Category: Gold
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![The ultimate Fed Put, soaring precious metals prices – not enough gold and silver coins to go around]()
The ultimate Fed Put, soaring precious metals prices – not enough gold and silver coins to go around
Though the U.S. Congress has yet to agree on a bailout package, it’s working on an unprecedented spending bill to prop up a dying economy. We’re talking somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 Trillion dollars. With interest rates at historic lows, this is shaping up to be the ultimate Fed Put. A battery of Bofors…
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![Extreme Fear Gauge readings versus notes of optimism from the Fed and a major investment bank]()
Extreme Fear Gauge readings versus notes of optimism from the Fed and a major investment bank
The across-the-board market volatility witnessed in recent sessions has been nothing short of astounding. Example: The lifeblood of a number of nations around the globe—Oil—did one jaw-dropper of a cliff dive yesterday… Then, only 24 hours later, Oil put on a show that would’ve made even Ed Sullivan stand up and applaud (a close-up 3-month…
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![Reeling markets, helicopter cash and a sweet spot for Canadian Gold Producers]()
Reeling markets, helicopter cash and a sweet spot for Canadian Gold Producers
Some ask, “if gold is such a safe haven asset, why did it get sold so unrelentingly when the broader indices caught what-for?” Great question. Gold was sold because it was a source of liquidity during a liquidity event. ANYTHING even remotely liquid was sold during the panic, regardless of underlying value or safe-haven caste.…
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![Market mayhem and deep value in the junior exploration arena part two]()
Market mayhem and deep value in the junior exploration arena part two
We’ll dispense with a recap of yesterday’s financial headlines, cept to say, it was an across-the-board bloodbath. Yesterday, in part one of a two-part roundup, we focused on hard-hit junior companies—co’s with market caps > $50M—with significant assets underpinning their beaten up valuations. Today, we’ll take a look at a number of companies a little…
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![Market mayhem and deep value in the junior exploration arena part one]()
Market mayhem and deep value in the junior exploration arena part one
Recent general market disorder and mayhem has wreaked havoc on the junior exploration arena over the past few weeks. For those holding junior ExplorerCos, the sector has been a world of hurt, assuaged only by the occasional rally… shades of bull markets past. Investors holding gold and silver stocks just want that hurt to stop,…
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DJIA plummets: divorce lawyers shudder as poor sexless couples grope each other in the night
“The National Marriage Project dubbed the drop in divorce ‘a silver lining’ to the Great Recession,” stated The L.A. Times, “arguing that tough times were pulling many husbands and wives closer together.”
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AMPD, PAT, MTA, HIVE, MILE: Contrarian investing as the zombies climb over the walls
Okay, so the world is burning, the Russians and Saudis are pouring low-cost fuel over it, the Americans are shocked that a reality TV show host with a penchant for scams didn’t make a clever President, Italy is in total lockdown, the Japanese are thinking of holding a spectator-free Olympics, Israel is putting anyone coming…
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![Nexus Gold (NXS.V) sees 2020 as the year to drill]()
Nexus Gold (NXS.V) sees 2020 as the year to drill
With all of the carnage in the broader markets of late—S&P 500 futures are currently off 5%, Crude Oil (WTI) is off a whopping 30%—there are precious few bright spots. Market volatility is beginning to take on a somewhat surreal quality. The recent 50-point emergency rate cut offered a glimmer of hope, a move by…
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![A case for gold – Metalla Royalty & Streaming (MTA.V) inks new acquisition]()
A case for gold – Metalla Royalty & Streaming (MTA.V) inks new acquisition
After an emergency 50 BPS rate cut, and U.S. 10-year money hovering on both sides of 1% for the first time since forever, gold is taking on a whole new luster. Smart money types are calling it a no-brainer. Even if you’ve frowned on the metal in the past à la the “gold is a…
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![Impact Silver (IPT.V) site tour Feb. 2020]()
Impact Silver (IPT.V) site tour Feb. 2020
If one was to stand in the middle of the tiny aldea surrounding Impact Silver’s (IPT.V) Guadalupe Production Center and lob a stone in any direction, chances are you’d hit silver-rich rock—that was my impression anyway, having recently visited the company’s district-scale foothold in a region with an epic history of silver mining. Impact controls…
