Huge recent imbalances in the gold futures market led many to predict that speculators (usually wrong at big turning points) would be forced to close out their historically extreme short bets. Put another way, too many traders were using gold futures contracts to bet that precious metals will go down, and when those bets are reversed out it will make gold and silver go up. Last week this predictio...Read More
By John MauldinThe Real Cost of Low-Fee FundsYou Must Include the Cost of Risk When Calculating Total CostYou Must Have a Quantifiable Hedging StrategyWhere is the Market Going?Mastering the Market CycleWhat Should You Do Now?Puerto Rico, Frankfurt, and Here and ThereToday, rather than tackle some big macroeconomic issue, we'll go back to this letter's roots and look at market timing and portfol...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Our friend Lawrence Lepard, managing partner of Equity Management Associates in Wellesley, Massachusetts, whose investments have been concentrated in the monetary metals mining industry, has just sent a letter to his investors outlining the case for an upward reversal in the industry's fortunes.Lepard's letter may be most interesting for showing that the monetary met...Read More
Authored by Trey Reik, Senior Portfolio Manager, Sprott Asset Management USA, Inc.Over our two decades following global monetary affairs, we have often marveled at default confidence awarded the Federal Reserve. Don't misinterpret us the Fed's power borders on surreal. Seven governors and twelve regional bank presidents set the price of money not only for the world's largest economy, but throu...Read More
By Gary TanashianWe began the Amigos theme last year in order to be guided by the goofy riders during the ending stages of a cyclical, risk-on phase that was not going to end until the proper macro signals come about, no matter how many times the bears declared victory along the way. The fact that grown adults see conspiracies around every corner (okay, I see them around every third corner mysel...Read More
Jim Rogers explains how great financial crisises always begin quietly where we least expect them and before you know it we have a global economic meltdown.Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973, helping to steer the fund to a 4200% return before "retiring" at age 37. He is considered to be one of the greatest investors of all time. Rogers has made two record-setting journ...Read More
Dr. Rand Paul is the junior United States Senator for Kentucky. Elected in 2010, he has proven to be an outspoken champion for constitutional liberties and fiscal responsibility, and a warrior against government overreach. A graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, Rand was a practicing ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Ky., for 17 years. Rand has been a vocal advocate for term limits, a ba...Read More
I myself encountered a woman who had protested against Trump in the big march in Washington after he was elected. I was curious to listen to her reasoning Continue...Read More
Countries across the world are beginning to suffer from garbage build-up, after China stopped importing recyclable garbage this year. Continue...Read More
The gold miners’ stockshave been largely ignored and neglected for years. Speculators and investors wanted little to dowith them for various reasons. But thatapathetic sentiment is finally starting to shift thanks to last week’sstock-market plunge. Capital is startingto return to this battered sector as traders begin to realize how radicallyundervalued it is. Se...Read More
By John MauldinThe Real Cost of Low-Fee FundsYou Must Include the Cost of Risk When Calculating Total CostYou Must Have a Quantifiable Hedging StrategyWhere is the Market Going?Mastering the Market CycleWhat Should You Do Now?Puerto Rico, Frankfurt, and Here and ThereToday, rather than tackle some big macroeconomic issue, we'll go back to this letter's roots and look at market timing and portfol...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Our friend Lawrence Lepard, managing partner of Equity Management Associates in Wellesley, Massachusetts, whose investments have been concentrated in the monetary metals mining industry, has just sent a letter to his investors outlining the case for an upward reversal in the industry's fortunes.Lepard's letter may be most interesting for showing that the monetary met...Read More
Authored by Trey Reik, Senior Portfolio Manager, Sprott Asset Management USA, Inc.Over our two decades following global monetary affairs, we have often marveled at default confidence awarded the Federal Reserve. Don't misinterpret us the Fed's power borders on surreal. Seven governors and twelve regional bank presidents set the price of money not only for the world's largest economy, but throu...Read More
Expect falling asset inflation, but rising cost inflation By Charles Hugh SmithInflation is a funny thing: we feel it virtually every day, but we're told it doesn't exist the official inflation rate is around 2.5% over the past few years, a little higher when energy prices are going up and a little lower when energy prices are going down.Historically, 2.5% is about as low as inflation gets in...Read More
By Gary TanashianWe began the Amigos theme last year in order to be guided by the goofy riders during the ending stages of a cyclical, risk-on phase that was not going to end until the proper macro signals come about, no matter how many times the bears declared victory along the way. The fact that grown adults see conspiracies around every corner (okay, I see them around every third corner mysel...Read More
RAPAPORT... The US jewelry industry contracted again in the thirdquarter as more businesses left the sector than joined it, according to theJewelers Board of Trade (JBT). The number of recorded jewelry businesses fell 4.7% versusthe same period a year ago to 25,268, continuing the trend of the last fewyears, according to data the credit-information provider released Friday. The closure rate slippe...Read More
RAPAPORT... Carat+ has called off its upcoming fair indefinitely, citingwaning interest in the Antwerp diamond show from exhibitors and visitors, itsaid Friday. "We were looking forward to the third edition of the event,"Carat+ directors Filip Van Laere and Dirk Blommaert said in a joint statementFriday. "However, being confronted with declining commitment of buyers andsellers as exhibitor or...Read More
RAPAPORT... Chinese retailer Laelim Jewelry and Belgian manufacturer IGCGroup will collaborate to test the Gemological Institute of America's (GIA) M2Mtraceability program. Laelim is the first Chinese jeweler to participate in the project, it said last week. The two companies are also the first retailer-manufacturer duo touse the program, which tracks diamonds from mine to market, theGIA note...Read More
RAPAPORT... Sales rose sharply at Hong Kong-based jewelers Chow Tai Fook and Luk Fook in the second fiscal quarter, boosted by strong consumer demand,the lower price of gold and higher tourism rates.Retail sales at Chow Tai Fook jumped 25% year on year inHong Kong and Macau in the three months ending September 30, while same-store sales- at branches open for at least year - surged 23%, the jeweler...Read More