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Gold Bull Market Far From Over

Gold’s poor performance in the past week has triggered a flood of commentaries declaring that gold peaked back in 2011 and that prices may plummet next year. Don’t be fooled – there is plenty of evidence that gold still has a bright future. Tim Iacono published an interesting article on Seeking Alpha yesterday debunking the […]

Fed’s Announcement and Precious Metals

As expected, today the Fed announced it will expand its balance sheet by continuing to purchase long-term Treasuries after Operation Twist expires. The Fed remains committed to buying government debt and keeping interest rates near zero until unemployment drops to 6.5%, which it admits probably won’t happen until 2015. Surprise, surprise, gold prices rose on […]

The Long-Term Bull Market In Gold

Metals Analyst Kira Brecht published an incisive commentary on Kitco yesterday on the long-term gold trend, examining the relationship between gold and the quantitative easing of central banks: “But, what will it take to kill the long-term bull market in gold? Listen up folks and listen good. There is nothing on the near or medium […]

How Do The Chinese View The Gold Market?

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research Have you ever wondered what the typical Chinese gold investor thinks about our Western ideas of gold? We read month-after-month about demand hitting record-after-record in their country – so how do they view our buying habits? Since 2007, China’s demand for gold has risen 27% per year. Its share […]

China Understands the Safety of Gold – Do You?

The media has stirred up a lot of fear about the possibility of actually going over the fiscal cliff in the new year. However, Peter Schiff maintains that the cliff is an essential step in repairing the economy. He also continues to stress how much safer gold is than dollar-denominated assets, especially Treasuries:

What Will the Price of Gold Be in January 2014?

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research While I don’t like making price predictions, and certainly ones accompanied by a specific date, it’s hard to ignore the correlation between the US monetary base and the gold price. That correlation says we’ll see $2,300 gold by January 2014. There are plenty of long-term charts that show a […]

The Solar Silver Thrust

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research In early July, Japan set a premium price for solar energy that was three times the rate of conventional power. This meant utility companies would be paid three times more for electricity sourced from solar. It’s widely expected that the premium will ignite the use of solar power – […]

What to Do When Inflation Gets Out of Hand

By Jeff Clark from Casey Research The cheek of it! They raised the price of my favorite ice cream. Actually, they didn’t increase the price; they reduced the container size. I can now only get three servings for the same amount of money that used to give me four, so I’m buying ice cream more […]

How to Save Your Money and Your Life

By Doug Casey from Casey Research I think there are only two good reasons for having a significant amount of money: to maintain a high standard of living and to ensure your personal freedom. There are lesser reasons, of course, including: to prove you can do it, to compensate for failings in other things, to […]

Fear Risk, Not Volatility

By Jeff Nielson While watching a little television the other night, I was once again confronted by my biggest pet peeve: investment professionals who confuse risk and volatility. In this case, the offender was a TV commercial heralding the supposed virtues of an annuity with a “guaranteed rate of return.” The suggestion is that such […]