According to my 2000 calculations, if interest rates and inflation stay constant over the next 2 years, we could expect to see (with 95.2% certainty) a parabolic peak price for gold of $4,380 per troy ounce by then! Let me explain what assumptions I made and the methods I undertook to arrive at that number and you can decide just how realistic it is. Words: 740
Read More »Why Negative Real Interest Rates + Stimulative Money Supply = $10,000/ozt. Gold (+2K Views)
Question: What do you get when you mix negative real interest rates with stimulative money supply efforts by global central banks? Answer: An exceptionally potent formula for higher gold prices that could send gold to the unimaginable level of $10,000 an ounce. [Let me explain further.] Words: 1049
Read More »Goldrunner: Gold, Silver and HUI Index to Bounce Back to Major Highs by May 2012 (+3K Views)
With the present major correction in gold, silver and the mining sector it is important to look at the big picture and see what the charts are saying from a technical fractal relationship with what happened back in 1979 when the last truely major bull run occurred. To date the situation is, frankly, no different than it was back then unfolding just as it should. As a result we can expect MAJOR upward price action in physical gold and silver and in their mining (producers, developers, explorers and royalty streamers alike) in the next few months on their way to their respective parabolic peaks in the years ahead. Read on. Words: 1604
Read More »Grandich vs. The "Three Stooges of Gold Forecasting" – Gartman, Nadler and Christian (+2K Views)
There’s no corner of the market more emotional than gold investing and, with bullion down more than 10% this month and 20% since early September, a war of words has broken out among North America’s most influential bullion investors. [For an understanding of who said what, please read on.] Words: 1315
Read More »These Charts Say It All: GOLD Is STILL a BUY
With what is happening with the price of gold these past few days it is imperative to take a look at the long and short of it all (the trends, that is). In doing so it shows that we are still very much in a long-term bull market but in a short-term (yes, short-term) bear market. Let's take a look at some charts that clearly outline where we are at and where we could well be going. Words: 625
Read More »What Does 2012, as an Election Year, Mean for Stock Market Returns? Here Are the Facts
Next year is a Presidential election year, and the stock market is almost always positive in election years. Right? At least that assurance has been a supposed truism for many decades, and repeated as fact each year in numerous interviews and financial columns. [Let's explore just how correct those assumptions really are.] Words: 367
Read More »Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth – Buy Gold Now With Both Hands! Here’s Why (+2K Views)
Since the fundamentals still point to gold's long-term viability... why [are] investors responding by selling gold...? I was always told not to look a gift horse in the mouth... [so] take advantage of the dip. Words: 962
Read More »Financial Advisor/Planner Advisory Alert #1 on Gold
There are hundreds and hundreds of sites that post economic, financial and investment articles but, unfortunately, most of them are all about the quantity of articles rather than the quality of them. As such, if you are tired of spending hours each week surfing the net or even visiting your up-to-now favourite financial site looking for articles that are extremely informative, relatively brief and very well-written, then go no further than munKNEE.com. Here is a sampling of articles posted on the site this past week related to what is happening in the gold market and what the future holds for its price. Words: 977
Read More »What the H – – – is Going On With Gold These Days?
What’s going on with the price of gold? It would be nice if gold always went up in a crisis but short term it can get just as burnt as everything else. [It begs the question, however,] if gold is the great anti-asset, the thing to hold when everything else is in collapse, why is it now trading…[below $1,700 and] not $2,000? What is next for gold? Words: 765
Read More »Rosenberg: 7 Ways to Invest Given the Potential 8 Behavioral Changes Coming in 2012
The global economy is going to endure a significant deleveraging cycle as we move through 2012 - one that will affect most if not all parts of the developed world. It will be accomplished by some combination of default and write-downs, debt repayment and rising savings rates. [Below I outline 8 areas of behaviorial change to watch for in 2012 and 7 ways to invest in such a fluid economic environment.] Words: 1186
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