In 1989, as a college sophomore, I switched my major from biology to finance.  Immediately, I subscribed to the Wall Street Journal, and read the “C” section every day for the next ten years, without missing a day.  That is, until I got sick of its CNBC-like economic...

Of all the things I’ve observed in my three decades of financial market watching, none baffles me more than the idiocy of the Charlie Brown-like “traders” that buy paper gold and silver contracts on the COMEX, only to have the “football” pulled out by “Cartel Lucy”...

First off, I want to thank the two dozen-plus people who sent well-wishing emails as I fight through my illness, now in its second week.  The oupouring of support is touching, with everything from specific cure suggestions, to simply hoping I “get well soon.”  To that...

Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, coined the phrase "Time is Money".  Fortunately for owners of precious metal currency coins produced by the Royal Canadian Mint and the U.S. Mint, they own money as well. They are both considered...

In yesterday’s “unprecedented catastrophe,” I espoused that “when the powers that be’s’ unprecedentedly destructive acts – in the name of destroying the 99%, for the benefit of the 1% – inevitably, spectacularly fail; the world as we have known it will no longer be...

You wouldn’t know it from what I do for a living - but generally speaking, I am as optimistic a person as you will find.  Just ask anyone who knows me, regarding essentially all topics.  However, I’m also a realist, which is why I’m so good at what I do.  And given...

All weekend, I’ve been debating what to focus on this morning, given all that is “competing” for my attention.  After all, it’s difficult to ignore what I view as the “peak fake” environment of financial market history – as evidenced by the VIX volatility index;...

Following up on the theme of this week’s lowest market volatility in decades; due solely to the all-out commandeering of financial markets  that cannot, and will not, last forever; consider the “dead ringer” algorithms I highlighted yesterday morning, of Wednesday’s...

Wasn’t it yesterday that I showed charts of “Dow Jones Propaganda Average” trading of the past week – during which, the PPT’s signature “dead ringer” algorithm held it up every day?  And the day before, when I showed how the exact same algorithm has been used in China...