The 3 Stages of the Coming Silver Shortage

 Ted Butler’s friend and mentor Izzy takes the soapbox on “The 3 Stages of the Coming Silver Shortage”.  Editor’s note: Izzy’s article was originally published a few years back, when silver was at $9+/oz and before the recent run-up in silver to $16. True then, moreso today. Consider this: we have already experienced Izzy’s STAGE ONE [...]

June 2009

Second-Largest U. S. Bank Downgraded & In Trouble You heard it here first, 18 months ago, when I warned about this bank and told you why I closed all my accounts with them. Standard & Poor’s has downgraded them and 17 other banks. But the big surprise was the “D+” independant bank rating, down from [...]

COMEX Warehouses in Trouble?

Since I started tracking COMEX gold and silver warehouse levels last November I’ve grown to be very suspicious of the numbers COMEX reports each day. In spite of increased physical deliveries in both metals, “registered” inventory levels remain more or less stable. This is why I gave up daily updates in favor of weekly ones; I [...]