What's New?
May 16: Gold This Week (GTW) daily updates - for Privateer subscribers
Next Greek elections now scheduled for June 17
May 13: The current issue of The Privateer (#703) -- Read a quote here
May 10: Bank of England keeps rates at 0.50 percent - votes not to increase the its bond buying from the present level of 325 Billion Pounds
May 4: Weekly Gold commentary for NON Privateer subscribers
May 3: European Central Bank holds rates steady at 1.00 percent and signals no new "stimulus" measures
May 1: Reserve Bank of Australia lowers interest rates by 0.50 percent to 3.75 percent
April 30: Monthly Dow chart - December 1974 to April 2012
April 25: FOMC meeting - Low rates until "at least" late 2014 promise retained. Operation "twist" continued
February 14: Bank of Japan leaves rates at 0.00-0.10 percent and announces a new round of QE
January 27: US Treasury debt limit raised by $US 1.2 TRILLION to $US 16.394 TRILLION
January 13: S&P downgrade nine Euro nations. Germany alone left with a "stable" AAA rating
August 15, 2011: Fortieth anniversary of Nixon closing the "Gold window" on August 15, 1971
August 5, 2011: S&P officially downgrades US sovereign debt from AAA to AA+
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