Bill Holter discusses the VOX adpocalypse and much more.Bill Holter is currently a writer for Miles Franklin and Jim Sinclair's Mineset where he posts weekly commentaries on gold and financial markets. Prior to joining Miles Franklin in 2012, Bill Holter Worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, including 12 years as a branch manager at A.G. Edwards. Later, he left Wall Street to avoid potentia...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
Continue...Egon von Greyerz is founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG & GoldSwitzerland. Since the 1990s Egon von Greyerz has been actively involved with financial investment activities including mergers and acquisitions and asset allocation consultancy for private family funds. This led to the creation of Matterhorn Asset Management, an asset management company based on we...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
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
June 7th, 2019(S14-E699)Featured GuestsNick Barisheff & Dr. Chris MartensonGuest order by seniorityPlease Listen Here Interview RecapNick Barisheff returns to the show, head of Bullion Management Group (BMG) and author of $10,000 Gold.BMG announced a new hedge fund for pension funds and accredited investors to prepare investors for financial calamity.Nick Barisheff cautions investors to pr...Read More
By: Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price drifted quietly lower almost from the open of trading in New York at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening, with its low tick of the day coming at, or shortly after the 2:15 p.m. afternoon gold fix in Shanghai. It wandered higher without much conviction until the noon silver fix in London -- and then began to head higher...Read More
- RambusIt's hard to believe that the massive H&S consolidation pattern we've been following for several years began to develop all the way back in 2013 during the initial crash off the 2011 high. This weekly line chart shows the price action closing this week right on the neckline at 1350. Note how many touches the neckline has experienced from below with each one backing off. Now the questio...Read More
"Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression." Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Transportation 2017-, Secretary of Labour 2001-2009, Republican Party member, Spouse Mitch McConnel, b. 1953 "As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key compon...Read More
SEASONAL ANALYSISThe most reliable seasonal patterns are for a strong January and February, weak April, May and July followed by a strong August and September which tends to be the best month of the year. Then the trend is expected to continue into the end of the year with variable reliability for October and November. So how has the gold price performed this year against its seasonal pattern ?Th...Read More
Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.Coming up David Morgan of The Morgan Report joins me to discuss the ticking time bomb that is the trade war with China, why he believes flooding in the Midwest could lead to serious price inflation in food, and also gives us his outlook for the precious metals. Don’t miss my conversation with our good friend David Morga...Read More
Ladies andGentlemen, we have a tie! The current expansion already lasts as long as the economic boom that started in March 1991 and endedin March 2001. We invite youto read our today’s article, which compares both expansions and find out whetherthe current boom will be better for gold than the 1990s. Ladies andGentlemen, we have a tie! The current expansion already goes on 120 months, t...Read More
Domestic rebar prices in Brazil fell during May as leading steelmakers battle with new participants for market share amid low domestic demand, retreating from announced price increases.Fastmarkets' domestic rebar price assessment was 2,450-2,600 Reais per tonne delivered on June 7, down from 2,600-2,720 Reais per tonne a month prior. The bottom of the price range is at its lowest for this year.Lon...Read More
June 7th, 2019(S14-E699)Featured GuestsNick Barisheff & Dr. Chris MartensonGuest order by seniorityPlease Listen Here Interview RecapNick Barisheff returns to the show, head of Bullion Management Group (BMG) and author of $10,000 Gold.BMG announced a new hedge fund for pension funds and accredited investors to prepare investors for financial calamity.Nick Barisheff cautions investors to pr...Read More
By: Ed SteerYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price drifted quietly lower almost from the open of trading in New York at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening, with its low tick of the day coming at, or shortly after the 2:15 p.m. afternoon gold fix in Shanghai. It wandered higher without much conviction until the noon silver fix in London -- and then began to head higher...Read More
- RambusIt's hard to believe that the massive H&S consolidation pattern we've been following for several years began to develop all the way back in 2013 during the initial crash off the 2011 high. This weekly line chart shows the price action closing this week right on the neckline at 1350. Note how many touches the neckline has experienced from below with each one backing off. Now the questio...Read More
"Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression." Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Transportation 2017-, Secretary of Labour 2001-2009, Republican Party member, Spouse Mitch McConnel, b. 1953 "As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key compon...Read More
Dear RayIncome and Wealth InequalityIs Capitalism the Problem?Boston, New York, and ???"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some...Read More