The two most important questions Will you lend to someone who is insolvent and has no plan to get out of insolvency at 1.47% for 10 years when inflation is running at about 3% and prospects of hyper-inflation loom? Will you sell good assets that are likely to protect your
The recent plunge in gold and silver has hurt gold bugs. The bugs have always contended that central banks and governments manipulate prices of gold and silver to support fiat currencies. It never occurred to most gold bugs that they would be hurt by the gold momo crowd. I have
In the wake of a bad employment report, the gold and silver momo crowd has been running up the metals with loud proclamations that QE3 is now certain. A careful study does not support such proclamations. Good Friday was one of those rare days when the U.S. stock market was
My objective in contributing to Trading Deck is singular — to help investors make money. We at The Arora Report are neither a bull nor a bear on any investment. The essence of our methodology is to let the hard data speak for itself. From the comments on my articles
The recent swoon in gold and silver prices has dramatically increased the number of emails I receive from investors trying to figure what to do now. There is no shortage of advice on the Internet. An investor can easily find contradictory advice from gurus. Instead of listening to gurus, astute
One of my bedrock principles is to leave my opinions at the door and let the data speak for itself. There is widespread belief among American investors and a large number of proclamations that the Chinese and Indians are not selling gold and silver into the swoon. Hard data from
The number-one problem for gold and silver investors is that the world does not end very often. You must understand that unlike stocks, bonds and forex markets, gold and silver markets are not very deep. In plain English, this means that typically at any one time there are not enough
On the morning of January 11, 2012, there was a repeat of twin lessons for long investors in gold and silver miners. First it pays to understand the condition of mines. And second that the money is often made on the short side. Established in 1891, Hecla Mining /quotes/zigman/229110/quotes/nls/hl HL
 This article contains the following tickers: GLD, SLV, ZSL, GDX, GDXJ, AG, CDE, HL, SSRI, PAAS, ABX, NEM, AEM, SLW, and GG I have a long proven track record of calling twists and turns of the gold and silver markets correctly. Some of the credit goes to the adaptive
This article includes stock on gold (GLD), silver (SLV), Coeur d’ Alene Mines (CDE), (GLL), and (IAU). My long time readers are well familiar with the accuracy of my calls on gold and silver. These calls are well documented here. As a background for the new readers, I