I think the lone wolf can survive, but it's an unpleasant existence. I'd rather work with other people to improve life in the unlikely and...
Rob Mc Ewen might be the only honest mining company CEO. I benefitted greatly from an investment in Goldcorp when he was the CEO and I've owned...
This happens periodically. However, since asset classes across the board are falling, it has a bit of a deflationary look to it. Hyperinflation...
Buying commems at bullion prices is an excellent choice in my opinion. Some of the gold commems from the 1980s have fantastic designs and...
Every investment has something wrong with it, including silver and gold. The investment analysis process should uncover the negatives so that the...
A crash is a low probability event. If it was expected, it probably wouldn't happen. Same with the dollar. A dollar crash is so widely expected...
I agree. It will be the folks who sincerely believe in the "PMs to the moon" and dollar collapse stories who will be hurt the most, and...
That's a good point that everyone should think about. Silver is a relatively small market by global standards and it does not take a lot of money...
The CDS market is a good tool for viewing how the "smart money" evaluates risk.
I used to think like that. But look at the tech stock boom of the 90s. It was pronounced close to over in the middle of the decade, but it...
My long time love is the stock market. I'm heavily weighted toward PMs and oil stocks. But I'm holding more cash and short term bonds than in...
I agree that the automatic pilot crowd putting money into 401ks were hurt, but 2008 was nothing like the condition you described with vast...
This is a good rule but there are exceptions. At the beginning of 2008, not everyone was buying stocks, but the market dropped by half anyway....
I save them, although I don't expect to make a lot of money from it. But the intrinsic value is still quite a bit more than the face value, and I...
If it is, you may have to look into the UBTI impact which may require paying taxes on the income within the tax deferred account.
It sounds interesting, but I try not to invest in situations where there is a lot of competition where two or more companies will tend to destroy...
I don't think a high price for silver is a problem since it is normally a small component of the things it is used in. The problem is that if JPM...
I've read a lot of Ted Butler's articles, and I'd like to help clarify some of his thinking... Butler's research and the data regularly put out...
A lot of the problems go away if you recognize that silver and gold are really new currencies. You don't expect a pound or euro to be stable, and...
I like the PMs a lot. And the path of least resistance for gold and silver is up for now, but I can't help but remember that many large...
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