QUESTION:  Dear Martin, In your last post you say that sovereign debt crisis may be postponed for 8.6 years.  Would this delay the phase transition in the Dow and other US share markets.  Thank you for your posts, me and others I talk to read your blog everyday. Sincerely, JD ANSWER: Any postponement in the […]

The gold price has continued to drift lower as the no-taper rally of a week ago quickly fading into a distant memory. Whether the US Federal Reserve continues its economic stimulus program unchanged adding $85 billion a month, is really irrelevant. The Fed’s balance sheet will only hit the $4 trillion mark by the end of the […]

The Federalization of Europe is underway. One day after the elections, the ECB is already dictating that they are taking over supervision of banks and are hiring 1,000 to 2,000 people to monitor 130 banks. Deutsche Bank, in the meantime, has come out and advised Germans to short the Euro and go to the dollar. […]

José Manuel Durão Barroso is a Portuguese politician and Member of the EPP . Since the end of November 2004 Barroso became President of the European Commission. On September 16, 2009 he was elected by the European Parliament for a second term of five years. He is indicative of why politicians should not be allowed […]

Now the focus will be the US debt issue going into early October. The dollar fell and world shares held near a one-week low as concerns over a potential government shutdown in Washington rises and mixed signals on U.S. monetary policy keeps the pundits and investors guessing. The key week will be next week in […]

The US rare coin market remains strong and is a “movable” asset class as is the case with ancient coins. A rare US $4 dollar “Coiled Hair Stella” gold coin from 1880 was auctioned at Bonhams in Los Angeles on Monday, bringing  $2.5 million, or $1 million more than expected. The coin contains six grams […]

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) filed a complaint against Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley Capital I Inc, Barclays, JPMorgan Chase & Co’s unit Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse Group, Royal Bank of Scotland Group and UBS sold faulty securities to Southwest and Members United corporate credit unions. Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Wachovia Corp, a unit of Wells […]

QUESTION: Martin, The thing that gets me is when so-called precious metal “experts” say such thing as the silver inventory is very depleted at the COMEX or the gold inventory is very depleted and someone can come in and purchase up all the remaining  inventory and then you have a default. come on , really, the seeds they sow. […]

Forbes has revealed a study that was published in the Financial Analysts Journal, which examines six different explanations for why gold prices rise and fall. The conclusion is that the assumptions of most investors sold to them by hard-money advocate just do not correlate to the historical data. Gold does not rise during times of inflation, […]

QUESTION: From reading your blog, my understanding of your view is that all relationships are in flux with respect to markets and market drivers, except for confidence.  For example, the stock/bond relationship can change over time, so stocks do not ultimately go up or down based on what bonds do but based on where confidence […]