Year: 2012

The following is excerpted from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 23rd September 2012.

We recall with some nostalgia that it was last year on September 6, that gold hit an all-time high of $1,923.

  NFTRH 204 went like this… Crazy talk about the Outer Limits and complete control in the opening segment (It’s All Out the Window Now) and a serious talk about the DML (Dear Monetary Leader), deflationary destruction and the Crack Up Boom in the Wrap Up segment.  In between was a whole lot of … Continue reading

Anthony Neglia, president at Tower Trading LLC, Sarah Quinlan, chief investment office at Qam and John Netto, president at M3 Capital, talk with Bloomberg’s Alix Steel and Adam Johnson about what is driving the gold trade and just how high futures can be expected to climb. They speak on Bloomberg Television’s “Lunch Money.”  

Regardless of whether we have seen a major low or not, in the second part of the update I would like to focus on the long term Precious Metals picture, while eliminating short term market noise….

Commissioning of the 200 tonne per day Mill in Merritt began on August 7, 2012….

While we have written about Silver here and there, we have not covered it publicly in over a year. The market made an obvious cyclical top last spring and the tremendous gains from late 2008 into 2011 would need to be corrected and digested. From May to July the market tested its lows successfully and … Continue reading

US Global Investors’ Frank Holmes discusses QE3’s impact on gold prices. He speaks with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.” (Source: Bloomberg)  

The following is excerpted from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 16th September 2012. An Appropriate Quote The great H.L. Mencken wrote: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will … Continue reading

The past-producing Wind Mountain gold/silver project is located approximately 160km northeast of Reno, Nevada in a sparsely populated region….