Adam Hamilton

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• Big Inflation Coming 2

  Published 05 June 2009 | viewed 6,189 times

  At the height of the stock panic in late November, the flagship S&P 500 stock index had plunged 49% year-to-date. Fully 2/3rds of this decline…

• Dollar's Commodity Impact

  Published 22 May 2009 | viewed 4,459 times

  On any day that commodities prices move materially, the financial media is quick to ascribe their action to the US dollar. And this oft-discussed causal…

• Junior Resource Prospects

  Published 15 May 2009 | viewed 3,465 times

  Just a few years ago, the junior resource stocks were hotter than the sun. The fact that the accelerating commodities bull was secular in nature…

• Bullish HUI Technicals 3

  Published 08 May 2009 | viewed 3,928 times

  Over the 6 months since the height of the stock panic in late November, commodities stocks have probably been the best-performing sector. While general stocks…

• Bullish Commodities Stocks

  Published 24 April 2009 | viewed 4,048 times

  Out of their dismal lows in early March, the stock markets rocketed 27% higher in a single month! After such fast gains, Wall Street remained…

• Ostrich Investors

  Published 17 April 2009 | viewed 4,592 times

  The withering barrage of misfortune that investors have suffered defies belief. Last year's horrific 38.5% loss in the stock markets was one of the worst…

• Gold Stock Valuations 5

  Published 27 March 2009 | viewed 5,181 times

  Way back in late 2000, only the very hardest-core contrarians even considered investing in gold stocks. This sector was all but obliterated after a multi-decade…

• New Gold Upleg

  Published 20 March 2009 | viewed 4,815 times

  After gold's breathtaking $38 surge in 15 minutes Wednesday, there is much renewed interest in the Ancient Metal of Kings. The Federal Reserve, which is…

• Gold and the SPX

  Published 13 March 2009 | viewed 5,730 times

  This past Tuesday, the flagship S&P 500 stock index (SPX) surged 6.4% in its biggest daily rally since rocketing out of its panic low in…

• SPX Bottoms

  Published 06 March 2009 | viewed 6,678 times

  With the S&P 500 slumping below its November panic low, it's been one tough week in the stock markets. The SPX was holding its own…

• Gold Stock Surge

  Published 21 February 2009 | viewed 4,929 times

  Earlier this week, the US stock markets (S&P 500) fell 4.6% to their lowest close since November 20th's panic low. It was a very unpleasant…

• US Mint Bullion Coin Sales

  Published 13 February 2009 | viewed 5,779 times

  Back in late 1985, the US Congress authorized the Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985 which President Ronald Reagan promptly signed into law. It ordered…

• Silver/Gold Ratio Reversion

  Published 06 February 2009 | viewed 4,496 times

  While wreaking its unbelievable destruction, last quarter's financial-market panic certainly showed no favoritism. Launching from ground zero in the financial stocks, shockwaves of selling blasted…

• Big Inflation Coming

  Published 23 January 2009 | viewed 20,591 times

  Late 2008's stock panic has certainly had a complex and multifaceted impact on popular psychology. Mindsets and outlooks that were scoffed at as recently as…

• Post-Panic Stock Rallies

  Published 16 January 2009 | viewed 8,540 times

  2008, of course, was the worst year for the stock markets in memory. We've never seen anything like it in our lifetimes. The Great Depression…

• Global Gold 5

  Published 09 January 2009 | viewed 3,992 times

  During late 2008's unprecedented financial-market panic, gold got something of a bum rap. Since this metal didn't soar during the stock chaos like most of…

• Gold Fundamentals 2

  Published 26 December 2008 | viewed 7,958 times

  Gold belongs in every investor's portfolio. It is totally unique among financial assets, a physical metal commanding timeless and universal intrinsic value. It is a…

• Gold Stock Panic Ends

  Published 19 December 2008 | viewed 6,304 times

  The Great Stock Panic of 2008 was so mercilessly brutal that no sector escaped its ravages. Unfortunately gold stocks, despite their history of performing really…

• Stock Panic Volatility

  Published 12 December 2008 | viewed 5,819 times

  If it is not already happening, someday soon some entrepreneur will start selling t-shirts proclaiming "I Survived the Great Stock Panic of 2008". The last…

• Real Rates and Gold 10

  Published 05 December 2008 | viewed 4,998 times

  It's been a tough year for gold investors. Instead of soaring during the great fear and uncertainty of the global financial panic as most gold…