Gold Editorials & Commentary

The Great American Economic finish line was 12-31-01. For many, many economic entities the dying will come quickly now that the new year has started.

I was going to go on to other currencies this week, leaving Japan alone, but it turns out I haven't finished with Japan. Or rather, Japan hasn't finished with itself…if indeed it can survive its current crisis. A correction first.

A massive and historic shift in wealth is taking place across the globe which will have profound effects on the financial markets this year and beyond.

From the transcript of the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee on March 26, 1991 (www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/transcripts/1991/910326Meeting.

Till the advent of fiat money, the finances of man have always followed a certain historical sequence. The people produce the wealth. And the king receives his share, which his barons collect for him for a fee.

From time to time we are told scary stories of foundering economies. There have been more of them than I can recount offhand, although the Mexican economic problem sticks in my mind.

The money being pumped into the economy has to go somewhere so why not stocks? Where else will those with an abundance of money put it? I remember years ago arguing with a petroleum engineer I used to set next to when I worked at ING Barings.

An auspicious beginning to 2002 . .

While the term "money," doesn't indicate life, it is necessary, for civilization as we know it, to exist.

Napoleon once remarked that he would prefer that his generals have luck rather than skill under the theory that you can sometimes beat skill but you can never beat luck.

The recent sell-off in the U.S. government bond market provides an early warning that a crisis of far greater magnitude will befall investors in 2002.

This is a quickie, just to wish one and all a most happy and prosperous New Year!

Most natural phenomena exhibit some sort of regular rhythms. From the change of seasons to the beat of a human heart, cycles dominate much of life. Study of repeating cycles extends to almost every scientific discipline.

It's time once again for our annual stock market/gold mining forecast for the coming year.

Strong Dollar is Hurtling the Global Economy Toward Oblivion

At least one issue about gold remains a sticking point. Gold is not just a commodity; it is a monetary asset. Countries do have the right deal in their monetary assets.

Immediate long-side trading . . . commenced upon traders post-Christmas holiday return; very much as expected, given the comparatively abbreviated trading week we have to work with.

The dollar gold bullion price during the last two weeks resumed its upward trend, which began last April, closing on Friday at $278 an ounce, 1.4 % above our last Update.

I find my mind is becoming more elastic these days, as in the silly putty toy of my youth. So much insanity to write about; so much insanity unfolding around me.

So, the Argentinean economy has collapsed and social and financial chaos reigns.

The recent Argentine debt fiasco is but a small sample of a problem that will spread rapidly in 2002 and in coming years to countries plagued by debt and unsound currencies, but especially those countries who refuse to tow the line and yield to the demands of i

South Africa is the richest gold bearing region in the world and home to some recently successful winners among the gold crowd. One such clearly defined winner among the gold producers is a company called Harmony Gold Mine.

With the changing of a New Year come the changing of the cycles, and based on current cycle configurations Year 2002 will visit Wall Street with unprecedented devastation and financial chaos.

Are investors being 'lured' into the markets . . . in the wake of a colossal move up from the lows of September; or is this really a market anticipating the post-recession conditions?

Anyone out there old enough to remember the Maginot Line? The Maginot line, was a long fortress built by the French to keep the Nazis out. They figured if they built this long, high wall, with guns and other armaments, the Gerrys would be kept out.

Twenty years ago this month I traveled through the snows to Hillsdale College in Michigan to give a talk in the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series, my topic being "A Supply-Side Gold Standard." A few months earlier, I had only a vague idea who von Mises was and no

Durban Deep has not disappointed the faithful investor, soaring from its $1.10 pivot last week to close near a two-month high at $1.35.

Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. says U.S. Treasury confiscation of gold would be illegal.