Miners Catching Up To Metals — Huge Run Coming?
Gold bugs are a generally happy bunch this week. But they’d be a lot happier if precious metals mining stocks kept up with the metals themselves. Since early 2011 the largest gold miners have...
View ArticleA Bankrupt World Is An Unstable World
Remember when our problems were mostly just financial, when the scariest possibility was Greece leaving the eurozone and a few zombie banks evaporating? Those were the days. This week, geopolitics —...
View Article“Just Be Your Own Central Bank”
The past year has tested the worldview, and sometimes the sanity, of precious metals investors. But it has also given us another chance to load up at what might turn out to be dirt-cheap prices, says...
View ArticleMiners Reporting Serious Progress
This was supposed to be the year that gold and silver miners pretty much imploded. The story in a nutshell is that during the boom years of 2009 -2011, the markets threw so much cash at the industry...
View ArticleGold Bugs’ Hearts Are Beating Faster
Last Thursday was the kind of day that precious metals investors have been waiting (and waiting and waiting) for. Gold and silver popped 3.5% and 4.8% respectively and the junior miners, which have...
View ArticleA Sunny Silver Forecast: Low Price Today Means High Price Tomorrow
Solar power has been the next big thing in energy for as long as most people have been alive. But it was always too expensive to be anything more than a niche technology, attractive more for its...
View ArticleSuddenly, Not A Bad Environment For Gold Miners
A few years ago (when the world was very different) veteran mining analyst Jay Taylor told me something that seemed counterintuitive: Deflation can actually be a good thing for the gold and silver...
View ArticleIf Other Gold Miners Can Do What Newmont Just Did, Look Out
The past few years have been brutal for the gold miners, most of which brought it on themselves by starting new, high-cost mines just in time for the metal’s price to crater. The resulting write-downs...
View ArticlePrecious Metals Starting To Produce Some Winners
Everybody who’s owned gold and silver mining shares through a couple of cycles has their favorite story of the stock that took off and ran away. There was Glamis Gold, which rose from $1 to $40 in the...
View ArticleJunior Precious Metals Miners: Go With Who You Know
The first few months of this year gave a little taste of what’s to come for the junior precious metals miners, if this is indeed the start of a new gold/silver bull market. Some sample charts:...
View ArticleIs This The Long-Awaited Gold Break-Out – Or Just Another Paper Market Head...
That was fun. Since mid-December gold has behaved like a tech stock, jumping from $1,240/oz to $1,337 and carrying a long list of gold mining stocks along for the ride. Now everybody’s asking the same...
View ArticleSpectacular Gold COT Report: Prepare For A Huge Six Months
No need to mince words anymore. If the futures market still influences gold’s price, then that price is going to spike. And silver is better than gold. Since January, gold futures speculators have been...
View ArticleGold Is Up Lately. Why Does It Feel So Disappointing?
Since December gold (light blue line) has outperformed the average stock (dark blue) by a nice margin. So why does this feel like such a let-down? Because the stars were aligned for a much bigger move....
View ArticleIf History Still Matters, Silver Is Poised For A Huge Move
It’s been a pretty good couple of months for precious metals, but more so for gold than silver. Both are up but gold is up more, and the imbalance that this creates might be one of the major investment...
View ArticleMarin Katusa: Is It Time for Silver Stocks To Blast Higher?
Excerpted from Katusa Research: These days, silverbugs have every reason to shout from the rooftops. Even with spot silver trading mostly rangebound, many silver stocks are at or near levels not seen...
View ArticleSuddenly, Not A Bad Environment For Gold Miners
A few years ago (when the world was very different) veteran mining analyst Jay Taylor told me something that seemed counterintuitive: Deflation can actually be a good thing for the gold and silver...
View ArticleIf Other Gold Miners Can Do What Newmont Just Did, Look Out
The past few years have been brutal for the gold miners, most of which brought it on themselves by starting new, high-cost mines just in time for the metal’s price to crater. The resulting write-downs...
View ArticlePrecious Metals Starting To Produce Some Winners
Everybody who’s owned gold and silver mining shares through a couple of cycles has their favorite story of the stock that took off and ran away. There was Glamis Gold, which rose from $1 to $40 in the...
View ArticleJunior Precious Metals Miners: Go With Who You Know
The first few months of this year gave a little taste of what’s to come for the junior precious metals miners, if this is indeed the start of a new gold/silver bull market. Some sample charts:...
View ArticleIs This The Long-Awaited Gold Break-Out – Or Just Another Paper Market Head...
That was fun. Since mid-December gold has behaved like a tech stock, jumping from $1,240/oz to $1,337 and carrying a long list of gold mining stocks along for the ride. Now everybody’s asking the same...
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