“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter [...]
China Warns About The Dollar
(I know a lot of you saw this article already, but I am compelled to add my 2 cents, especially since the reader who has incessantly busted my stones over my bearish dollar call has disappeared)
When China speaks, the U.S. should listen:
Any appreciation of the dollar is “really [...]
Ian Wyatt submits:
The parallels between the current recovery and the "jobless recovery" of 2003-2004 just keep coming.
Readers may remember the period, marked by investors’ "not too hot, not too cold" bias. Stocks would sell-off if economic data was too good, because it implied the Greenspan Fed would reverse its [...]
One of the rules I live by is to be wary of people with ideologies that are firmly set in stone. With regard to the financial markets, I am very wary of them. That is because successful navigation of the markets – while avoiding or mitigating periodic blow ups – depends [...]
Since I am often asked by people how to invest in this gold bull market, I wanted to take some time to address these questions in a post. My main focus as an investor isn’t worrying about choosing between gold juniors, gold seniors, physical gold, or other minor aspects of gold investing. [...]
"Gold: Bubble or boom?" is a big concern for the world’s professional gold industry…
The BIG MONEY flows from the biggest trends, of course, writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault, just returned from the London Bullion Market Association’s 2010 Conference in Berlin.
But even the brightest people, and with the best of intentions, can struggle to see today [...]
September was a good month for betting on a decline in the Gold/Silver Ratio…
WHEN WE FIRST looked this month at the potential for a breakout move in the ratio of gold to Silver Prices, it then stood at 64.4, writes Brad Zigler at Hard Assets Investor.
In other words, one ounce of gold was the same [...]
Might you miss the biggest stories by watching gold too closely…?
So the TWO BIGGEST members of the former Communist/Red/Central Planning club yesterday finalized a deal yesterday to send 300,000 barrels a day of Russian oil to the Chinese city of Daqing for the next twenty years, writes Dan Denning in his Daily Reckoning Australia.
It’s a [...]
Gold Prices turned higher a decade ago, and haven’t stopped since. Why…?
HINDSIGHT is always a satisfying exercise, because you have all the facts, you know what happened eventually and you simply have to find the reasoning now established by history, writes Julian Phillips in his Gold Forecaster.
Forecasters can be thus judged efficiently as to whether [...]
Knowing when this bull market in Gold Investing ends is critical…
WE RECENTLY received the following comment in our Q&A Knowledge Base, writes David Galland of Casey Research.
"Investors should be prepared to sell gold as either increased inflation expectations or doubts around debt sustainability force a sharp increase in US Treasury bond yields. Simply put, in [...]