Time to Buy Gold?
It’s the question most frequently asked by customers over the last week: Is now a good time to buy gold? My answer is that...
India: BRIC Broken
India, one of the much hyped BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) has seen its currency plunge in recent months. Over the last...
Currencies in Crisis, Oil Spiking: Time to Buy?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 have staged impressive rallies to begin 2012. As of this morning, the Dow was up more...
Coordinated Currency Devaluation: Time to Buy Gold
Not to be outdone by Europe or the U.S., the Bank of Japan announced yesterday that it would print an additional 10 trillion yen...
Gold King as Currencies Debased
Yesterday the Bank of England announced another round of quantitative easing, this time spending $79.1 billion on government bonds. On the chart below you...
What the Franc!
Julia Child made cooking look easy. The same cannot be said about U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and monetary policy. He makes it...
Gold Surges to Record High
Gold is up more than 6.5% since the first of the month. The precious metal is rallying on fears that the euro-area financial crisis...
The World’s Most Profitable Currency
Can you guess which of the world’s currencies has appreciated the most this year? If you guessed the Paraguayan guarani, you’re right. A close...
Dow in Dollars and Gold
This week the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to 12,700, about where it was three years ago. You’re back to even, right? Not really....
Dollar Crashes to Record Low
Scott Pelley: “You have what degree of confidence in your ability to control ?”
Ben Bernanke: “100%” – 60 Minutes 12/5/2010
The U.S. dollar took another...