Palladium has been the one precious metal that everyone overlooks. There is a serious shortage and the production is about 2.2 million ounces compared to 1.8 million for platinum. This is one commodity that has a completely different chart pattern and may be the best of the lot in the years ahead.

The US prohibits mailing cash at the Post Office. Anything mailed out of the USA must be declared as to the contents of the package. When I asked WHY? They said Homeland Security. I said it was leaving the country. They replied it still has to go on a plane. France now Prohibits Sending Currency […]

Before the Iron Age, Iron has been found in both the West and the East treated as a precious object that was more valuable than gold. Recently, the debate over whether these rare objects were meteorites has been settled. They are indeed meteorites that fell from the havens and thus were regarded as gifts from […]

Behind the dramatic fall in the gold price has been the subject of countless conspiracy theories that all pretty much center on the notion that the entire global economy revolves around gold. The only tangible conspiracy by governments is to hunt down as much cash as they can. The real secret strategy of central banks […]

Bull markets I have stated many times are 7, 11, 13 or 21. Gold has three very interesting bottoms. The 1999 is the intraday low. 2000 is the lowest yearly closing. Then 2001 produces the lowest quarter closing. This is an interesting set up that is rare to say the least. So effectively, both the […]

The trend in the hate mail is getting interesting. Now just the typical mantra concerns how money has to be tangible like some savings account yet investments will rise freely in terms of this money and of course wages will also rise while money is fixed and always valued the same. Not sure exactly how […]

QUESTION: If gold is a hedge against government, then that would explain why gold rose from 2007.15 to 2011.45, a period which your model shows lower confidence. If confidence in government is now rising, as predicted by your model, regardless of the inflation, people have confidence in QE, etc so will feel less need to […]

Here is the US Public Debt from 1870-2009. There is no such correlation that a rising debt results in higher gold prices. That is simply FALSE. This is a delicate balance of all aspects of the economy interacting with each other. Welcome to the NEW ECONOMY – it is really GLOBAL. The idea of creating […]

The possibility of a 5-year bear market and the signs that will indicate that trend are covered in detail in the 2013 Metals report. Suffice it to say, just Google dollar devaluation and you get pages upon pages of everyone swearing the dollar must collapse so buy gold. Then look at the Dow. The vast […]

QUESTION: You mentioned back in 2011 that either gold fell in a normal correction of 2 to 3 years and if the market fought against that trend it could extend into 2016 with a 5-year bear market. Is that still possible since you were correct about the drop after a 13-year high? ANSWER: Yes. That […]