Continue...Bill Holter is currently a writer for Miles Franklin and Jim Sinclair's Mineset where he posts weekly commentaries on gold and financial markets. Prior to joining Miles Franklin in 2012, Bill Holter Worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, including 12 years as a branch manager at A.G. Edwards. Later, he left Wall Street to avoid potential liabilities related to management of paper...Read More

By John MauldinThe Basic Questions I Wanted Answered at SICA General Consensus About a Potential RecessionThe Return of VolatilityThe Rise of Global DebtWhere to Put Money to Work TodayThe Coming Political StormsIt Takes a TeamIt's been a week and I'm starting to recover from my post-SIC high. It's a weird feeling. I love SIC, yet processing it all takes time. Imagine one of those brain maps tha...Read More

Breakthrough Sound Money Bill Becomes Law Todaywith Wide SupportCheyenne, Wyoming (March 14, 2018) – Sound money activists rejoiced as theWyoming Legal Tender Act became law today. The bill restores constitutional,sound money in Wyoming.Backed by the Sound Money Defense League, Campaign forLiberty, Money Metals Exchange, and in-state grassrootsactivists, HB 103 removes all for...Read More

So many patterns that have held for decades seem to have broken down, leading to one of two conclusions: Either this time really is different in ways thatContinue...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:GATA's and gold's old friend Larry Parks, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education (FAME, http://fame.org), calls attention tonight to the third-quarter 2017 report of the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, which shows that just several government-insured U.S. banks hold $45 billion in derivative positions related to monetary meta...Read More

– Gold Cup at Cheltenham – ‘The Olympics’ of the European horse racing calendar  – Gold Cup trophy contains 10 troy ounces of gold – worth £9,000– £620 million bets on horses, 230,000 pints of Guinness will be drunk, 9.2 tonnes of potato eaten – Since the 5th century BC, gold has been the ultimate prize...Read More

I have written many times about the deep corruption among the political class. The way they have always taken bribes is through their families. I have Continue...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Gold researcher Ronan Manly, whose work is regularly posted at Bullion Star and publicized by GATA, has provided to Russia Today a detailed report on the history and mechanisms of gold price suppression by major governments and central banks.While its details will not be new to those who follow GATA, Manly's report may be most significant for establishng again that t...Read More

More than two weeks ago, we described thevery specific and very important pattern in the gold market, one of short- andmedium-term importance. We wrote that the triangle apex pattern based on the intradayhighs, pointed to a major reversal in the first half of March. The first halfof March ends this week, so the key question is if the pattern was invalidatedor are we about to see a major reversal i...Read More

Following in the footsteps of Facebook and Google's, Twitter is now planning to ban advertisements for cryptocurrencies and ICOsContinue...Read More

Technical analyst Jack Chan charts energy and finds that a tradable bottom is in place. $OSX is on a major sell signal.Our proprietary cycle indicator turns up this week.New buy signalNew buy signal New buy signalNew buy signalSummaryEnergy sector is on a major sell signal. The cycle is now up, suggesting a tradable bottom is in place. We have taken some trading positions with a multi-week outlook...Read More

Nearly a month after Reuters reported that Liu He - a Harvard-educated senior government bureaucrat and longtime friend of Xi - had become the frontrunner to replace Continue...Read More

The ECB dropped its easing bias on Thursday. Monetaryhawks are pleased. But doves are holding tight. And what does gold do?Hawks Awakenin Frankfurt…A major change at the European Central Bank! OnThursday, it removed its long-standing pledge to increase bond buys if needed.In January we could read that statement: (…) if theoutlook becomes less favourable, or if financial conditions be...Read More

President Trump's new economic adviser did an interview on CNBC's Closing Bell Wednesday andContinue...Read More

Gold has been trending higher since making the lows at 12.3.2015. From $1046.54 low, Gold rallied in 3 waves into the 7.6.2016 peak ($1375.15) and then pullback in 3 waves into the low at 12.15.2016 ($1122.81). Cycle from 12.15.2016 low has a 4 hour Bullish sequence as the yellow metal shows 5 swing sequence with a target of $1450.00. As far as Gold stays below below 7.6.2016 peak ($1375.15), ther...Read More

The world's billet markets became uncertain last week, with sentiment starting to weaken amid higher availability of China-origin material and volatility in the East Asian country's domestic prices.Meanwhile, global scrap prices remained largely stable amid uncertainty about import tariffs in the United States and weakening demand for finished steel products.ChinaDomestic billet prices in the coun...Read More

Gold could drop $5 to $6 an ounce upon the Fed's announcement next week, then rebound quickly, said Peter Hug, Director of Global Trading at Kitco Metals."I am not in the camp that the Fed is going to be aggressive this year, on a four-rate [hike], increased kind of tempo, I just think there's too many headwinds out there that's going to give the Fed pause," Hug told Kitco News.Hug noted that duri...Read More

– Hungarian National Bank (MNB) to repatriate 100,000 ounces gold from Bank of England – Follows trend of Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Belgium each looking to bring gold back to home soil – Hungary one of the smallest gold owners amongst central banks, with just 5 tonnes – Central bank gold purchases continue to be major drivers of gold market – Russian cent...Read More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality saying it was objecting to the state's wetlands permit for the Back Forty open-pit mine, located in the southern part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula along the Menominee River.The zinc, copper and gold project is being proposed by Toronto-based Aquila Resources (TSX: AQA) and it contemplates mi...Read More

For those that follow me regularly, you will know that I have been tracking a set-up for the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSEARCA:GDX), which I analyze as a proxy for the metals mining market. I also believe that GDX can outperform the general equity market once we confirm a long-term break out has begun, and I still think we can see it in occur in 2018. This week, I will provide an update to...Read More