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Changes in the Stock Market - 2008-02-01
Gold World Editor Greg McCoach addresses recent changes in the stock market... and what it means for gold and junior mining investors.

Fed Cuts Again - 2008-01-30
The Federal Reserve decided to lower interest rates again today by a half a percentage point and signaled that the door remains open for more cuts.

Stock Market Crash of 2008 - 2008-01-21
There's an extremely urgent and potentially implosive issue that we need to discuss right now: the possible stock market crash of 2008.

Turkish Gold Imports - 2008-01-17
Turkish gold imports increased nearly 20% last year to 230.8 tonnes, compared with 192.7 tonnes in 2006 despite a huge rally in gold prices.

The Best Place in the World for Gold and Silver Exploration - 2007-10-15
As many of my regular readers know, Mexico is without a doubt my favorite country in the world right now for precious metal exploration. The country has everything going for it. The economy is strengthening, mineral development has very strong government support, and, best of all, the country is still teeming with undiscovered gold and silver deposits after 500 years of mining history.

Found: The Largest Gold Deposit Ever in Shaanxi Province, China - 2007-10-05
Chinese officials from the provincial administration of land a resources confirmed this week that a gold major discovery was discovered at a mining base in the mountains of China's Shaanxi Province.

Coming Recession - 2007-09-26
During a conference call this past Friday, Don Coxe, who is the Chairman and Chief Strategist of Harris Investment Management and Chairman of Jones Heward Investments, stunned listeners when he suggested that 'there's rumors the Saudis are going to move off their peg to the dollar.'

Jewelry Sales Rise in the City of Gold - 2007-09-17
Dubai, the city of gold, has continued to see massive upswings in jewelry sales over the past few months as tourism rapidly increases.

Gold vs. Blackberry - 2007-09-12
Is there anything on Earth more useless and annoying than a Blackberry device?

Gold Investing - 2007-08-29
Much like the dot-com meltdown earlier this decade, the money disappearing never really existed in the first place, but was merely the novel creation of a bunch of fraternity brats who smirk at the tenets of classical economics.

Gold Currency Standard - 2007-07-26
Central bankers, as the foils of the global gold cartel, increase gold sales whenever the fundamentals of gold threaten to push it into record territory.

Return of the Gold Standard - 2007-06-29
The Austro-Hungarian government effectively declared that Serbia's sovereignty would be revoked unless the perpetrators were brought to justice forthwith. What they were really after was the Balkan lands comprising Serbia and Bosnia.

Mining in Mexico - 2007-04-24
As a venture capital broker, active in the resource market, I look worldwide for the best opportunities for my risk tolerant clients. One country that keeps coming to my attention is Mexico.

Peak Resources - 2007-04-09
Lately, the big story in the media has been the notion of peak oil, where it is argued the world's reserves of oil are now, for the most part, known, and that we have topped the biggest hill on the roller coaster ride of energy exploration, and are now poised to accelerate towards the end of oil.

Nano Gold - 2007-03-29
I often talk in these pages about the increased demand for gold I see as more and more investors realize the instability and enormous risks that exist with fiat currencies and the geopolitical picture. As events continue to unfold, I expect at some point in the not-to-distant future there will be a frenzy to buy gold on the part of those investors who suddenly realize their paper wealth may be in jeopardy.

Gold Mining Waste - 2007-03-27
With gold production in South Africa currently at an 84-year low, mining firms working in the region are scrambling to do everything in their power to boost production and add to their bottom line...even reprocessing mountains of waste material.

Peak Gold? - 2006-12-29
After gold prices fell to a 20-year low of $253.20 an ounce in 1999, three years of jagged underinvestment plagued worldwide mineral exploration efforts. Global exploration budgets dropped to a humble 12-year low of $780 million in 2002 spurring a significant drop in new large gold deposits found. But now a six-year rally in gold prices has producers scrambling to increase their reserve base.

The Geopolitical Wildcard - 2006-12-18
There is nothing more bullish for gold, not even the rapidly accelerating woes of the U.S. dollar, than the destabilizing scenarios that would come with serious global geo-political chaos.

Notes from the 2006 S.F. Hard Asset Conference - 2006-12-04
Gold World editor Greg McCoach shares some notes and his takeaway from the 2006 San Francisco Hard Asset Conference.

Retirement Issues for Baby Boomers - 2006-11-15
For David M. Walker, standing outside the walled citadel preaching his gloomy fiscal warnings to anyone who will listen is nothing new. It is struggle that he has been at for quite some time and until recently he has done so practically in the dark.

What Would We Do Without the Federal Reserve? - 2006-10-18
As we learned last week, when Uncle Sam needs money for a war or two he simply heads down the street to the Federal Reserve Bank with an armload of fresh Treasury Notes and walks out of the bank with all the money he needs. What would we do without the federal reserve?

1907 Bank Panic - 2006-10-11
When the Knickerbocker Trust collapsed in 1907 it set into motion a series of events that led to one the greatest money panics in US history. And in the wake of those tumultuous times, one thing became very clear--our banking system was in need of some serious liquidity.

How the Federal Reserve Bank Works - 2006-10-04
This story is the third in a series of articles about the creation, the workings, and the ramifications of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Federal Reserve Bank History - 2006-09-29
Looking back over history it is fascinating to see the degree by which the plans of very powerful men alter the course of nations. But as interesting as it is, it is even more stunning to realize that these ideas are rarely, if ever, the product of middle class thinking.

Greenspan and Interest Rates - 2006-09-20
It's unlikely that Johnny Moon Sr. ever met Alan Greenspan. They didn't exactly travel in the same circles. Unlike the former Fed Chairman, Mr. Moon was dirt poor and homeless.

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