Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. It's very important for gold, bond, and stock market investors to stay focused on the main fundamental price drivers and ignore what may feel exciting but is largely irrelevant to price discovery. Citizen demand from China/India and US central bank policy are the main price drivers for gold.2. From 1960 to 1980, US recessions were generally i...Read More

Sentiment is now completely disconnected from reality.Currently, sentiment suggests that stocks are in a raging bull market and will never fall. This sentiment is based on the fact that much of last year (2017) the US stock markets rose virtually non-stop.However, that era is now OVER. And globally the markets are moving into "risk-off" mode.Don't believe me?Consider that most global markets are i...Read More

- $8.8B Sprott Inc. sees higher gold on massive consumer debt, defaults & bankruptcies - Rising and record U.S. debt load may cause financial stress, weaken dollar and see gold go higher- Massive government and consumer debt eroding benefits of wage growth (see chart)by BloombergRising U.S. interest rates, usually bad news for gold, are instead feeding signs of financial stress among debt-lade...Read More

The FOMC members will gather today for a two-day meeting. It will be the most important event this week, since Powell will chair the meeting for the first time. Gold investors want to get to know him better as the uncertainty makes them a bit nervous. What should we expect from the new Fed Chair? First FOMC meeting under Powell as ChairDo you remember your first bike ride? Or the first date - a...Read More

European steel association Eurofer has called on the region's political leaders "to stand united in backing a broad, firm and decisive response [to import tariffs in the United States] to safeguard the viability of the EU steel industry."Eurofer made the announcement on Tuesday March 20, hoping to influence Europe's response to the imposition by the US of a 25% import duty on steel products after...Read More

By Jeff ClarkRising inflation has hit the headlines, sparking some attention from journalists. What most mainstream investors don't realize, though, is that history shows inflation can quickly get out of control, and not just in some mismanaged third-world country. Surprise spikes in inflation have occurred right here in the US and given the massive amount of currency dilution around the world o...Read More

It's very important for gold, bond, and stock market investors to stay focused on the main fundamental price drivers and ignore what may feel exciting but is largely irrelevant to price discovery. Citizen demand from China/India and US central bank policy are the main price drivers for gold.From 1960 to 1980, US recessions were generally inflationary, and the Fed raised rates during that period. S...Read More

Big gold and silver miners have a problem: They're evaporating. Each year they take more metal out of the ground than they discover, which brings them ever-closer to the end of the road. They know it and their shareholders know it, which means their stock prices tend to languish in the shadow of falling production and depressed future earnings. The solution? Buy out junior miners sitting on reso...Read More

Prices for imported billet in the United Arab Emirates increased this week on higher offers, but demand for rebar imports remained limited, sources told Metal Bulletin on Tuesday March 20. Demand for locally produced rebar in the UAE still remained strong, however. Domestic rebar The major rebar producers in the UAE rolled over prices for March and April production late in February. New prices are...Read More

Continue...Axel Merk is the Founder, President, Portfolio Manager, and CIO at Merk Investments LLC. He is an expert on qualitative research and macroeconomic trends. Mr. Merk is also an expert on macro trends, hard money, international investing, and on building sustainable wealth, and he is a pioneer in the use of strategic currency investing to seek diversification. He is a speaker and author on...Read More

By Axel MerkWhen it comes to your investment portfolio, do you ignore the noise coming out of the White House? Do tariffs matter? Or would it be more prudent to chill and focus on other potential drivers of the markets? I have (somewhat cynically) noted that the less investors have been thinking, the better their investment performance must have been over the past decade. Could it be that our in...Read More

Rising inflation has hit the headlines, sparking some attention from journalists. What most mainstream investors don't realize, though, is that history shows inflation can quickly get out of control, and not just in some mismanaged third-world country. Surprise spikes in inflation have occurred right here in the US-and given the massive amount of currency dilution around the world over the past de...Read More

By Frank HolmesI often remind investors to look past the negative and find the positive. Last week provided no shortage of big splashy headline stories, from yet another high-profile personnel shakeup at the White House to a nail-biter special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, from Russia's alleged nerve agent attack on a former double-agent spy to a tragic bridge collapse...Read More

Source: Jack Chan for Streetwise Reports 03/19/2018 Technical analyst Jack Chan charts recent movements in the gold and silver markets. -->Our proprietary cycle indicator is down.The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.The gold sector is on a short-term buy signal. Short-term sign...Read More

The Turkish scrap import market continued to be quiet on Tuesday March 20, on the absence of fresh deep-sea trading.Turkish steel producers stepped back from deep-sea scrap purchases on March 9, following the Section 232 announcement in the United States that applied a 25% duty to imports of steel products.The demand for rebar exports has gone down sharply since that announcement and the Turkish m...Read More

Conclusion why the US dollar's reserve status is at riskWhat is at stake is the reserve status of US dollar following:Loss of dependency on Saudi oil because of the US becoming an oil net importer as early as 2019 making the Petro-Dollar contract less of importance.The introduction of the Petro-Yuan-Gold contract planned for March 26.Trade tariffs that will reduce the flow of US dollars into forei...Read More

Cranbrook, B.C., March 20th, 2018: Eagle Plains ("EPL" or "Eagle Plains") is pleased to announce that option partner SSR Mining Inc. (formerly Silver Standard Resources Inc.) ("SSRM") (TSX: SSRM) (NASDAQ: SSRM) has commenced its 2018 drilling campaign on Eagle Plain's 100%-owned Fisher Property. SSRM is planning approximately 18,000m (59,000') of drilling for the property during 2018, with an in...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Thanks to Keith Weiner of Monetary Metals for at least attempting a reply to your secretary/treasurer's recent commentary --http://gata.org/node/18105-- disputing his assertion that central banks don't care about gold and aren't manipulating its price. But in his new commentary, "Standing Ready to Lease Gold," posted at GoldSeek here --http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSe...Read More

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- $8.8B Sprott Inc. sees higher gold on massive consumer debt, defaults & bankruptcies - Rising and record U.S. debt load may cause financial stress, weaken dollar and see gold go higher- Massive government and consumer debt eroding benefits of wage growth (see chart)by BloombergRising U.S. interest rates, usually bad news for gold, are instead feeding signs of financial stress among debt-la...Read More