Resources
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Gold Bears Stop Sector from Overheating
- Jeff Nielson submits: As I wrote a month ago in “Price of Gold in Controlled Ascent”, gold and silver is in the midst of a methodical, well-behaved rally – with few signs of the market over-heating. In that previous piece, I credited China's government for being in the “driver's seat”...
- External links 2009-11-24
- Increasing Silver Demand Comes from Multiple Sources
- Jeff Nielson submits: While precious metals bulls typically focus on silver as the OTHER precious metals currency behind gold, the steadily surging demand for silver is not limited to silver as a store of wealth for investors. A combination of “traditional” uses plus many new applications...
- External links 2009-05-05
- The Silver Lining of Gold Fever
- Jeff Nielson submits: As strongly as I believe in the future for gold as a commodity, and also for those commodity-producers, I cannot avoid reaching the conclusion that the future is brighter still for gold's under-appreciated “little brother”. And the arguments for silver have NEVER been stronger than today. ...
- External links 2009-05-06
- Gold Has Not Begun to Shine
- Jeff Nielson submits: "Gold bugs” are a remarkably consistent group – regularly extolling the same set of economic fundamentals which are certain to drive the price of gold to many multiples of its current value. On the other hand, “gold bears” and the anti-gold propagandists of the banking-cabal tend to...
- External links 2009-05-08
- Peak Gold: The New Paradigm
- Jeff Nielson submits: By now, almost everyone is familiar with the concept of “peak oil”. This notion, which has been accepted as fact by many, has two components to it. First of all, we have new supply fundamentals which demonstrate conclusively that any increases in supply cannot...
- External links 2009-05-21
- A Novice's Guide to Precious Metals (Part I)
- Jeff Nielson submits: For all the sophisticated “gold bugs” out there, there are not a lot of “revelations” in this commentary – so you might want to move along in search of something deeper. However, as retail investing in precious metals increases (it rose by nearly 400% in 2008), there...
- External links 2009-05-25
- A Novice's Guide to Precious Metals (Part II): The Miners
- Jeff Nielson submits: In “Part I” of this series, I provided a basic overview of what separates gold and silver from all other commodities, why gold and silver are so attractive today, and dispelled the popular myth that “bullion-ETFs" are the same as owning real, “physical” bullion. In Part II,...
- External links 2009-05-28
- Silver Market Fundamentals Distorted by Bullion ETFs
- Jeff Nielson submits: Global statistics were recently released by the “precious metals research and consultancy” firm GFMS Limited, based in London. These results, in turn, have been made public by the Silver Institute, an excellent source for data on the silver market, which I have referred to in previous commentaries....
- External links 2009-06-01
- Will a 'Silver Bullet' Finally Kill the Metal Manipulators?
- Jeff Nielson submits: In my previous commentary, “Silver market fundamentals DISTORTED by bullion-ETFs", I pointed out how (so-called) “bullion-ETFs" were with rare exceptions merely a tool of the manipulators – with two primary purposes. First of all, bullion-ETFs soak-up billions of investor-dollars each year, which would otherwise...
- External links 2009-06-04
- History of Silver, Part I: Metal of the Moon
- Jeff Nielson submits: This is the start of a three-part series. Part I discusses the dawn of silver mining and the recognition of silver as a precious metal – and “money”. Part II looks at the gradual build-up of global silver stockpiles over a period on centuries, while Part III...
- External links 2009-06-10
- New ETF Provides access to Junior Miners
- Jeff Nielson submits: I was just alerted by a reader to an exciting, new opportunity for U.S. investors to get access to Canadian “junior”, precious metals miners – and the explosive, profit-potential which they represent. This new, ETF will be offered by Van Eck Global. It is...
- External links 2009-06-15
- History of Silver, Part II: The Great 'Build'
- Jeff Nielson submits: In Part I of this series, I provided a brief exposition on the birth of silver mining, and explained how and why silver came to be universally considered a “precious metal” (and “money”) by humanity. In Part II, I will provide an outline of...
- External links 2009-06-15
- History of Silver, Part III: Inventories Are Gone
- Jeff Nielson submits: Read Part I and Part II For nearly 5,000 years, the price ratio between gold and silver has averaged approximately 15:1. This number is very close to the 17:1 ratio which represents the natural occurrence of the two elements in the Earth's crust. It is interesting to...
- External links 2009-06-18
- Is China Replacing India as the World's Premier Gold Consumer?
- Jeff Nielson submits: For several decades, Indian gold demand has dominated the global gold market, to the point where its own consumption-cycle became the “seasonal” indicator for gold. As Indian “wedding season” began in the fall, gold typically experienced a surge in the price. Then, in the spring, as wedding...
- External links 2009-07-27
- New Central Bank Sales Agreement Is Very Bullish for Gold
- Jeff Nielson submits: Europe's central banks jointly announced a new sales agreement to govern the gold they annually dump onto the market. They announced a 20% lower quota – down to 400 tons per year – despite the price of gold sitting only a couple of rallies away from a...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Silver Is the Future of Jewelry
- Jeff Nielson submits: In several previous commentaries, I have alluded to the extremely bright future for silver jewelry as yet one more reason to be extremely bullish about silver. To my surprise, these remarks have drawn little response from readers. As a result, I've decided to devote an entire commentary...
- External links 2009-08-18
- Silver Wheaton: The Safe Alternative to SLV
- Jeff Nielson submits: I recently received a request in my mail to spend more time talking about precious metals mining companies. I had just finished writing about the extremely dubious business models of most (so-called) “bullion-ETF's”, such as SLV (see “Your ETF-silver is For Sale”). So, it seemed a good...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Why It's Not the Time to Buy Gold
- Jeff Nielson submits: I was asked by a reader yesterday if now was a good time to buy gold. This is always a deceptively simple question with any investment. After writing a fairly lengthy reply, it struck me that this was probably a topic worthy of a commentary, itself. ...
- External links 2009-10-13
- Precious Metals Miners: Four Areas for Investors to Consider
- Jeff Nielson submits: It is a long-established pattern of the precious metals sector that in any long-term bull market the precious metals miners outperform bullion, itself – with this especially being true at any medium-term tops and of course at any long-term top. The fact that relatively few investors know...
- External links 2009-10-30
- India's Gold Purchase: A Complete Non-Event
- Jeff Nielson submits: Given that this was such a simple news story – with nothing especially surprising about it – my first inclination was that it did not merit a commentary on the subject. However, seeing the reaction to this news convinced me that my first inclination was wrong. ...
- External links 2009-11-04
- << Previous
- page 1 of 2
- Next >>
