Gold Editorials & Commentary

Australia and New Zealand, as well as many other nations around the world, have caught an economic virus of sorts.

The USTreasury Bond is the primary vehicle for the USDollar. Nations do not hold the USDollar in raw currency form, except for the crime syndicates. They hold them in USTBond form, in order to gather some interest income.

The USTreasury Bond is the primary vehicle for the USDollar. Nations do not hold the USDollar in raw currency form, except for the crime syndicates. They hold them in USTBond form, in order to gather some interest income.

In one of the most audacious hearings I have seen, Apple CEO Tim Cook, was summoned to Congress last week to explain why his company has not paid any corporate income tax to any national government on more than $74 billion in overseas earnings.  While most regu

The Fed’s purpose, when it comes down to it, is to buy bonds. Under their various “Quantitative Easing” (QE) programs, they sure have bought a lot of bonds. This pushes up the price of the bonds.

The gold bears may have gotten themselves into a bit of hot water.   

One of the simplest and best ways to ascertain gold's long-term trend is to look at its performance relative to commodities in general.

In one of the most audacious hearings I have seen, Apple CEO Tim Cook, was summoned to Congress last week to explain why his company has not paid any corporate income tax to any national government on more than $74 billion in overseas earnings.  While most regu

Over the past couple week’s investors and traders have been growing increasingly bearish for the US stock market. While I too also feel this rally is getting long in the teeth there is no reason to exit long positions and start shorting.

One of the simplest and best ways to ascertain gold's long-term trend is to look at its performance relative to commodities in general.

Commodities stocks have two primary drivers, commodities prices and the general stock markets.  When both are doing well, commodities stocks thrive.  But when both are weak, commodities stocks amplify their losses as we’ve seen during the sharp universal correc

Silver's massive surge since late January has naturally made it wildly popular these days. But with the general-stock-market weakness gathering steam, silver traders are increasingly wondering if it could somehow spill into and affect silver.

The only thing that’s free right now is the air that we breathe. Other than that it costs to manufacture every object and commodity in the world.

Every day I am asked, “When is the ‘economic collapse’ going to happen?”  I have to tell them, “It already has!”  One has to but open their eyes to see what is happening around the globe, but most don’t.  They are waiting for an edict from the government announ

Since the price dive in April, gold fought its way back to $1480 before succumbing to renewed selling as general equity indices rallied and the US Dollar took off.   It has traded back close to, but above, it’s April low before regaining some traction.  As this

I made charts for gold and silver priced in constant 1920 dollars I thought my readers would find interesting.  The plots’ prices are ratios with the nominal dollar price of the metals for the numerators and the indexed increases in Currency in Circulation (Cin

It is amazing so many investors are oblivious to the fact that the developed world is completely addicted to artificially-produced low interest rates.

The month of May is now on the books. The question is, can anything new be learned from them? Maybe not, but you would have to see them to understand why not.

Although you wouldn't know it from listening to all the bearish commentary out there, silver is actually enjoying a strong young upleg. Its technicals are very bullish, contradicting the prevailing pessimism gripping traders.

There’s a reason why commercial traders are regression to the mean traders. In this business it is the one thing that you can absolutely bank on. It's like death and taxes, it never fails. All markets eventually return to the mean.

Timing stock market tops and bottoms is risky business and we all know the more the more risk we take the more potential gain would could also make. Correctly timing a top or bottom for any investment is flat out exciting not to mention financially rewarding.

The market is undergoing a correction, but it is enough to call it a top? No. More evidence is required before saying that the Fed has thrown in the towel. If it takes more fiat to keep prices inflated, it will be provided.

So how's the bull market in gold and silver going? As seen below, they are doing just fine. In fact gold and silver are doing better than the Dow Jones 1982-2000 bull market was at its day 2,746 on June 24, 1993.

It was a quiet week for the most part as markets and many stocks setup new patterns to trade off of but in doing so have given us decent intraday moves which can be capitalized on.  I like to take one or two trades per day and am very selective in those trades.

Anybody halfway attuned to the markets knows that copper has been a 21st-century rock star.  No longer just a boring industrial metal, copper is a flamboyant asset that has made fortunes for investors and speculators.  It’s soared a staggering 662% from its 200