Finding Gold Dollars In Nevada: Thomas Drolet

Finding Gold Dollars In Nevada: Thomas Drolet

Patience is the key to a golden future for both investors and miners. Thomas Drolet of Drolet & Associates Energy Services Inc. is an energy expert who is also an avid gold investor. He typically visits the mines in which he has a stake and talks turkey with managers. He has found a sweet spot […]
A Diversified, Safer Way To Hedge Against Stocks Using ETFs

A Diversified, Safer Way To Hedge Against Stocks Using ETFs

There are plenty of ways that you can hurt a man and bring him to the ground. You can beat him, you can cheat him, you can treat him bad and leave him when he’s down. Queen – Another One Bites The Dust Over the last 12 months, most efforts to hedge against U.S. stock […]
Fed Hints It Won’t Bail Out Stocks Next Time

Fed Hints It Won’t Bail Out Stocks Next Time

Curious why, even as many were expecting at the time, the Fed decided against commenting on the October market swoon? Here is the answer, in the Fed’s own words: … members considered the advantages and disadvantages of adding language to the statement to acknowledge recent developments in financial markets. On the one hand, including a […]
Here’s Why I Think The Fed Is More Insane Than The PBoC

Here’s Why I Think The Fed Is More Insane Than The PBoC

Yesterday I saw this chart on Twitter. Sorry I can’t find the original tweet. The point of it was that the PBoC makes the rest of the world’s central banks look like pikers in terms of how much they have expanded their balance sheets. Wolf Richter also wrote a post about this phenomenon. Relative Growth of […]
Gold Traders/Investors…Keep A Close Eye On This Action

Gold Traders/Investors…Keep A Close Eye On This Action

CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Gold remains inside of this well defined falling channel. Gold is near the top of the channel and the rally of late has taken it to the “underside” of a year long resistance line. IMHO, Gold traders & investors should keep a close eye on what Gold does here! 
All Currencies Are Not Equal

All Currencies Are Not Equal

Traders tend to focus on the here and now of price movements, watching a range of currency pairs and picking whichever ones look most active or technically interesting to trade. While it can be a good thing to be diversified and to spread your risk around the market, don’t fall into the trap of thinking […]
Do Dividend-Paying Stocks Provide Enough Income

Do Dividend-Paying Stocks Provide Enough Income

Equity Ownership  When a corporation sells shares of its own stock, these represent ownership in the company. In other words, a purchaser of even just one share of stock in a company is an owner of the company, albeit a very small owner. As a company prospers, it has the option to reinvest profits back […]
BoJ To Relieve Consumers’ Struggle With Rising Prices By Creating More Inflation

BoJ To Relieve Consumers’ Struggle With Rising Prices By Creating More Inflation

Residential Building Sector Again Mixed In October 2014, But Long Term Growth Still Trending Down

Residential Building Sector Again Mixed In October 2014, But Long Term Growth Still Trending Down

Residential building permits were a mixed bag. Although the amount of permits was higher than completions this month – the amount of permits continues to trend down. The unadjusted rate of annual growth for building permits in the last 12 months has declined from a channel between 25% and 40% to a channel under 10% […]
Yield Curve Today

Yield Curve Today

Today the curve is dropping with nominal yields rising. Implication (taking one singular day as a stand-alone)? Anti-gold and pro-risk ‘ON’… among other things. Hey, that’s what it says today… 10, 5 & 2yr yields from Bloomberg