gold

Arguably the 30 year US bull market in bonds is at a close. What's clear is that yields are exceedingly low and real yields are now negative. In effect bondholders are often paying the US government to lend funds when inflation is taking…

The gold-silver ratio (GSR) measures how many ounces of silver one can purchase for an ounce of gold, on a certain date. Reference to the ratio has a long history. One of the first mentions was that upon the death of Alexander the Great,…

"I hope that silver goes down for a while because it was turning into a parabolic move, every parabolic move ends badly, I hope that silver and all commodities continue to go up with normal corrections along the way and in 5 or 10 years,…

Now that the Fed has confirmed it won't raise rates and the dollar is dropping, for me it means that negative real rates will continue and that the currency wars are back on. I have comments on what negative real rates mean for investors. I…

You've probably heard the term "smart money" used by various pundits, a reference to those investors and institutions that are consistently better at making money than the uninformed masses. Which begs the question: are you one of them?…

"Texas University Buys $1 Billion of Gold Bars" screamed the headlines in a steroid font. Talk of "new eras" and "turning points" for the gold market ran viral among the bugs' blogs. You could almost hear the metaphysical bell ring,…

Some easy questions and some harder ones about why gold is rising in price - Go ahead take the quiz.

Here is Omid Malekan back with a video explaining inflation to the layman. You have seen his videos on Bank Bailouts Explained and Quantitative Easing Explained. The QE explained video was especially popular and went viral on the Internet.…

The easy stance of developed economy central banks is driving money into emerging markets and fostering the accommodative stance of those central banks, fearful of more hot money flows or currency appreciation. Easy money in the face of…

Amidst the swirl of concerns about not-so-latent inflation pressures adding helium beneath the entire commodities complex, a development in the gold ETF GLD that has been underway and largely unnoticed caught my attention. Take a look at…