Commentaries

After trading through both bull and bear markets and witnessing hysteria and panic, I’ve learned that whatever method you use to buy stocks, you must have a discipline to sell. When I buy, I look for support levels and oversold conditions so that a reversal could bring about a major gain and the downside risk … Continue reading

Regular readers of my articles on Gold over the past few years know that I have a theory on this Gold Bull market. In summary, it’s that we are in a 13 Fibonacci year uptrend that started in 2001, and now we are in the final 4 years of that uptrend. It is in this … Continue reading

A great quote from William Osler typifies the evolution of our current monetary system. He said: “The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.” Decades and centuries ago, no one would have done without a hard money standard. The founders … Continue reading

Silver has obviously had a very strong run. After breaking out past $19.50/oz, Silver has run all the way to nearly $27 with gains in eight of the past nine weeks. How much further can Silver run? We see some confluence of targets at $32. Note that back in 1980 there was barely any trading … Continue reading

I have stopped putting out price targets and timeframes for the precious metals.  What I tell anyone who asks is that I don’t know where the price will be next week or next month, but I will guarantee you that the price two years from now will be significantly higher than where it is now. … Continue reading

Weekly Review of Gold Sector….

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars…..

I was casually eating a burrito while having lunch at my desk, and was surprised to see some guy, writing….

The dollar continued to get beat down through most of the trading day but started to rally back a bit in the afternoon……

Ben Bernanke has officially announced quantitative easing and the markets are reacting with rising prices among all asset classes. QE2 is practically an economic tool to artificially raise asset prices to prevent deflationary forces. When asset prices decline due to a lack of demand you have deflation. Quantitative easing essentially is a preventive approach for … Continue reading