Gold Editorials & Commentary

What is really sustaining bullish sentiment about the U.S. stock market and, propping up the dollar? When asked, everybody pulls the same trump card: Faith in the economy's superior qualities, and faith in the unique wisdom of Mr. Greenspan.

Every financial panic must have a catalyst, a lynchpin upon which the cascading effects of monetary disaster spreads across large segments of the economy.

As this essay has grown almost as bloated as the United States M3 money supply, it has been rent asunder and split in two for your own protection. The thrilling finale will be published next week.

As stock market indicators go, nothing beats an up-close examination of the market itself, especially the stocks of leading "blue chip" companies. Two such large-cap, highly traded companies on the New York Stock Exchange are the stocks of major U.S.

June 30 marked the second anniversary of the Tocqueville Gold Fund’s inception. Over that period, TGLDX has been the top performer in the Lipper Analytics universe of precious metals funds with a cumulative return of 15.71%.

Becoming accustomed . . . to repeated patterns?

While accounting wizardry may have helped to obscure a vast multitude of corporate sins and weaknesses during the 1990s bull market, the smokescreen is growing patchier each day as a burgeoning list of formerly high-flying stocks flirt with 12-month lows.

Now that the Camp David talks have failed over the status of Jerusalem, it's time to look at the effect on the Precious Metals markets this fall.

By all standards, credit creation is the backbone of any bull market, and liquidity (i.e., trading volume) is the lifeblood. Both are interrelated and without the two no sustained bull market is possible.

Was Wednesday surprising? Not really for several reasons; including what already was clearly struggling rally behavior during the poor excuse for a turnaround on Tuesday, and air pockets so visible in many stocks, including some that i

Now that we've reached the half-year point in my tracking the cyclical pattern of gold trading, e.g., "Up overseas / Down in NY", it's time to examine that phenomenon a little more closely.

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Ultimately, the only way to make money in an investment is to buy low and sell high. Comparing gold and stocks, now is clearly the time to move 5% to 10% of your assets into gold.

Multiple concerns . .

Government is about stealing. And about lording it over other people. Money and power, in other words.

The mainstream financial press never ceases to remind us that "our problems are behind us" in the way of the equities market. Gone, we are told, are the bearish elements that characterized the Dow and the NASDAQ from January through June.

In a stunning outcome that captured headlines around the world, six very ordinary people rendered a $145 Billion verdict against US tobacco companies.

The gold market appears ready for another high volume lift- off within the next few days. Moreover, the accumulation pattern we have witness over the last few years is coming to completion, and the mark-up stage is about to begin.

Expecting improving breadth on Wednesday . .

Ordinarily, the Atlantic Ocean off of the coast of the Carolinas is a beautiful place enjoyed by millions for recreation, commerce and ind

This article is a follow-up to both my ongoing look at how trading in the New York gold markets cancels out any overseas buying pressure, and my last article which introduces ideas on why Americans will not buy gold.

A combination of ingredients left investors bereft . . . of optimism Wednesday, despite what in several ways is data that supports a longer-term optimism towards the market.

The stock market is headed moderately lower this summer, but you can expect the worst of it to occur by no later than August.

The 23rd Annual FT World Gold Conference: The Emperor Has No Gold - Or, The Dog Did Not Bark ("Harry Schultz")

Despite the appearance of a marketplace unencumbered by government controls, it has become in recent years widely apparent that the U.S. "free market" is a misnomer, and is instead a product of active behind-the-scenes manipulation and federal control.

Dow Jones Industrial Index. Weekly close. Last = 10405 (28-06-2000)

There is symbolism both in American politics and economics. In neither case, is the symbolism positive. First, the spiritual and political symbolism of the Elian Gonzales case.

A "selling wave" . . . in the wake of a rate-change "pass", was the expectation here late night as you know, although the way it began left one wondering for awhile if it really was going to occur.