Greetings from beautiful downtown Nashville! It's my first time here, and I already love it.Music City is well named. Everywhere you go, talented musicians abound.I'm down here for the Paradigm Shift Summit, our company's big investment conference.More than 700 subscribers made the trip, and I've already met a bunch of them.A fine group of people. And happy, too.The timing for this meeting couldn'...Read More
Patterns. Patterns. Patterns.In addition to the boom-bubble-bust cycle of the stock market, there is also the Primary Trend…in which gold and stocks teeter-totter over long periods of time. Stocks hit an all-time peak in 1999, at more than 40 ounces of gold to the Dow. Thereafter it was down, down, down (even as nominal prices rose!) to less than 12 ounces today.We don't know, of course, if...Read More
The dramatic rise in gold and silver is finally starting to attract attention from the general public.Last September, we were shocked to learn that in 2023, 71% of financial advisors had 0-1% exposure to gold.That 2023 data came from Bank of America's fund manager survey. And in the most updated version of that survey, we're starting to see a pickup in gold ownership among professional investors....Read More
It's been a wild ride over the past few trading days...On Friday, President Trump started a mini-crash by threatening China with new 100% tariffs.Stocks slid, crypto crashed, and miners dipped.But yesterday, President Trump strapped on his Superman cape and saved the day. He struck a more conciliatory tone after China replied to his tariff threat with a hard-nosed retort.As a result, markets opene...Read More
For around 3,000 years, China maintained an airtight monopoly on silk.China's silk empire began in approximately 2400 BC, and the entire process was a state secret. From raising and processing silkworms, to weaving and dying threads.Imperial workshops were vertically integrated and tightly controlled.The punishment for revealing any silk secrets was death. Export of silkworm eggs and mulberry seed...Read More
Legend has it that in November 2004 Taylor Swift was "discovered" in Nashville. A youngster at the time, merely 14 years old, she was playing guitar and singing at the Bluebird Caf? when a music promoter heard her, took a look, and decided that this gal was going places. And as you surely know, today she's a huge mega-star.Taylor Swift in Nashville, but no I didn't see her. Courtesy billboard.com....Read More
There are 'policies' that seem to work…and some that don't seem to work.But the policy that always works best is no policy at all. That is, left alone, people do the best they can with what they have. Only they know what they want and what they have to work with. The feds, who have aims of their own, can make us do things differently; they can't make us do things better.Doing 'better' is dri...Read More
During the dotcom boom, fiber optic cabling was a scorching-hot sector.This is the wiring the internet runs on. The arteries and veins of the data world.Corning (NYSE: GLW) was the darling of fiber optics in the 1990s and into 2000. This classic American company had been a leader in specialized glass and ceramic materials for more than a century.Starting in the 1960s, they invested heavily in the...Read More
I opened my portfolio this morning already wincing, knowing an ugly number would materialize.Oof. It's a red day for those of us with beefy allocations to gold and silver miners. Game of Thrones style.Precious metal miners are correcting sharply. The SILJ junior silver miner ETF is down about 8.5% as of 12:40 PM. The GDX gold miner ETF is down about 7.8%. These are my preferred benchmarks for the...Read More
I remember getting my offer letter from Lehman Brothers in early 1997, a full 11 years before they went bankrupt, I hasten to add. For a whopping $34,000, I was theirs, green as a Granny Smith apple. My job was in a division called Global Corporate Equity Derivatives, and I was going to help the traders keep their trading books reconciled with the general ledger. It was my first, and last, account...Read More
Newsletter writer Stewart Thomson addresses the question:Has a pullback of significance begun for gold stocks? Another exciting gold bull era day is underway, but this time the excitement comes from substantial "overdue" corrective action.Here's a look at a key chart that highlights the move: Gold could continue rallying up towards $4600-$4700 before there's a pullback that is large enough for in...Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321gold.com explains why he finds Altamira Gold Corp. (ALTA:TSX.V; EQTRF:OTCBB) compelling. About six weeks back, I penned a brief article regarding Altamira Gold Corp. (ALTA:TSX.V; EQTRF:OTCBB), following their preliminary announcement that hinted at findings from their initial borehole at Maria Bonia. I'm generally skeptical about announcements focused on visual observations. Th...Read More
Silver North Resources Ltd. (SNAG:TSX.V; TARSF: OTCQB) continues expanding its high-grade silver discovery at the Haldane Property in Yukon's Keno Hill District. The company's latest drilling builds on strong 2024 results as global silver prices reach record highs. Silver North Resources Ltd. (SNAG:TSX.V; TARSF: OTCQB) reported progress on its 2025 exploration program at the Haldane Silver Proper...Read More
Dominic Frisby of The Flying Frisby answers the question: is it time to take profits or double down on this expanding producer? With silver seemingly unstoppable we touched $53 yesterday I want to look at top silver pick, Sierra Madre Gold and Silver.This has been a big win for us, with braver readers picking it up below 30c 18 months ago, when junior mining really was in the doldrums.Today,...Read More
Silver is trading at $47.98 per ounce as I write this.The all-time intraday high here in the U.S. was $50.36 way back in January of 1980. That was the peak on New York's COMEX (commodity exchange).However, silver has never closed a trading day above $50. And that's the official measure of an all-time high.Once silver briefly surpassed $50 in 1980, New York's COMEX essentially killed the momentum....Read More
"Big storm coming…" was how our builder greeted us. Back in Ireland, dark clouds rushed in from the Atlantic. Treetops rustled… rain came down, lightly… the big blast was still ahead.He was putting plywood over the window openings…and battening down the hatches.The stock market is a lot trickier than the earth-bound weather. Here in Ireland, a meteorologist can look into th...Read More
Dakota Gold Corp. (DC:NYSE American) announces more assay results from infill and metallurgical drill holes at its Richmond Hill Oxide Heap Leach Gold Project in the historic Homestake District of South Dakota. Read the story to find out why gold prices are rising and the yellow metal is such an attractive investment. Dakota Gold Corp. (DC:NYSE American) announced assay results from an additional...Read More
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) issues a Q3/25 operations update on its progress ramping up the Madsen Mine in Ontario. Find out how Cantor Fitzgerald Analyst Matthew O'Keefe rates the stock. West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) issued its Q3/25 operations update on its progress ramping up the Madsen Mine in Ontario, wrote Cantor Fitzge...Read More
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) officially resumed production in May at its fully owned Madsen mine in Red Lake, Ontario. Find out how Red Cloud Analyst Taylor Combaluzier ranks the stock. West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO), which officially resumed production in May at its fully owned Madsen mine in Red Lake, Ontario, has issued a Q3...Read More
Barry Dawes of Martin Place Securities takes a look at the current state of the market, specifically sharing his thoughts on gold. I clearly haven't read the gold price well, and judging from your responses yesterday, it is clearly just 'the vibe' driving gold.Parabolic thrust with very large 'gaps.'Parabolas occur when sentiment is all one way and everyone knows this is 'a sure thing' and is wil...Read More