Archive for the ‘Observations’ Category

Today’s The Day For Hecla Mining

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 ...

To Answer Ted’s Question: Yes, It’s Showdown Time

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 ...

Make That THREE Days in a Row

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

Same Pattern Two Days in a Row

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 [caption id="" align="alignleft" ...

Destruction in America

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 ...

Paper gold market will crash at Comex

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 ...

CFTC and JP Morgan

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 ...

Financial Stress About to Hit the System

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 ...

there are no markets anymore… only interventions…

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), ...

“Out of Business” in Silver – The Cupboard is Bare

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 ...