A short-term view of gold, the Dollar and energy markets... The US DOLLAR isn't going straight down in a line, according to Steve Palmer, president and CEO of AlphaNorth Asset Management . Forming an investment team in 1998 with Joey

The Dollar price of gold has been making headlines, but the real move has yet to come... WHILE GOLD'S RISE versus the US Dollar - though not spectacular at around 10% over the last 18 months - has been making

Ring-a-ding for short-term traders geared up on the Dollar carry trade... THEY DON'T RING a bell at the top, or so the old saying goes, writes Dan Denning in Melbourne for the Daily Reckoning Australia . But all we could

The total volume of all the cash money now in circulation worldwide... AS of SEPT. 2009 , the total amount of physical paper and coin money issued throughout the world was approaching US$4.5 trillion at current exchange rates, writes Mike

If the Gold / Silver Ratio is set to fall further, how could traders play it...? WHETHER YOU'RE in gold or silver, you should have enjoyed a happy 2009 to date, writes Julian Murdoch at Hard Assets Investor . As

He who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing..." THE QUOTE comes from Ben Franklin, writes Bill Bonner in his Daily Reckoning . But it was recalled to us neither by America's president, nor Britain's prime minister. Instead, The Telegraph in London reported

Standard & Poors' equity analyst on where gold's headed next... WITH GOLD PRICES riding ever-higher peaks lately, it's hard to imagine any investor is still remain in the dark about the potential of gold, reports Hard Assets Investor . But

Putting a price on Gold Mining stocks in the absence of a Gold Price target... An ECONOMICS PROFESSOR for almost two decades, John Doody became interested in gold due to an innate distrust of politicians, says the Gold Report .

1000 is now less than enough to buy one ounce of gold... FOR MORE THAN 18 months we have watched the Gold Price churn below $1000 and in the process form three tops, before breaking out to above $1050 in

The little-known state of the gold market right now... YOU WON'T read this in your Sunday paper's financial pages, nor elsewhere online this weekend. But this autumn's gold rush has been no such thing in fact. No one's actually Buying

Only sharp inflation or economic depression can move Gold higher, says Nouriel Roubini... Dr. NOURIEL ROUBINI , professor of economics and international business at the Stern School of Business at NYU and chairman of RGE Monitor , is perhaps best

A long-term review of what gold was and is for private wealth today... GOLD IS the best game in town and when the music stops it may be the ONLY game in town that can yield any sort of return,

Gold is a speculation, but a speculation on a certainty: currency debasement... The US DOLLAR is a sort of monetary brand, writes Chris Mayer, editor of Capital & Crisis . And like any other brand, it can fall out of

Yes, gold is the ultimate money. But the Dollar's demise may contain a surprise... ULTIMATELY gold is money, writes Bill Bonner in his Daily Reckoning . It's a way to store wealth over the long term. Just ask Terry Herbert.

Why one long-time gold investor thinks the bull market has a long way to go... "ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS an ounce is thought by some to be gold'sceiling," says John Doody. "We see it as now the FLOOR," reports SteveSjuggerud in

Dividend yields pay less than bonds once again, but neither pay much... BLINK and you missed it! US equities offered a greater yield on investment than did US Treasury bonds for less than five months. And from the day this

Financial assets are all rising because the Dollar is falling. Take care... OKAY, WHO PUT the financial world in a time machine and took us all back to early 2007, asks Dan Denning in his Australian Daily Reckoning . Seriously.

The great leverage bubble is back and bubblier than ever... WHAT A GREAT recovery! writes Bill Bonner in The Daily Reckoning . No jobs... No credit... No sales... But look at those stocks! And oil! And gold! And even London

Official gold reserves held by central banks worldwide... AS THE PRICE of gold reaches fresh all-time highs over $1,050 per ounce, reports Doug Hadfield at resourceINTELLIGENCE TV , just which countries hold the largest gold reserves? As of June 2009,

JUST IMAGINE - two things you think can't possibly happen together suddenly happen together. Say, like Coca Cola re-launches New Coke, but people actually buy it. Would that mean the laws of physics (or taste) had been repealed? Or would