Gold Editorials & Commentary

“Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society.” (Aristotle) -- Today we have yet again tolerated another lie.  We were told, by the Fed, that Q-Infinity was necessary in order to save the economy when indeed their only intended use was to

The summer is flying now.  The gold price and the precious metals miners have started to look poised for a significant rally, as the USd stumbles on the f/x markets.

According to Reuters, last week India hiked the import duty on gold yet again to a record 10% and raised excise duty on the metal, as imports jumped in July despite the government's attempts to strangle supply and curb demand to rein in dollar spending.

If there was such a thing as a “Holy Grail” of gold charts this chart would have to be it. Gold peaked at every # 4 high and every grouping of # 1 high and # 2 high. Every gold peak was either at the upper trend line or above the lower trend line.

According to Austrian Business Cycle Theory, when a central bank slows its money printing that has fueled a manipulated stock market boom, the stock market is very vulnerable to a crash.Murray Rothbard in his book 

Gold finished Friday up $14.10 on average volume to 1375, with silver up $0.25 to 23.18 on heavy volume.  The gold/silver ratio dropped to 59.31.  Silver's 50 day MA has flattened and is beginning to turn up.  The last time silver's 50 MA was moving up was mid-...

The good news is: The market averages are likely to be at or near their low point for this month. The Negatives: New highs have disappeared. There were 406 new lows on the NYSE last Thursday, that is huge.

We use the 20+ Year T-Bonds ETF (TLT) as the surrogate for long bond timing. As of 5/20/2013 TLT is on a Trend Model NEUTRAL signal, which means that the model has been out of bonds but not short. The LT Trend Model, which informs ou

Recently Contributing Editor Morris Hubbart has been providing his gold and silver market analysis via videos.  Here are his latest videos:

Over the years that I’ve published my research letters, I have routinely observed selective thinking.  In reality, what I have found is that rather than seeking the truth, people actually seek out opinion that supports their own.    Now, this may or may not always...

Gold has been in a significant bear market since reaching a record high at $1,910 an ounce in 2011. In its collapse gold bullion lost $705 an ounce or 37% of its value to the recent low at $1,195.

Last week we focused on the idea that gold is not an inflation hedge (https://www.gold-eagle.com/article/gold-anti-inflation-hedge ). Today, we will develop this notion even further.

The flagship GLD gold ETF has suffered a radically unprecedented mass exodus this year.  The capital fleeing this single vehicle was the primary reason gold plunged so dramatically in 2013’s first half.  But just this week, money started flowing back into GLD for...

The destruction culminating in late June in the gold price brought out the usual suspects to school us ever since about why gold is all done as a worthy investment in an era of economic revival, compliments of heroic policy making by Ben Bernanke and Associates. ...

Gold in relation to the Dow Jones Industrials (DJI) has taken a bit of a beating over the past few months. The DJI/Gold ratio rose from 7.82 as at December 31, 2012 to a close of 12.18 as at June 30, 2013 an increase of almost 56%.

At one point we thought we were alone in believing that eventually we would see a confiscation of citizen’s gold in one or more countries. Then we saw the confiscation of deposits in Cyprus in line with a “bail-in” policy.

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...