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September 27, 2014

Today's financial markets are built on the sand of unsound currencies. Consequently brokers, banks and investors are wedded to monetary inflation and have lost both the desire and ability to understand gold and properly value it.

As we near the end of the 3rd Q for 2014, time is running out for all the 2014 enthusiasts that are calling for higher prices by year-end. The lessons learned from 2013 have been forgotten as not only are not prices beginning to move higher, they are making new...

Some folks have been watching the dollar rising sharply in disbelief during the past few weeks, which is not friendly to the metals. Our proprietary trading model has been favoring the dollar over the metals since 2012 and until this long term trend reverses, we...

September 26, 2014

China vv US Stocks, Gold, Silver, GDX vs Gold & GDXJ vs Gold Analysis via Videos.

Since early 2013 the US stock markets have done nothing but rally, levitating thanks to the Fed’s oft-implied backstop. This incredibly unnatural behavior has left sentiment dangerously unbalanced, with hyper-complacency and euphoria running rampant. Only a major...

Jim Sinclair says to buy “fish lines” and sell “rhino horns.” Stated another way – buy value when the price has plunged and sell when prices have gone parabolic.

After the original drop in gold price from the top of $1,920 per ounce in 2011 to $1,180 per ounce in 2013, gold has started a sideways consolidation triangle pattern. Is this a correction, or is it just a pause within a move that will retrace the whole move since...

The current decline in precious metals will not be complete until it passes through all three phases of a bear market. This is the conclusion I have mapped out in previous essays. The PM bear market began in 2011 and declined steadily until the Goldman raid of April...

September 25, 2014

Oodles of readers want my head for turning temporarily bearish on gold again. They say I flip-flop too much. They say I don’t know whether I’m coming or going. They think I’ve always been dead wrong on gold.

As an addendum to Dan Popescu’s article on the state of gold sentiment, we want to show an update of the indicators we follow. Coincidendally, Mark Hulbert has also just published an update on his HGNSI measure (Hulbert Gold Newsletter Sentiment Index). The Index...

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...

September 24, 2014

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...

September 23, 2014

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...

September 22, 2014

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...

September 21, 2014

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)...

September 20, 2014

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.

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