Gold & Investment in Failure

By Jim Willie CB, Golden Jackass Subscribe: Hat Trick Letter Many observers to the wild gyrations, deep contortions, extreme measures, and other bizarre activity in the government and banking arenas are suffering from severe confusion. The public is alarmed, even frightened, by the sequence of events, without much benefit of comprehension of what is happening or [...]

New York Sun: As dollar diminishes, why shouldn’t gold be audited?

The Gold Audit From The New York Sun Tuesday, August 31, 2010 http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-gold-audit/87065/ Congressman Ron Paul is in the news again, this time for calling for an audit of America’s gold reserves. He issued the call in an interview with a news service run by a gold dealer, Kitco News, which reported that the congressman [...]

International Forecaster September 2010 (#1) – Gold, Silver, Economy + More

By Bob Chapman, The International Forecaster US MARKETS Almost two years ago the US Treasury was selling large amounts of short-term Treasury bills to fund bailouts and stimulus. That caused a major increase in debt. Most of that paper was 2-year bills and it is coming due for rollover shortly. While that transpires, October will report [...]

Robert Kientz: Gold, silver market suppression failures flash buy signal

10:57a ET Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: GATA’s work continues to gain recognition and credibility, as demonstrated today by a series of essays that has begun to be posted at Seeking Alpha by Robert Kientz, an auditor and former broker and currency market analyst. The essays are titled “Gold and [...]

Bubble is in dollar, bonds, not gold, Turk tells King World News

10:55a ET Saturday, August 28, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver): GoldMoney founder, Freemarket Gold & Money Report editor, and GATA consultant James Turk tells King World News today that the market bubble is not in gold but in the U.S. dollar and U.S. government bonds, that silver is cheap relative to [...]

The Fallacy of ‘Bailing Out’ U.S. Cities and States

By Rick Ackerman, Rick’s Picks Amazing how far a really stupid idea can travel. Warren Buffett helped spread and legitimize one a couple of months ago, and now the Wall Street Journal has pitched in on the same topic with an op-ed piece written by one Eden Martin, a lawyer and Chicago muckety-muck.  Here is what Mr. Martin [...]

Gold Rushing On

Frank Holmes submits: The World Gold Council’s latest quarterly recap of the gold market confirms much of the big-picture story we already knew: demand is strong (up 36 percent from a year earlier), supply is not keeping pace (up 17 percent), and global economic worries are driving investors toward gold as a safe haven. click [...]

International Forecaster August 2010 (#7) – Gold, Silver, Economy + More

By Bob Chapman, The International Forecaster US MARKETS Debt is everywhere and it certainly is onerous. We all have heard about the sovereign debt crisis, the debt of Greece and the debts of Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy. During that process the euro fell from $1.50 to $1.187; which gave euro zone exporters quite an advantage. [...]

Wall Street Journal gives gold only resentful acknowledgement as safe haven

As Dollar Slides, Safe-Haven Options Shrink By Michael Casey The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, August 24, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870344700457544987105299895… What’s a bear to do? Most of the time since the 2008 financial crisis, the dollar has fulfilled its traditional haven role, rallying on bad news, falling on good. Except when things are really, really bad, as [...]

Jason Toussaint: Central Banks May Linger on Demand Side of Gold

Hard Assets Investor submits: << Return to part 1 of interview Mike Norman, anchor, HardAssetsInvestor.com (Norman): Hello everybody, and welcome to HardAssetsInvestor.com interview’s series. I’m Mike Norman, your host, here with the second half of my interview with Jason Toussaint, who’s the managing director of investments for the World Gold Council. Jason, in our first [...]

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