Gold Editorials & Commentary

The markets, right now, seem to be in a period of indecision with most market writers diverging toward the two extremes. The Deflationists are looking for the Dow to fall to 4,000; or in one case even down to 1,000.

It was an interesting options expiration week for equities that's for sure. We saw some very choppy price action with large waves of buying and selling as the bulls and bears fought for control.

I'm referring to the 1876 battle near the Little Bighorn River in Montana where General Custer made his last stand against the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Native Tribes.

GLD - on sell signal.

Naturally in the wake of the recent stock-market selling, bearish theories have made a major resurgence.

This essay makes comparisons between the money supply of 25 selected economic areas and discusses the ratios between the values of official gold reserves to outstanding currency.

WASHINGTON IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION: Will we ever learn that the only solutions that have any chance at all of reversing the Deflationary Spiral that we and the rest of the world are in are FREE MARKET CAPITALISTIC Solutions?

We're at a critical point in the equity market right now - risk remains extremely high as a major Bear Market is just around the corner.

Since the Precious Metals Sector is the main emphasis of our investing interest for the foreseeable future, we will be moving our attention on to the Precious Metals and the Precious Metals Stocks over the next few weeks.

GLD - on sell signal.

Equity markets throughout most of the world rebounded very nicely this past week retracing roughly half the past two weeks of declines. This is how bear markets work, they take two steps down, and one step back up.

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The chart below - courtesy www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=BDIY:IND - shows that freight prices per ton of dry materials such as iron ore have been falling.

In today's ever-more interrelated financial world, China's stock-market action is growing increasingly influential everywhere else.

Time to awaken to a new dreadful reality. Just like autumn 2008, all over again, the stock market is breaking down in a powerful visible manner, after nothing was fixed with the vast financial structures but much money was spent.

It's been a short but exciting week so far. Investors and traders are have been scratching their heads the past few days as stocks continued to bounce around giving mixed signals.

It's mid afternoon Tuesday and the markets are selling off - still. It seems like it will never end. Big red candles on every chart I look.

The following chart is my number one reason to be bearish and to believe we are in the worst bear market of our collective lifetime.

Summary

PART 1: THE DOW

GLD - sell signal this week.

The Homeless Recovery?...No, we're not referring to some type of improvement in the homeless problem domestically.  Unfortunately with what is happening both in residential real estate and labor markets, that problem probably gets worse before

Wealth cannot be dropped by helicopters. The solutions to the issues facing humanity lie beyond the realms of finance.

What a nutty week for the equities market! The bleeding has not led up with almost 2 weeks of straight selling.

When I first began examining supply/demand data on the silver market several years ago, I was somewhat hesitant to form conclusions, as silver (and gold) have traits which are very different than ordinary commodities - which affects supply/demand analysis.

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so" - Mark Twain

It was a non stop sell off last week in equities as the SP500 sold down 4 days straight with a small move up on Friday. While investors were cashing out of stocks, we saw that money move into the big shiny yellow safe haven - Gold.

Paul Krugman's article The Renminbi Runaround in the June 24th edition of The New York Times is not only diplomatically insensitive: it also lacks economic justification.

A great way to make yourself popular is to tell people what they want to hear, and the trick is to make yourself scarce before the wheel comes off, or at least slip quickly into the background when it does.

If I am right about the potential for a recession, it is going to bring Ben Bernanke and the Fed to a very serious crossroads. Recessions are by definition deflationary. But inflation is already as low as it has been in a very long time. Core CPI is less than 1%....