Gold Editorials & Commentary

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. 

Many investors and traders make the same mistakes assuming that one needs a complex trading system to consistently profit from the stock market.

We often hear investors complain of financial markets (and the gold market in particular) being “rigged” or manipulated.  The sad yet somewhat humorous tale of Henry Gribbohm recently brought this accusation to life.  The 30-year-old Gribbohm infamously lost hi

In Part I (https://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_12/weiner050313.html  ), we looked at the concepts of nonlinearity, dynamics, multivariate, state, and contiguity.

In Part I (https://www.gold-eagle.com/article/theory-interest-and-prices-paper-currency-part-1-linearity ), we looked at the concepts of nonlinearity, dynamics, multi

The media is jumping for joy over last week’s US jobs numbers. But beneath the veneer of headline numbers lies a truly horrible economic reality.

Let’s have a look at the two key economies for the world: China and the US.

How to trade Gold and other precious metals related investments is not that complex. But you must be willing to wait for price to provide low risk entry points before getting involved.

Based upon stock market history since 1929, a Stocks Bear Market inevitably looms on the horizon…in the near future.

It was really another amazing week.  We had a great April except the last week while consolidation occurred and we didn’t do much but this past week starting into May has been another great one.

The SP500 remains in a strong uptrend, but the index has posted a sizable gains for 2013 thus far so it’s only logical that a pullback within this bull market takes place sooner than later.

Under gold in a free market, the theory of the formation of the rate of interest is straightforward.  The rate varies in the narrow range between the floor at the marginal time preference, and the ceiling at the marginal productivity.

The most puzzling part of the investment business is seeing how the vast and largely economically illiterate masses interpret any given piece of news.

Bull and bear markets don’t just happen – they’re created by the Federal Reserve.  While few investors dispute the power that Fed interest rate policy has on the market, the extent to which it influences the direction of stock prices in both directions is often

The Fascist Business Model came into vogue in 2001.

The most significant fact about silver, from a charting point of view, is the mega cup pattern formed over a period of more than 30 years.These cup (or cup and handle) patterns are very bullish formations.

The most significant fact about silver, from a charting point of view, is the mega cup pattern formed over a period of more than 30 years.These cup (or cup and handle) patterns are very bullish formations.

I've been pointing out for several months now that the recent rally in the dollar was a mirage, an illusion generated by the yen, euro, pound, and Canadian dollar all dropping into yearly, or intermediate cycle lows together.

Recently, many bullish gold analysts have started questioning their own theory that money printing causes inflation.

As massive supply-deficits and vanishing inventories lead to greater and greater stress in our totally corrupted precious metals markets; these dynamics push us toward one of two potential ‘implosion’ events.

Gold's post-plunge rally of the past 9 trading days has been quite impressive, given what preceded it, but it has not vitiated the implications of the support failure and plunge, and it won’t until either a substantial base pattern forms, or the price breaks ba