Since 1999 the gold price has moved in concert with the growth in the US Federal Reserve Balance Sheet including the recent correction in both during the past three years. Accordingly, the following objective analysis forecasts the gold price out to 2016 based solely on historical Central Bank data.

There were no shortage of gold price pundits/prognosticators back in 2011 & 2012 claiming that gold would be going to "x" price by "y" date. Below is an updated list of those 42 pundits who were bold enough to provide a specific date as to when their forecast would be realized with their criteria & rationale supported by links to articles in which their determinations were first put forth.

it’s hard to see the current spike in equities as anything other than a blow-off move into a final top. It’s the only description for what the equity markets are doing. Let me explain further.

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!

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).

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.

Whenever oil prices make a big move in either direction, there are some fairly standard arguments made of its effect on the overall stock market but, rarely, is any actual evidence presented to substantiate these more or less intuitive arguments. Let’s take a look at the data and see what the historical relationship has actually been between oil and the stock market.

I would bet my bottom Silver Dollar that when faith in holding U.S. Federal Reserve Notes heads into the toilet, it would be much wiser to own REAL MONEY than the monopoly paper printed by the MoneyFactory.gov.

The argument that the past 10 years of low interest rates has just been an anomaly which will normalize to higher levels in the next couple of years is not going to unfold. Interest rates will be perpetually low for the rest of our lives! Here's why.

Now that the Fed has stopped its quantitative easing who does the Fed expect (hope) will buy US Treasury debt?