation with the fiery and straight-talking Gerald Celente, Founder of the Trends Research Institute, about how he forecast the 1987 Black Monday crash, the lack of independence of the Federal Reserve and also the 2020 US Presidential elections.Discussed in this interview:02:12 "I became a political athethist thanks to Jimmy Carter!"07:52 How Gerald Celente forecasted Black M...Read More

"An aircraft carrier that has at least 40 to 50 planes on it and 6000 forces gathered within it was a serious threat for us in the past but now...the threats have switched toContinue...Read More

Continue...Egon von Greyerz is founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG & GoldSwitzerland. Since the 1990s Egon von Greyerz has been actively involved with financial investment activities including mergers and acquisitions and asset allocation consultancy for private family funds. This led to the creation of Matterhorn Asset Management, an asset management company based on we...Read More