Gold and Silver Stocks' Wild Ride Ahead: Greg McCoach
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report  (2/20/12)
Greg McCoach, publisher of The Mining Speculator, feels gold is ultimately headed above $6,000/oz and silver into the hundreds of dollars and those who aren't paying attention now are missing their best opportunity to buy before the frenzy begins in earnest. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he spells out the reasons for his optimistic projections and shares several of his favorite stories in the junior mining sector, which he believes is headed for much higher ground. More >

Gold's Consolidation Phase Continues
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (2/20/12)
"Wholesale market gold bullion prices held above $1,730/oz in Monday morning's London trading, while European stocks and commodities edged higher amid hopes that policymakers might finally approve Greece's second bailout." More >

China's 'Mystery' Gold Buyer
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (2/20/12)
"For Asia's ravenous gold buying, state interference is perhaps the present threat, especially in a market averaging 36% compound growth by value each year since China began deregulating gold a decade ago." More >

Gold's Wild Ride Leaves Explorers Ready to Grow: Tom MacNeill
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (2/17/12)
Lesser resource companies have been slowly starving to death since the capital faucet was turned off in 2008. What's left? Some exciting, early-stage companies with management teams industrious enough to make it through with promising projects on the horizon. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Tom MacNeill, CEO of 49 North Resources Inc., a Saskatchewan-focused resource investment company, discusses some names his firm is excited about, including some primed to debut on the public markets soon. More >

Quiet Session Sees Gold and Silver Flat
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (2/17/12)
"Spot market prices for buying gold held just above $1,730/oz during flat trading this morning in London, as speculation continued over whether a Greek bailout will be agreed next week." More >

Record High Gold Prices Fail to Curb Global Demand
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (2/17/12)
"Gold prices continue to receive additional support as central banks not only devalue fiat currencies, but also purchase gold themselves." More >

Suppressing Gold
Source: Guiseppi Borelli, The Unpunctured Cycle  (2/17/12)
"Someone is capping gold, but this is a bull market with both the primary and secondary trends headed higher. Under such conditions, stay long and buy dips where liquidity allows." More >

Will Gold Cleanse the World from Dirty Fiat Currencies?
Source: Eric McWhinnie, Wall St. Cheat Sheet  (2/16/12)
"Despite a temporary boost in the dollar this month, gold and silver continue to receive support from extremely loose global monetary policies." More >

Are We at Gold "In Extremis"?
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (2/16/12)
"Gold brings interbank/international liquidity to clogged credit markets, acting as a guarantee of repayment and allowing for the lowering of interest rates on interbank/international loans. This role supports the paper money system." More >

Gold Stocks Basing After Bottom
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold
  (2/16/12)
"We expect 2012 to be a transition year in which precious metals reemerge while the broad market peters out at resistance." More >

Gold, Silver Heading Up: Roger Wiegand
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (2/15/12)
Roger Wiegand, editor of Trader Tracks, says cycles will bring gold and silver higher in the first half of 2012: gold up to $2,050/oz and silver up to $44/oz or even $50/oz. He sees plenty of opportunities for volatility given the political and economic situation in the U.S. and the EU. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Wiegand reveals names of mining companies poised to profit. More >

Takeovers the Path to Golden Returns: Sascha Opel
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (2/15/12)
Sascha Opel, publisher of one of Germany's most popular commodity newsletters, looks at the economy with rose-colored glasses. He sees the end of the Euro crisis and sees Asian growth as the engine pulling the world out of its economic malaise. He finds the path to golden returns in gold and silver companies likely to be taken over and in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he's not afraid to name likely targets. More >

The Lesson of Half-Hearted QE
Source: Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault  (2/15/12)
"Keeping banks on life support, as the Japanese experience shows, will mean extending and expanding QE indefinitely." More >

Gold's Demise!
Source: Guiseppi Borelli, The Unpunctured Cycle  (2/14/12)
"I view gold not as some smoky fantasy involving riches beyond my wildest dreams, but as a way to protect myself and my family from a future fraught with peril." More >

Why I'm Taking Gold Double Eagles on My Next Trip to Utah
Source: Martin Hutchinson, Money Morning  (2/14/12)
"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may think he has everything under control, but the truth is the monetary ground is literally shifting beneath our feet. That's why his loose monetary policy has some U.S. states looking to get into the gold coin business." More >

Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest: Trading Gold for Oil
Source: Mickey Fulp, Mercenary Geologist  (2/13/12)
"Buying oil with gold is not a viable economic, monetary or political strategy for China or India." More >

Sideways Trading for Gold and the HUI Index
Source: Vin Maru, TVD Gold Trader  (2/13/12)
"Unlike gold, the HUI index has not broken above the negative trend line just yet, so for the moment mining shares are still underperforming the gold price." More >

Profit in the Investment Ecosystem: Catherine Austin Fitts
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report  (2/10/12)
When money managers refer to total return funds, they're generally talking about investments that promise to deliver returns that beat the prevailing rate of interest while preserving capital. Investment advisor and Solari Report Publisher Catherine Austin Fitts takes the totality concept to a whole new level by focusing on net positive total returns. As she explains in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, she hunts for companies that offer value not only to stockholders but for society. More >

How Bull Markets Evolve into Bubbles
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold   (2/10/12)
"Gold stocks have made little net progress in the last four years while gold has nearly doubled." More >

China's Rebalancing Should Be Good for Gold Demand
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (2/9/12)
"The rapid growth of Chinese gold demand suggests that many of those who can afford it choose to use some of their savings to buy gold; indeed, many have chosen to store some savings as gold." More >

In the Bullring with Gold
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (2/8/12)
"To goldbugs, two more years of near-zero short-term interest rates means negative real interest rates are here to stay, and this has historically been a strong driver for higher gold prices." More >

Gold Prices Driven Higher by Europe and China: Greg Weldon and Grant Williams
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report   (2/8/12)
Preserving wealth in a volatile political and financial world is a job for gold. Greg Weldon, publisher of Weldon's Money Monitor newsletter and Grant Williams, a portfolio advisor at Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore, will share their insights at the Cambridge House California Investment Conference Feb. 11–12. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, they answer the question: How low and high can gold go? More >

Where a Nation's Gold—and Your Gold—Should Be Held
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (2/8/12)
"Governments feel free to impose restraints on other people's assets within their jurisdiction." More >

Gold Steady as Dollar Hits Two-Month Low
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (2/8/12)
"Wholesale market prices for gold bullion held steady just below $1,750/oz Wednesday morning in London, a 2.2% gain on yesterday's low, after rallying Tuesday following comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke." More >

Gold Stars in Greek Drama
Source: Ira Epstein, The Linn Group  (2/8/12)
"Currently, gold is trading off events created by the ongoing Greece financial drama. Behind the scenes, there's the possibility of quantitative easing programs coming back into play, not only here in the U.S., but abroad as well." More >