Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is slowly becoming the de facto standard for measuring gold stock performance. Nearing its eighth birthday, GDX has even usurped the venerable HUI gold stock index as this sector's metric of choice in many circles. Let me explain why that is the case.

In the not-too-distant future, sociopolitical and economic conditions in the U.S. will be changing dramatically, affecting tens of millions of Americans and to that end the U.S. government has enacted new legislation that allows it to transform itself into a full-on police state.

I believe gold prices will fall hard between now and the U.S. election in November 2016 - to as low as $400 per troy ounce. Below are 11 sound reasons [really??] why.

The internet is scanned daily to find the most unique, informative, timely and best written articles on the pros and cons of buying physical gold & silver and/or their mining ETFs and how to go about undertaking such action should you decide to do so. Below are this week's 10 best. Enjoy!

The impending emergence of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Debt, Derivatives, Deficits & Dollar) may soon sound the death knell of the entire U.S. economic recovery [we have seen] since early 2009 and eventually and sadly morph into mass Unemployment, Home Foreclosures, Stagnant Wages & Shrinking Retirement.

Hundreds of great articles (timely, informative, balanced, well written) on the economy, investing and financial matters are posted every week on the internet but, for whatever reason, many hardly see the light of day. Below are introductory paragraphs and links to 10 such articles that are well worth your time and attention.

Don’t listen to what the official numbers say. Inflation is a big problem already for the U.S. economy - and in an inflationary environment, gold bullion goes up and stock prices go down, because materials cost more and consumers spend less. I’d adjust my portfolio accordingly for the rapid inflation that awaits us.

How have the traditional safe havens performed since the great financial crash of 2008/2009? What can we expect from the traditional safe havens going forward? Those are the two questions we try to answer in this article.

There’s a new Silver Sheriff in town, and it happens to be located north of the U.S. border. While [American] Silver Eagle sales and growth were impressive in 2013, [Canadian] Silver Maple Leaf sales outgunned the competition by a wide margin. [By how much? Take a look.]

Investing in natural resources and precious metals is attractive today because the sector is so much cheaper than it was three years ago.