By: Ira EpsteinGold, there is reason for caution here:Read More
A friend of mine recently confessed that he'd made a big mistake buying a home with a swimming pool.He said if he had a do-over, he would never have considered a house with a pool in the backyard knowing what he knows now. I asked why, since it seemed to me like a good investment at the time - with his two young boys and daughter - I would have guessed the pool was getting a lot of use. But afte...Read More
Jun 11, 2019 Guest(s): Jonathan Goodman Chairman & CEO, Dundee Corp. Now is the time to be buying gold mining stocks, when prices are deflated, not when everything is on their way up, said Jonathan Goodman, executive chairman of Dundee Corp. "If you look at the GDXJ [VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF] and go back to 2010, that adjusted return in Canadian dollars is down about 85%. Then if yo...Read More
Michael Maloney is a precious metals investment expert and historian. He is the founder and owner of GoldSilver.com, a global leader in gold and silver sales/storage and one of the world's most highly regarded investment education companies. He is author of the highest selling precious metals investment book of all time, Rich Dad's Advisors: Guide to Investing In Gold and Silver. In addition, Mr....Read More
John Rubino is the founder and manager of the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. Mr. Rubino is the co-author, with GoldMoney's James Turk, of The Money Bubble and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It. He spent the 1980's on Wall Street as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990's he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a freq...Read More
"We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was Continue...Read More
China continued its renewed (public) gold-buying spree in May adding almost 16 tons of the precious metal to its Continue...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More
What are the three elements of the perfect political and market storm I see coming together this fall?The first is an effort by the Democratic House of Representatives to impeach President Trump. The second is the socialist-progressive tilt in the 2020 presidential election field. The third is the fallout from the Mueller report and the Russia collusion hoax - what I and others called "Spygate."Th...Read More
People often refer to the "perfect storm." A perfect storm is generally understood as two or more events that are independent but converge to produce an outcome much worse than either event alone.The term is an overused clich?(C), and as a writer I avoid clich?(C)s whenever possible. But though rare, perfect storms do exist. The most common example is the devastating 1991 storm popularized by the...Read More
What are the three elements of the perfect political and market storm I see coming together this fall? The first is an effort by the Democratic House of RepresentativesContinue...Read More
The buy and hold mantra from Wall Street Carnival Barkers should have died decades ago. After all, just buying stocks has gotten you absolutely crushed in China for Continue...Read More
Jun 17, 2019 Guest(s): Frank Holmes CEO, U.S. Global Investors There is no better safe haven asset to preserve wealth with against the dangers of global "imbalances" and that is why prominent investors are taking notice of gold, said Frank Holmes, CEO of U.S. Global Investors. Paul Tudor Jones of Tudor Investment Corp. joins the ranks of Jeffrey Gundlach of DoubleLine Capital and Ray Dalio of Br...Read More
Jun 17, 2019 Guest(s): Karr McCurdy Partner, Rock Elm Capital The junior mining space is experiencing a cash crunch, but this won't stop investors from returning to precious and base metals should miners wide the wave of industrialization, this according to Karr McCurdy, partner at Rock Elm Capital. "I think investors will look at alternative asset classes if they're frustrated with lackluster r...Read More
What's better than GOLD?In the wake of two mega-mergers that have reset the gold industry, one small detail has delighted Mark Bristow, Barrick Gold Corp.'s chief executive officer: His company's ability to secure the rights to trade its stock under the ticker GOLD in New York.Barrick and newly merged Newmont Goldcorp Corp. are in a race to lure back generalist investors who fled the gold sector y...Read More
A paper published in the journal Resources Policy states that bonus schemes for middle management employees in mining companies play a role in tailings dams failures.According to the research article, such compensation packages actively encourage managers to cut costs and increase production, as the material decisions that put into motion such measures lay in their hands and positive results would...Read More
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a tie! The current expansion already goes on 120 months, the same as the economic boom lasting from March 1991 to March 2001. However, in the previous edition of the Market Overview, we suggested that the current expansion still has room to run. After all, the ongoing boom is very long, but this is because it is very weak. If the US economy is to replay the robust rec...Read More
As we close out another week, I'm currently in Toronto, the mining finance capital of the world. But at the moment, all eyes are on the Toronto Raptors, now the most valuable sports franchise in Canada as they make their way through the NBA Finals.The whole country of Canada has rallied around this international team, which has players from all over and whose main superstar, Kawhi Leonard, previou...Read More
Scientists at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created ultra-low density gold, silver and copper foams to give physicists better X-ray sources to employ in experiments at the National Ignition Facility.This facility is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device that uses lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel with the goal of inducing nuclear...Read More
Critics of modern monetary policy have been predicting that the day would come when a central bank would cut interest rates (or at least promise to), and the financial markets, insteadContinue...Read More