The following is a guest post by David Galland, Managing Editor of The Casey Report. A couple weeks ago, the family and I watched Dirty Jobs, an altogether entertaining show from the Discovery Channel. In the episode we watched the host, Mike Rowe, serve as a mechanic in the military. There were a couple of things [...]
The following editorial is a guest post by Louis James, Senior Editor, Casey’s International Speculator. As Doug Casey said recently, we expect things to come unglued soon. With the ongoing madness in Europe, it seems to me that things are starting to look visibly less well glued already. In contemplating the possibility of another stock market [...]
About a month ago, I wrote an editorial on why gold was going to be in a perpetual bull market. The editorial noted that gold production was down while jewelry demand was up, and concluded that this meant that gold’s price would increasingly go up. While I am still extremely bullish on gold over the [...]
Editor’s Note: The following is an article entitled “Is the Gold Trade ‘Crowded’?” by the guys at Casey Research: It’s true that GLD’s assets just passed the $50 billion mark, and that it’s the second largest U.S. ETF. Yes, mints had difficulty filling orders when the Greek crisis broke. And yes, the gold price is [...]
The following is a great guest post from Finance World Online. To submit a guest post of your own, just use the contact form. Gold is an integral component of both the Forex currency market and virtually every other financial market in the world. It is also a great indicator of investor sentiment. Let’s take [...]
Happy 4th of July. For those of you living in the United States, I don’t have to tell you how special this day is to us. For those readers who happen to live elsewhere, the 4th of July is the day where Americans celebrate liberty, thank God for political justice, and eat a lot of [...]
I’ve been called a cynic, a pessimist, paranoid, a gold bug, a prophet of doom, and a ton of other negative labels. The reason for the name-calling is simple: I refuse to drink the koolaid when it comes to the US economy. I don’t believe America will ever experience economic conditions like the mid-90s again. My reasoning [...]
The most important concept in business, marketing, finance, and economics is also the most simple: the laws of supply and demand dictate everything. It’s that simple. We live in a world of cause and effect. Supply and demand dictates that if the demand for a good goes up, and the supply doesn’t, then people are [...]
China has reportedly increased its holdings of gold by 75 percent over the past sixth years. The country is now the sixth largest holder of gold in the world. According to reports, the supply that was recently purchased took place through its State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE). By buying gold this way, China was [...]
With the current state of the economy, some people are predicting that an economic collapse is imminent. Their views can be seen as rather alarmist, but there are also some historical trends that correspond with these thoughts. The question that many people have on their minds is whether people will use gold after an economic [...]
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