Steve Saville

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• Is This the Top for the Gold Sector?

  Published 15 September 2009 | viewed 5,318 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 13th September 2009. Current Market Situation The following chart shows the HUI and…

• Gold Money versus the Monetary Ambitions of Governments

  Published 07 September 2009 | viewed 4,225 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 3rd September 2009. China's government follows a mercantilist trade policy, meaning that it…

• The Inflation Process

  Published 01 September 2009 | viewed 3,827 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 30th August 2009. In our 5th August commentary we explained that the central…

• Bank Reserves and Inflation

  Published 24 August 2009 | viewed 4,055 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 23rd August 2009. Recent arguments between deflationists (those who are forecasting deflation) and…

• Withdrawing the Stimulus

  Published 11 August 2009 | viewed 3,260 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 6th August 2009. There has been a lot of discussion in the mainstream…

• Getting Some Things Straight Regarding China

  Published 04 August 2009 | viewed 5,104 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 30th July 2009. The conventional wisdom has it that the massive foreign currency…

• Gold Stocks: The Big Picture

  Published 28 July 2009 | viewed 4,254 times

  During 2001-2007 there were some hefty downward corrections in the gold sector, but although these corrections seemed dramatic in real time they didn't come close…

• M3's False Signal and the Japan Myth

  Published 20 July 2009 | viewed 4,009 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 19th July 2009. M3 is sending a false signal, again During April-June of…

• Inflation: Expectations and Effects

  Published 06 July 2009 | viewed 4,232 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 5th July 2009. Inflation expectations and the bond market In 2006, 2007 and…

• The Depression Case Reiterated

  Published 28 June 2009 | viewed 4,663 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 18th June 2009. In a semi-free country such as the US there are…

• The Government Bubble

  Published 15 June 2009 | viewed 4,409 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 7th June 2009. It is clear that a concerted effort is being made…

• Money Confusion and Inflation/Deflation

  Published 02 June 2009 | viewed 4,339 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 31st May 2009. Money Confusion The total supply of US dollars, as measured…

• Thoughts on the Gold Standard, Risk and Speculation

  Published 25 May 2009 | viewed 4,085 times

  Below are excerpts from recent commentaries posted at www.speculative-investor.com. Return to a Gold Standard? The most commonly cited reason against returning to a gold standard…

• Why We are Gold Bulls

  Published 18 May 2009 | viewed 4,161 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 17th May 2009. The actions of the US Fed and Treasury between September…

• Everyone is Wrong, Again (Except the gold bulls)

  Published 11 May 2009 | viewed 5,702 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 10th May 2009. One of our readers sent us a very interesting article…

• Central Planning is Back in Vogue

  Published 05 May 2009 | viewed 2,636 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 3rd May 2009. At the root of central planning ideology is the belief…

• The Effects of Inflation

  Published 27 April 2009 | viewed 5,174 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 26th April 2009. The Effects of Inflation The effects of monetary inflation are…

• Greenspan's Mistake

  Published 13 April 2009 | viewed 4,005 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 9th April 2009. Former Fed Chief Alan Greenspan has stridently argued that his…

• What's Happening on the Inflation Front?

  Published 07 April 2009 | viewed 4,085 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 5th April 2009. Current Situation The Fed scaled back its money-pumping efforts over…

• Gold: The Big Picture

  Published 24 March 2009 | viewed 5,621 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 22nd March 2009. Short-term moves in the gold market are generally more subject…