Commentaries

Weekly Review of PMs….

After the junk from Brett Arends and James Altucher, the WSJ finally has some worthwhile analysis on Gold. However, there are still many holes in this piece. The author basically concludes that Gold is a currency and not a commodity because it has followed US Dollar movements closely. Yes, we all know that Gold and … Continue reading

This week we have sent out several messages to our Subscribers regarding the current market situation. Now, the markets have calmed down for the weekend………

Portfolio Manager Joe Foster calls himself a “stock picker.” And he’s pretty good at it. Class A shareholders in Van Eck Global’s International Investor….

Follow the money. The up trend in the Junior to Majors ratio suggests a rally phase….

As the world sinks deeper into what he calls the Greater Depression, Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey sees default on the U.S. national debt as inevitable…..

In the time of the ancient Babylonians – long before the periodic table – there were seven sacred metals: gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead and mercury

Writing for the Vanguard Blog, John Ameriks offers these thoughts about how the world’s smartest investors are foolishly piling into gold and how some of the richest people in the world are deluding themselves if they think the metal will help preserve their wealth. We’ve been hearing a lot about gold over the last few months, … Continue reading

In our last editorial we showed a few charts of our junior gold and junior silver indices. Gold has moved well past its 2008 high and the same has happened with our junior gold index. Silver, at its recovery peak was within 7% off its 2008 high while our junior silver index was 25% off … Continue reading

“This is not working, let’s try something new.” –aprox quotation from Deng Xiaoping, head of China, circa 1978…..