Gold Editorials & Commentary

Elections across Europe and Great Britain this past week have shown serious dissatisfaction with the status quo. The monetary inflation on the part of the European Central Bank has benefited the elite bureaucracy in Brussels at the expense of the average citizen,...

This information cannot be found on a daily, weekly, or even a monthly chart. Old man Fibonacci with the aid of the French Curve has told us that he will teach us how to count waves. He will tell us when they top and when they bottom. A long time ago he whispered in...

Irrational Delusion…Euphoric Aspirations of Wealth…Pollyannaish Myopia, Insatiable Greed and Unbridled Exuberance are terms that apply to describe investment sentiment toward US stocks today. This perverted sentiment was pervasive during the Roaring 20s – just...

Not much going on in the precious metals last week as they remain trapped within a tightening range for gold and silver but we did see an attempt to break gold which saw buyers emerge and push it back up, which is a very good sign. I talk to subscribers about my...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on mixed signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 3/21, ending the up cycle since 12/27. COT data is not supportive for higher prices overall.

It certainly started out as central bank manipulation, doing everything possible to cover their theft and resulting deficiency of replaceable ph

Precious Metals bull market continues and is moving step by step closer to the final parabolic phase (could start in summer 2014 & last for 2-3 years or even longer).

Last week, our theme was the Fed’s failure to generate a “recovery” through six years of historically easy monetary policy. In “2.6% – ‘Nuff Said” and “The Most Damning Proof Yet of Fed Failure,” we demonstrated how the entire world is rapidly becoming wise to the...

Many people would consider a drop in the S&P 500 to the 1550-1600 area to be a bad thing. But if the bull is real, and if a secular bull market truly has been created out of manipulation of the T bond market (QE’s bond buying and ZIRP’s 0% rates) then a...

Chart Analysis Dow vs Gold, Silver Fuel Cell, GDX H&S Bottom & GDXJ Analysis via videos.

Briefly: In our opinion speculative short positions (half) in gold, silver, and mining stocks are justified from the risk/reward perspective. The history repeats itself and we have just seen another example confirming this statement. Gold once again moved higher...

The lofty US stock markets have stalled out, looking more and more top-heavy with each passing day. This is spawning growing unease among prudent investors, who sense the long-overdue major selloff is nearing. Many are seeking shelter in sectors they hope will...

In this week's release of the minutes from its April 29-30 meeting, Federal Reserve policymakers made clear that they see little chance of inflation moving past their 2% target for years to come. In order to make such a bold statement, Fed economists not only had to...

In one of the biggest deals of the century, China and Russia have signed a $400 billion natural gas (NG) deal that will deliver roughly 38 billion cubic meters of NG to China over the next 30 years. The deal also includes a $10 billion aviation deal and a $2.6...

While investors in the precious metals sector had to endure a tough bear market in the past couple of years, there is a glimmer of golden light at the end of this dark tunnel. The fundamentals for gold ownership have not changed and remain as strong as ever, and...

First I want to acknowledge how frustrating the markets have been over the last several months for most of you. There has been no clear cut trend in which one can just take a position and not get caught up in the chopping action the markets have been giving us.

We are very rapidly approaching a point in time where the citizens of the US and the inhabitants of the free world will be faced with the true realit

There is a belief that central bank gold in the custody of the world’s leading central banks such as the Fed, the Bank of England and the Banque de France has been leased out to the market. Central Banks have confirmed this, but it remains a source of contention....

Gold continues to trade sideways. The next trending move may be decided by an important economic report. Janet Yellen is scheduled to speak at Yankee Stadium tomorrow morning, and the FOMC minutes will be released a few hours later.

Europe is abuzz with Capital in the Twenty-First Century by French economist Thomas Piketty, released in Europe in March of this year and now a best-seller. It has since crossed the Atlantic and is already the number-one best-seller for booksmith Amazon. It has been...

Gold did NOT blow-off into a bubble high in 2011, all the drivers for continued higher gold prices are still valid, demand is huge, supply will be restricted when the western central banks run out of gold or choose to terminate “leasing” into the market, and...

Until early in the 20th century, gold played a central role in the world of money. Gold had an incredible run — almost three thousand years. And why not? After all, Professor Roy Jastram convincingly documents in The Golden Constant just how gold maintains its...

One of the biggest questions at the end of 2013 was how the Treasury market would react to the reduction of bond buying that would result from the Federal Reserve's tapering campaign. If the Fed were to hold course to its stated intentions, its $45 billion monthly...

Each year since the recession officially ended in the summer of 2009, Wall Street and Washington have tried to dupe investors into believing a second half recovery was in store for the stock market and economy. However, this promise has failed to come into fruition...

An important question all investors must ask: Which asset class has performed the best during the past 42 years? Answer: Gold Price Performance Leaves Other Assets Dead In The Water Since 1972

With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 came a surge of expert opinion explaining why the Soviet Union was destined to fail; apparently, communism had made it impossible for the Soviet economy to find the correct prices for goods and services. For example; Soviet...

Another choppy week for markets and stocks with no real direction. It’s still very hard to catch a winner. We saw one stocks we’ve been eyeing for a while as it built its super base, and it broke-out Thursday on heavy volume which is usually the blueprint to...

Based on several thousand years of history, and based on the last 100 years of fiats, gold will continue to rise as a store of value, and almost all fiats will fail, massively. Which fiats will continue? The Yuan and the Ruble, for two. The Panama Balboa is...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on mixed signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 3/21, ending the up cycle since 12/27. COT data is not supportive for higher prices overall.

Every major corner of the world’s economies is sitting on a knife’s edge of one type or another; the question becomes who falls first triggering the next leg down in the Global Economies and ongoing depression. All are in debt spirals as deficits and debt compound...