Manipulating Gold (GLD) and Silver (SLV): A Criminal Naked Short Posi... -04/02/10 at 5:04 PM CDTby Mark Mitchell

Everyone from U.S. Senators to prominent hedge fund managers say that criminal naked short sellers had a hand in the financial collapse of 2008, but the regulators aren’t listening. Not a single criminal has been prosecuted. Indeed, the regulators continue to allow the miscreants to manipulate the markets — not just the stock markets, but also...

Fed Exit Strategy? Preparing For Inflation: SPDR Gold Trust et al. Pa... -02/16/10 at 3:44 PM CSTby Brian Benton

In late July of last year, I provided an analysis of the tools the Federal Reserve was proposing it might use to facilitate an exit from the substantial amount of bank reserve creation (and resultant balance sheet expansion) since September 2008 (Fed Exit Strategy?). Also discussed were some of the problems I felt the Fed would encounter when attempting t...

World Conspires to Abandon the Dollar - Good News For SPDR Gold Trust... -10/05/09 at 10:12 PM CDTby Reggie Abaca

Journalist Robert Fisk reported today that Middle Eastern nations along with China, Russia, Japan and France are working together to end oil's pricing in dollars.  In what he said were, "secret meetings," finance ministers are apparently planning on a way to move oil's pricing into, "a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan...