Steve Saville

As eventually happens to every dog, over the past three months the world’s policy-making fraternity has been having its day

The financial markets have begun 2013 in remarkably similar fashion to how they began 2010, 2011 and 2012.

To illustrate the difficulty of measuring performance in terms of the US dollar, today we are presenting three inflation-adjusted (IA) gold charts.

Why is gold in a bull market?

When someone says that QE (Quantitative Easing) is not inflationary they are probably claiming that it doesn’t bring about an increase in the general price level.

According to a recent comment by a well-respected analyst, one of the problems with using gold as money is that the supply of gold could experience large swings due to changes in mine production.

The chart displayed below was taken from a recent article at The Daily Reckoning and shows the median gold price forecasts of analysts monitored by Bloomberg.

Despite the recent weakness we are becoming increasingly bullish about the prospects for gold stocks.

In the 1st October Weekly Update we described three signs that will likely be seen at around the time of, or just prior to, gold’s ultimate price top.

The US Presidential Election will be held on Tuesday 6th November and the election results should be known by the time the US financial markets open for trading on Wednesday 7th November. I

Over the years we have read many times that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has rapidly inflated the supply of Yen.

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