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If you wanted to sum up the just-concluded Casey Research/Sprott Inc. Summit titled Navigating the Politicized Economy, you could say "The situation is hopeless but not serious."
No one can say for sure when gold will start its big rise in the current bubble cycle, but there are signs to watch for.
Are you prepared to handle high inflation for a sustained period of time? (Publisher: Very Useful Charts)
Will the new Basel Accord – slated to go into effect in early 2013 – pump up institutional investment interest in gold?
How far is the Fed from reaching the bottom of its ammunition box?
Worldwide, central banks are snapping up gold again. Does this mean a bubble is forming?
Copper is sometimes referred to as "Dr. Copper," because the metal is used in so many industrial applications and is essential for many different sectors of the economy, from infrastructure to housing to consumer electronics.
News of a "monster" natural gas find in British Columbia has one again highlighted that North Americans need to make a choice.
Much is made of what can happen to a fiat currency during hyperinflation, but the real question to ponder is how do the precious metals handle such conditions.
Revealed – what recent shifts in oil prices mean for this energy subsector, and how long they'll likely last.
I think there are really only two good reasons for having a significant amount of money: To maintain a high standard of living and to ensure your personal freedom.
We have been accused at times - rightfully so - of being largely focused on the trials and tribulations of the newfound political economy.
Now is the time to capitalize on the "buy low" part of the successful contrarian play, "buy low and sell high."
I manage one of my mother's IRA accounts, and when it comes to investing, she doesn't like to take a lot of risks. I guess the same would be true for most of our mothers – and maybe for many of us as well.
There's good reason to believe that today's children, immersed as they are in an amazing technical world, will still be wowed by developments on the horizon... let alone ones that are mere dreams at present.
The gold standard, under which any holder of paper dollars could redeem them for gold at the US Treasury, is now within the living memory of just a few million Americans, nearly all of whom would be dangerous behind the wheel.
Competition is supposed to make competitors stronger, but when it comes to the battle between coal and shale gas for supremacy as the United States' power-generating fuel of choice, the rivalry instead has each commodity holding the other down.
Glancing at the news most days, it's hard not to feel like Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day. In the event you are unfamiliar with the movie, in it Murray's character becomes trapped in the same day… day after day.
For pretty much everyone, no matter where they are located in the economic strata, few if any questions are more germane to making plans for the future than whether the US and other major global economies are in recovery.
Yesterday, I made a prediction that should scare a lot of investors.
If you think the bloodbath is over for natural gas stocks, think again...
There's a major shift under way, one the US mainstream media has left largely untouched even though it will send the United States into an economic maelstrom and dramatically reduce the country's importance in the world: the demise of the US dollar a
Decades of manipulation by the Federal Reserve (through its creation of paper money) and by Congress (through its taxing and spending) have pushed the US economy into a circumstance that can't be sustained but from which there is no graceful exit.
I recently wrote an article that addresses the subject of sociopaths and how they insinuate themselves into society.
We've read mixed reports about how lofty gold and silver prices are affecting demand in India. One month we're told demand is up, and the next it's supposedly down.
In the infamous case of the Goldman Sachs Abacus 2007 AC-1 fund, it doesn't take a whole lot to figure out the wrongdoing.
In an interview with Louis James, the inimitable Doug Casey throws cold water on those celebrating the economic recovery.
The energy market is a complex beast, its many parts interconnected through a multitude of linkages.
Do you own enough gold and silver for what lies ahead?
On February 29, gold dropped 4.8% and silver 6.2% (based on London fix prices). That's quite the fall for one day.
