Money & Markets
Melman on Gold & Silver
February 2012 by Leonard Melman
All we can say is “Welcome to 2012,” and if the first part of January is any indication, it is going to be quite a year on many fronts from the ongoing international financial crisis to the progress of a presidential election set to end this coming November.Melman on Gold & Silver
A matter of some serious concern has developed in the relationship between the prices for gold and silver and the performance of mining share averages.
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Melman on Gold & Silver
Fundamental information on gold and silver turned more to the bullish side this past month, and we can point to three particular items as the basis for that conclusion.
Melman on Gold & Silver
On a personal level, I have been part of the business, brokerage and financial columnist worlds for 45 years, since the mid-1960s, and in all those years, I have never seen a collection of negative news items similar to what has been published during the past month. In short, taken together they may very well be describing the end of the economic world systems as we know them.
Melman on Gold & Silver
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