The CME/MF Global fiasco is really a game changing event in my opinion. It will certainly support gold as a safe haven investment.

CME’s oversight of its members is just as bad as the U.S. government’s oversight of its banking system.

Safe investment options are narrowing and we all know who the last

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BHP Billiton’s attempted takeover of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan presents an interesting dilemma for Canada’s free enterprise government and its provincial counterpart in Saskatchewan.

While politically supporting the concept of open markets, the Harper administration caved in to a backlash from the Premiers of the Western provinces – and from other

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The contemporary wisdom that “bigger is better” has taken a well-deserved beating since the credit crisis unfolded and destroyed some of the world’s largest financial institutions in its wake.

With large-scale project financing options limited or non-existent because of the credit crisis, many of the smaller players in the global mining industry

Continue reading With Commodity Prices Trending Upward, Near-Surface Mine Development and Royalty Model Become Options for Junior Explorers

Evaluating the merits and future prospects for a junior exploration company is a highly subjective process. Intangibles such as political risk, financial risk, market risk, commodity risk, technical risk and a host of other variables confront companies across the entire minerals industry spectrum. Nonetheless, no matter what the relative size of the

Continue reading Evaluating Gold Juniors: Are You Missing the Big Picture?

Talk about a roller coaster ride in the gold market – up strongly overnight, down during the early New York session and then back up again after noon in New York before settling slightly lower on the day. Gold was caught in a crossfire between safe haven buying and a huge, and

Continue reading Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan