The Gold Blog

Jim Rogers was his usual outspoken self when interviewed on Bloomberg’s Morning Call. Breathing fire from the start he stated his disdain for the Fed’s supposed ’strong dollar policy’ (”Do you even bother reporting that anymore?”):
Anyone who is watching or listening to this should get out of the dollar because the Fed has given […]

Cramer is an over-the-top wind bag who I would not trust with a ten foot barge pole (he uses sound effects!) but he is observed and followed by many on Wall Street and his recommendations will lead to increasing speculative and investment demand and his prediction of gold over $1,650 per ounce is conservative.
He […]

Jim Grant, founder and editor of the highly respected Grants Interest Rate Observer and one of the world’s leading experts on US and international interest rates and financial markets appeared on Bloomberg’s “Taking Stock” on Tuesday, March 24. He is very bearish on bonds, calling them ‘risk without return’ and quite bullish on Gold […]

Ron Paul appeared on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company last week; making his case to abolish the Federal Reserve and work back towards the gold standard:

Michelle Cabrera shouldn’t sound so incredulous, didn’t Jim Rogers appear on CNBC just recently saying the same thing?
Interviewer: “What would be ther first two things you would do if you were […]

It was obvious to any casual observer that debate about whether the US was in, or approaching a recession, was increasing.
According to a January article in The Economist “[in] recent opinion polls, almost six out of ten Americans believe the country is already in a recession.”
And the media are increasingly willing to confront the situation […]