Market Commentaries

Manipulating the Silver Market

August 22 2010 – If someone were manipulating the silver market, you would see exactly what has actually occurred in silver over the past several days.   To manipulate the price you would ...

Waiting for Silver’s Upside Breakout

July 18, 2010 – Two months ago I stated that silver is inching closer to an upside breakout.  It turns out that “inching” was the right word because since then silver has been ...

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Articles

Deciphering the BIS gold swap

July 29, 2010 – Much has been made recently of the news that the BIS last year completed a 380-tonne gold swap with an unnamed commercial bank. This BIS transaction intuitively strikes me as ...

Fear Index rises to 16-year high

July 11, 2010 – The Fear Index has risen to a 16-year high.  As of June 30th, the Fear Index is 2.35%, based on M3 data made available by shadowstats.com.  Here is the formula and ...

Banks are not lending again

July 10, 2010 – I need to correct an article I wrote last month stating that banks are lending again.  Total bank loans have indeed grown as I reported, but not because banks made new ...

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