Mark J Lundeen
The gold and silver markets saw a little excitement early this week when the Obama administration announced it intended to freeze Russian assets if President Putin didn’t withdraw Russian troops from Ukraine. But not enough excitement to...
“Economic growth” is a favorite topic of government economists; people who find signs of “growth” everywhere they look. But they base their public research from the beginning of the Obama administration, which corresponds with the bottom...
No doubt about it; 2013 was as hard for precious metals and their miners as it was rewarding for investments in the general stock market. The full truth of this can be seen below in the table of Dow Jones Total Market Groups (DJTMG) where...
At the end of this week we are finally seeing some life in the precious metals markets. Since 2011, investors couldn’t be blamed for believing the price of gold and silver will only go down over time; not after Washington and Wall Street...
After four hours on the operation table, I had with more tubes sticking into my body than I wanted a month ago, but today I feel good, so it’s time to get back to work and do some writing. And what do I want to say? Nothing new really,...
Sorry for writing this before the last gold price of 2013 has been posted by the markets. But on New Year’s Eve I’ll be busy with more pressing matters than writing this article, using the actual last price of the year. I expect nothing...
I thought I send my readers some charts I’m looking at; here are the Bear’s Eye View (BEV) charts for gold and silver during their decade long bull markets. The BEV format displays each all-time highs within the range selected as Zero %,...
Without a doubt, monetary inflation (Blue Plot / Rising CinC) has outperformed both blue chip and gold mining shares since 1920. Unfortunately, benefitting from rising CinC is the preserve of Washington and Wall Street, not people like...
The Dow Jones ended the week at a new historic all-time high. In late 1999, this news would have greatly excited the media and investing public, but fourteen years later, there are scant signs of excitement that the Dow Jones has...
There’s talk of foreign central banks purchases of US Treasury debt slowing down, or even significant reductions in their current Treasury bond holdings. Unfortunately, authors seldom share their work with the readers of their articles....