Make no mistake, we are in the latter category (total catastrophe) throughout the G7, unfolding over the next four years or less, but many opportunities are presented during these periods as these booms create Mal-Investments ...
Pricing crude oil out of the Dollar this Fourth of July...
When the words "precious metals" are spoken, gold is usually what comes to mind first. And in the universe of PM stocks it is indeed gold that most miners are after. The vast majority of PM mining companies explore for and ultimately seek ...
When paper schemes and scams collapse, he/she who holds the Gold gets to start and/or participate in the new scheme because he/she has the money! Speculating in currencies is fine if it is one's interest, but Gold speculation is simply that.
There has been one constant since the March lows. Once we blasted up off the bottom, the Sp 500 took but a few weeks to clear the 50 day exponential moving average. Once over, it had never relinquished that key moving average until today.
Fractional-reserve monetary systems are inherently unstable. Money is created out of thin air by the banks and lent to government, consumers and businesses. In order to service and replay those debts, the borrowers take on more debts.
The much anticipated economic recovery is now fully discounted by the financial markets. Most strategists and economists seem to agree that the US economy is stabilising and will start to revive towards the end of the year.
Gold has maintained. But so far, gold stocks have done poorly and the credit crisis continues taking its effect on the stock market. Silver has not kept up with gold, but has fared better than any of the base metals, thus acting, in my view, as ...
Gold Ends Week 0.7% Lower, "Panic-Proof Protection" Advised as China's Dollar-Problem "Won't Go Away"
For years silver bulls have been waiting for the fundamentals of silver to finally take hold of price and catapult it into stratosphere. Alas the fundamentals do not provide a good timing tool for price in the short and intermediate term.
At the present, governments around the globe are printing money as if there were no tomorrow in order to try and prevent debt-laden banks from going under and trying to stimulate the fractional reserve banking system.
In this extraordinary environment, preserving your personal wealth becomes priority one. Before you make another major financial decision, it is imperative to understand the big picture by recognizing and understanding three critical issues.
Reducing Gold to "collectible" status is another subtle method the fiat statists use to debase the reputation of Gold. The attempts to demonize, trivialize and de-monetize Gold in a fiat system are paramount to the fiat system's success.
Petrol prices are up 62% from their average low price of 1.61, while crude oil prices are 54% below their old highs. Thus it appears that when crude oil trades back to the 147 mark, petrol prices will most likely be trading at levels in excess of ...
Practically everyone in the gold community has mentioned the inverse head and shoulders pattern on the gold chart and the corresponding $1,300 target. The target is correct but the interpretation of the pattern is not entirely correct.
I will admit, GLD is my ATM machine. I have been trading this since the day it became available. While I do not get a tone of trades per year from it, it does produce excellent low risk trades time and time again.
Probably the most consistent effect of seasonality that repeats itself is the lightening of volume during certain times of the year, primarily just before major holidays and into and during the summer months. This lighter volume is often ...
The U.S. Dollar felt pressure overnight on Tuesday because of stronger Asian and European stock markets and struggled even more after the release of the ADP Employment Services Report.
Most investors have learned to make certain assumptions. In this article, I will present a chronology of events over the last few years which seem to demonstrate that it often pays to question such assumptions by looking at ...
After a vicious crash in energy over the last year of close to 80%, Crude Oil has made a comeback in the last few months as it doubled from its lows of slightly above 30 to the 70 dollar area. Disconcerting to energy bulls of natural gas ...