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By Adam Sharp Do you understand how bitcoin works? Maybe you’ve heard of the currency, but you don’t really have a firm grasp of what it is and how it functions. Or maybe you know what bitcoin is, but you’re skeptical when it comes to understanding its value. Either way, this Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin […]

By Cory A Focus on Gold and Gold Stocks Download audio file (0916-KE-Report-Weekend-Show.mp3) On this week’s show we focus on the precious metals and even discuss a couple stocks. With gold holding above $1,300 – even with the slight pullback this week – it is important to assess the stage of this cycle. We look

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By analyst By Frik Els The Northern China import price of 62% Fe content ore slumped on Friday as the country’s steelmakers stoke production ahead of mandated cuts going into winter which could result in a sudden drop-off in iron ore demand. According to data supplied by The Steel Index the steelmaking raw material declined

By Pater Tenebrarum Anecdotal Flags are Waved “If a shoeshine boy can predict where this market is going to go, then it’s no place for a man with a lot of money to lose.” – Joseph Kennedy It is actually a true story as far as we know – Joseph Kennedy, by all accounts an

By Charles Hugh Smith This post Bitcoin, Sour Grapes and Jamie Dimon appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Institutional ownership of bitcoin is in the very early stages. If I had a bitcoin for every time some pundit declared bitcoin is a bubble, I’d be a billionaire. There are three problems with opining that bitcoin and

By Keith Weiner The Instability Problem Bitcoin is often promoted as the antidote to the madness of fiat irredeemable currencies. It is also promoted as their replacement. Bitcoin is promoted not only as money, but the future money, and our monetary future. In fact, it is not. A tragedy… get the hankies out! [PT] Why

By James Rickards This post The Golden Solution to America’s Debt Crisis appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Right now, the United States is officially $20 trillion in debt. Over half of that $20 trillion was added over the past decade. And it looks like annual deficits will be at the trillion dollar level sooner than

By Brian Maher This post Interest Rates and Civilization appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Fact one: Last Friday, the nation’s debt exceeded $20 trillion for the first time in its history. Fact two: Interest rates — the cost of debt — are at their lowest levels in recorded history. Never has debt scaled such heights…

By analyst By Cecilia Jamasmie South African AngloGold Ashanti (JSE:ANG) (NYSE:AU), the world’s third-biggest producer of the precious metal, unveiled Friday that is in talks to sell its Kopanang mine, which was slated to be placed in care and maintenance. “Based on unsolicited expressions of interest received from a number of parties, AngloGold Ashanti initiated