Yes, silver has dropped over 60 percent in value since its (overdone) run up in 2011. But I am of the opinion that silver has now bottomed.

I Owe My Soul — Why Negative Interest Rates Are Only the First. In 1946, an American singer, Merle Travis, recorded a song called “Sixteen Tons.” The song told the story of a poor coal miner in Kentucky, who lived in a small coal mining town. The town’s economy revolved entirely around the mine.

Precious metals miners shone on what was another weak day for the wider market. Viewed as proxies for safe-haven gold and silver, shares in companies that dig for the metals were chased higher amid rising geopolitical risk.

In the back room of a Midwest City home seemingly filled with more buckets of dirt than furniture, Mike Pung stands over a water trough demonstrating the basics of gold panning.

It’s time to wake up from your summer doldrums. The technical signals are turning positive for precious metals and the junior gold and silver miners.

When you hear about strategies that claim to legally allow US citizens to avoid having to pay income tax, the first thing that probably comes to mind is that it’s some sort of cockamamie scheme.

The gold (GLD) and silver (SLV) price may be reversing over the next couple of weeks. The junior miner gold ETF (GDXJ) is reversing above the 50 day moving average and breaking above its recent three month downtrend.