Most mainstream money managers and gold analysts believe that US rate hikes are deflationary. In contrast, in the current global economic environment, I see them as inflationary. I made it clear several years ago that I viewed QE as a...
Whether US equities are in a bear market or not is debatable. Regardless, I think there’s now a 60% chance that Janet Yellen will hike rates on September 17. If global stock markets stabilize and rally over the next week or so, Janet will...
Have US stocks entered a bear market? In most assets, MSM (mainstream media) uses a 20% decline as a rule of thumb to define a bear market. While an asset that’s declined 20% might be in a bear market, that rule of thumb is at best a very...
The FOMC minutes release tomorrow should bring some short-term weakness to global gold prices, but I expect many individual gold and silver stocks to continue their strong rallies.
China stunned many mainstream media (MSM) analysts this morning. The country’s central bank (PBOC) just devalued its fiat currency by about 2%!
In an inflationary environment, silver bullion and junior/intermediate gold stocks tend to outperform gold bullion and senior gold stocks.
This is a busy week. Today is “options expiry day”; COMEX August gold options expire. As options expiry day approaches, gold tends to trade in a sideways pattern near round numbers, and $1100 is the number in focus now.
As a group, gold stocks are trading like the entire sector is going “off the board”. Is that going to happen?
Most gold analysts think that gold is in a bull market, or a bear market. They use charts and US economic reports to try to prove that the gold price is ready to move substantially higher or lower. In contrast, I’ve argued that the world...
The pressure on the US stock market continues to grow. Note my red annotations on this key S&P500 earnings chart. With QE gone, rate hikes on the horizon, wage pressures growing, and the business cycle peaking, it’s a “no brainer”...