Data ProblemsPermanent LossesJob OpeningsSticky ProblemsWargaming with Uncle DougYou Need to Have a Plan B, C, D, and...A World I Don't RecognizeWork has always been a fact of life. Paycheck-producing jobs are actually a recent development. Until the Industrial Revolution, most people lived on subsistence agriculture, sustaining themselves with whatever they could produce or working as slaves/se...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger takes a look at the latest moves in the financial and precious metals markets, and updates his investment strategy moving into late summer. I've only just returned from the majesty of Georgian Bay, where the first fishing derby of the season had me summarily trounced by my female partner 12 to 5, with most of her catches in the 1- to 2-pound category and mine barel...Read More
Scottie Resources will test at least three high-priority targets there during this campaign. Scottie Gold MineScottie Resources Corp. (SCOT:TSX.V) announced in a news release it commenced a fully funded, 5,000 meter diamond drill program at its Scottie project in British Columbia's Golden Triangle.To follow up on last year's drilling, the company will test priority targets such as the Blueberry v...Read More
Seabridge Gold will carry out geotechnical drilling in the proposed area for the tunnel that will connect the mine and mill at its KSM gold-copper project. KSM 2020 PEA Mine PlanIn a news release, Seabridge Gold Inc. (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) announced it started geotechnical drilling in the area tentatively designated for the Mitchell Treaty Tunnels (MTT) that will connect the mine and mill at its...Read More
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both recently denied that the Federal Reserve's policies create economic inequality. Unfortunately for Powell, Daly, and other Fed promoters, a cursory look at the Fed's operations shows that the central bank is the leading cause of economic inequality.The Federal Reserve manipulates the money supply by buying and sell...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Surreptitious intervention in the gold market by the U.S. government is the target of legislation introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Alex X. Mooney, R-West Virginia.In a letter to House colleagues seeking support for his Gold Reserve Transparency Act, H.R. 2559, Mooney writes: "Because there are concerns the U.S. Treasury may have sold, swapped, lease...Read More
Strengths? The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 4.25 percent. Investors poured money into silver-backed ETFs this week as the precious metals trade begins to increase in scope. Spot gold prices reached the key $1,800 an ounce level. This milestone could help push the metal closer to its all-time high above $1,900. Bloomberg notes that gold futures traded alm...Read More
Richard (Rick) Mills, Ahead of the herdThe US economy is nowhere near recovering from the lockdown measures imposed by cities and states during the covid-19 pandemic, and that is weighing on the US dollar, which has fallen sharply since March. The beneficiary, as expected, has been gold (and silver), which normally moves in the opposite direction as the greenback. Year to date, spot gold has ri...Read More
[A friend who made his fortune in the laundry business has enjoyed enviable returns on his nest egg by staying fully invested in stocks. The following is a personal letter from his financial advisor telling him why, even after the stock market's spectacular rally since late March, he should stay in equities. The advisor's list of pros and cons nicely sums up the thinking of many of advisors with...Read More
Data ProblemsPermanent LossesJob OpeningsSticky ProblemsWargaming with Uncle DougYou Need to Have a Plan B, C, D, and...A World I Don't RecognizeWork has always been a fact of life. Paycheck-producing jobs are actually a recent development. Until the Industrial Revolution, most people lived on subsistence agriculture, sustaining themselves with whatever they could produce or working as slaves/se...Read More
LONDON, 13 July 2020 - Comment and data from BullionVault features today in a report on the rising price of silver from major US investment news-site MarketWatch."The number of private individuals seeing stability and diversification with precious metals has never been greater," the report quotes Adrian Ash, director of research, adding that client holdings of the grey precious metal have now grow...Read More
Oil is a commodity that plays anindisputable role in the global economy. At the start of the 20th century,the oil industry went into mass production, thus giving birth to what we referto as the modern era of oil consumption. Gradually, coal was starting to take abackseat to it and oil became the world’s #1 fuel source and the undisputedking of commodity trading.To this very day, this remains...Read More
Oil is a commodity that plays anindisputable role in the global economy. At the start of the 20th century,the oil industry went into mass production, thus giving birth to what we referto as the modern era of oil consumption. Gradually, coal was starting to take abackseat to it and oil became the world’s #1 fuel source and the undisputedking of commodity trading.To this very day, this remains...Read More
LONDON, 12 July 2020 - Comment and data from BullionVault feature heavily today in a report on the rising price of gold in The Observer, the world's longest-running Sunday newspaper.Now part of the Guardian Media Group, "Basically gold does well when other stuff does badly in the historical sweep of things," says The Observer, quoting Adrian Ash, director of research."BullionVault has reported a r...Read More
LONDON, 12 July 2020 - The Sunday Times today reports a surge in demand for gold at BullionVault, making its clients' holdings larger than most central banks gold in reserve.The UK's best-selling 'quality' Sunday paper, "Net inflows between March and June of 4.5 tonnes, worth ?195 million, beat the previous four-month record in the autumn of 2011," says The Times."[BullionVault] is now holding a...Read More
Oil is a commodity that plays anindisputable role in the global economy. At the start of the 20th century,the oil industry went into mass production, thus giving birth to what we referto as the modern era of oil consumption. Gradually, coal was starting to take abackseat to it and oil became the world’s #1 fuel source and the undisputedking of commodity trading.To this very day, this remains...Read More
Oil is a commodity that plays anindisputable role in the global economy. At the start of the 20th century,the oil industry went into mass production, thus giving birth to what we referto as the modern era of oil consumption. Gradually, coal was starting to take abackseat to it and oil became the world’s #1 fuel source and the undisputedking of commodity trading.To this very day, this remains...Read More
Oil is a commodity that plays anindisputable role in the global economy. At the start of the 20th century,the oil industry went into mass production, thus giving birth to what we referto as the modern era of oil consumption. Gradually, coal was starting to take abackseat to it and oil became the world’s #1 fuel source and the undisputedking of commodity trading.To this very day, this remains...Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321gold discusses a company that is reopening an Idaho gold mine that closed during World War 2. Trace of Mary K Mine workings draped over Google Earth terrain imageIn 1942 with the US involved in a massive war with Japan and Germany the government made the decision to close all non-essential gold mines under the auspices of the War Production Board. It was called the Limitation O...Read More
Silver is moving up quite shortly today, whichsounds bullish, until one realizes that silver tends to be particularly strongright before the precious metals market tops. And you know what’s the otherthing that quite often happens at the tops, in addition to silver’s temporarystrength? Miners tend to underperform. What did goldminers do on the last trading day of the previous week? Min...Read More