http://www.safehaven.com/ Safe Haven: Preservation of Capital 20 en-us http://www.safehaven.com/images/rss_logo.gif http://www.safehaven.com/ 120 16 John Lee <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13806.htm Fractional-reserve monetary systems are inherently unstable. Money is created out of thin air by the banks and lent to government, consumers and businesses. In order to service and replay those debts, the borrowers take on more debts. Scott Wright <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13811.htm When the words "precious metals" are spoken, gold is usually what comes to mind first. And in the universe of PM stocks it is indeed gold that most miners are after. The vast majority of PM mining companies explore for and ultimately seek ... Puru Saxena <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13807.htm The much anticipated economic recovery is now fully discounted by the financial markets. Most strategists and economists seem to agree that the US economy is stabilising and will start to revive towards the end of the year. David Morgan <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13809.htm Gold has maintained. But so far, gold stocks have done poorly and the credit crisis continues taking its effect on the stock market. Silver has not kept up with gold, but has fared better than any of the base metals, thus acting, in my view, as ... Adrian Ash <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13808.htm Gold Ends Week 0.7% Lower, "Panic-Proof Protection" Advised as China's Dollar-Problem "Won't Go Away" Adam Brochert <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13812.htm When paper schemes and scams collapse, he/she who holds the Gold gets to start and/or participate in the new scheme because he/she has the money! Speculating in currencies is fine if it is one's interest, but Gold speculation is simply that. Jack Steiman <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13813.htm There has been one constant since the March lows. Once we blasted up off the bottom, the Sp 500 took but a few weeks to clear the 50 day exponential moving average. Once over, it had never relinquished that key moving average until today. Bill Downey <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13810.htm For years silver bulls have been waiting for the fundamentals of silver to finally take hold of price and catapult it into stratosphere. Alas the fundamentals do not provide a good timing tool for price in the short and intermediate term. David Petch <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13805.htm At the present, governments around the globe are printing money as if there were no tomorrow in order to try and prevent debt-laden banks from going under and trying to stimulate the fractional reserve banking system. Nick Barisheff <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13803.htm In this extraordinary environment, preserving your personal wealth becomes priority one. Before you make another major financial decision, it is imperative to understand the big picture by recognizing and understanding three critical issues. Sol Palha <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13801.htm Petrol prices are up 62% from their average low price of 1.61, while crude oil prices are 54% below their old highs. Thus it appears that when crude oil trades back to the 147 mark, petrol prices will most likely be trading at levels in excess of ... Jordan Roy-Byrne <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13800.htm Practically everyone in the gold community has mentioned the inverse head and shoulders pattern on the gold chart and the corresponding $1,300 target. The target is correct but the interpretation of the pattern is not entirely correct. Chris Vermeulen <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13798.htm I will admit, GLD is my ATM machine. I have been trading this since the day it became available. While I do not get a tone of trades per year from it, it does produce excellent low risk trades time and time again. Mark McMillan <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13802.htm Probably the most consistent effect of seasonality that repeats itself is the lightening of volume during certain times of the year, primarily just before major holidays and into and during the summer months. This lighter volume is often ... Brewer Futures Group <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13799.htm The U.S. Dollar felt pressure overnight on Tuesday because of stronger Asian and European stock markets and struggled even more after the release of the ADP Employment Services Report. Adam Brochert <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13804.htm Reducing Gold to "collectible" status is another subtle method the fiat statists use to debase the reputation of Gold. The attempts to demonize, trivialize and de-monetize Gold in a fiat system are paramount to the fiat system's success. ContraryInvestor <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13790.htm In an environment in which the asset backed securities markets continue to contract, commercial bank lending is the key watch point in terms of the ability of broader credit markets to facilitate forward economic expansion. Mary Anne and Pamela Aden <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13794.htm It's been a wild ride this past year, but the markets are now on the upswing. Following a rough year where most of the markets dropped sharply, then stayed dull for a while, they're finally headed higher. Most important, these are significant rises. Marc Faber <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13793.htm The Fed wants you to believe hyperinflation is looming. Or at least, it should want that, if doubling its balance-sheet - purchasing and lending against investment junk - is going to work the wonders that modern central-bank theory says it can. Tom Madell <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13795.htm Most investors have learned to make certain assumptions. In this article, I will present a chronology of events over the last few years which seem to demonstrate that it often pays to question such assumptions by looking at ... Roland Watson <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13785.htm Silver investors over the last seven years have been on a rollercoaster ride as silver has bucked like a bronco to move between various price extremes with a rapidity not often seen in other asset classes. The Mogambo Guru <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13792.htm Mark at Northwest Territorial Mint suggests that instead of me always yammering about buying "gold, silver and oil", maybe I should switch to "silver, gold and oil", which he deems "might even merit an exclamation point" since silver ... Marty Chenard <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13788.htm In May, the rally was still going strong. In the beginning of June, the rally continued and it brought the market indexes to higher levels. Is there a possible problem that investors are not seeing? Reggie Middleton <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13786.htm I decided to dedicate some resources into the reason stock prices have diverged so far, and so fast from the underlying fundamentals. The preliminary results of my findings will be released over the next day or two, hopefully. John Browne <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13789.htm The operative question remains whether the government can reward the current round of investment by averting an economic depression. If not, what is the justification for investing in U.S. equities or high-yielding corporate bonds? Olivier Garret <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13791.htm What brought GM to where it is today is a lack of focus on what mattered to its customers - while it was losing market share to competitors that built higher-quality cars at competitive prices and strived to anticipate what customers needed. Brewer Futures Group <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13787.htm The GBP USD surged to the upside overnight despite news that the U.K. economy shrank more than previously forecast. The U.K. Gross Domestic Product report showed that during the first quarter the economy suffered its biggest ... Adam Brochert <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13784.htm Japan has been in an economic depression for 19 years now, yet you won't see pictures of soup lines on Japanese television. Their government has a printing press, a fiat currency and has ramped up government debt to levels ... Bill Downey <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13796.htm After a vicious crash in energy over the last year of close to 80%, Crude Oil has made a comeback in the last few months as it doubled from its lows of slightly above 30 to the 70 dollar area. Disconcerting to energy bulls of natural gas ... John Mauldin <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13780.htm Howe and Strauss have written many books on how generations determine the course of history and how they will shape America's future. Their forecasts on a wide variety of indicators have turned out to be amazingly accurate. Prieur du Plessis <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13779.htm In an environment characterized by increasingly shorter investment horizons, the concept of compounding sounds so passe, but it remains one of the most important principles governing investment. The time has perhaps come to look beyond ... Guy Lerner <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13778.htm One of themes that appears to be on investors' minds is inflation. Even though inflation, as measured by year over year CPI, is low, investors perceive inflation to be a threat as we have rising deficits, a government willing to "bailout" all ... Marty Chenard <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13783.htm The Banking Index has been one of those fascinating charts that has been amazing relative to support and resistance levels. Brewer Futures Group <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13782.htm If you use the September E-mini S&amp;P 500 as your indicator then you should be watching for a possible secondary lower top formation. The completion of this type of pattern will be a sign that this market is getting ready to ... Bob Hoye <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13777.htm Our view has been that after euphoria in May liquidity concerns would resume around mid-year. Monday's "90 percent down day" in the stock markets is as good a start as any, and a nice follow up to the jump in short rates two weeks ago ... Ned W. Schmidt <webmaster@safehaven.com> http://www.safehaven.com/article-13776.htm The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES), a 1,300 page yet to be written law based on clearly and widely acknowledged junk science, has been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.