Another lawsuit in southern California got filed last month against a multi-decade operating gold and silver dealer.

Los Angeles City Attorney makes a few sordid detailed allegations in verbal and written forms pending. Here you can also find some proper due diligence resources and tips; additionally, to adequately avoid potential bad business practicing precious metal dealers.

Never gamble your hard-earned savings without understanding the potential darker sides of the unregulated physical precious metals industry.

Learn some of the alleged poor precious metal business practices, so you can quickly identify and skirt them.

New silver bullion buyers often ask why the fluctuating Silver Spot Price is lower than the prices for the various Silver Bullion products we offer on our website.

Here we will explain (#1) what is the Silver Spot Price and (#2) its relation to the physical Silver Bullion market.

After reading these insights, you will better understand how and why silver bullion product prices are higher than the fluctuating, mostly derivative contract-driven, silver spot price.

The following is some fundamentally often forgotten information, following the post-1970s financialization of the US and most western economies.

The adage of maintaining a 10% gold bullion allocation remains mathematically sound although possibly somewhat out of date. Learn why 10% may be too small given a recent full fiat currency era study.

Financial intermediaries often hate bullion. Why is that typically so?

Because physical gold bullion never churns their profits, it takes investor wealth outside of the current leveraged financialized system. Learn more about potentially prudent gold allocation percentages.

Do you know how large the 5 Biggest Gold Nuggets ever found are?

With the second-largest gold nugget finding recently occurring in Australia 2018, we got video clips and pics of that 'haul down under' mate.

How many monster boxes of gold (500 troy ounces) do you think the all-time biggest gold nugget equates?

Should you buy Gold Coins or Gold Bars?

The answer requires the prudent gold bullion buyer to weigh a few factors aside from the gold bullion itself.

Things like the overall gold price, gold guarantee government or private mint, gold purity, gold-selling privacy statues, gold unit size, bid-ask spread, brand recognition, and more.

The best answer for you requires some thoughts which we delve into here.

In this week's Silver and Gold Podcast, we touch on gold's impressive fiat price strength of late.

Why and how banks and large financial institutions now consider gold bullion a tier-one monetary asset, no longer a devalued tier-three asset since post-1971 until the start of 2019.

Why does, first-time precious metal podcast guest to our show, Mr. Vince Lance (gold and silver trading veteran) believe the yellow precious monetary metal has been trading stronger than fiat currency denominated silver prices of late?

How long he thinks this trend may continue? As well, what are some catalysts that might change the direction as has happened in the somewhat recent past?

Knowing how to safely store Gold Bullion is critical to long term success when saving physical gold fo the long term.

Here we will discuss various creative at-home gold bullion storage ideas, gold location diversification tips, as well as other hidden gold storing ideas that might never have occurred to you.

See some creative gold storage ideas which might help spur your own responsible decision making.

Platinum has not been this cheap vs gold since 1907 AD. You read that right! In over 110 years we have not seen platinum values slump this far versus gold.

Check out these following long term charts on platinum prices versus gold prices in US dollar since the late 1800s. and throughout this post-1971 full fiat currency era.

For those searching for long term physical precious metal value buys, look to platinum (and silver at the moment over palladium and gold bullion). Keep a multidecade longeterm timeframe in mind.

Roll in your supposed silver cornering Hunt Brothers graves.

Eat your former silver buying hearts Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, & Berkshire Hathaway.

This silver trade has taken over 50 years to formulate fully. JP Morgan's COMEX warehouse now holds perhaps the most significant non-government physical silver bullion position in recorded financial history.

The largest silver bullion owner is currently under investigation by the US Department of Justice for financial market crimes in the silver and other precious metals derivative markets. Later this year we should learn more facts. 

Junk Silver Coins, Constitutional Silver Coins, and 90% Silver Coins are all ways to refer to the same thing: pre-1965 / pre-1964 90% silver dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollar coins.

Here we will discuss the current state of the Junk Silver Coin world and how it limited supply continues to dwindle year after year.

The United States used silver coinage for most of its history. Junk Silver Coins are the last remaining silver coin legacies of our forefathers. Come learn about them.

Where can you buy silver bullion at the spot price?

Be careful here, many offers for silver at spot price or perhaps even pricing silver under spot price is often a realm of conmen, counterfeits, and bait-and-switch deception.

We'll show you how to buy silver at spot safely here and how to ensure you do not get ripped off.

Time to take a long view out for the next coming bull market in commodities and these two precious metals: silver and gold.

We speak with Jordan Roy Byrne about his Gold Price Forecast 2020s 2030s and Silver Price Forecast 2020s 2030s.

Wait until you see the extensive timeframes and data he uses in helping to potentially pinpoint when the next bull markets in commodities and precious metals are coming. And for how long they will last before topping out.

Finally, and very importantly, we go into detail as to the "Whys" for his analysis. If you are a bullion stacker, with a long-term perspective, don't miss this week's precious metals podcast.

Morgan silver dollar coins are a favorite large 90% silver coin for collectors and bullion aficionados alike.

Most of the over 650,000,000 of these Morgan Silver Dollar Coins got minted over a century ago. And most have likely been lost to melting or at the very least strong silver collector hands.

Here we break out each Morgan Dollar Mintage by year and specific location of the five US Mints who produced them over a 27-year timeframe in which they got struck (1978-1904, and in 1921).  

Come learn how many Morgan Silver Dollar coins were made in which specific years.

When it comes to successful physical silver bullion buying, we have some direct suggestions for you here.

Always perform proper due diligence and use best practices to ensure you get, the silver bullion you are buying at a fair price and also delivered in a reasonable amount of time.

We have created various educational resources here to help you buy physical silver safely and successfully. Learn more about successful silver buying techniques here.

The derivative gold price discovery mechanism responded bullishly to the news that President Trump may be appointing a pro-gold advocate to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

The spot gold price shot above $1,430 fiat Federal Reserve notes based on this breaking news. Much of this rising spot gold price occurred during typically lightly traded Globex hours after the Comex had closed it highly fractionally reserved leveraged trading for today.

Whatever the case may be in terms of those already appointed are potential to be appointed, the seeds have already been well sown. Gold has building energy and seems poised to again account for the fiat currency bubble we have deluded ourselves into today.

Safe haven investments are usually defined as those asset classes that should, in theory, keep or even increase their value when markets are turbulent.

Investment hedges are typically made to help offset the risk of any adverse price movements in other particular investments one might have in an investment portfolio.

Gold bullion ownership has and will continue to be used for both safe haven and investment portfolio hedging purposes.

Here you can find real-life examples of how gold serves both as an investment hedge and at times, as the quality of life-saving safe haven.

How much Silver Bullion and Gold Bullion is there in the world?

Although neither of these precious metal markets is highly transparent, there are some decent data points published which can help us know how much silver bullion and gold bullion there is in the world.

To understand how much physical silver and gold bullion there is, we need to take a deep dive into historical mining data. Indeed, you likely be surprised to learn how little silver bullion exists compared to gold bullion.

See and learn for yourself.

Knowing how to store and hide Silver Bullion safely is critical and paramount to long term success when saving physical silver bullion for the long term.

Here we will discuss both home silver storage ideas for silver location diversification, as well as other hidden silver storing ideas that perhaps never occurred to you.

See some creative ideas here on potentially safe silver bullion storage which may help spur you to make responsible decisions for your specific silver hiding needs.

This week, our returning guest Christopher Aaron of iGold Advisor takes us through some past moments when overly optimistic precious metal viewpoints got crushed.

We juxtapose some of his fundamental and technical analysis work overlaying it to today’s technical and fundamental backdrops for bullion, precious metal related investments, and even the future of the broad commodity complex in general.

Is this a potential gold price breakout fakeout? Perhaps keying on one of the climbing gold-silver ratios of the past may give some pause to bullion bulls. See and hear what our guest has to say in this week's bullion podcast.

This potential asteroid mining target is believed to contain massive quantities of nickel-iron metal ore. An amount so large it could supply the world’s human production requirements for several million years here on Earth.

It is called 16 Psyche, and it is floating out in our galaxy’s central asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter’s respective orbit paths. Slightly more massive than the size of the US state of Massachusetts, and NASA is on course to visit the metallic asteroid soon (perhaps by the year 2022.

Like a science fiction come to not near reality mind trip, imaging the what’s - if’s - how’s - and even possible when’s is undoubtedly fun to do. We also have a chuckle at some silly headlines getting made about this metal-laden asteroid satellite expedition. Do you want to be a billionaire, too? Click here.