During most of 2015, the U.S. price of gold plummeted… beginning the year around $1300 and finishing near $1050 for an almost 20% loss. As the economy and construction in China slows, other commodities have also been hit by the current bear market conditions. But so far in 2016 gold has improved slightly to around $1100. So where is gold headed now?
Where’s Gold Headed Today? Read More »
The Republican-controlled Congress faces some tough decisions in the days ahead. Who will they select to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the House? Will they capitulate to the Obama administration’s demands for a no-strings-attached increase in the national debt?
Debt Limit Showdown: Obama Administration Ramps Up Pressure on Republican Allies Read More »
U.S. Investors are on edge following last week’s and today’s sell-off in stocks around the globe. The carnage impacted equity markets in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.
Markets Crashing, Gold Rising Read More »
When looking at prices of anything from cars to oil to gold or stocks… we need to keep in mind our personal frame of reference. We see prices as they are priced in our currency i.e. the currency that we earn in. International companies are especially aware of this as their income can be in one currency while their expenses are in another.
Using a U.S. centric frame of reference we might think that gold didn’t perform very well in 2014 but people from the rest of the world would disagree. Today, Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst for Casey Research looks at the effects of currencies on the price of gold. ~Tim McMahon, editor.
Gold Up Almost Everywhere in 2014 Read More »
In today’s post Grant Williams looks at a hypothetical story of the “history” of gold looking back from the future… “It began in early November of 2014, when a man called Alasdair Macleod published a report on how the Chinese had been secretly buying gold for 30 years.”
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Oddities in the gold market have been alleged for quite some time, but few know where to start looking, and even fewer have the patience to dig out the meaningful bits from the mountain of market data available. In today’s article Casey Research Chief Economist Bud Conrad turns his keen eye to the Gold sector in order to discover how the big banks are using the futures market to manipulate the price of gold.
How “Paper Gold” Affects the Price of the Metal Read More »
Are Gold’s price swings as truly unpredictable as Bernanke, Yellen and Greenspan would have you believe? Is gold really a Barbarous relic with no place in a modern portfolio? Or is gold a valid insurance policy against the Fed’s $4 trillion balance sheet which is just a “pile of tinder, but hasn’t been lit”? In today’s article we are going to look at a model that predicted the recent peak in gold and current drop.
A GREAT Model to Understand Gold’s Price Swings Read More »
By Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst Bear markets always end. Has this one? Evidence is mounting that the bottom for gold may be in. While there’s still risk, there’s a new air of bullishness in the industry, something we haven’t seen in over two years. An ever-growing number of industry insiders and investment analysts
Doug Casey: “Gold Stocks Are About to Create a Whole New Class of Millionaires” Read More »
Ultimately, over time, something which is real will always be recognized by the masses as superior to something created for superficial purposes — particularly during times of crisis.
The Difference Between FIAT and Real (Music and Gold) Read More »
Gold has been outperforming both stocks and long-dated Treasuries in recent weeks. Below are four possible scenarios for the yellow metal looking out several weeks: A short-lived rally induced by Syria An inflation-fueled and sustainable push higher A rally shot down by increasing fears of deflation A sharp no place else to hide rally War
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