Daily Reckoning

Now folks, for a good daily contrarian read and downright to the point analysis of markets including precious metals, I do recommend checking out the Daily Reckoning. There’s always a few ‘nugget’s in each communication; here’s an example: –Check out the chart below, courtesy of our old friend Chris Weber. We are often asked how [...]

Colin Twiggs Trading Diary

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Why You Should Own Dollars Today, Gold Tomorrow

Richard Russell says “The way the world is going, ‘gold will be the last man standing.’ Gold will be wanted because unlike everything else, gold cannot go bankrupt. Gold has no debt against it, gold is not the product of some nation’s central bank. Gold is pure intrinsic wealth. It needs no nation to guarantee [...]

The Gold Market’s Tech Cues

Brad Zigler writes “Fundamental analysis uses economic, political and environmental data to forecast future price movements, while technically derived predictions rely upon price patterns and changes in market volume. Commodity traders often use “the technicals” as well as fundamentals when making market decisions.” Check out the rest of his article here

The Next Major Financial Crisis

From Seeking Alpha “Warren Buffett doesn’t see the “green shoots” Ben Bernanke and other bullish investors have spoken of in recent months. In fact, the billionaire investor believes the economic picture will grow darker before things improve. “Everything I see about the economy is that we have had no bounce,” Buffett told” click here for [...]

The Death of Gold?

From Seeking Alpha “This is the 1980 spike revisited, but at a much higher inflation adjusted price. How high? There are as many guesses as their are commentators – $2200, $5000 or more? This is the end game that many goldbugs have been waiting for, when they can shout “we won”! But will they have [...]

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Try this free email newsletter, if you like it join Club EWI or subscribe to one of their many excellent publications. I find it and their subscription services to be a very useful to balance the perma bulls views that proliferate on the internet. You don’t have to believe it per se, but you’d be [...]

Gold miners, “window of opportunity”

Mineweb – Junior gold miners seeing windows of opportunity Few sectors have been as hard hit as the junior miners by last year’s market collapse but capital raising opportunities are occurring, particularly in the gold sector Pav Jordan points out that falling stock prices are only bad news if you hold on to them

When are Miners a good buy?

Mineweb – Miners bruised, but standing firmSince 3 June, when global mining stocks touched eight-month highs, the heaviest net selling has been seen among listed primary silver miners, followed by specialists in nickel, copper, potash, gold, and platinum. Barry Sergeant points out the opportunity

One good reason for selling 400+ tonnes of Gold

Fancy that, I was browsing around and found Mish, and he has this article he wrote. Of the three reason given, I think 3) is compelling because it is about a buyer of the IMF’s gold … you guessed it, Mish thinks China too. Nice one Mish. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/06/us-approves-imf-gold-sales-what-does-it.html

China should buy Gold as USD hedge

China should buy gold as falling dollar hedge – China CP research A senior China Communist Party researcher fears for future of dollar and says the country should buy gold, natural resources, U.S. Land and wants IMF’s SDR reformed to give yuan a 20 percent share. Author: Zhou Xin and Alan Wheatley … read the [...]

Deflation, Inflation, Hyperinflation

An excellent article from Simon Botherway; “Weimar style inflation threatens” OPINION: It would be unthinkable for the Reserve Bank, a fiercely independent central bank, to print money to devalue the Kiwi, right? Nope, wrong. It will reluctantly be driven there by the actions of major global central banks and governments, whose prevailing anti-deflationary policies are [...]

Whiskey & Gold

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~ P. J. O’Rourke

Gold target $1,224

Go Jim Sinclair … his personal gold target is $1,224

The TOP 10 REASONS to Hold Gold, Bar None!

The Motley Fools did a really good job of this … The TOP 10 REASONS to Hold Gold, Bar None!

Why You Shouldn’t Expect $1,000 Gold Anytime Soon

Here’s a great article putting forward reasoning why, in a deflationary environment, Gold won’t cut the mustard; so the question is, assuming that it is indeed a deflationary environment, whether inflationary or preferrably for gold bugs ‘hyperinflationary’ environment will follow. Why you shouldn’t expect $1000 gold anytime soon The best part about that scenario is [...]

Linking the golden dots, big seller need big buyer

So the IMF decides to sell 403 tonnes and the World Gold Council is OK with that apparently, because it won’t affect the gold market. Well heck, how could a huge sales like that NOT affect the gold market? Lets try and link some golden dots. The way to make a huge sales of gold [...]

Choppy times ahead for Gold?

Choppy times ahead for gold in near term – BMO’s Melek While gold may be vulnerable to a near-term pullback, BMO’s Bart Melek believes there are long-term motivations to hold the precious metal. http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page33?oid=85418&sn=Detail

How much Gold in your portfolio?

How much gold should be in your portfolio Financial advisers often suggest maintaining at least some part of one’s investment portfolio in gold as a diversifier, stabilizer and inflation hedge -but how much makes sense? http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page33?oid=84224&sn=Detail