The DOW (DIA) and S&P are breaking new records yet the underlying data doesn’t support such valuation in the markets. What does the underlying data really say about the economy and what effect might this have on stock markets moving forward? The Treasury just came out with their monthly and quarterly economic statistics and data as shown in the following …
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22
2013
There has been much chatter over the years on what the government might do to save itself should we here in the United States undergo any type of future financial crisis or repeat of the 2008 financial turmoil we experienced. This topic is especially of interest now with the recent proposal in the country of Cyprus to tax existing bank …
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14
2013
The price of gold and silver are down again today, with the dollar moving higher and precious metals investors are wondering how this can be with a Federal Reserve implementing Quantitative Easing to infinity and a Congress that allows the debt ceiling to keep moving higher and higher. If you had a choice between reducing your spending to live within …
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18
2012
Why Gold and Silver Prices are Declining Along with Dollar
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Banks, clock, debt, EURO, Federal Reserve, Gold, manipulation, price, silver
Today we saw gold and silver take a big hit. Normally this would be the result of a stronger dollar, but the dollar also took a big hit today. So what’s really going on here? Why are gold and silver prices falling along with the dollar of late? I wrote the article Thoughts On Gold Price Manipulation the day before …
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11
2012
Thoughts On Gold Price Manipulation
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: clock, debt, dimon, Federal Reserve, GLD, Gold, J.P. Morgan Chase, manipulation, price, S&P 500, silver, Stock Market
Something doesn’t add up. On the one hand we have sales of gold American Eagle coins soaring as well as inflows into the 14 U.S. listed precious-metal ETFs like GLD, rising by more than $282 million last week. Yet from the graph below we see the price of gold in the last month and year time-frame has actually turned …
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11
2012
The Gold Price Is Doing Better Than You Think
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: banking crisis, Credit Contraction, debt, Deflation, DJIA, Dollar, EURO, Fed & Congress, Federal Reserve, Gold, gold predictions, gold price, Inflation, Obama, Romney, U.S. Treasuries, Wars
I begin today’s analysis on the gold markets with a chart that I created trying to connect what I believe to be the important issues facing the price of gold the last 32 years. Anyone who tries to predict the future price of gold needs to understand that all of these issues are all related. From analyzing this chart, you …
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28
2012
Deflation, The Banking Crisis And Why Gold Will Rebound
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Bernanke, debt, Deflation, Gold, health care, Inflation, Obama, politics, quantitative easing, Romney, We the Serfs
For years now I have been listening to the inflation/deflation debate and unlike many of the gold dealers, I have been in the deflationary camp as I wrote about in my book Buy Gold and Silver Safely. The following articles can all be found at the Buy Gold and Silver Safely website. They detail my views as to why I …
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8
2012
Is This The Bottom For Gold And Silver Prices?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: bottom for gold and silver, debt, EURO, Federal Reserve, Gold prediction, Greece, Interest rates, QE3, quantitative easing, silver, Spain, treasury bubble, U.S. banks, U.S. Dollar, U.S. Treasuries
While we are taking the brunt of the bad European news now, and gold and silver prices are taking a beating, the good news will be coming at some point between now and November as we gear up for the coming election. As long as the stock market continues to falter, Obama will indeed play the QE3 card. Since the …
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16
2012
Is The Gold Community A Cult?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: banking crisis, debt, Diversification, dollar collapse, election, ETF, Federal Reserve, GLD, Gold, gold cult, government, HSBC, Inflation, J.P. Mogran, Obama, Romney, SLV, sub-investment derivatives
I recently was involved in a discussion centered around the gold community and their constant talk of manipulation and price suppression. There are some of us in the gold community who understand gold’s place in a diversified portfolio (insurance), have been recommending dollar cost averaging into a position for their clients rather than “all in” like most others who fear …
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11
2011
Pop Goes The Gold Bubble?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Budget deficit, buy gold, buy silver, debt, Deflation, gold bubble, gold prices 2011, Gold Prices falling, Inflation, Obama, Seeking Alpha, U.S. economy
I always get a kick out of these articles that young writers put out when they try and tackle a subject such as gold and claim it’s in a “bubble.” To date, I have not seen one of them address the banking system mess our country is in (as well as the banks of Europe and soon most everywhere else). …
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