Author Archives: Ian Gordon

Agnico Eagle (AEM/T) doesn’t think so. In the past two months, Agnico, which incidentally is one of my favourite gold mining companies, has shelled out $54 billion to buy somewhere between ten and fifteen percent of four junior precious metals … Continue reading →

This Friday’s closing price of 1,649.60 points on the S & P 500  completed a Key Point Reversal high on the weekly chart. If this is not reversed this following week it likely means that US stock prices are heading … Continue reading →

There are too many people saying that US stocks are in a very precarious position for that to be the case. I believe that we are in a blow-off in stock prices, but not yet at the critical phase. We’ll … Continue reading →

What a joke! Headlined in the Financial Times Weekend edition, May 11/12 2013-“Bernanke Warns Against Risk Taking.” Really? Well if he hasn’t been the conduit for ‘risk taking’ then who has it been? He’s got interest rates at zero and … Continue reading →

Here we go again; the Dow closes at a new record high of 15,105.12 today, May 8/2013. Some of you must be wondering how I could have got it so wrong. I have been calling for the winter stock bear … Continue reading →

I can sense that the paper/gold denouement is at hand and that paper is going to be resoundingly defeated in what well might be the final battle between paper and gold in the war that has been ongoing since 1914. … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I was standing on the tee of the short par 3 17th of the Talon course at Grayhawk Golf Club here in Scottsdale, Arizona, watching the corporate jets coming into land at nearby Scottsdale Airport. I remarked to my … Continue reading →

“There was a period  of remorse and apology for banks and i think that period needs to be over. We need our banks willing to take risks…..so we can create jobs” Bob Diamond, US CEO of Barclays PLC (British Bank), … Continue reading →

Come on, how much longer can this go on? Everyone knows that US debt is out of control and that the government has absolutely no desire to do anything about it. When are the large creditors like China and Japan … Continue reading →

Wow! I don’t know if any of you saw this but when I read it I just thought that at long last people are starting to get it! Get what? That the Federal Reserve is the root cause of all … Continue reading →