Gold Editorials & Commentary

The US government usually admits to "price inflation" of about 2%/year. As far as we can tell, the actual rate is probably at least 5%/year, but no more than 7%/year. Let's say 5%/year for the sake of argument.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

— Oscar Wilde

Global gold demand for the first quarter of 2013 declined both in terms of tonnage (-13%) and dollars (-16%).

It is a well-known medical fact that more people die from LOW BLOOD PRESSURE than from high blood pressure.

The levitating stock markets continue to seductively entrance traders, powering to new nominal record highs day after day after day.  No one believes a meaningful selloff is even possible anymore, thanks to the vast deluge of central-bank monetary inflation. Sh

We are going to start off with one of the most eye-popping pictures of just one central bank, the privately owned corporate Federal Reserve, and its purported gold holding.

We had another spectacular week while the markets and stocks just won’t  quit.  I hate to rub it in if you’re a suffering mining investor mainly.  Trust me, I feel your pain.

At market tops, bullish enthusiasm alters society’s brain chemistry to the point where what should be ridiculed becomes widely acceptable to the cattle rushing towards a terrible day of reckoning.  Case in point is the following video, where 116,000 is taken as

Once upon a time, an entity called the “World Gold Council” was created. It was supposed to be an industry trade-group, which (like all industry trade-groups) promotes the health and growth of their industry.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information

Many, many years ago during a lengthy argument with a friend he told me to ‘give it a doubt’ –  he meant I was wrong.

The latest World Gold Council Gold Demand Trends report shows that the gold market is driven by diverse global demand, and the appetite for owning gold jewelry, bars and coins continues to grow.

Once upon a time, an entity called the “World Gold Council” was created. It was supposed to be an industry trade-group, which (like all industry trade-groups) promotes the health and growth of their industry.

The Dow making new highs is likely to be very good news for silver investors, because nominal silver peaks tend to come after significant nominal peaks in the Dow.

The Dow making new highs is likely to be very good news for silver investors, because nominal silver peaks tend to come after significant nominal peaks in the Dow.

The investment story of the year to date is the central bank-led financial market recovery.  While everyone is aware of the impact the Fed’s $85 billion-a-month asset purchases is having on stocks, few investors realize that central banks are making direct purc

“India's wholesale price index, the country's main gauge of inflation, rose just 4.89 percent year on year last month - far below expectations for a rise of 5.4 percent - and slower than 5.96 percent rise in March.” – CNBC News, May 14, 2013.

Why does silver move so much further, and faster, than gold...?

The SILVER MARKET often gets a bum rap. The reason is that often its gyrations are much greater than those of the gold market.

Since the middle of April everyone and including their grandmother seems to have been building a short position in the equities market and we know picking tops or bottoms fighting the major underlying trend is risky business but most individuals cannot resist.<...

The last long-term bull market in gold-mining stocks, which ran from the early-1960s through to 1980, occurred in parallel with a major upward trend in interest rates, a steady undercurrent of "inflation" fear, and the occasional dramatic "inflation" scare.

Here is the silver to gold ratio, or the number of ounces of silver one ounce of gold can purchase.  At the close of Friday’s trading an ounce of gold was worth 61.55 ounces of silver; that is a lot of silver, but not as much silver as an ounce of gold could pu

While the precious metals didn’t fare so well this past week, many super moves in stocks did occur making it another just fantastic week for us.  We’re on a huge roll here and I’d like to see it continue but that is up to the market, not me.

As the US stock markets keep on levitating, the bulls continue to rationalize this inexplicable melt-up by claiming stocks are still cheap.  They use this as a justification to buy high.  But is this true?  Not by a long shot!  Today the US stock markets are ju

The latest fear on Wall Street is that record levels of margin debt may end up toppling the stock market rally.