‘Mining Shares’ Archives
GLD/SLV Theory, From the Desk of the President
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER During Miles Franklin’s first educational Webinar last week (replay link HERE), our Q&A queue was so long, we had to answer most of the questions in follow-up reports (read HERE and HERE). By far, the most oft-asked question related to the potential for gold confiscation by the U.S. government, a topic I have [...]
The End of Gold & Silver Supply
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER FRIDAY WRAP UP 1/27/2012 No matter how hard TPTB attempt to “LOCKDOWN” the market, they cannot forestall reality. Perhaps the Dow and Treasury markets can be “turned off” as barometers of economic activity for some time, as well as the PAPER gold and silver markets. However, inexorably strong demand for [...]
The War Against Us
It's Tuesday afternoon, and just as I started to write my market wrap-up, the following, IMPORTANT headline hit the tape. Sprott has finally pulled the triggered on a new PHYSICAL silver offering, of up to $250 million, and my bet is all, or nearly all, this amount will be filled. For the record, PSLV's premium to Net Asset Value closed at [...]
What do I think will happen in 2012?
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER Russell's warnings continue. He sums up the stock market, the economy and the election as follows: Subscribers who are buying or holding stocks on the on the basis of the better employment news should remember that deteriorating internals in the face of improving newspaper headlines give us the worst of all [...]
Gold has produced a positive year-end gains for the past 11 Years!
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER Gold has produced a positive year-end gains for the past 11 Years! Last day of the year gold prices: 2000 = $274.00 2001 = $279.00 2002 = $348.00 2003 = $416.00 2004 = $439.00 2005 = $519.00 2006 = $638.00 2007 = $838.00 2008 = $889.00 2009 = $1097.00 2010 = [...]
Farewell America
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER We are LIVING through an epic moment in history, one that future generations will write books about. In the future, there will be classes taught in college on this time period. Our grandchildren will wonder how we let things get so out of hand and destroyed the Greatest Country the world has even seen in a mere [...]
Get Out of the Stock Market and Into Gold
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER Sit back and relax - 2011 was a strange year. Gold and silver were stellar performers in the spring and summer, which is very unusual and they have under-performed in the fall, which is also unusual. All of this is leading up to a monster year in 2012, which I fully expect to be the best year ever at Miles Franklin. Just [...]
Twice in a Lifetime
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER Here we go again! One day of rising stock prices, care of a spirited, PPT-aided media attempt to spin "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday" as symbols of meaningful progress, and the news is abuzz of "green shoots of recovery." Due to the factors listed in yesterday's RANT, I take the opposite view entirely. In other [...]
Gold and Silver Starting to Recover
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER The key to the world picture is the most unattractive of all avenues. That avenue is contraction, pain, and a return to the time-tested formula. That painful formula is 2 + 2 = 4, or, live within your means. The simplicity of this formula is frightening. The frightening part of it lies ahead. There is only one foolproof [...]
Flight to Safety
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER Mama mia! The political and banking buffoons DESTROYING our world are certainly making me look smart, although I have mixed feelings about writing novel-length RANTS in front of major holidays. Fortunately for readers, that's what you'll get, as aside from the very important message I want to share, I am faced with [...]
