The Next Recession Will Be Triggered by Oil
Source: Toby Connor, GoldScents  (9/17/12)
"Any move of 100% or more in energy prices within a year has historically been the straw that breaks the camel's back. More >

Five Must-Haves for Junior Mining Companies: Aleksandra Bukacheva
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (9/14/12)
Valuation disconnects among producers, rising gold price and juniors facing funding crunches are among the factors fueling a spate of M&A activity. In her first exclusive Gold Report interview, Aleksandra (Sasha) Bukacheva, a mining research analyst with Fraser Mackenzie in Toronto, shares her list of likely targets and suitors in the zinc, copper and precious metals spaces. More >

How Long Before Money Collapses?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (9/14/12)
"Gold remains in the bulk of the world's leading reserves for that rainy day when something else is needed other than the currency issued by the nation's central bank." More >

The Bottom Line on Gold, the Dollar and the Euro
Source: Louis James, Casey Research  (9/14/12)
"The euro and the dollar take turns winning and losing against each other, but both are being debased, both are losing ground in the real world and both have lost a lot of ground against gold." More >

Casey Summit: How Investors Can Protect Themselves in a Politicized Economy
Source: Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report  (9/14/12)
Right on the heels of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, the recent Casey Research Summit in Carlsbad, California—cosponsored by SprottGlobal—focused on a timely theme: "Navigating the Politicized Economy." The somber revelations of the summit contrasted with the buzz of the party conventions. The Gold Report sat down with Louis James, Casey Research's chief metals and mining investment strategist, Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments and chairman of Sprott US Holdings, and Marin Katusa, Casey Research's chief energy investment strategist, to discuss how investors can position themselves in a politically driven economy. More >

Miners Catching Up to Metals; Huge Run Coming?
Source: ETF Daily News, John Rubino  (9/14/12)
"The big miners, represented by the gold miner ETF GDX, have outperformed gold itself since July." More >

How to Play the QE3 Rally
Source: Ben Gersten, Money Morning  (9/13/12)
"While the market probably has factored in some of QE3, the move will nonetheless add more liquidity to the market, devaluing the U.S. dollar, meaning an increase in gold and silver prices." More >

Loose Money Is Here Again (and Gold Stocks Love It!)
Source: Clif Droke  (9/13/12)
"As was the case with the previous two quantitative easing programs, gold and the gold stocks love the idea of loose money." More >

Bonanza Discoveries That Will Drive Gold Stocks: Eric Coffin
Source: Peter Byrne of The Gold Report  (9/12/12)
New deposits and economic triggers will drive gold stocks, says Eric Coffin, the editor of HRA Journal. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Coffin identifies the management characteristics of gold juniors that make money for investors. A successful gold explorer in his own right, Coffin names his picks from the Yukon to the Caribbean. More >

Platinum Hits Five-Month High on South Africa Mine Unrest
Source: Reuters, Frank Tang  (9/12/12)
"Platinum rose around 2.5% on Wednesday for its biggest one-day rally in a month, boosted by supply fears after sprawling labor unrest halted production at some mines in top platinum producer South Africa." More >

Spot the Dog: Gold Stocks Underperform All Other Sectors
Source: Sam Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (9/11/12)
"Gold stocks do not accurately or reliably track the price of gold in direction or magnitude, sometimes going in the opposite direction." More >

Gold Bugs Love It, but a New Gold Standard Is Just a Dream
Source: Martin Hutchinson, Money Morning  (9/11/12)
"It's pretty unlikely that the U.S. will ever re-adopt the gold standard, both because of the cost and because of the vested interests opposed to it." More >

Profit from Rising Silver Prices with These Three Picks
Source: Deborah Baratz, Money Morning  (9/10/12)
"Investment demand for silver should increase, thanks to the effect of global monetary easing." More >

Silver at Multi-Month High
Source: Chris Vermeulen, The Gold and Oil Guy  (9/10/12)
"Historically, gold has been worth about 12 to 15 times what silver is worth, but recently it has been worth roughly 50 times silver's value." More >

South Africa Mine Unrest Spreads
Source: Reuters, Ed Cropley  (9/10/12)
"The violent rise of the AMCU is the biggest challenge to the unwritten pact at the heart of the post-apartheid settlement: that unions aligned to the ANC deliver modestly higher wages for workers, while ensuring labor stability for big business." More >

California Gold Rush Mine Won't Be Reopened Yet
Source: Dorothy Kosich, Mineweb  (9/10/12)
"What investors had hoped would the reopening of California's second commercial-scale gold mine in the Mother Lode has been halted by deteriorating equity markets." More >

Australia's Gold Production Declines in 2011/12
Source: Mining Weekly  (9/10/12)
"For the June quarter, gold output totaled 65t, some 2.5t or 4% greater than in the previous quarter." More >

Senior Golds Look to Juniors for Growth: David Goguen
Source: Sally Lowder of The Gold Report   (9/10/12)
Senior producers seeking to replenish depleted gold reserves will be looking to promising juniors to provide needed ounces, suggests Dave Goguen, director of institutional sales for PI Financial Corp. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Goguen provides his views on where senior gold producers will be hunting and which companies will meet newly stringent criteria in the risk-averse but increasingly gold-hungry world marketplace of today—and tomorrow. More >

Is $1,740 Gold a Blip or a Trend? Notes from the Casey Research Summit
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report   (9/10/12)
When the price of gold shot up 2% Friday to settle at $1,738/ounce the first day of Casey Research's "Navigating the Politicized Economy" Summit, the faculty and attendees all had their own interpretation of what the metal was saying about the macroeconomy and the future of their portfolios. More >

Detour Gold Set to Open Canada's Biggest Gold Mine
Source: The Globe and Mail, Pav Jordan  (9/9/12)
"The Detour Lake mine marks the strongest sign yet of a trend toward massive, open-pit gold mining in Canada on a scale more commonly seen in desert geographies in Nevada, Chile or Africa." More >

Gold Futures Rally Nearly 2% After Payrolls Report
Source: MarketWatch, Claudia Assis and Sara Sjolin  (9/7/12)
"Gold futures rallied Friday as a negative jobs report was thought to be a catalyst for additional U.S. economic stimulus coming sooner rather than later." More >

Survey Participants Strongly Bullish On Gold Prices For Next Week
Source: Kitco, Debbie Carlson  (9/7/12)
"The big move in gold prices this week, after the bond-buying announcement by the European Central Bank and hopes for more stimulus from the Federal Reserve next week, has most participants in the weekly Kitco News Gold Survey suggesting values for the yellow metal could rise again." More >

Supra Mario, Bond Vigilante
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (9/7/12)
"German Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann asks if Supra Mario will punch and kick the weaker Eurozone states should they fail to fix their debts and deficits. But judging by the gold price in euros, now a tick or two below all-time record highs, plenty of private capital says no, he won't." More >

Gold Stock Breakout
Source: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Research   (9/7/12)
"After weathering a long consolidation followed by a major correction, gold stocks remain deeply out of favor . But this bearish sentiment is slowly yielding as gold powers higher in its usual autumn rally." More >

Gold: The Ultimate Crisis Barometer
Source: Clif Droke, Stockhouse  (9/6/12)
"It's no secret that one of gold's best attributes is as a barometer of economic crisis. It would appear that the yellow metal is once again serving this function." More >