Gold Editorials & Commentary

How long and how many times can people be fooled? Remember George Bush’s famous blundered quote, “Fool me once shame on…. well you know you can only fool me once.” Wrong, the populace can be fooled and robbed over and over again as they invest in a fake stock...

Gold stayed under pressure this month. And the third quarter is shaping up to be a negative one. So what’s going on? This past month, we’ve seen the U.S. economy improve, which has kept investors running to the stock market.

How much gold is really out there? This is a good question and rather than debate whether the "official" statistics are correct or not I will assume they are. I will make this assumption because even if they are true (which they are not), the financial ship is...

If the Fed holds its course this autumn then a day of reckoning is coming both for stocks and bonds. For stocks basically the money will run out, the QE lifeline is cut. For bonds higher interest rates are toxic. In such circumstances can the precious metals really...

Both gold and silver have had an uncharacteristic and bad month. Gold and silver usually shine in the month of September. Not the case this year. Quite the opposite really!

The European Central Bank again cut the interest rates it controls. Notably, the deposit rate was moved deeper into negative territory. It is now -0.2% (minus 20 basis points, that is not a typo). The ECB says it’s trying to nudge prices higher, but it’s actually...

The last time gold sparkled was in the summer of 2011 when an all-time record of $1900/oz was achieved. Alas since then it has been a torturous journey as gold prices has trekked south arriving at today’s price of $1216/oz, registering a loss of 36%. However, for...

If you have not already figured it out, witnessed it for yourself, read about it, or otherwise experienced it firsthand, the developed world is swimming in debt in a proverbial sea of sharks without a life raft anywhere to be found. If we have learned nothing about...

I prefer the “KIS” motto to the more common “KISS”. I define it as, “Keep It Simple”. Simply put, gold bullion is the ultimate asset, but when the price declines, Western investors often become nervous.

I'm convinced – we can’t escape debt and taxes. Essentially all currency is created as debt, and our financial system creates more debt and more currency into circulation every day. Taxes are insufficient to pay the massive expenditures that our politicians deem...

A recent article on the Wall Street Journal’s blog draws attention to the high cost of producing a single penny – 1.6 cents each, to be exact. They blame this unsustainable price on the high cost of zinc, which makes up 97.5% of every American penny. The online...

The gold market has been disappointing to say the least. It’s been on the decline for several months now and many investors are throwing in the towel. Those who aren’t are wondering, how low could it go? All factors considered, we believe 2014 will end up being a...

China is slowly moving to dominate the global gold market and it is important to join the dots regarding a few key recent developments in China relating to gold. When the International Board of the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) was launched last Thursday September 18...

End of empire is a difficult time for two groups, investors and patriots. A hundred years ago the U.S. took the economic baton from England to become the most important economy in the world. No doubt some loyalists refused to recognize the shift that was taking...

This could be a most important week for gold and silver bullion and their shares. The double non-confirmation I have been describing will remain in effect as long as the HUI and Hecla Mining do not make lower lows. Today’s trading in the HUI and Hecla Mining may...

It's Official: China consumed, mined and imported the most gold ever in 2013. In all three gold categories the Sino nation is Number One Worldwide. Here are details.China has been officially crowned the world’s largest gold market for the first time in history,...

Inflation and deflation are two of the most misunderstood economic conditions. The recognition of each is typically gauged with prices. Higher prices mean inflation. Lower prices mean what exactly? We never see lower prices do we? My economic laws tell us much...

It’s fair saying that since 1920, the only Dow Jones bull market that actually proved profitable to the average retail investor was the Roaring 1920s bull market, if they sold before the bottom fell out from under them. And without a doubt, since 1929 each major...

Within the current global economic environment, central bankers – of the world’s developed economies and those of emerging markets alike – remain obsessed with the struggle to incorporate monetary policies which will engender renewed gross domestic product (GDP)...

A solid week for markets which just don’t want to rest, but it was interesting to me just how many stocks seemed to chop around and make no real progress and their charts are in no man’s land as well, without proper bases.

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 8/8. COT data suggests a top is in for the metals.

HIGH ALERT!!! The stock market sits at a very precarious place this weekend. There are important and rare technical indicators that are contemporaneously telling us that a major stock market top is close at hand and a powerful and damaging stock market decline is...

Forget all the news, all the fundamentals, all the [mostly errant] price projections. There is a reason why a picture is worth more than 1,000 words, and this is one of those times where it is best to focus on pictures of the market, over various time frames, to...

The byline should read Money Velosity Hits Record Low, While Money Supply Continues To Go Into Orbit…Systematic Failure Is Evident As Policy Is Not Stimulus At All…The Pricipal Cause For The Breakdown Id Monetary Policy, Which Is Stuck In Place.

Gold stocks have plunged in September, crushed by the withering selling pressure from heavy futures shorting hammering gold. As usual, these falling prices have kindled extreme bearishness on this left-for-dead sector. But despite this rotten sentiment, gold...

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By the beginning of the 1960s, the U.S.$ 35 = 1 oz. Gold price was becoming more and more difficult to sustain. Gold demand was rising and U.S. Gold reserves were falling, both as a result of the ever increasing trade deficits which the U.S. continued to run with...

Since last summer, investing in the mining sector has been akin to riding a mini roller coaster. There have been two huge rallies, two sudden and sharp declines while more than a handful of individual stocks have rebounded over 200% from their lows. Nevertheless, as...

Gold has an inverse relationship with the US Dollar so when the dollar declines gold rises. The dollar is affected by monetary policy as decided by the various central bankers across the planet. We recently covered the effect of the European version of QE with an...

We’ve been looking at massive H&S patterns in the last two reports I’ve posted so you can get a feel for the bigger picture which is so important to grasp. It’s always much easier to make money trading within the big trend. For instance if you’ve been trading...