What a day for gold and especially gold mining stocks! We can thank the incompetent Fed for this as the dollar fell hard today and precious metals shot higher. Below you will find my professional analysis of today’s events with an expectation of a bottom being in for now with gold, silver and mining stocks. But we are not out …
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15
2016
Gold and the Elephant In the Room
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Clinton, congress, fed, Gold, market cap, national debt, Obama, trillion, Trump, Unemployment, Yellen
We are setting up for a disastrous next year for the markets but the markets don’t sense it yet. The stronger dollar will be retaliated by China soon enough and we have been here before. The Fed just doesn’t seem to get it with their 3 more rate hike talk. And those who trade the markets ignore the fact that this …
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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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23
2014
Which Has Been Better since 1975, Gold or Savings at Bank?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: bank, Bonds, debt, Deflation, Dollar, Draghi, EURO, fed, Gold, Interest rates, Real Estate, savings, Stocks, Treasuries, Yellen, YEN
With banks paying very little interest these days, investors have been seeking out ways to earn more than the paltry less than 1/2 percent that banks are paying on savings. The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates artificially low, hurting those seniors and other savers who don’t trust the stock or bond market with their nest egg. But some of …
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