Gold Editorials & Commentary

In a personal letter dated January 19, 2000, to Senator Joseph Lieberman (Dem., Conn.), Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan responded on behalf of the Fed to questions raised by GATA in an ad placed in Roll Call, the Congressional weekly newspaper, on

[Ed. Note: Following is Part 3 of a multi-part installment series on Robert T. Patterson's classic work, "The Great Boom and Panic," which examines the stock market crash of 1929, and its application to today's trading environment.]

A return of "bipolar" market behavior . . . has been evident for several days before this recent spate of selling in the NASDAQ market.

EXTREME MARKET VOLATILITY SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG! Has the fed created a classic moral hazard?

I write in order to bring to your attention a scandal of very large proportions involving the misuse of the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) by the United States Treasury Department.

Editor's Note: The author cites various Internet sources to corroborate his assertions, observations and conclusions. These are noted within the text as a Link number. However, the actual link locations are listed at end of the article.

Consecutive all-time high closes . .

When analyzing a commodity, we must look at both production and consumption. In my last piece, I highlighted the danger to mining companies who are hedged more than one year's worth of silver production.

It seems unanimous: the economy is booming. Presidential candidates allude to it in condemning their opponents for not proposing more spending for education, or housing, or whatever pleases their current listeners.

Executive Summary

For the first time in several years the two tiered nature of the market is opening a wider choice of investment opportunities for long-term value investors. Prices for technology and other "new era" companies continue to rally to more speculative levels.

If I hear it again, I'll get a megaphone and broadcast it myself right on Wall Street. Or, maybe not Wall Street--those guys probably already know.

Last week's running of the bulls on Wall Street brought a slew of letters, a few from Examiner readers eager to rub my nose in it.

NY MANIPULATION of the spot POG

"Qui Desiderat Pacem, Praeparet Bellum" or Let him who desires Peace, prepare for war. So spoke the ancient Roman Flavius Renatus in 200 B.C.

Musical chairs games . . . of course are underway, as what you're seeing is not normal investor action, but that of a coterie of mutual fund managers who (sometimes) think they're smarter than everyone else.

Alan Greenspan has not always had as much difficulty defining money and differentiating it from credit as he did in his Humphrey-Hawkins testimony quoted in the prior commentary. In his 1966 essay "Gold and Economic Freedom" (reprinted in A.

The gold market is sending off a warning signal ahead of the coming Fall 2000 (Sept.-Oct. timeframe) stock market collapse.

As a person who has a long time interest in numismatics and precious metals in general, the information explosion provided by the Internet has excited me.

As a person who has a long time interest in numismatics and precious metals in general, the information explosion provided by the Internet has excited me.

A bear market bounce . . . is oversimplification to describe Wednesday's activity.

[Note: The following is part 1 of a multi-part installment covering what is probably the most insightful book ever written about the stock market panic of 1929, "The Great Boom and Panic," by Robert T. Patterson.]

The Dow Industrials staged a rebound last week on a surge of upside trading volume that reversed the downward trend that had been in place for over two months, and provided at least a temporary buy signal.

It was, unfortunately, another historic week for the greatest speculative bubble ever. Leading the charge, the Philadelphia semiconductor and AMEX Biotech indices surged 17% and 14%, increasing year-to-date gains to a stunning 72% and 94%.

At the end of World War II Japan lay in ruins, physically and spiritually. The disastrous war, the American occupation, and several years of dire poverty caused tremendous upheavals in Japanese society.

Is the "Bull Market" back? That's the question many on "the Street" are asking today, as stocks generally have moved back up in recent days, very much inline with our call after last week's big drubbing, which showed an exhaustion of s