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In the face of low commodity prices, investors should give more preference to miners with lean cost structures. With that in mind, the 4 companies on our list today exhibit a low (below 5%) SG&A Expense as a % of Revenues ratio compared to the industry average of 30%.

We're hurdling toward a massive financial crisis, and all we have to show for it are financial asset bubbles destined to burst, and when they do, they'll wipe out the artificial wealth they've created for many decades in just a few years, as they did from late 1929 into late 1932!

As earnings fall, and particularly as earnings expectations fall one would expect stock prices to fall but, as we see, earnings are falling and stock values are rising.

I believe it is too late to reverse the tidal wave of our financial system’s failure that has been brewing for three decades now. As such, in the next few weeks, an election event will take place that I believe could trigger major volatility ending in a market crash - a speculator implosion.

Rebalancing is a form of both risk management and a systematic way to carry out a contrarian investment strategy. The entire point of allocating money to different investments in a thoughtful way is to create a risk-return profile that balances out your long-term objectives with your short-term comfort level. Deviating from that risk-return profile can be a huge behavioral risk if you’re not aware of how it can change your portfolio’s composition.

Every investor should have a minimum of 10% of their portfolio in physical gold – coins or bars. Here's why.

Investors wisely seeking exposure to precious metals must deliberate between the convenience of buying shares of an electronically traded fund (ETF) and the ultimate security of owning physical gold and silver bullion. We tasked ourselves to take a closer look at each to understand their important distinctions.

Below are 6 factors, illustrated in chart form, that favor gold in the current environment.

There is a strong belief that independent measures of inflation are false and not trustworthy. I address this issue and show how the rate of inflation is measured today, the historical background of it, and compare different methods to find out which one is closer to the truth.

A decisive break above $1,400 an ounce could be just around the corner and, to my mind, would signal the start of gold’s next major advance.