By Jeff Clark, Senior Editor, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report The gold price has been hitting ever-new records over the past couple weeks, now closing in on the $1,300 mark. Some gold followers are saying this is extremely bullish for the near-term price since it broke so decisively through its June 28th high of $1,261. If they’re right, how high...

Sep 24, 2010

Since we negotiated a deal for our readers to buy good value gold bullion in New Zealand 4 months ago, we’ve had quite a number of questions on silver. One of the main questions we’ve received is why is it so expensive to buy silver in NZ? With premiums (i.e. the mark up) above the spot price of silver of usually 20% and even as high as 30%, it’s a fair...

GOLD, THE FUTURE & THE WAY THROUGH Until fate is understood, free will is not When younger, Alan Greenspan wondered if he could have prevented the Great Depression had he been Fed chairman during the 1920s. Fate, however, was to give Greenspan a far different future than he expected; instead of preventing a depression, he would cause one. After the scare of...

Uncle Scam by David Galland, Partner, Casey Research The latest data on global gold trends, Q2 2010, just popped into my email box from the World Gold Council.  The bad news is that the higher nominal price of gold has caused a 5% decrease in jewelry sales over the prior year. If you’re thinking “Hey, that’s not that bad!”, you’d be right. On this...