Silver has been beaten down quite a bit and is due for at least a short term bounce. It was trading in the 14.40’s and now is 14.49 and starting a leg up for now. Silver is leading gold at present. I still consider this a trade only because when the market does finally get going south, it can take …
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24
2018
Is The National Debt Irrelevant And Gold A Barbarous Relic?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Carmen Reinhart, central banks, congress, crash, Credit Contraction, Deflation, Dollar, end game, fed, Gold, Interest rates, national debt, negative interest rates, October, QE, QT
Synopsis Presidents campaign on promises to reduce an out of control national debt yet the debt keeps marching higher during every Presidents term. The National Debt has been irrelevant since the times of even before Reagan but escalated with Reagan. Why doesn’t the national debt matter? What will Fed interest rate policy be moving forward? Some mock gold as a …
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5
2015
Why Harry Dent’s Call For Gold To Go To $250 Is Wrong
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: $250, Deflation, fed, Gold, Harry Dent, Interest rates, ounce, Peter Schiff, QE, raise
Harry Dent has been negative on gold and has has some debates with some gold bulls like Peter Schiff where I agree with Dent’s deflationary take on the economy. You can listen to that Dent/Schiff interview here (or copy and paste this link into your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27q-rKPZMn0 ). Harry Dent’s latest article Gold $5,000: Maybe When You’re Dead! calls for gold to fall …
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13
2015
Gold had a range of $10 on Friday, closing down slightly in the middle of that range at a bid of $1,181.30. Silver has been acting weaker than gold the last 30 days, 6.34% lower while gold is down 2.78%. The last year silver is down 18.28% while gold is lower by 7.21%. This is not what investors in gold and …
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30
2013
As I pointed out in my last article, I expected continued selling of gold by the big boys; the Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds and Professional traders and they didn’t disappoint. The largest ETF; SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) saw an outflow of 12.9 metric tons last week. From Kitco; Holdings of gold by SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), the world’s largest exchange-traded …
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16
2013
The Federal Reserve – Lender and Buyer of Last Resort
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: BOE, Buyer of Last Resort, Central Bank, Dodd, ECB, Federal Reserve, Frank, Gold, Lender of Last Resort, QE
Can the Federal Reserve save the U.S. economy from failure? Is this their mandate? When you research “lender of last resort (LLR),” which is what the Fed is supposed to be, you mostly find the source to be Walter Bagehot’s Lender of Last Resort Doctrine. This doctrine came about from Bagehot’s book, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. Hartley Withers, in …
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26
2013
Is This the Bottom for Gold and Silver?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: bubble, bullish, Currencies, dead cat bounce, Deflation, Dollar, Economy, fed, GDP, gold bottom, higher, lower, price, pushing on a string, QE, silver, Stocks
AUTHOR’s NOTE: I have decided to no longer write for Seeking Alpha because of their lack of professionalism and control of content that goes against what I believe in and have written about in my book, Buy Gold and Silver Safely. They have been forcing authors to include paper stocks, ETF’s or Mutual Funds as alternatives to physical precious metals …
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23
2012
Gold Breakout Or Reversal?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Dollar, dollar index, EURO, fear, fed, Gold, QE, silver, TBT, Treasuries, vix
In timing the gold and silver markets, people look to all sorts of charts and data to make a decision to buy or sell. They also look to the Federal Reserve and the various voting members along with Bernanke and see what their thinking is. In trying to put all of these various tools together in deciphering where gold and …
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15
2011
4 Reasons There Will Be Future QE And A Higher Price For Gold and Silver
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, buy gold, buy silver, GDP, medicare, QE, quantitative easing, U.S. Treasuries, Unemployment
There has been talk of late that the Fed could put end to quantitative easing (QE) early. This article will address the probability of future QE and list four problem areas where the Fed may have to return to their hat and see just how many quantitative easing rabbit’s are left in it that can fool the investing public into …
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