As encouraging as the recent rallies in gold and silver may seem, they are still just rallies within a clearly defined down trend. For trading purposes, there is no reason to be long. For buying and holding physical gold and silver, there are too many reasons not to be long. Plan accordingly.

Shadowstats presents what they claim to be the original methodology used by the government to calculate the rate of inflation in the U.S. but Shadowstats' John Williams is not calculating inflation any differently. He is not using the 1980s or 1990s methodology... [Instead,] all he's is doing is taking the CPI data and adding on an arbitrary constant to make it look like inflation is higher!

This infographic sums up everything you need to know about the upcoming Swiss gold referendum.

A lot of people are thinking that if policy can't stimulate, and demand is weakening on the margin then it's time to really start worrying but I'm not so sure it's time to run for cover. Here are 3 reasons why.

Should the Millennial cohort pay off their student loan before investing in the stock market as a means of saving for retirement or do a little bit of both? This article discusses the different options and comes to an interesting conclusion.

My new analyses of gold & silver suggests they will both show renewed weakness before jumping dramatically in price by the end of 2016/early 2017 - to $3,500 and $90 respectively . Below are the specific details (with charts).

It is common for economists to offer a forecast for the stock market yet add a caveat to the effect that "If a war shock or terrorist attack occurs, then I would have to modify my outlook." As such, it would seem logical to assume that...they must have access to a study showing that such events affect the stock market, right? The answer is no, for the same reason that they do not check relationships between interest rates, oil prices or the trade balance and the stock market. The causality just seems too sensible to doubt.

The belief that earnings drive stock prices powers the bulk of the research on Wall Street but this glaring exception to the idea of a causal relationship between corporate earnings and stock prices challenges that theory. Let me explain.

This article identifies 39 fairly valued dividend growth stocks with above-average historical earnings growth over the past 5 years and a current dividend yield of 1% or better and, as such, is oriented to those retired, or close to retirement, investors that require above-average growth and/or above-average long-term total return.

This article examines 5 fairly exciting things going on which, at the very least, could keep the U.S. economy from slumping, and enable equities to continue to climb.