SGM Metals

Greek austerity is forcing families to realize that they can no longer afford to provide for their children. This has caused Greeks to forfeit guardianship of their children in hopes that a church will afford them a better life as they are unable to.

The MF Global fraud has rendered thousands of US farmers bankrupt and unable to plant their spring crops as their seed/crop hedge accounts were robbed. This will exacerbate the food inflation in 2012 as the fiat dollar loses more purchasing power.

In the 80s Silver rose almost 4,000% driven exclusively by North American investors. Markets today are global, a global rush of capital into an intimate market such as gold & silver could produce an even greater appreciation than that of the 1980s.

US, Russian, French,& British military forces charge to the Syrian & Iranian coasts increasing chances for a global conflict. Ironically over the last century, world war has served well to cover up depressions much like we are in now, sound familiar?

In a world where we are told that inflation doesn't exist and investors are scratching their heads looking for returns, gold and silver have outperformed all other investments and just got promoted to the status of US legal tender once again in Utah!

As the economies of the world grind slower every quarter, desperate govt.s around the world are looking to traditionally non-taxed essentials to balance their budgets. This act of desperation will only reduce the purchasing power of the consumers.

After a record shattering first half of 2011, gold & silver saw a year end sell off to generate much needed liquidity that investors could NOT get from their battered stock portfolios. Victims of their own success, they stand poised to repeat 2011.

We are told the global financial meltdown is a result of countries like Greece that have unsustainable debt/GDP ratios and now the United States official numbers are in and we are mirroring the inconceivable economic data ourselves! Will QE3 fix it?

Wall Street has violently thrashed retirement dreams of investors forcing them to seek out more stable assets that have intrinsic value. As a result silver demand is at all time records highs at a point where US silver production has declined 30%!

We are taught to have insurance for all things important to us, yet there is a disconnect regarding applying that same logic to our wealth, investments & retirement. Gold is the 'full coverage insurance policy' and should be guarded at all cost.