Posts Tagged ‘ gold bull market ’

Your Gold Coins vs. the Federal Reserve and the Mainstream Media

Apr 13th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
If you did what Bill Bonner and I have been recommending for a decade, you own gold. Bonner began promoting the purchase of gold in the year 2000. I strongly promoted this for my subscribers after September 11, 2001, when the Federal Reserve began pumping up the monetary base in ...read more

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How to Talk to a Mainstream Nincompoop About Gold

Feb 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
My Grandmother’s favorite word for politely describing the obtuse among us aptly characterizes a recent attack on gold. And that it comes from an investment magazine that commands front-of-the-rack prominence in waiting rooms across our great land is reassuring evidence we have a long way to go in this gold ...read more

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IndyMac’s Collapse

Jul 18th, 2008 | By | Category: Currencies, Gold
After 25 years of booming asset markets, it’s getting hard to keep hold of your money, let alone grow it. Inflation is destroying fixed-income bonds. Stocks have tipped into a bear market, down more than one-fifth worldwide. Real estate suffers both over-supply and an historic shortage (too many units vs. no ...read more

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Gold Price Dips

Jun 19th, 2008 | By | Category: Gold
What you make of the gold market right now depends on what you make of the kind of data UBS’s precious metals team follows. Big institutional players in the New York futures market slashed their bullish betting on gold in the week of June 10. Data from the CFTC — the ...read more

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Junior Mining Markets

Mar 20th, 2008 | By | Category: Commodities, Gold
REMEMBER THAT OLD WALL STREET MAXIM, “Don’t fight the trend”? Now remember another one: “Don’t fight the Fed.” Well, what happens when the Fed fights the trend, as it has been recently? Which axiom to believe? Historically, the Fed loses that fight until the trend is ready to turn back around. Admittedly, the ...read more

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The Naked Truth

Jan 22nd, 2008 | By | Category: Currencies, Gold
A HISTORIC MILESTONE IS NEARBY. In December, the gold price raced off to record highs for the first time in almost three decades. Now it looks to be closing in on 1,000 U.S. bucks. That is four digits. It will also be four times the 1999 low. The market has added dollars ...read more

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What You Probably Didn’t Know About the U.S. Dollar and Gold

Aug 27th, 2007 | By | Category: Gold
I turned bullish on gold in the late ’90s, in my former post as a stockbroker. The collapse of the “strong dollar policy” of that period formed one of the major premises of my case for gold at the time. However, by early 2005, as the currency reached my original target ...read more

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