Gold Editorials & Commentary

In the 1990s, tech stocks were the place to be. After the dot-com bust, those who placed their money in bonds or shorted stocks did very well until October 2002. The winning asset class between late 2002 and October 2007 was stocks.

All aboard and back up the truck. The recovery train is soon to leave the station for higher prices!  Obviously, the ideal time for that would have been at the exact bottom.

During this banker raid on paper gold and paper silver, while banking shill Nouriel Roubini was spouting more propaganda in the distribution channels of the mass media of a gold collapse to sub-par $1000 an ounce prices, we were busy informing our readers about the...

The spot gold price surged to a near three-week high yesterday as strong demand to buy gold hit the market. Analysts are now looking for December gold futures to push through $1,350, the next level of resistance.

First off let's go over the key cyclical points from today's action.  Yesterday gold broke above the cycle downtrend line, thus confirming August 7 as a daily cycle low.

The Fed has taken extreme measures to kick start the economy. With fears of inflating another round of asset bubbles increasing, public statements from Fed governors in recent weeks have revolved around tapering their stimulative policies in the months ahead.

According to Reuters, Fed stimulus has helped fuel the S&P's gain of nearly 19 percent in 2013. The Fed is seen as moving toward reducing its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases, causing some investors to take a step back from stocks.

All the pieces are in place for a major uptrend in gold to begin right away, and it appears to be starting as this is being prepared. The Commercials have cleared out virtually all of their short positions, for a massive profit of course, meaning that the slate is...

I generally shy away from making time-specific economic and stock market predictions simply because they are extremely difficult to accurately pinpoint. During 2006 I warned about a coming real estate collapse that would cause a severe recession in 2007.

In April 2013, Japan announced a QE program of $1.4 trillion, an amount equal to roughly 25% of the Japanese GDP. To put this into perspective, the US’s QE1, QE 2, QE 3, and QE 4 programs which were spaced out over four years are an amount equal to roughly 16% of US...

The commodity complex is famous for a sort of ‘Whack-a-Mole’ quality to it.  Do you remember back in the go-go days when it was NatGas (2005)?  Uranium (2007)?  Crude Oil (2008) and then a cluster of Copper (2011), Grains (2011) and Silver (2011)?

My first article is based our just-released Market Overview (monthly reports). It focuses on gold as an anti-inflation hedge, and why it is precisely a hedge against something else.

Without a doubt, the recent weeks were tough for the U.S. currency. The U.S. dollar fell as investors weighed when the Federal Reserve would slow the pace of bond purchases that had contributed to weakening the greenback.

In this Weekend Report I would like to show you a “WHAT IF” scenario that few are seeing at this time. There are two major camps in the precious metals complex, the bulls and the bears.

BE AWARE!!! – Poverty and Unemployment are here to stay and will impact on both us and our children.   HOWEVER, futurists are unanimous, although there will be less jobs, there will be plenty of work.   The Transition will be painful. 

Well, the easy money that looked to be here last weekend dissipated quickly.  The S&P 500 broke to new highs but then failed and was choppy all week with no direction which means it’s best to be out of markets or only in very strong stocks and there are some...

While the S&P 500 Index has recently made new, all-time highs, a trio of indicators says we should be alert for market weakness.

In an election, it does not matter if voter turnout is high or low, the outcome is determined by the actual votes cast.  The same holds true for the markets.  Only those who make an actual buy or sell decision determine the outcome of the market trend. The market “...

There are mixed signals for gold and precious metal equities: Short-term they are on mixed Signals. However, long-term they are still on Sell Signals.

The marginal economic strength that was described in the most recent GDP release from Washington has caused many to double down on their belief that the Federal Reserve will begin tapering Quantitative Easing sometime later this year.

Silver has suffered a miserable year so far, bludgeoned by gold’s unprecedented selling anomaly.  The exceptional weakness in both metals was greatly exacerbated by futures speculators piling on short-side bets.  But with silver shorts hitting record extremes, a...

We continue to believe (a) tapering is about bubble management, and (b) the base case is for a September tap

Each of the last five years Wall Street pundits have predicted, and our government has promised, that a second half recovery in the economy will occur.  Since 2009, they have come up with different reasons why GDP would boom in Q3 & Q4 of that year; and that...

With gold recouping some losses in its most recent trading sessions, many are asking whether or not the bottom has finally formed for the yellow metal.

It’s odd that somehow everything is starting to look so much better now than Angela Merkel is up for re-election in Germany.

Why aren’t American’s flocking to precious metals?  Americans seem to have turned their backs on the shiny, precious insurance in favor of paper dollars and stocks of many sorts.  Why?

At present the US stock markets defy gravity either because: 1. The monthly $85bn Fed purchasing program; 2. The “improving” economy with 1.7% GDP growth for 2Q13 and bullish expectations for the remainder of the year; 3.

If anyone thought that the US’s standard of living was all about how hard they worked, productivity gains and technology innovations to make modern life easier,  then they may not be blamed for living under the illusion that has not come without a cost.

During silver (SLV) and gold's (GLD) terrific move in 2011, very few analysts warned that a correction could come to shakeout all the Johnny come lately's (momentum traders) who were pushing gold and silver to nosebleed levels.

According to most commentators, reducing monetary stimulus and winding down the balance sheet of the Fed without major economic disruptions is going to be a major challenge for US central bank policy makers.