Michael Ballanger shares his view on the current state of the market and comments on the price of one of his favorite copper stocks.The U.S. dollar index futures (+0.19%) are up to 104.14, with the 10-year yield down 0.96%) to 4.327% and the 30-year yield down 1.06% to 4.679%.Gold (+0.70%) and silver (-0.82% ) are higher, but copper (-0.21%) and oil (-0.27%) are down.Risk barometer Bitcoin is down...Read More
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero. Voltaire, 18th centuryIn films and TV shows set in the future, money is usually a digital government currency.Credits, cubits, and chits are a few names I recall. This is a globalist CBDC-based vision of the future. Bleak.But in one of my favorite sci-fi movies, Looper, precious metals reign supreme as money. In that film, the inevitab...Read More
'One thing I like about Argentina. They cook with salt. That's it.' Robert DuvallWell, you never know, do you?Recall that the Argentines introduced a "century bond' in 2017. At the time, we were not alone in considering it the 'dumbest investment in the world.'Who would lend the Argentines money for 100 years, we wondered? Statistically, the odds were that Argentina would default seven times befo...Read More
The US dollar banking system is in themidst of a bank run by the measures that I will illustrate here.Since the 1879 gold standard wasestablished in America, the US dollar could be directly redeemed for goldwithin the banking system. This continued even after the Federal Reserve wascreated and until it was ended for citizens in 1933.In such a system, the measure of actualgold held by the banking s...Read More
Silver has quietly had a strong start to 2025, with the price up 12.6 percent. However, it remains significantly underpriced compared to gold from a historical perspective with the gold-silver ratio still above 90-1. The gold-silver ratio tells you how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold given the current spot price of both metals.While industrial demand has a much bigger impac...Read More
The gold miners’ stock prices have largely decoupled from their metal, which overwhelmingly drives their profits.This fundamental disconnect has spawned a shocking valuation anomaly, with gold stocks far too low relative to gold.But this aberration won’t last, as markets abhor extreme deviations from precedent.Mean reversions and proportional overshoots soon follow, so gold stocks will...Read More
As the richest nation and the world’s largest economy, it is hardly a surprise that the United States holds the most gold.What is surprising is where the gold isn’t: the United States Federal Reserve, known colloquially as the central bank.Mainstream media dutifully reports that the American central bank is number one out of the top 10 gold depositories in the world. Its 8,133 metric t...Read More
Industrial demand for silver has been surging in recent years. Solar panel manufacturers were largely behind the 11% jump in demand for 2023 versus the prior year. Forecasters predict another 9% jump this year.For silver investors, however, the future of demand from manufacturers may be even brighter than the recent past.The solar industry has been behind much of the growing appetite for silver. D...Read More
The mid-tier and juniorgold miners in this sector’s sweet spot for upside potential just finishedreporting truly-spectacular quarterly results. Fueled by dazzling record gold prices and lower mining costs, smallergold miners’ unit earnings skyrocketed to their highest levels ever. Those incredibly-rich profits have left mid-tierseven more undervalued relative to prevailing g...Read More
The basis for analysis and forecasting at Elliott Wave International is fundamentally different from everyone else's.Here's a prime example in gold.This excerpt is from the March Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, when gold was trading below $2,050/oz. Gold's three-month implied volatility has declined to its lowest level in over four years. While low volatility is not a short term timing tool, low...Read More
The major gold minersjust reported their best quarterly results ever! Record gold prices combined with lower miningcosts catapulted unit earnings to dazzling new records. Yet despite exploding profitability, goldstocks continue to lag gold’s mighty upleg. This anomaly won’t last, as investors increasingly realize how seriouslyundervalued this sector remains. Ther...Read More
Canwe save the dollar before central banking kills it?Ourdeficits are now stuck at 8% of GDP — unprecedented in peacetime. And ournational debt just hit $35 trillion — unprecedented in the history of man.Eventhe central bankers realize that this isn't sustainable. That we are coming tothe day our paper money utopia crumbles.Historically,from Song Dynasty China to Weimar Germany, when p...Read More
It’s been a volatile week in the markets.On Monday, Aug. 5, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 1,000 points, and the S&P 500 dropped 3%, resulting in the worst day for both indexes since September 2022. The sell-off was blamed on factors ranging from worries about the economy and the slow response from the Federal Reserve, regarding interest rate cuts, to the unwind of...Read More
A “Minsky Moment” refers to a point in time when a period of bullish speculation leads to a spectacular market crash.Named after economist Hyman Minsky, the theory centers around the inherent instability of stock markets. “Minsky held that, over a prolonged period of prosperity, investors take on more and more risk, until lending exceeds what borrowers can pay off from their inco...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 58 points at 8:30 AM EDT.Goldman Sachs raised its probability of a recession in the United States during the next 12 months from 20% to 35%.World equity indices were lower overnight. The Nikkei Average dropped 1,502.77 to 35,617.56. Tesla dropped $14.21 to $249.26 after Stifel lowered its target price from $474 to $45...Read More
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