Is Gold Getting Ready For Take-off?

 It wasn’t really very much — gold measured by the floor close of the CME August gold contract ended the week up $35.2 or 2.22% — but it’s really got people excited. Particularly chartists. On Thursday, MarketWatch’s Mike Paulenoff asked “Is gold set to accelerate...

Central Bank Gold-Grab Intensifies Further, Part I

Precious metals commentators (the legitimate ones) are continually striving to tear away the veils of deceit and propaganda, in order to present the global economy (and the world as a whole) in a realistic manner. This, in turn, is done in order to warn people of the...

Gold Continues to Move Towards the Financial System

It is currently estimated that the largest 110 central banks have 16% of their reserves as gold. Anyone who follows the gold market knows that many central banks have become net buyers of gold in the last few years, and the pace of accumulation seems to be growing....

Why Gold will go up 100% by the end of 2013 (if not sooner)

The world is on fire, the banking system in total confusion and preparing for another great consolidation, Europe is teetering, and what does the Federal Reserve Chairman, aka “America’s Financial Academic,” decide to speak on during some collegiate lecture series?...

Dear Gold, Thanks for the Diversification

In these pages we regularly mention the unique attributes of gold bullion investment, and how gold is able to diversify a portfolio like nothing else. We’ve cited a gold investment’s role in Harry Browne’s legendary Permanent Portfolio, the role gold has played in Jim...

Gold to Hit $2,000 by Year-End on More Fed Easing: Merrill

Merrill Lynch has added its voice to the chorus of gold bulls who have been predicting that bullion will hit $2000 an ounce. Francisco Blanch, Head of Global Commodity & Multi-Asset Strategy Research at the investment bank, says he expects the Federal Reserve...