Since mid-June "hawkish" FOMC dot plots that sent gold reeling, gold has increased 4 consecutive weeks, was up slightly yesterday&up another $8 today. Powell has since cooed dovish, yet gold miners continued to drop-nonsensically -as high gold prices drive their numbers (EPS etc)
Part of the problem is demoralization/capitulation as miner investors give up, part is trend following computer algos continuing to push them lower. Checked latest short interest for 22 miners. All but 2 (KL & NEM) showed their short interest up - some of them by huge amounts
Almost all miners had dbl-digit increases in short interest. For example, Barrick's short interest soared 57% (by 8 million shares in just 2 weeks!) Yamana's shorts +42%, Kinross +127%. If gold keeps rallying & with most miner's 2nd halfs looking strong, violent rally is possible

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11 May
You just can't make this stuff up. Now that the "joke' crypto Dogecoin has fallen after hypster Elon Musk failed to lift the price of the "coin" following his SNL appearance, the new hot crypto is Dogecoin's logo called Shiba Inu. syracuse.com/us-news/2021/0…
Shiba Inu became attractive to crypto punters when Dogecoin became too expensive (over 50 cents!) Shiba Inu is much cheaper at the current price of: $0.0000317. There's 395 trillion of these Shiba Inu "coins" in circulation. But you better get in fast: it's up 1807% last 7 days
Shiba Inu millionaires are being minted fast with the "coins" now valued at nearly $14 billion in total. And you can now buy them on the #1 crypto exchange -Binance (per CoinMarketCap). Binance offers up to 125 to 1 leverage for crypto futures trading.
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31 Mar
Currently looking at a chart from this A.M.'s GCRU newsletter. A 54 year chart (1967-2021) comparing gold to real T-bill yields. Shows that during great gold bull mkt decades of 1970s & 2000s it didn't matter if negative rates became less negative due to rising rates. Gold rose
Didn't even matter if "real" rates went slightly positive. As long as they were low, gold still rose. For example, from the summer of 1977 to early 1980 gold skyrocketed as the fed funds rate was lifted from 4.75% to 15%. It was only when Volcker raised to 20% did gold break
GCRU conclusion: "You’ll notice whenever the real yield (in that 54-yr chart) has been over 3-4%, it has put downside pressure on gold. But whenever the real rate
has been below that level, it has been bullish
for gold."
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8 Mar
In mid-2000s I was told(by Bernanke & others) there couldn't possibly be a nat'l housing bubble. But I could see it with my own eyes(& wrote about it). Now I'm told inflation's too low, yet I can see inflation percolating everywhere - from commodity prices bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
to foods & now even to energy, to freight rates, to the unprecedented money supply growth (though current M's increases are historic & much lesser money growth has led to inflation before), from anyone producing durable goods, to the "prices paid" ISM reports, to housing prices
J. Powell doesn't even believe U.S. govt's unemployment data (believes they're far too low), so why should anyone believe U.S. govt. inflation data - when we know there's a motive to suppress them - so politicians can keep spending, handing out free money & running up deficits?
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Speculators (led by hedge funds) have been pressing gold lower using their levered paper futures contracts (they never touch an ounce of gold) knowing all the technicians' chart sell price levels. Breaking those levels causes "forced" selling. They push "trend" as far as they can
But eventually they run into the "floor" set by real physical gold demand. The gap between the physical prices (where there are great shortages today) and the speculators' much lower paper prices are as great as I've ever seen them - meaning paper pushers are running out of room
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8 Jan
The herd has little interest in precious metals & "value" stocks in general. Too enthralled chasing one-direction bubble symbols such as TSLA, GBTC & ARKK. Repeat of '99-2000. Exact same behavior. Only the symbols have changed. Back then it was the likes of YHOO, WCOM & JDSU
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From the '99-2000 experience, I know it is pointless to engage in "conversation" with the Bubbleheads. Nothing will make them understand - greed has clouded their minds & they are full of hubris. Let them party on... the higher their symbols fly - the greater the crashes will be
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