Markets / Other

Sep 18, 2009 at 00:00

Why is deflation bad? If one can manage to keep one's job and one has some savings, deflation is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Stuffing cash under the mattress…

Sep 17, 2009 at 00:00

Many have been asking what is going to happen with gold and silver this month, and I maintain it is a tough call. The September month is usually pretty positive…

Sep 17, 2009 at 00:00

I was very interested in the news I read from MarketWatch that said, "Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in London, transferring them to a…

Sep 17, 2009 at 00:00

Mexico's precious metal's mining started in earnest with the conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish Conquistadors in 1521. What Cortez found when he landed on the Mexican coast at…

Sep 17, 2009 at 00:00

Some analysts now contend that China can no longer afford to let the gold or silver price slump. The rationale behind that contention is that with the Chinese government now…

Sep 17, 2009 at 00:00

Tim Geithner, the Goldman Sachs Secretary of the Treasury, has gone on record as saying that the government will withdraw its $3 trillion backstop guarantee from the money market fund…

Sep 17, 2009 at 00:00

There is a headline that has been all over the media ever since September 2008: "Bank Bailout Will Soak Taxpayers." As obviously true as this headline appears to be, it…

Sep 17, 2009 at 00:00

Compared to various stock groups, gold stocks offer good value. Take a look at these ratios. In nominal terms the GDM index is well above its 1994 & 1996 high.…

Sep 17, 2009 at 00:00

Silver has put in a real price push in the last few months having run from a low of $12.45 on the 13th July to a current best high of…

Sep 17, 2009 at 00:00

Five months later and unemployment is pushing 10% with an average of about 9.7%-ish. The banks returned the TARP based upon a worst case scenario about 100 basis below where…