Markets At a Glance: Has Ebola Reached a Tipping Point?
We are currently in the midst of the largest ever Ebola outbreak in Western Africa, and this could just be the beginning. The number of cases and deaths has risen […]
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Eric Sprott: The Ongoing Rot in the Economy
There is clearly no recovery… If one looks past headline figures, things are not really getting better. Real disposable income per capita in the U.S. has increased only modestly […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: Connecting the Dots
We believe that any rational investor considering the collection of facts below would consider, like us, that gold prices are long overdue for a re-rate. As we all well know, […]
Continue readingEric Sprott Explains The Chinese Gold Vortex
After a long and agonizing winter which was attributed to the so-called “Polar Vortex”, we thought it would be appropriate to highlight for precious metal investors the implications of what […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: The Great Non-Recovery
We are now in the 5th year since the “official” end of the Great Recession. Numerous indicators of the state of the U.S. economy point to a non-recovery: The […]
Continue readingEric Sprott Warns: Don’t Miss this Golden Opportunity!
It is obvious to us that precious metals markets were manipulated in 2013. It is also obvious that demand far exceeded annual mine supply. Now let’s analyze what should happen, […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: One More Sign of Manipulation in the Gold Market
As demonstrated in our Open Letter to the World Gold Council, there was a large supply-demand imbalance in 2013. The evidence presented here suggests that the decline in the price […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: Inform Act to Bring a Dose of Fiscal Sanity & Awareness to US Public?
Thanks to Boston University’s Larry Kotlikoff, it now seems like the U.S. might be getting closer to acknowledging that it has a serious fiscal problem; or at least this is […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: The Detroit Template
Economist and Boston University Professor Laurence Kotlikoff calculates that to fully eliminate the shortfall in Social Security funding, the government would need to either cut all present and future social […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left??? Part III
As we have shown in Part 1 & Part 2, the past decade has seen a large discrepancy between the available gold supply and sales. The conclusion we have reached […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: Have We Lost Control…Yet?
At the last FOMC meeting, by prematurely announcing the timeline and the specifics of an exit from QE, Bernanke might have lost control of rates and volatility. The current US […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: Caveat Depositor
A deal has just been struck with Cyprus. However, it was not the deal that Cyprus saw other countries receive. This was not the deal received by Greece, Italy and […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left??? Part II
We are currently in an environment where policy makers are intent on devaluing their currencies in an effort to create growth. Real rates continue to stay negative in most of […]
Continue readingEric Sprott’s Markets At a Glance: Ignoring The Obvious
Eric Sprott has released his latest MUST READ Markets At a Glance newsletter: Ignoring the Obvious. The purpose of asset purchases by the Fed might no longer be improvements in […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: Gold: Solution to the Banking Crisis
Our friend Eric Sprott has released his latest Markets At a Glance newsletter titled Gold: Solution to the Banking Crisis. If the Basel Committee decides to grant gold a favourable […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: Weakness Begets More Weakness- Weekly Earnings Have Been in Contraction for 17 Years!
Eric Sprott’s Sprott Asset Management has just sent subscribers it’s monthly Markets At a Glance newsletter. As always, Sprott’s latest is a MUST READ!! The figure to the right is […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left???
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the world’s Western central banks lie vaults holding gargantuan piles of physical gold bars… or at least that’s what they all claim. The gold […]
Continue readingEric Sprott: NIRP: The Financial System’s Death Knell?
By: Eric Sprott & David Baker On July 18th, 2012, the German government sold US$5.13 billion worth of 2-year bonds at an average yield of -0.06%. Please note the negative […]
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