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Market Report: How oversold can gold get?

Gold is now extremely oversold, with emotional opinion in paper markets unanimously bearish. Traders tell us the 200-day moving average is well and truly broken and the next support level is $1260. However, when gold…

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FMQ update and valuing gold

In the two months since my last update on USD Fiat Money Quantity , it has increased by $292bn to $12.861 trillion and is still growing rapidly as shown in the chart below. It is now 70.6% above where it would have been…

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Market Report: Economies stalling

It wasn't meant to be like this: six years of global money-printing should have guaranteed economic recovery. Until very recently, there was hope that finally the medicine was having some effect; but in the last few…

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Economic outlook darkens

Many decades of Keynesian-inspired economic and monetary corruption have left advanced economies with a legacy of debt and low savings. In a nutshell, that is the problem which is driving us into another financial…

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