Archive for the ‘Observations’ Category
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Today's the day all lovers of Hecla Mining have been waiting for: BREAKOUT.
From Roger Wiegand today:
We like Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL), too. Hecla is a senior, but their price got whacked down so far, it's almost trading like a junior now. I don't know of another similar senior ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
From Ted Butler's June 2nd Commentary:
The concentrated short position in silver is larger than any other commodity in history. Four COMEX traders hold a short position of more than 235 million ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
3rd day in a row the charts have looked like this.
Is this late Hong Kong trading or London "kicking in"? Ed Steer, you picked a helluva time to go on vacation!
-xearther
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
2nd day in a row the charts have looked like this... identical.
Given the pumping of the money supply, gold and silver aren't going to have a sleepy summer.
They've got some "catching up" to do, eh?
I would definitely want to own a company like Hecla right about now.
-xearther
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Without a linkage between an underlying asset and paper money, central bankers and politicians who supervise monetary policy, have removed many of the restraints that previously kept the generation of money in check. The only real money is backed by specie - something like gold and silver. For thousands ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
From Marc Gugirli (Fund Manager & Advisor of Gold 2000 Ltd and the Julius Baer Gold Equity Fund):
The majority of investors purchase Paper-(Gold)-Futures at the COMEX. The sellers or counter-parties of those Gold-Futures are just a few very dominant players. Some of them have an unofficial close link to the ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
From Ted Butler...
Let me be clear, I am alleging that the CFTC permitted JP Morgan to continue their manipulation of the silver market under the guise that the Commission was investigating. In reality, the CFTC sided with and allowed JP Morgan to profit and clean up its shorts at ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Greg McCoach forecasts a maelstrom of financial catastrophes that could cripple the U.S. economy.
In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report , Greg McCoach forecasts a maelstrom of financial catastrophes with the potential to cripple the U.S. economy. While most Americans are clueless about the impending meltdown, investors in ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
from the one and only Ted Butler...
These facts speak for themselves. Here are the facts. As of July 1, 2008, two U.S. banks were short 6,199 contracts of COMEX silver (30,995,000 ounces). As of August 5, 2008, two U.S. banks were short 33,805 contracts of COMEX silver (169,025,000 ounces), ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Ed Steer of Casey Research reports...
"The US Mint announced that it has suspended production of gold eagles until further notice, and is not accepting new orders from dealers. August is only half over and gold eagle sales have exceeded all other months by a wide margin. As I ...
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