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The Gold Report: In honor of Labor Day, let’s discuss unemployment. You estimated that when all workers are counted, the unemployment rate in July was 23% compared to the government’s reported rate of 5.4%. What is different about the job market today than before the recession? John Williams: In a normal economic recovery, people who […]
How to Make Sure the Government Can’t Freeze Your Bank Account By Justin Spittler If you wake up tomorrow and your bank account is frozen… what will you do? You probably remember when the financial crisis in Greece was dominating headlines a few weeks ago. For years, Greece spent more than it took in. This
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Money—How to Get It and Keep It By Doug Casey Editor’s note: Casey Research founder Doug Casey literally wrote the book on profiting during economic turmoil. His book, Crisis Investing, spent multiple weeks as No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and became the best-selling financial book of 1980. Today, he is one of
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The Gold Report: You are based in Australia where iron ore and coal are the dominant mined commodities. A recent Morgans research report said, “We need to see demand-linked data improve, or at least stop getting worse, for the Chinese steel industry for us to gain any confidence” in iron ore market fundamentals. Has there
The Energy Report: Oil prices continued to fall last month. What happened? Is this a problem of too much shale oil, too little demand from China or something else entirely? Keith Schaefer: I think it has a lot to do with increasing shale production in the U.S. Production resiliency has surprised everyone. It surprised investors
The Gold Report: In a recent article, you argued that investors in the West will find their way to gold when the new reality dawns on them that losing a bit of money to preserve the rest is “a good deal.” Please explain further. Jayant Bhandari: What has to happen does not have to happen
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Bacanora and Rare Earth Minerals saw their stock take a nice bump upward as the news was announced on Friday. According to the news release, Tesla will buy lithium hydroxide to feed the manufacturing of batteries at its Nevada Gigafactory on the condition that the Sonora project reaches certain milestones and passes product specification qualifications.
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The Gold Report: You recently implied in an article titled “The Cocked Trigger” in Gold Newsletter that the current prevalence of short gold positions is actually a good thing for gold prices, especially if the Federal Reserve raises rates. That goes against everything we’ve been led to believe. Why do you say that? Brien Lundin:
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The Gold Report: In Q2/15, Oban Mining Corp. (OBM:TSX), backed by Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd. (OR:TSX), consolidated a number of micro-cap gold equities in Québec and Ontario while Crocodile Gold Corp. (CRK:TSX; CROCF:OTCQX) merged with Newmarket Gold Inc. (NGN:TSX.V) in an effort to become a consolidator in its own right. These are two consolidation stories
The Gold Report: You prefer to value gold based on its worth relative to other financial benchmarks. Tell us about some of your go-to ratios and why they are meaningful. Carsten Ringler: I’m looking at different ratios between different baskets of assets like, for example, the gold to real estate ratio. In January 1980, when
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