Gold Editorials & Commentary

It is becoming apparent that the Gold Cartel is going to have to be blown out of the water.

"Government statistics continue to tell us that price inflation is not a problem, and when an inflation statistic comes out it does not like, it drops out food and energy and claims the number is totally benign.

In today's high-risk, extremely volatile market environment where fortunes accumulated over a lifetime can disappear overnight, the ability to accurately forecast short-term market swings is an asset worth its weight in gold.

What is the sensible contrarian to do? A tough question, to be sure. Unfortunately, there is no intellectualizing the contrarian point of view, since it's an instinct that comes right from the gut.

Beware the ides of March? Or would that be akin to merely panic after little is left unknown about the market's condition?

Those of us with a bit of age on us well remember the Standard Oil commercials with the tiger urging us all to "put a tiger in our tank," mean

As previously forecast, gold's dominant intermediate-term cycle has bottomed and the outlook for the yellow metal is firming up for the first time in months. After yet another cycle bottom in April, gold should be ready to take-off.

Gold closed the week at $270.80, it's highest close in just over two months. Gold lease rates have continued to move higher. On Friday the one-month rate peaked at over 6%, sending bullion into backwardation for the first time since the fall of 1999.

The big news this week was gold interest rates. At one point on Friday the 30-day lease rate actually reached 7% compared to a more normal rate of around 1%. A week or two ago, the rate soared into the 4% to 5% range and that created quite a stir.

Look what the global elite has gone and done. Look at the mess the best and brightest have gotten all of us into. Mr. Bonner of Dailyreckoning.com comments that there is smart money and dumb money; then, there is money so stupid it requires euthanasia.

All of us have friends, sometimes even very good friends – otherwise – who simply do not seem able to grasp that there really is massive manipulation of the gold price. "Naw", they say, "Gold is now just an outdated commodity. Its time has come and gone.

Charles H. Dow, the founder of the Wall Street Journal and keen observer of the stock market, identified three time scales of market action. Primary trends are broad movements that usually last 4-6 years.

Skepticism reigns supreme. Hooray.

A major blue-chip mining company, Anglogold, has come under attack from a misdirected campaign within the ranks of gold investors.

Sometimes we should cast aside our charts and listen closely to what Wall Street is saying. Then leap to do the opposite.

After a couple of years of historic gains, the Nasdaq has suffered a devastating bear market in 2000 and 2001. For the last year we have been comparing this bear market to other bear markets from the past. 

The Federal Open Market Committee, as a strategy in its "war on inflation," voted last year to raise the Federal Funds Rate and the Discount Rate, saying:

Last week gold mining shares outperformed all other Dow Jones industry groups. Investors apparently may be beginning to recognize the wisdom and value of gold diversification.

No Fed action and no market leadership . .

Just so you know, it is widely held in close gold-bug circles that physical gold is being held back by certain Central Banks, including our own Fed. They do this in order to make inflation look low, to protect a number of large bullion from get

Unless the trends change instantly, the United States is facing a series of crisis' by Easter.

Perhaps no single number more fully embodies the essence of the rhythmic fluctuations which characterize human affairs than that of the number 30.

I would imagine that deep in the mind of any new president taking the oath of office for the first time stirs the thought, "Will I stand here again four years from now?

On Thursday of last week, GATA reported that The World Gold Council sent out a letter that day to its sponsoring members. Bull Murphy said that from what he heard it spoke of some problems in the physical gold market.

Perhaps no single number more fully embodies the essence of the rhythmic fluctuations which characterize human affairs than that of the number 30. Its significance to the realms of finance, economics, physics, mathematics, astronomy, and religion is integral to a...

The gold price has fallen for years. A conspiracy theory accuses world central and fat-cat banks of massive manipulation.

Some people argue that the price of gold is being kept `artificially' low in order to obtain a global gold price of reduced value. Dr.

Leisure is the measure of money; the fundamental use of money is to store value, and leisure is the fundamental measure of value. *

Leisure is the measure of money; the fundamental use of money is to store value, and leisure is the fundamental measure of value. *