Central Banks Push Up the Gold Price By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey ResearchFor some years now, Doug Casey has gone on record with his view that we’ll know the gold bull market is really picking up steam when central banks stop selling their reserves of gold and begin buying the stuff. The following excerpt [...]

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An American Concept: Crushing Debt By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research Commenting on the European crisis – because this has gone well past being one that can be termed “Greek” – the New York Times cited a senior U.S. official on the significant role the U.S., including Obama himself, played in getting Europe’s leadership [...]

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The Indian festival of Akshaya Tritiya is deemed important to gold demand and subsequent price action. So who are you going to believe? According to CNN Money, gold is in a bubble, we’ll see gold at $800 maybe this year or else in 2011, and high prices kept buyers away at the Indian festival this [...]

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The U.S. Mint did an incredibly poor job of making many gold coins available in 2009. In fact, the highly desirable 99.99% gold Buffalo was only available for a very short time at year end and they sold out again. I just received an email from GovMint.com that 2009 $5 Gold 1/10th oz. American Eagles [...]

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Anyone noticed which precious metal outperformed Gold, Silver and Platinum in 2009? Palladium. Having been beaten to a pulp in the global meltdown, Palladium has rocketed back from the $170 range to close out 2009 at over $400 and is looking strong on this first trading day of 2010 ($420 as I write this). Naturally, [...]

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Jim Rogers, legendary commodities investor and guru, spoke in Prague about 2 weeks ago to 300+ money managers. They took a poll, by pressing buttons, not a raise of hands. “How many of you have EVER owned gold?” Answer? 24% 76% had NEVER OWNED GOLD! So, is gold in a bubble? Give me a break. [...]

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by: Jeff Clark, Editor, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report Long-term readers know that gold moves inversely to the dollar, meaning if the dollar drops, gold tends to rise (and vice versa). This happens with about 80% regularity. But what many gold writers haven’t acknowledged is the leveraged movement our favorite metal has demonstrated this year [...]

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That’s the question Mark Dice put to a fair number of absolute idiots somewhere near where he lives. The houses are $1 million a piece, a 1 bedroom dump rents for $1200 / month and these people do not know what a 1 ounce gold coin is worth; or whether it matters that it’s from [...]

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I haven’t written about Dennis Gartman of The Gartman Letter (TGL) much recently since he has been getting beat up quite a bit on his losing gold trades over the last year or so. Dennis is a tough guy, though, and I think he can take it. Some speculate he is now using his very [...]

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When it comes to precious metals like gold and silver, I don’t think any country’s population is more excited than China; and they have a LOT of people. The government is not only encouraging individuals to buy gold and silver but they are making it easy to acquire. With the exception of gold vending machines [...]

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