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Keith gave a keynote address - the only speaker with an hour to cover his topic - at the Gold and Alternative Investments Conference in Sydney on Saturday. Said topic was the nature of money. "Money is a matter of functions four: a medium, a measure, a standard, a store." Most of the tal...
Gold has been in the spotlight since June when it broke out to the upside above its critical resistance level at the July 2016 high of $1377.50 per ounce. That price stood as a line in the sand on the upside for the precious metal for almost three years before it finally gave way. The price ra...
I have not written a metals update in some time, as I have been waiting for the next rally set up in the complex. In the meantime, I thought I would provide a delayed copy of the metals update I provided to the members of The Market Pinball Wizard this past weekend. While I normally do not pr...
Palladium (NYSEARCA: PALL ) pushed 2% higher to $1,779.30/oz., marking another record settlement , as stricter air quality rules lift demand for the metal used in vehicle pollution control devices. More news on: Aberdeen Standard Physical Palladium Shares ETF, Aberdeen Standard Physical P...
By David Brady, CFA While it seems that nothing much has happened in the past week or two, metals and miners have stopped falling after a tremendous rally. Such consolidation bodes well going forward, as does increasingly desperate actions on the part of the Fed and other central banks. We...
Growing evidence of an economic downturn despite unprecedented monetary inflation since Lehman means a new credit and systemic crisis is becoming increasingly certain. In an attempt to prevent a new crisis developing, this time the scale of monetary inflation by the authorities will have to b...
The gold market has a saying - "sell in May and go away" - for a good reason: Asians like to give gold jewelry as wedding gifts and tend to hold most of their weddings in the Spring. Asian jewelers therefore have to load up on inventory - in the form of gold bullion - in winter. This demand cy...
Gold is money. The yellow metal has been around as a means of exchange long before there were dollars, euros, yen, pounds, yuan, or any of the other currencies of the world today. The role of gold as an instrument of exchange precedes the Bible. If you have never held a pure gold bar or one-...
As our subscribers know, Gold is up big since we turned bullish on it about a year ago . Now, with an impending move to either Quad 2 or Quad 3 (two economic regimes in which inflation is accelerating), the best of the returns in Gold might be behind us. However, as Hedgeye CEO K...
We talk a lot about the falling interest rate, the too-low interest rate, the near-zero interest rate, the zero interest rate, and the negative interest rate. Hat tip to Switzerland, where Credit Suisse is now going to pay depositors -0.85% . That is, if you lend your francs to this bank, t...