Gold Sales Under the Central Bank Gold Agreements
Whilst (as they say at the World Gold Council) waiting for the latest Gold Demand Trends report to come out yesterday, I took a quick...
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The “Dumbing Down” of State of the Union Addresses
It’s really best to go to The Guardian where the interactive graphic below appears, but, as you can discern from the general direction of the...
The Great 2013 Gas Price Disparity
In the news in recent days came word that, not only are national average gasoline prices at a record high for this time of the...
U.S. Gold Exports on the Rise
One of the details from Friday’s report on the shrinking trade deficit during the month of December was that gold exports played an important role...
Gold Vs. Gold Stocks – Part III
Apologies are in order for taking nearly six months to offer up the third and final installment in this series on gold vs. gold stocks,...
Worse than Venezuela – Inflation in Argentina
It appears they’ve got a little inflation trouble in Argentina and news reports such as this one at the Christian Science Monitor indicate the government...
U.S. Economy Unexpectedly Contracts in Q4
The Commerce Department reported that plunging defense spending and falling inventories combined to cause the U.S. economy to shrink for the first time since the...
The Bernanke Borealis
Maybe it’s because we live far enough north that we might one day see the Aurora Borealis by just looking out our kitchen window, but,...
Worse Than Wall Street
This item showed up in the local paper today and, while it’s from an AP report that is also available via the internet, I thought...
Consumer Confidence Plunges in January
Particularly after this Gallup survey from the other day in which the outlook of Americans was seen improving sharply after the latest national debt/deficit “can...