Just what might be the final target of silver’s 30 year cup and handle pattern? Try a mind numbing $690/ozt. by 2022.

Silver’s performance since April 1, 2016, has more than doubled that of gold. That being said, the silver names on our list today should continue to shine as all have undertaken significant debt, using that as leverage to enhance production initiatives and sell more silver at these elevated prices.

Simply because the P/E for a sector or individual stocks is high does not necessarily mean the sector or stock is overvalued. Importantly, the P/E should be compared to the earnings growth rate for each sector or company. By dividing the P/E by the earnings growth rate, one obtains the PEG ratio (PE to growth rate.) This article compares each sector’s P/Es to each sector’s PEG ratio and comments on which sectors are over and under valued.

The Gold/Copper price ratio is a way to examine the state of the economy through the relative performance of the "pro-growth" copper price and the "anti-growth" gold price. This filters out the distorting effect of currency inflation/deflation, and allows us to focus only on gold and copper themselves. In 2016 we have a historically high Gold/Copper ratio, the likes of which we have only seen before in the Great Depression, the "stagflation" of the 1970s, and the 2008 Great Recession. This is a clear sign of a slowing, weakening global economy. Below are the details.

The gold price has surged over 25% year-to-date, providing big gains in the gold sector as a whole. Companies that have generated strong earnings growth relative to total shareholders’ equity should continue to outperform the sector and entire market. To measure this, we took a look at return on equity (ROE) values and found the top 5 gold stocks with the highest ROE.

Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor is one of a handful of books you hear mentioned over and over again when you ask investors to name the best investing books of all-time. Graham was far ahead of his time in talking about investor behavior and human psychology in terms of the role they play in shaping how markets and investors generally work. Let me explain.

James Naismith of Almonte, Ontario invented basketball in 1891...to keep athletes active during the cold winter months while teaching physical education at the International Young Men’s Christian Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. To celebrate that occasion, the Royal Canadian Mint is now selling a colourized coin with a convex reverse side to depict the likeness of a basketball.

Our analysis maintains that the burgeoning move in gold may well exceed earlier surges. The circumstances driving gold in the 1970’s were primarily centered on the U.S. but the issues facing us today are global in nature and have embarked gold prices on a journey that could result in $7,500 and even $10,000+ per troy ounce.

In June, Incrementum AG published its annual “In Gold We Trust” report which offers many interesting insights into the current global economy and the gold market. This article provides a short summary for you.

While the world gets bogged down in a financial quagmire, created solely by the globalists but to be suffered by the masses, those with gold and silver will fare best during the worst of what is to come - and the gold and silver markets are sending a clear message as outlined in the charts below.