Gold Editorials & Commentary

I'm convinced – we can’t escape debt and taxes. Essentially all currency is created as debt, and our financial system creates more debt and more currency into circulation every day. Taxes are insufficient to pay the massive expenditures that our politicians deem...

A recent article on the Wall Street Journal’s blog draws attention to the high cost of producing a single penny – 1.6 cents each, to be exact. They blame this unsustainable price on the high cost of zinc, which makes up 97.5% of every American penny. The online...

The gold market has been disappointing to say the least. It’s been on the decline for several months now and many investors are throwing in the towel. Those who aren’t are wondering, how low could it go? All factors considered, we believe 2014 will end up being a...

China is slowly moving to dominate the global gold market and it is important to join the dots regarding a few key recent developments in China relating to gold. When the International Board of the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) was launched last Thursday September 18...

End of empire is a difficult time for two groups, investors and patriots. A hundred years ago the U.S. took the economic baton from England to become the most important economy in the world. No doubt some loyalists refused to recognize the shift that was taking...

This could be a most important week for gold and silver bullion and their shares. The double non-confirmation I have been describing will remain in effect as long as the HUI and Hecla Mining do not make lower lows. Today’s trading in the HUI and Hecla Mining may...

It's Official: China consumed, mined and imported the most gold ever in 2013. In all three gold categories the Sino nation is Number One Worldwide. Here are details.China has been officially crowned the world’s largest gold market for the first time in history,...

Inflation and deflation are two of the most misunderstood economic conditions. The recognition of each is typically gauged with prices. Higher prices mean inflation. Lower prices mean what exactly? We never see lower prices do we? My economic laws tell us much...

It’s fair saying that since 1920, the only Dow Jones bull market that actually proved profitable to the average retail investor was the Roaring 1920s bull market, if they sold before the bottom fell out from under them. And without a doubt, since 1929 each major...

Within the current global economic environment, central bankers – of the world’s developed economies and those of emerging markets alike – remain obsessed with the struggle to incorporate monetary policies which will engender renewed gross domestic product (GDP)...

A solid week for markets which just don’t want to rest, but it was interesting to me just how many stocks seemed to chop around and make no real progress and their charts are in no man’s land as well, without proper bases.

Long term – on major sell signal since Mar 2012. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle – down as of 8/8. COT data suggests a top is in for the metals.

HIGH ALERT!!! The stock market sits at a very precarious place this weekend. There are important and rare technical indicators that are contemporaneously telling us that a major stock market top is close at hand and a powerful and damaging stock market decline is...

Forget all the news, all the fundamentals, all the [mostly errant] price projections. There is a reason why a picture is worth more than 1,000 words, and this is one of those times where it is best to focus on pictures of the market, over various time frames, to...

The byline should read Money Velosity Hits Record Low, While Money Supply Continues To Go Into Orbit…Systematic Failure Is Evident As Policy Is Not Stimulus At All…The Pricipal Cause For The Breakdown Id Monetary Policy, Which Is Stuck In Place.

Gold stocks have plunged in September, crushed by the withering selling pressure from heavy futures shorting hammering gold. As usual, these falling prices have kindled extreme bearishness on this left-for-dead sector. But despite this rotten sentiment, gold...

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By the beginning of the 1960s, the U.S.$ 35 = 1 oz. Gold price was becoming more and more difficult to sustain. Gold demand was rising and U.S. Gold reserves were falling, both as a result of the ever increasing trade deficits which the U.S. continued to run with...

Since last summer, investing in the mining sector has been akin to riding a mini roller coaster. There have been two huge rallies, two sudden and sharp declines while more than a handful of individual stocks have rebounded over 200% from their lows. Nevertheless, as...

Gold has an inverse relationship with the US Dollar so when the dollar declines gold rises. The dollar is affected by monetary policy as decided by the various central bankers across the planet. We recently covered the effect of the European version of QE with an...

We’ve been looking at massive H&S patterns in the last two reports I’ve posted so you can get a feel for the bigger picture which is so important to grasp. It’s always much easier to make money trading within the big trend. For instance if you’ve been trading...

The Pope just observed that the situation in the world today amounts to a Third World War – he’s right and although he didn’t point the finger, we know what it’s all about – the maintenance and imposition of the dollar as the dominant world currency, by diplomacy or...

Some of you might be wondering what happened to gold at the 4pm (MDT) open, particularly in light of the rather benign, steady-as-she-goes Fed announcement. This looks like it might have to do with the Scotland independence vote in the UK tomorrow. [One man's...

I think we have an interesting setup in gold and silver here. Back in May, after a 2-month decline, gold pulled a fast one on the bears and surged higher producing a fake breakdown. But that surge petered out and gold topped in July, then went on another 2-month...

While many economists and market watchers have failed to notice, we have entered a new chapter in the short and checkered history of central banking. This paradigm shift, as yet unaddressed in the textbooks, changes the basic policy tools that have traditionally...

One of the striking ironies of our modern economy is that government bonds are considered safe-haven investments, while gold is a “barbarous relic” to be avoided at all costs. Since the 2008 financial collapse, the bond market has been on a tear, thanks to the...

Gold recently fell to its lowest level in seven-and-a-half months as the dollar rose to a 14-month high. Easing tensions in Ukraine and the Middle East also acted as a drag on gold and silver prices. Investors have been asking the obvious question as to whether...

I promised yesterday to answer the question "why?" is it that silver and gold are manipulated. Some people say "who cares?". Some don't believe it while others don't even have clue that it's happening. "Gold bugs" for the most part are angry but I sense they are...

Gold is the ultimate asset, and I think both the bulls and bears are probably going to learn that fact, the hard way. The gold bears view QE tapering and looming US interest rate hikes, as bearish for gold, and the bulls are sure gold is ready to soar vastly higher...

Gold prices have begun this week on a slightly firmer note, reversing the trend of the previous six days, after physical buying emerged in Asia as well as some short covering ahead of a meeting of the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week.