{"id":13720,"date":"2013-04-20T08:41:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13720"},"modified":"2013-04-20T08:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:41:32","slug":"weekend-freedom-question-precious-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/20\/weekend-freedom-question-precious-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend freedom question: precious metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turning away momentarily from the waving flags, the shouts of &#8220;USA! USA!,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/04\/20\/second-boston-bombing-suspect-in-custody\/\" target=\"_blank\">breathless media coverage<\/a>, and the hearty cheers for police, I&#8217;d like to ask a freedom question unrelated to the renewed War on Terror. (Time for that later, when the <em>Huzzahs!<\/em> have quieted down.)<\/p>\n<p>Precious metals.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been watching, you know that commodities, especially gold and silver, plummeted Monday and the previous Friday. There were lots of explanations from both bulls and bears, of which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/greatspeculations\/2013\/04\/17\/gold-will-get-the-last-laugh-on-central-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\">this struck me as one of the best<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My question: <strong>What&#8217;s <em>your<\/em> take on a) what just happened to the metals, b) what the near future holds for the PMs, and c) what the longer term looks like for gold and silver?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning away momentarily from the waving flags, the shouts of &#8220;USA! USA!,&#8221; the breathless media coverage, and the hearty cheers for police, I&#8217;d like to ask a freedom question unrelated to the renewed War on Terror. (Time for that later, when the Huzzahs! have quieted down.) Precious metals. If you&#8217;ve been watching, you know that commodities, especially gold and silver, plummeted Monday and the previous Friday. There were lots of explanations from both bulls and bears, of which this struck me as one of the best. My question: What&#8217;s your take on a) what just happened to the metals, b)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/20\/weekend-freedom-question-precious-metals\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend freedom question: precious metals<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}