Market Commentary
Market commentary What a week it has been! There have been numerous reports for the last two weeks of the Japanese piling into the yellow metal, in advance of the March 31st cap on bank deposit...
View ArticleThe Gold Share Market Entering a Second Phase
The Gold Share Market Entering a Second Phase In the past week the Canadian national newspaper, the National Post, had a special insert on Mutual Funds: the Precious Metals Fund category average...
View ArticleThere’s gold in them thar hills!
Market commentary Gold is now sitting at a 2 year high and things have never looked more golden. Marshall McLuhan said “The medium is the message.” Many commentators overlook an extremely important...
View ArticleLet’s Get Physical!
Every few days or so I get a question from someone about purchasing physical gold. Randall Oliphant of Barrick Gold recently said in an interview that most new gold production goes into the jewellery...
View ArticleBull Riding Ain’t Just for Texans
It never fails to amaze me; the material that passes for informed financial journalism these days. Most of it is complete fluff – the worst of it is actually hazardous to your financial well-being. The...
View ArticleDaytrading in Bubblelandia, 77 years ago
It’s a sure thing I’m tellin yer,’ said the man again and again, bringing his face close to Ed Thatcher’s face and rapping the desk with his flat hand. ‘Maybe it is Viler but I seen so many of em go...
View ArticleRunning with the Bulls
As part of my summer reading I delved into 3 books: “Irrational Exuberance” by Robert J. Shiller, “The Bubble and the Bear – How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream”, by Douglas Hunter and recently,...
View ArticleThe Squeeze
You have to choose (as a voter) between trusting to the natural ability of gold and the natural stability and intelligence of the government. And with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as...
View ArticleNuclear is New (Again) Part 2
“There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.” Alan Greenspan, on the Deficit 03/11/05 We have seen a considerable number of new junior companies created in the last year to take advantage of...
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Codswallop!
The following is for the gold bugs – succinct and to the point: Some people would assert that if governments were prepared to accept monetary discipline there would be no need for gold, but this is...
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What I’ve been up to
Several readers have asked me, “Where have you been for nine years?” The short answer, “Hey, I’ve been busy!” Someone asked if I’d been in “suspended animation…..another (jokingly I hope) said, “I...
View ArticlePremature Burial
I thought it only fitting in honour of Hallowe’en to provoke a little discussion on The Dead, Zombies, and those Prematurely Declared Dead. My subject is the Junior Mining Sector. But I’m not going to...
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Hyperinflation Yes, But Not Where We Expected
Up, up and away…my beautiful, my beautiful balloon! For the many disciples of Austrian Economics who read this Blog, yes I feel as cheated, bamboozled and perplexed about the prices of gold and silver...
View ArticleA Walk down Memory Lane
As the late great baseball catcher Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra (1925-2015) observed: It’s like déjà vu all over again. History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes Mark Twain History is bunk Henry...
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2016 PDAC Special
This is the first half of a chapter from my book “The Last Great Adventure, Part One”, (a work in progress). The second half will follow in the next few days. In 1998 I was in Caracas, Venezuela, a...
View ArticleBull Riding Ain’t Just for Texans
It never fails to amaze me; the material that passes for informed financial journalism these days. Most of it is complete fluff – the worst of it is actually hazardous to your financial well-being. The...
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Is Novo’s Pilbara Discovery a Paradigm Shift in Economic Geology?
Frankly, I was beginning to think geologists are just slicing the baloney thinner and just when I think we know it all something new comes along…. When I started writing “Straight Talk” in 2001 it was...
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