Market Updates

This week we learned that U.S. authorities at the DoJ, who have for years not only accused various JPMorgan Chase & Co. employees of rigging precious-metals futures but also got many to plead guilty. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is now, more importantly, building a criminal case against America's biggest bank itself.

This week, the CFTC, or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, made headlines with their fourth attempt at passing into financial law position limits on 25 commodities derivatives and futures contracts.

The CFTC yesterday proposed commodities position limits of up to 25% of the deliverable supply of each commodity. We’ll get into what that may mean for the COMEX silver market in a minute.

Every three months since the year 2009, the private New York Federal Reserve’s Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets convenes for a quarterly meeting around a long central table seating some 14 members plus high-level New York Fed staffers

Like the London Gold Pool of the pre-1971 full fiat US Dollar era. Then and still today, systematic attempts to control and contain precious metals prices, eventually end and even backfire into physical short-falls of supply, and exponential price runs higher from artificially low valuations.

Come see in this video presentation just how much palladium bullion has exited the NYMEX warehouses & Palladium ETFs, since the CME Group's Central Bank Incentive Program (CBIP) got underway in the year 2013 through today.

This past week the world witnessed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Armed Forces shoot some 16 long-range surface to surface missiles at Iraq's Ain Assad air base housing US troops.

Too, an international passenger plane bound from Iran to Ukraine was allegedly rocketed out of the sky. All 176 lives aboard were lost, 63 of which were Canadian citizens,

We often cover the ongoing JPMorgan silver bullion saga here. It seems we have a new twist in the ongoing story since JPMorgan's takeover of the bankrupt Bear Sterns short silver position in early 2008.

Late last year, in early November

Welcome to this week's bullion update at SD Bullion were we examine Bank Runs in China past, present, and potential future.

The image above is a just recent illustration we will uncover here. It helps to trace some od China's past to present in gold bullion stacking and in being the inventor of fiat currency issuance back when great Khans ruled their empire.

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