We humans have been mining silver for over 5,000 years. 

Unlike gold, silver has not often been too costly to either lose or aggregately waste trace supplies of it in cumulative large un-recycled amounts.

In other words, often we humans have thrown silver away in non-recycled trace amounts used industrial or electronic applications. Take a look at just how many things, use physical silver today.

Every 50 years over the last century and a half, market forces have given the US government a full gold accounting by her Official US Gold Reserves.

The following is a similar gold accounting for runaway deficit spending which occurred beginning with the US Civil War through the late 1870s. The original greenback fiat currency was born during the United States Civil War period in the 1860s. It was used by the United States' Union to finance the Civil War effort as they ran out of gold bullion specie coin. Here we examine how that fiat currency performed: greenbacks vs gold dollars.

In this historic episode, gold dollar coins did the accounting work for fiat greenback notes. While silver was demonetized ajusting this monetary assistance for many decades to follow.

To sell your silver bullion online is about as easy a process as buying it online.

Yet there are some additional steps and processes to understand for silver selling safety and success.

Here we cover some Do’s and Don'ts, including other best practices to sell silver bullion online. Like how to safely ship silver bullion in the USA as well as how to yield the best prices and find trustworthy counterparties to sell silver bullion to.

If you have been using Youtube over the years to consume precious metal related content, chances are you know that there is a robust stacker community of Youtube channels.


These bullion related Youtube channels cover everything from product unboxing videos, to bullion sales community updates, to precious metals market related coverage.


This week’s guest is one such Youtube channel operator. He goes by the moniker 'Salivate Metal' and his Youtube channel has been a good balanced source for precious metal related content over the last +5 years.

The question of if precious metals have a place in one's investment portfolio is an eternal debate.

But an equally important yet often-overlooked question is "How much gold and silver allocation" makes sense today?

Looking back at all the videos and presentations on Gold in the year 2018, we remain convinced this one by Grant Williams of Real Vision in late 2018 was the most profound.

See and learn why returning to the fiscal discipline that a monetary gold anchor requires, may not be such a bad thing for the masses.

This week's returning guest will be giving us some in depth analysis with accompanied price charts covering the short to medium term setups in not only gold, silver, but also the greater US equity markets. 

He is Christopher Aaron of iGoldAdvisor.com and iGlobalAnalytics.com.

We are nearing key threshold levels for Silver, Gold, and the US Stock Markets... come see why. 

Thinking about buying bullion in 2019?

Here we give you our Top 10 reasons why to buy silver bullion or gold bullion this year.

All fiat currencies eventually fail.

Bullion is virtually indestructible. Fiat currency when given enough time, becomes worthless.

Even after the debt driven 2008 financial crisis, we continually reach new record debt levels worldwide year after year.

To conclude the first quarter of 2018, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) published another alarming print on the growing record levels of global debt building (now over $247 trillion USD in total).

The next global monetary system is now becoming due.

Over the last 500 years of record history, global reserve currencies and monetary systems often have and do change. Our dominate fully fiat US dollar standard began taking full effect after further 1973 US dollar devaluations.

Guaranteed by central bank actions: gold and silver bullion values rise over the long term.

We live in world of finite resources and time, yet global central banks and their fractional reserve lending practitioners often try and have us believe that their drawing fiat currency and fiat credit out of thin air does not have deleterious effects on the fiat currencies they issue.

Nothing could be further from the long term truth.

This recent everything but bullion (and commodities) bubble will likely revert ahead.

The following chart provided by recently Comex gold future contract stopping Goldman Sachs provides us with the knowledge that commodity prices versus stock values ending in 2017 and into 2018, have not been this out of whack in a long time.

Psychology of human investors globally.

One of the keys to successful investing and speculating, is having a large swath of the growing investing public agree with you... later.

Key to this axiom is also that their agreement comes within a reasonable timeframe.

Unlike the 1980 bullion bull market, this 21st Century version is on a truly global in scale.

As well, historic gold prices (and subsequently historic silver prices) have been systematically suppressed for many decades now.

Both of these statements can easily be verified using gold and silver price data throughout this full fiat currency era, from 1971 to 2018.

Global gold and silver investments are dwarfed as a percentage of total invested assets worldwide. As well, there are now more high net investors across the world than ever before.

In other words, there is way more money out there that can chase currently under owned gold and silver investments worldwide.

First and foremost we will post a few charts from Credit Suisse’s Global wealth Report 2018 which highlights how many multi millionaires are now around the world.

Your timing is great given the old adage of buying low, and potentially later selling high.

For many decades now the Federal government’s Bureau of Labor and Statistics has been underreporting price inflation data.

The motive is pretty easy to understand as to why the government would do this.

Prudent bullion allocations have been back tested and are mathematically proven to have been effective at wealth preservation using vast market data throughout this full fiat currency era (e.g.see this Gold Allocation study covering 1968 to the end of 2016).

If you have never heard Chris Irons or his Quoth the Raven podcast, you may not know that he often uses colorful rated R language when he speaks about the financial markets. Rather than fill this audio with a bunch of bleeps and language censorship, I have decided to simply let the audio play as was recorded.

Do not listen to this podcast if you are offended by language you might hear in a Rated R film. Do not listen to this podcast aloud around children.

Do indeed listen to this podcast if adult language does not offend you. Do listen if you are interested in hearing someone explicitly speak about how they view financial markets currently.

Unlike the ounces you find in grocery stores, a troy ounce is a unit that is commonly used to weigh physical precious metals like silver and gold.

Although their names might not indicate this, these two units (imperial vs troy ounces) are not the same weight.

Here we discuss demonstrate how many grams are in an ounce of silver using common silver bullion products.

With us this week is a returning guest to the podcast... Mr. Dave Kranzler of InvestmentResearchDynamics.com

Topics discussed include the Federal Reserve's recent Fed funds rate increase, this sharp rollover in major US stock values, and what is in store for the US dollar and gold in the year to come.

As well brief discussions about the US real estate market's general valuation, and finally a micro level discussion on Elon Musk and Tesla Motors.

Dave remains convinced that the US stock market has a long way to further drop ahead.