One (perhaps the only) bright spot in the past few years’ gold market has been Chinese and Indian demand for the metal. Here’s a chart, courtesy of Ed Steer’s Gold & Silver Daily, showing that the two countries have imported a cumulative 15,000 tonnes since 2008, which is not far from the total production of […]
What Gold’s Bull Market (That’s Right, Bull Market) Means For Miners
One of the oddities of floating exchange rates is that they cause people to view the world in terms of their own national currency. For Americans that means looking out through a window that is distorted by the dollar’s recent surge. A C$100-a-night Vancouver BC hotel room, for instance, cost about US$100 in 2013 and […]
Suddenly, Not A Bad Environment For Gold Miners
A few years ago (when the world was very different) veteran mining analyst Jay Taylor told me something that seemed counterintuitive: Deflation can actually be a good thing for the gold and silver mining business — if the prices of mining inputs like oil fall faster than the price of precious metals. In other words, […]
Did Gold and Silver Just Get Their “Greenspan Put”?
The world’s central banks and derivatives traders have been having their usual fun with gold and silver lately, dumping huge volumes of futures contracts into thin markets to produce massive declines — just when precious metals SHOULD have been soaring in response to near-global debt monetization. But something interesting happened as this latest smack-down really […]
Does Surging Demand For Gold & Silver Coins Signal a Bottom?
Reports of individuals snapping up near-record numbers of gold and silver coins are coming in from around the world: U.S. Mint American Eagle gold coin sales set to rise sharply in Sept (Reuters) – The U.S. Mint has sold nearly 50,000 ounces of American Eagle gold coins so far in September, almost double its total […]
Gold Bugs’ Hearts Are Beating Faster
Last Thursday was the kind of day that precious metals investors have been waiting (and waiting and waiting) for. Gold and silver popped 3.5% and 4.8% respectively and the junior miners, which have been universally unloved lately, took off. Some more-or-less random examples: One day does not of course make a bull market, but it […]
Tangible Versus Financial Assets: The Great Migration
Excerpted from The Money Bubble, by James Turk and John Rubino. Wealth comes in many forms, but only two general categories: tangible and financial. Tangible wealth is made up of real, physical things like buildings, farmland, oil wells, commodities, etc. These things can be seen and touched, and – crucially – they don’t have counterparty […]
China Gold Imports Surge – Or Fall. You Decide
Chinese gold imports are becoming a case study in the power of journalists to control the slant of a story by deciding which facts to highlight. The following chart contains the relevant data. Here’s how the mainstream press, in this case Bloomberg, handled it: China’s Gold Shipments From Hong Kong Decline as Demand WeakensChina’s gold […]
If You Were Going to Buy a Mining Stock, Which Would It Be?
Let’s say you’ve got some traditional mutual funds full of stocks and bonds and they’re way up. You’re worried by all the taper talk and the charts that show share prices and margin debt back up to pre-crash levels, and you’re wondering whether it’s time to redirect some of that capital to someplace that no […]
Miners Reporting Serious Progress
This was supposed to be the year that gold and silver miners pretty much imploded. The story in a nutshell is that during the boom years of 2009 -2011, the markets threw so much cash at the industry that a lot of CEOs went a little crazy, racing to accumulate the most ounces in the […]
European Gold Buying “Remarkable”
Here’s National Numismatics’ Tom Cloud with a quick dealer-level view of gold and silver: DollarCollapse: Hey Tom, it’s been an eventful few weeks. Precious metals pierced your worse-case downside targets and then bounced a bit. What’s going on out there? Tom Cloud: Once gold broke the $1,320 it didn’t stop till $1,180, which I did […]
When Hedge Funds Go Short, Gold Goes Up
Bloomberg is reporting on the rising number of hedge funds shorting gold: Gold Bear Bets Reach Record as Soros Cuts Holdings Hedge-fund managers are making the biggest ever bet against gold as billionaire George Soros sold holdings last quarter and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. predicted more declines after the longest slump in four years. The […]
Golden Bullseye
One of the lessons that gold bugs are learning, in the most painful way possible, is that you can’t trade a manipulated market. When big players with regulatory immunity can move an asset’s price — and can see resistance/support levels and moving averages just as clearly as anyone else — smaller traders don’t stand a […]
One More Drop, Then Silver Back Above $25
In this week’s Q & A, National Numismatics’ Tom Cloud updates his near-term precious metals price targets and explains why silver will rise faster than gold once the bottom is in. DollarCollapse: Hi Tom. Last time we talked you said that your charts put the worst case scenario for a gold correction at $1,380. Within […]
Catherine Austin Fitts: Another Gold Smackdown Coming?
Last weekend the disturbingly-brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of the Solari Report, passed through town, giving us a chance to finally meet face-to-face. In the following excerpt from a much wider-ranging talk she explains the deeper, more sinister reasons for the recent action in precious metals. DollarCollapse: It’s great to finally meet you, Catherine. The timing […]
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