Gold Seasonality Drivers [PREMIUM]
Does seasonal fear of stock market weakness or demand for jewelry drive gold prices? In his January 2012 paper entitled “The Seasonality of Gold – Jewelery Demand and Investor Behavior”, Dirk Baur examines calendar month seasonality o...
Hope for Gold, Silver Springs Eternal at Sprott
BOCA RATON, Fla. --Eric Sprott would just assume forget 2011.
A beef quiz, and revisited Koo
“Like a Hitchcock film. You did not need to see the blood and gore and violence – the hint of it and the menace that pervaded the office was worse.” - Theo Zemek cheerily describes the atmosphere at New Star...
Inside the mind of a gold bug
Warning: this is a very scary place to be. Rampant inflation, conspiracy, socialism, totalitarianism and Ayn Rand can be found at every turn.Presenting the latest Thunder Road...
Gold’s Glitter Attracts M&A
The lackluster performance of gold miners’ shares compared with the stellar performance of the metal they dig up has been something of a head-scratcher.
Make your own (collateralised) gold standard
We know the gold bug/Austrian case.When the United States broke away from the gold standard in the 1970s it allowed for unchecked credit creation, beyond what could realistically...
Liars led by junkies
“In my several decades as a financial and economics commentator – covering banking crises dating back to the early 1970s and the Latin American debt catastrophes of the early 1980s – I have never heard a sitting [Bank of England]...
Liars led by junkies
“In my several decades as a financial and economics commentator – covering banking crises dating back to the early 1970s and the Latin American debt catastrophes of the early 1980s – I have never heard a sitting [Bank of England]...
Soros’ Chinese Gold Bet
What, if anything, can an investor glean from George Soros’s decision to buy into a big jeweler’s IPO in Hong Kong?
$GOLD, GLD, GDX
Using volume to help with your analysis is widely considered as the best tool in Technical Analysis. Today, let us compare three charts. I have marked the distribution days within the last month on the chart. A distribution day is a down day compared to yesterdays closing price, that has...
A new golden age
“The designers of the good ship euro wanted to create the greatest liner of the age. But as everybody now knows, it was fit only for fair-weather sailing, with an anarchic crew and no lifeboat. Its rules of economic seamanship...
