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Mickey Fulp

Mickey Fulp Articles

In last week’s musing, I documented the history of gold, silver and the US dollar from the establishment of a national monetary system in 1792 until abandonment of the gold standard in 1971.
In today’s musing I review the history of gold, silver and fiat currency as money in the United States of America. I document how various wars, panics and depressions, Congressional acts, and executive orders have affected the US dollar...
In two recent articles, I commented on the seasonality of the gold price and predicted short-term trends (Mercenary Musings: October 19 and October 26, 2015). Today, I examine the 12-year performance of gold during the pre-holiday to post-...
The usual suspects in the gold bug and perma-bull camps got their panties all wet last week when the yellow metal briefly set a four-month high of $1184 per ounce. Of course when the price backed off a bit, the conspiracy theorists...
The price of gold has been range-bound from the low $1200s to the upper $1000s per ounce since early February of 2015. There is one simple reason for the low volatility and lack of significant price movement for the most precious metal...
This is the second in a series of musings and accompanying videos with Vancouver-based Cipher Research Ltd, which evaluates exploration and mining companies for investment. Once again, we assess a segment of the gold resource sector.
Since the bull market for gold began in 2003, the world’s major gold mining companies have produced tens of millions of ounces of gold and have raised (and written-off) many billions of dollars for capital expenditures and acquisitions.

Minting of gold in the U.S. stopped in 1933, during the Great Depression.

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