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January 14, 2014

In 1973, as heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier was knocked to the canvass by George Foreman, Howard Cosell uttered the now-famous words, “Down goes Frazier!”

The USA thrived during a 20th century rife with war, famine and depression. This was a wealthy country however, founded on principles of self-reliance and valuing thrift, saving and honest work for an honest return. Add in unparalleled productivity and...

January 13, 2014

According to a famous trader of the past, W. D. Gann: “Time is more important (in markets), than price; when time is up, price will reverse.” It has now been 29 months since gold last reached a new high in its current bull market cycle. The downtrend lasted 22...

Currently the mining shares are still selling at near record discounted values with the gold price in the $1220 range. At this point, even a sideways gold price could support a major rally in the gold mining shares.

Today’s Technically Precious missive is just a brief note to suggest that we may be close to a new bull move in gold stocks, primarily the speculative kind. Nothing is yet set in stone but the initial indications are there.

One question that has not been asked sufficiently is, “How can China buy well over 2,000 tonnes of gold without sending the gold price rocketing?”

To state the obvious, gold and the Australian gold stocks had a terrible year in 2013. The long term trend is still up however this large correction still has to reverse before we can confirm this or look to capitalize on it once again. Gold is not something to...

January 12, 2014

2013 was one of the worst years for gold in a generation and the strangest part of it is that this loss came during a time in what should have been a banner year for gold.

Somehow, like it or not, the world turns. Today’s hegemon becomes tomorrow’s also-ran. Today’s reserve currency becomes tomorrow’s wallpaper. Today’s cock o’ the walk becomes tomorrow’s dinner.

The NYSE Advance/Decline Line is an early indicator that a major top is approaching in stocks. The Labor Department reported the December Employment and New Jobs Report Friday, January 10th, which proved uninspiring for the stock market. They reported that only 74,...

January 11, 2014

What an amazing week. Biotech companies are starting to light up like some tech stocks in the late 90’s but they are still so cheap here, and moving huge! Who knows what the future will bring but when stocks move, my job is to identify them and understand their...

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on buy signals. Gold sector cycle – up as of 12/27. COT data is favorable for a bear market rally.

Here is some very cogent rationale for owning gold and silver. None pertain to the ever-ending reasons that demonstrate great demand. Everyone has been hearing about them in a steady stream for the past year, and the impact on the market has been nil. Often in...

Those of you who have known me any length of time know that I love to say ‘they always tell you what they’re going to do’. I had a really scintillating discussion yesterday with two fellow economists as to why that might be and we’ll shelve that for now, but let’s...

January 10, 2014

Tonight I would like to show you some charts from the bull and bear side of the equation for gold. This is called an inflection point where the precious metals complex can move either way and establish some sort of short to intermediate term move. A lot of these...

Chart Analysis On Gold, Silver And Metals’ Sector Ratio via videos.

In our previous article on gold, we examined the situation in the U.S. dollar and the euro as many times in the past they gave us important clues about future precious metals’ moves. At that time we wrote in the summary: (…) gold's lack of will to really (!) react...

If you’ve been wondering if the Fed will ever destroy the trillions of dollars it has printed since 2008, wonder no more… Since 2007, the U.S. monetary base has soared from $800 billion to $3.7 trillion. Such unprecedented inflation is the product of round after...

Hyperinflation is a dynamic process - much like a positive feedback loop that, once entered, is almost impossible to exit. The process can go on for years. In the feedback cycle, the more central banks print money and buy bonds, the less other entities want to hold...

January 9, 2014

The New Year allows us to reflect upon the past year and set our investment goals for 2014. As for 2013, it has been an investment disaster. My retirement account, which is 100% invested in junior precious metals companies has lost a little more than 60% of its...

As we begin 2014; it seems incredible to me that we still have what is known as “an inflation/deflation debate” raging. But a debate which was merely frustrating five years ago is now absurd; because it is founded on an entirely false paradigm.

Is it just me, or are the banks, who’ve never really cared about the direction of gold bullion, turning outright negative on the precious metal?

There are two main indices tracked by commodity tracker funds: the S&P-Goldman Sachs Commodities Index and the Dow Jones UBS Commodities Index. According to S&P Indices (which manages both), total assets estimated at $155bn track these two indices, of which...

We’ve recently written quite a bit about the current technical situation in precious metals as well as the current bear market compared to past bear markets. Thus we’ve neglected sentiment somewhat. This is a good time to examine sentiment as the sector appears to...

There’s a significant cold spell out there in the Mid-East and Northeastern parts of the country. At the same time, the stock market has cooled down a little, beginning the year on a cautious note.

January 8, 2014

Now that the Fed has announced they are barely tapering their enormous stimulus program, it's more obvious than ever that a few powerful men have hijacked our economic, financial and political structure. And here's a news flash: They aren’t socialists or...

In the 1960s every new $1 in debt bought nearly $1 in GDP growth. In the 70s it began to fall as the debt climbed. By the time we hit the ‘80s and ‘90s, each new $1 in debt bought only $0.30-$0.50 in GDP growth. And today, each new $1 in debt buys only $0.10 in GDP...

For the Nasdaq-100 Index, the Bull market turned five years old in November. Wall Street hopes the hard-charging NASDAQ Bull - that has more than tripled investors’ money since Nov 2008 is still in good enough shape to keep the gains coming in Year Six. Many Main...

The economic crisis has entered a new stage; and when it ends, the bankers’ world - a paper edifice composed of credit and debt - will be in flames. In my book, Time of the Vulture: How to Survive the Crisis and Prosper in the Process (2007), I predicted a...

January 7, 2014

Since the beginning of recorded history, the lure of gold has drawn men and women to it like a moth to flame. A Greek traitor told the Persian King Xerxes about a secret goat trail that would enable his personal bodyguard, The Ten Thousand Immortals, to outflank and...

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