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October 20, 2013

The U.S. Constitution empowers the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government – the U.S. Congress – with control of the public purse. Congress established the statutory debt limit in 1917 as a mechanism to restrain government borrowing via public bond issuance of...

We finally got the debt ceiling extension at the 11th hours as usual this week. The government is opened again as well and markets and stocks are loving it. We’re off to the races here with many fast moving stocks breaking out while many more are looking to go now...

The latest “debt limit crisis” was resolved this week; for another few months anyway. Come January 2014, we can expect all congressional Democrats and the dopes in the Republican leadership to once again kick the can down the road to ruin yet again. The Dow Jones...

Gold and precious metal equities are still giving sell signals in all periods.

October 19, 2013

Despite its intent to boost asset prices and restore the economy, the Federal Reserve has run into a major obstacle in achieving that goal. This obstacle is serving as a reminder that ultimately the long-term natural cycles of inflation and deflation govern the...

Almost everybody wants a back story, some information to explain what is going on with gold and silver, mostly looking for some kind of psychological calm as prices decline, or a ray of hope to reinforce why price may reach the sun and the moon. Is there anything...

The United Kingdom’s gold exports to Switzerland jumped from 85 tonnes to 1,016 tonnes in the first eight months of 2013 — a twelve times increase. Some bullion market watchers attribute the huge increase to withdrawals or sales from ETFs — an explanation that...

October 18, 2013

Vulgar competition needs to come to Italy's delicate jewelry business... "ITALY accused of protectionism!" is hardly news. Wanting free competition in the airline market, IAG – the group formed from the UK's privatized British Airways and Spain's privatized Iberia...

We put the finishing touches on our October newsletter earlier this week and within it forwarded the following prediction regarding the debt ceiling. “We can expect a last minute agreement to be struck to avert disaster…”
Well, there you have it, proof our crystal...

Chart analysis On Gold, GDX, Silver and the US$ via Videos.

Gold miners’ stocks have been brutalized this year, leaving them bleeding in the gutter as the most hated sector in all the markets. Plunging prices always lead to fear and excessive bearishness, unsustainable anomalous extremes that investors desperately try to...

China is now overtly pushing for the US dollar to be replaced as the world’s reserve currency. Xinhua, China’s official press agency on Sunday ran an op-ed article which kicked off as follows:

On Thursday, the S&P500 closed at a new high and its intraday record of 1733.45 broke the all-time high set Sept. 19. Over 80 percent of stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange rose. According to FactSet, companies in the S&P500 index are on track for...

After expanding debt by more than $8 trillion and printing at least $85 billion per month, monitoring the “price” of practically anything is a risky option. Among other distortions created by price controls, sentiment is particularly vexing for the precious metals...

WHOLESALE prices for physical gold held near $1320 per ounce this morning in London, gaining 3.5% from last Friday after the mid-week US debt-limit deal saw what one dealer called "heavy short covering and some fresh buying."

Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. We often see that in the capital markets. The big decline in Gold this year is reminiscent of that of 1975-1976. Yet, aside from that there are several other similarities between today and 1976. Gold, gold...

The current correction in gold started in August 2011 and has now gone on for 112 weeks – (it most likely bottomed on June 28th). This has been the longest correction since the current bull market started in 2002. The correction of 2006 lasted 71 weeks before a new...

October 17, 2013

Global trade has an enormous impact on both the financial markets and worldwide economy. Therefore, when the currency that serves as the guidepost for valuing assets drops 1%, it impacts investor decisions across all asset classes. Thursday’s tone was set in the...

The WHOLESALE price of gold in London leapt at the start of Thursday's trade, rising $45 per ounce to hit 1-week highs above $1320 after the US Congress reached a short-term deal on the government's debt limit.

Take a whirlwind tour with graphics and photos. Absorb the images. They are profound, broad, and ugly. The central bank concept is the Matrix in embodiment, but the Eastern nations led by BRICS and G-20 have a key to unlock the USDollar prison. A quick look at the...

Gold peaked at every LTD # 4 high and every grouping of LTD # 1 high and LTD # 2 high. Every gold peak was either at the upper trend line or above the lower trend line. Every low took place at LTD # 3 low and LTD # 5 low. All the lows were higher lows. All the highs...

October 16, 2013

Human beings function primarily based on the principle of self-preservation; a concept that translates easily to politics where elections are always around the corner. While numerous observable pieces of evidence said the rally off last Wednesday’s low was not...

Would it make monetary insurance (gold) any less important if a new positive economic era has been created? In my opinion no, because as a rational market viewer I see the mechanics of any new bull era and deduce that its arrival would simply be another step...

PUTTING GOLD into your investment portfolio typically signals a lack of faith in other people. Or at the very least, a healthy question mark. Yet even as governments everywhere give investors new reasons to find doubts, the trend is no longer for those enormous...

Sometimes the most attractive energy assets aren’t found in the ground. Rather, at times like today, they are listed on the stock exchange.

Without a doubt, oil investors are focusing now mostly on news out of Washington, because it could have the greatest impact on crude prices this week. During the last session we saw this impact very clearly. Light crude fell throughout the session as hopes for a...

Investors should always be on the alert for special situations that appear in the markets from time to time. Our definition of a special situation would be when opportunity and timing come together and present investors with a greater than normal chance for...

LONDON GOLD moved in a $10 range Wednesday morning around $1281 per ounce – the early August low, down more than 10% from that month's peak – as both the US House and Senate were due to meet in what headline writers called "a last ditch attempt" to resolve the...

Last week on October 8th the financial market experienced a broad based sell off. Every sector was down with utilities being the only exception. The individual leadership stocks, which are typically small to mid-cap companies (IWM – Russell 2K) that have a strong...

October 15, 2013

The stock market was trading in an up and down fashion Tuesday as the negotiations in our capital dragged toward the October 17 deadline.

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