Contributing Editors' Blog Entries

The triumph of Trump as champion of a revolution against the status quo will boost the economy in the ways listed here; but the economic collapse of the globalist regime's "recovery" remains certain.

They can't keep getting away with this.

Stocks have been completely possessed by President Donald Trump. The economy and fundamentals no longer matter. It's absolute madness.

Russian central bank buys a very large 1 million ounces or 37 metric tonnes of gold bullion. It also came after Russia had accelerated its gold buying in the final months of the Obama Presidency. October 2016 saw an increase of 1.3 million ounces or 48 metric tonnes and this was the largest addition of gold to the Russian monetary reserves since 1998. Indeed, it was the biggest monthly gold purchase in this millennium for the Russian central bank.

This week, the prices of the metals mostly moved sideways. There was a rise on Thursday but it corrected back to basically unchanged on Friday. The gold basis was up slightly and cobasis is down with our calculated fundamental price is all but unchanged around $1,360. In silver, the basis is basically unchanged but the cobasis went up a bit. The silver market got just a bit tighter, and our calculated fundamental price is up more than 30 cents to about a quarter above the market price. Not exactly “bet the farm with leverage territory”, but definitely not “short this dog” either.

Ron Paul will sleep soundly tonight knowing he did nothing to help his country.

We discuss the fundamentals and technicals of the natural gas market in this video. A very mild winter with a year end run up in natural gas prices has led to quite the position unwind in this commodity.