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Precious Metals

The 2018 Gold Report

QUESTION: Should I just give up an sell all my gold and just buy stocks after the Senate passed tax reform? ANSWER: Gold has its time and place. The 2018 Gold...

Lithium – the new White Gold

Lithium is known as “white gold” since electric cars require a lot of batteries. This has resulted in transforming the metal into a valuable and...

China Open Gold Trade in Yuan as Proxy for the Yuan

China keeps moving gradually to open up their economy to international forces. The People’s Republic of China has expanded the trade in gold in yuan and thus...

Gold Better in Euros than Dollars?

QUESTION: G’day guys. Thanks for a great seminar in Hong Kong! I’m reading through your 1 world currency report and find it very interesting, going back to...

Diamonds replacing Gold?

  There has been an effort to use diamonds in place of gold since you can travel with them without setting off metal detectors. But the real problem has been...

Gold – Dollar -Trade Deficits All Mixed Up

COMMENT: Marty; I get these emails about gold and have to wonder how people can keep preaching the same thing for decades and never be correct once. Now they say in...

Private Blog – Gold Into the Benchmark

Gold into the Benchmark Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please...

You can Eat and Drink Gold

I am working from the Abu Dhabi office this week meeting with clients in town. I thought I would post something unusual. In the Emirates Palace, you can have a cup...

More Strange Gold Reasoning

QUESTION #1: Marty, ___ ________ makes the argument that if “the government” raised the price of gold to $5000/oz it would start and inflation that...

The Confusion in Gold

QUESTION #1: says that the dollar will collapse because with the debt ceiling gone – no more buyers of Treasuries in the markets and only the Fed Reserve...