Over the last 125 years, the silver charthas formed two remarkable, similar patterns. The chart below shows a yearlysilver chart (only closing values): It is amazing how the 49-year pattern from1919 to 1968 has a similar form to the one that started circa 1980....Read More
Fascism became a swear word in the U.S. and the U.K. during the Second World War. It's been ever since, to the point that the content of the term has been drained away completely. It's not a system of political economy but an insult.If we go back a decade before the war, you find a completely different situation. Read any writings from polite society from 1932-1940 or so and you find a consensus t...Read More
If you're under the age of about 60, you've never experienced stagflation. Back in the '70s, everyone experienced what happened and people spoke openly about it. The term itself "stagflation" was a shorthand term to describe what was clearly and painfully a broad, national economic unwind.Throughout the decade, the rate of inflation crept up and people saw it in daily life. Food became more ex...Read More
Over the last couple of months, gold has scaled record highs, peaking at over $2,430 an ounce before correcting and settling in the $2,300 range. That's a healthy gain. But you could argue that gold remains significantly underpriced given the inflation we've experienced that continues to rapidly devalue the dollar.That leaves many people wondering when gold is really going to break out. It's impos...Read More
The major gold minersjust wrapped up another quarterly earnings season, reporting greatresults. Sector unit profits continuedblasting higher on stable production, lower mining costs, and record prevailinggold prices. Yet individually plenty ofmajors still struggled with rising expenses or lower output. So deploying capital in miners to leveragegold’s remarkable breakout req...Read More
The major gold minersjust wrapped up another quarterly earnings season, reporting greatresults. Sector unit profits continuedblasting higher on stable production, lower mining costs, and record prevailinggold prices. Yet individually plenty ofmajors still struggled with rising expenses or lower output. So deploying capital in miners to leveragegold’s remarkable breakout req...Read More
The major gold minersjust wrapped up another quarterly earnings season, reporting greatresults. Sector unit profits continuedblasting higher on stable production, lower mining costs, and record prevailinggold prices. Yet individually plenty ofmajors still struggled with rising expenses or lower output. So deploying capital in miners to leveragegold’s remarkable breakout req...Read More
Could we see $27,000 gold?That seems far-fetched but financial analyst and investment banker Jim Rickards makes the case that it could happen.Gold charted a big rally in recent months, hitting a new all-time high of over $2,400 an ounce last month. Even with the higher prices, gold demand has remained robust. Central banks globally are adding gold to their reserves, as have investors, particularly...Read More
Over the last couple of months, gold has scaled record highs, peaking at over $2,430 an ounce before correcting and settling in the $2,300 range. That's a healthy gain. But you could argue that gold remains significantly underpriced given the inflation we've experienced that continues to rapidly devalue the dollar.That leaves many people wondering when gold is really going to break out. It's impos...Read More
Could we see $27,000 gold?That seems far-fetched but financial analyst and investment banker Jim Rickards makes the case that it could happen.Gold charted a big rally in recent months, hitting a new all-time high of over $2,400 an ounce last month. Even with the higher prices, gold demand has remained robust. Central banks globally are adding gold to their reserves, as have investors, particularly...Read More
The major gold minersjust wrapped up another quarterly earnings season, reporting greatresults. Sector unit profits continuedblasting higher on stable production, lower mining costs, and record prevailinggold prices. Yet individually plenty ofmajors still struggled with rising expenses or lower output. So deploying capital in miners to leveragegold’s remarkable breakout req...Read More
Could we see $27,000 gold?That seems far-fetched but financial analyst and investment banker Jim Rickards makes the case that it could happen.Gold charted a big rally in recent months, hitting a new all-time high of over $2,400 an ounce last month. Even with the higher prices, gold demand has remained robust. Central banks globally are adding gold to their reserves, as have investors, particularly...Read More
Could we see $27,000 gold?That seems far-fetched but financial analyst and investment banker Jim Rickards makes the case that it could happen.Gold charted a big rally in recent months, hitting a new all-time high of over $2,400 an ounce last month. Even with the higher prices, gold demand has remained robust. Central banks globally are adding gold to their reserves, as have investors, particularly...Read More
Could we see $27,000 gold?That seems far-fetched but financial analyst and investment banker Jim Rickards makes the case that it could happen.Gold charted a big rally in recent months, hitting a new all-time high of over $2,400 an ounce last month. Even with the higher prices, gold demand has remained robust. Central banks globally are adding gold to their reserves, as have investors, particularly...Read More
The major gold minersjust wrapped up another quarterly earnings season, reporting greatresults. Sector unit profits continuedblasting higher on stable production, lower mining costs, and record prevailinggold prices. Yet individually plenty ofmajors still struggled with rising expenses or lower output. So deploying capital in miners to leveragegold’s remarkable breakout req...Read More
Over the last couple of months, gold has scaled record highs, peaking at over $2,430 an ounce before correcting and settling in the $2,300 range. That's a healthy gain. But you could argue that gold remains significantly underpriced given the inflation we've experienced that continues to rapidly devalue the dollar.That leaves many people wondering when gold is really going to break out. It's impos...Read More
Over the last couple of months, gold has scaled record highs, peaking at over $2,430 an ounce before correcting and settling in the $2,300 range. That's a healthy gain. But you could argue that gold remains significantly underpriced given the inflation we've experienced that continues to rapidly devalue the dollar.That leaves many people wondering when gold is really going to break out. It's impos...Read More
Over the last couple of months, gold has scaled record highs, peaking at over $2,430 an ounce before correcting and settling in the $2,300 range. That's a healthy gain. But you could argue that gold remains significantly underpriced given the inflation we've experienced that continues to rapidly devalue the dollar.That leaves many people wondering when gold is really going to break out. It's impos...Read More
Production, revenue and costs all were better than expected, BMO Capital Markets noted.MAG Silver Corp.'s (MAG:TSX; MAG:NYSE American) Q1/24 financial results are notable for an earnings beat and strong free cash flow generation, reported BMO Capital Markets analyst Kevin O'Halloran in a May 14 research note."We are encouraged by the accelerating pace of cash distributions from the Juanicipio join...Read More
Malcolm Shaw of Hydra Capital Partners shares his summer list of stocks to keep an eye on.Over the years, we all develop our own personal collections of favorite songs. These are the tunes that we either can't get enough of right now or couldn't stop listening to at some point in the past. In many ways, stocks are quite similar. The factors that influence an investor's choice of stocks for their p...Read More