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Perth Mint Busted 'Doping' Gold Bullion Sold to Shanghai Gold Exchange

7 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

This just came in! The Perth Mint has been exposed for having diluted or 'doped' gold bullion it then sold to China through the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) and then trying to cover it up, apparently... The SGE has strict refinery rules requiring .99...

WGC Revises January Central Bank Gold Purchases By 45 Tonnes!

7 Mar 2023 3 minute read 5 comments SweptOverNiagara

Yesterday, I published my post, 'Is 2023 the year silver finally breaches its 1980 $50 high?' in which I noted that the World Gold Council had estimated that 31 tonnes of gold were purchased by central banks including those of Kazakhstan, China and T...

Will 2023 Be The Year Silver Finally Breaches 1980 $50 High?

6 Mar 2023 4 minute read 5 comments SweptOverNiagara

I composed a similarly titled article about a year ago titled, 'Will 2022 be the year silver breaks out',  and it certainly appeared at the time that silver (and gold) were on a roll with gold passing the $2,000 mark early in the year while silver pa...

U.S. Mortgage Apps Drop To 28 Year Low

3 Mar 2023 6 minute read 3 comments SweptOverNiagara

Who didn't see this coming after a full year of the most aggressive central bank rate hikes in history? Zero Hedge published an article yesterday evening titled, 'Surge in mortgage rates above 7% sends homebuyer  applications to 28 year lows' shows t...

Lousy Commodities Silver And Sugar - Starting To Taste Sweet Again?

2 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

After a two and a half week hiatus from writing. I'm back with an interesting update on an article I published in January, 2022 titled, 'Commodities silver and sugar biggest losers of last 42 years' in which I made a quick comparison of valuable comm...

Core Scientific To Pay $38.6M Debt With Mining Rigs

7 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

Just 2 days before Christmas (2022), I published 'Bitcoin miner Core Scientific approved for $37.5M loan' in which I outlined steps the company was taking to avoid total collapse. Going public in July, 2021 with a value of $4.3B and initially enjoyin...

Bix Weir Exposes Last Week's 600MOz Paper Derivatives Silver Smackdown

6 Feb 2023 3 minute read 1 comment SweptOverNiagara

Bix Weir of RoadtoRoota.com released a video on Rumble on the weekend in which he literally proves there was a well planned, coordinated attack on the gold and silver spot prices, not once, not twice but three times last week culminating into a spect...

Gold And Silver Smacked Down Again! What Just Happened?

3 Feb 2023 4 minute read 2 comments SweptOverNiagara

Precious metals investors are really miffed after seeing gold and silver smacked down two days in a row and right after a slew of central banks, including the FED, BoC, BoE and ECB all raised their key lending rates by 25 to 50 basis points. Seeing g...

Central Banks Continue To Raise Interest Rates

2 Feb 2023 2 minute read 1 comment SweptOverNiagara

Last week, it was the Bank of Canada taking the lead by raising rates another quarter percent. Yesterday, it was the FED with their 25 basis point hike and this morning, it's the ECB and Bank of England both hiking by 50 basis points. Across the boar...

The 'N' of CNN!

31 Jan 2023 3 minute read 10 comments SweptOverNiagara

It's no secret that ever since Donald Trump left office some 2 years ago that CNN's viewership has decreased dramatically. Trump was their prime target. From Russia collusion to inciting an 'insurrection' (JAN. 6) to IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, the in...