A soaring gold price is a vote of "no confidence" in the central bank and the dollar [and]... reflect a growing restlessness with the increasing money supply, our budgetary and trade deficits, our unfunded liabilities, and the inability of Congress and the administration to reign in runaway spending. Words: 1911

“Every portfolio should have a 10% core holding of gold and silver as emergency money” was the simple and timeless message in Glen O. Kirsch conveyed 33 years ago in an article entitled: “What’s in Your Core Holdings?” and such a message is even more appropriate today given the unsettling fiscal, economic and investment environment. Words: 692

Silver is undervalued as reflected by the current gold-silver ratio which sits at 86:1. The 20-year average is 68:1. Even though silver has outperformed gold year to date, by 28% to 23%, it still has a lot more room to run.

...Our gold price prediction for the coming years is directionally bullish. Some periods of weakness with gold price pullbacks may be expected... Our gold price targets are as follows:

The best time to invest is often when sentiment is at its lowest, and sentiment around gold and silver equities is pretty low right now. History, however, tells us that this could be the perfect time to buy.

Silver is on the verge of commencing a massive unprecedented bull market which will “officially” kick off with it breaking above the key $30 level...and this could happen very soon. Gold’s massive unprecedented bull market has already begun and where gold leads, silver will follow.

..Many investors are unaware of the magnitude of the upleg that has begun in physical gold so the purpose of this update is to make it crystal clear why it is destined to be massive, for both fundamental and technical reasons.

$10,000 may be too conservative of a price target for gold up ahead with a lot of pain before we get there, both in commodities and the broad market. A deflationary bust is coming that will wipe out most asset categories, before stagflation takes hold, the Fed intervenes, and commodities skyrocket to previously unimaginable levels.

There are hundreds of AI-related stocks trading on various exchanges around the world and that number has been reduced to 31 pure-play stocks trading on Canadian or American exchanges in 7 categories and put into portfolios which are tracked on a weekly basis. What follows is a summary of these 7 portfolios' performances this week.

Our Micro/Small Cap AI Stocks Portfolio went up 13.5% in July on top of a 3.2% increase in June but that strength has evaporated so far in August declining 13.8% MTD. Below are the performances of each of the constituents week-ending August 16th