Gold Editorials & Commentary

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

Palladium is in profound shortage, and Stillwater (SWC) under $20 a share here presents an extraordinary opportunity to buy into one of the great palladium deposits in the world that has yet to be noticed by The Hive.

February 29, 2000

To: Gregory Zuckerman

      John Conner

      Charles Casparino

      Wall Street Journal

      New York, New York

It's said we are separated from the rich, the powerful and the famous by a chain of no more than six friends of friends.

Thursday’s Wall Street Journal was filled with articles about how risky the stock market is and about how Alan Greenspan is stubbornly holding onto his desire to gently prick what he perceives as a stock market bubble.

"Risky debt may cause trouble for U.S. banks". That was the title of a front page article in this past Wednesday's "Financial Times." The article was based on a report by Wolfgang Hammes, a senior manager at McKinsey, a management consulting firm. Mr.

We're not on the edge of instability . . . and "there's no reason to slam on the brakes"; so said a beleaguered Fed Chairman, to the Phase II Humphrey Hawkins testimony in the U.S. Senate. This the Fed Chairman just blink?

The rapid pace of developments in the gold market prompts this summary of key milestones and their status:

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan didn't think there was need to worry about bank safety during the Y2K event.

This market may be frustrating and plenty difficult to trade, but it's easy enough to hate. The rallies look like hell, breadth has been shrieking "disaster!!!!" for months, and key bellwethers like Microsoft and Dell look like they've just about had it.

A question that I was asked quite often recently is why rational people should purchase stocks that are vastly overpriced by all conventional measures of value and probably with more than just an inkling that the market is in a bubble.

Final Part

Birth of the Euro

Inversion strategies. .

It was a particularly unsettled and ominous week for the financial markets.

The price of gold exploded on Friday (02/04/00) when Placer Dome announced that it was planning to stop its hedging program.