The Gold Report

Trust, But Verify: Jayant Bhandari, a fund adviser, recently published a guide called “High Risk, High Reward: Disciplined Junior Mining Investing” that suggests comparing company presentations to the annual reports usually available on the company website or at sedar.com. “It is not illegal for companies to fail to provide you full information in these presentations,” […]

The Gold Report: Many of the people we interview have a theory about why gold is performing poorly this summer despite so much global uncertainty, especially in China and Greece. What’s your theory? Joseph Fazzini: Gold typically plays numerous roles, including being a hedge against inflation, devaluation and economic turmoil, but it’s still a commodity.

The Gold Report: You recently wrote a paper called “Stagnation: The New Paradigm?” where you put current commodity prices in perspective by showing charts going back to 1999. What happened over the last five years in iron ore and copper and what can we expect going forward? Raymond Goldie: The price of iron ore from

John Mauldin, the man behind Mauldin Economics and author of “Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market,” gave some background on the China crisis. He credited the current problems in Chinese markets to a shift away from the previous top-down command economy to an organic market. “Inevitably, this transition is

The Gold Report: Pershing Gold Corp. (PGLC:NASDAQ) just uplisted to NASDAQ. What are the immediate and long-term benefits of that listing? Steve Alfers: The short-term benefit is increased liquidity. The new listing, combined with recapitalization from the stock split we recently completed, will allow institutions to easily get into the stock. I’m hoping we will