Gold Editorials & Commentary

The precious metals are lynch pins. They are nagging and persistent counter-parties to money printing gone wild. It's been this way for as long as commerce was semi-civilized. (Though given the amount of financial fraud, violence, and chaos in the world, the term "...

We are gold and silver bugs and as such we are aware of the myriad of factors that affect the price movements in the precious metals sector. Today we will take a quick look at just one of them; The US Dollar. 2013 was a disastrous year for gold as it ended the year...

We fully anticipated a summer correction and thus far that is all it has been; and it’s been a mild one (so far) at that. But what the markets do from here on out will refine probabilities as to these options…

On Thursday July 31, 2014, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 317 points, effectively completing a key point monthly reversal high. The S and P 500 and The Wilshire 5000 also made reversal highs in July, as did the Dow Transportation Index.

The gold miners’ good performance in 2014 bodes well for gold not having to worry about a bear market taking place, like in 2013, or about testing again its major $1,178 bottom. We are still witnessing massive accumulation of junior miners’ shares since they touched...

Since my last reports on both gold and silver, price has come down to some key levels identified in those reports. So will both gold and silver turn up from here? Let's have a look at the charts and do our best to find out.

Investors commonly assume that rising interest rates adversely impact the gold price, and vise versa. They believe that a rising interest rate environment is indicative of a strong economy, which is supposed to drive investors out of gold and into the stock market...

As the month of August gets underway, the gold market has a solid feel to it. Analysts in 2014 who have held extreme price targets (both bullish and bearish), have found themselves looking like fish out of water. Gold has not skyrocketed on the supposed “massive...

And after the highly bearish trading action of late July, this is worth considering with the “what’s next” question front and center for most investors. There’s little doubt that the slicing of the S&P500’s 6-month uptrend was vicious, but it may be less clear...

With the first half of 2014 now in the books, many investors are happy with the performance thus far, especially given the economic headwinds that few saw coming. The 26% rally in U.S. stocks in 2013 gave way to a more modest 7% gain in the first half of 2014. Most...

Nearly seven years after the world's greatest financial crisis, we remain in monetary emergency mode, an irony matched only by the last minute (literal, and relatively quiet) battening down of the monetary hatches.

Surely all 12 charts shown below are Bearish Barometers for stocks worldwide…and will NOT go unnoticed by institutional investors (like large mutual funds, pension programs and bank trust departments). Only the ignorant and gullible hoi polloi will suffer loss....

We called the exact top in gold to the day in the last update 3 weeks ago, as it has since reacted back. Now the picture is more messy, with conflicting indications, but let’s see what we can make of it. There was no update for these 3 weeks as we were waiting for...

We saw more consolidation and chop for markets and stocks this past week, while even good earnings numbers aren’t helping stocks move higher. Moreover, we started to see some weakness come into the market Thursday which has begun to rock the bulls.

I first learned the significance of electrical power demand (EP) just after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the western intelligentsia was thrown into disarray with the discovery that intellectuals managing an economy could...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle – up as of 6/20. COT data suggests a top is in for the metals.

And the matador strikes a serious blow! The bull is grievously wounded but it’s not ready to give in. Not just yet anyway. While the matador’s sword plunged deep into the bull, it wasn’t the killer blow. And if I’m right, the same can be said of this week’s plunge...

Earlier in the year, we stated 2014 could be like 2013, price-wise, and that appears to be playing out. However, as the idiom goes: appearances can be deceiving, and it is certainly true of the chart prices for gold and silver. The natural forces of supply and...

What is hard about investing? It's not the simple mechanics of investing. Nowadays if you have the money, it's easy to open an online trading account and start trading. You don't even have to talk to anyone usually, just mail in a check to the broker and off you...

I don’t normally write twice in a day.  However, it’s late Thursday afternoon and after watching what could be the “beginning of the end” of thre

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,284.50, EUR 959.16 and GBP 762.99 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,295.00, EUR 966.92 and GBP 767.36 per ounce. Gold fell $14.60 or 1.13% yesterday to $1,282.10/oz and silver slipped $0.25 or 1.21% to $20.37/oz.

Ignore the hype regarding gold, bonds, booms and busts, hope and chains, “shock and awe,” stock market crashes, “money honey” commentary, and ignore the politicians. Don’t obsess over High-Frequency-Trading and market manipulation. Instead, focus on the big...

For the first time in at least a couple of years, gold mining stock returns are outpacing those of the yellow metal itself.

Sometime this fall, the Federal Reserve will remove the punch bowl it has had out for more than 5 years. That is one long party! What will the party goers do when that bowl gets removed? The punch bowl to which I refer is Quantitative Easing (QE). QE was the Fed...

Let me start the proceedings with this — a repast on the nature of the human predicament 2014. Below is a follow-up to Richard Russell’s stated concerns (scroll below) on the persistence of war and inflation in human affairs. I do not bring this line of thinking...

The contributors are many as actors in the American Tragedy, to cause the systemic breakdown failed state. Faulty monetary policy, economic policy, and political policy have caused the resulting failure. The primary perpetrators are the central bankers, led by...

At the end of the Sixth BRICS1 Summit in Fortaleza, Brazil on July 16, 2014, the leaders of the BRICS countries announced the “Fortaleza Action Plan.” This plan is in the context of the Fortaleza Declaration, i where the leaders reinforced their position that BRICS...

In their infinity wisdom the Fed thinks they have rescued the economy by inflating asset prices and creating a so called "wealth affect". In reality they have created the conditions for the next Great Depression.

I now belatedly realize, with crystal clarity, that being an “inert carbon blob” is a reachable goal for me. Thus, ‘tis my new plan for my remaining retirement years, since it has no age restrictions, takes no effort, and has zero cost, but, happily, does involve a...

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.