Streetwise Silver Articles
Silver, Gold Top Picks in 2011 Commodity Survey
Source: GoldAlert (12/28/10)
"Silver will be the top-performing commodity in 2011."
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Louis James: Straight Talk from and About Colombia
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (12/13/10)
Casey Research Senior Editor Louis "Indiana" James has returned from Colombia with insights into the state of Colombian politics, economics and the inside scoop on a number of unheralded Colombian explorers. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Louis shares his firsthand experiences in the Paramo Highland and discusses the differences between two sides of the same mountain when it comes to gold exploration and environmental protection.
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Brent Cook: Colombian Gold Rush
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report (11/17/10)
New mining companies looking to benefit from the skyrocketing gold price are popping up like daisies after a spring rain, which could put you on the road to riches instead of the road to ruin. The Gold Report caught up with Exploration Insights Writer Brent Cook at the New Orleans Investment Conference to get his take on economic viability versus geology. Cook is also an exploration analyst and geologist and, in this exclusive interview, he discusses why Colombia may be more like the Yukon than investors think.
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John Embry: Die Was Cast Before Elections
Source: Karen Roche and Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (11/10/10)
Regardless of who's controlling the U.S. Congress, Sprott Asset Management Chief Investment Strategist John Embry holds out little hope for economic happiness in the short run. As he tells The Gold Report in this exclusive interview, "It's consequence time" and "any opportunity to have a pleasant outcome. . .in the relatively near term is long gone." An exception, at least for the time being, may be in senior gold stocks, which he says, "have seldom been cheaper in relation to the price of gold."
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Junior Miners Becoming Attractive Takeover Targets
Source: Jeb Handwerger for The Gold Report (11/3/10)
There have been some exciting mergers and acquisitions (M&As) within the junior mining sector over the past few months. As gold and silver settle from the previous move, many projects will be rerated and acquired by majors that are struggling with decreasing resources. I believe the industry is undergoing consolidation and we are seeing the beginning of a major international race to control future gold and silver ounces in the ground. The bull market in gold and silver is intact and, though we may see some short-term pullbacks in bullion prices, the junior mining sector will continue to outperform.
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Michael Berry: Gold Reacts and Mining Sector Benefits
Source: George S. Mack and Karen Roche of The Gold Report (10/25/10)
Michael Berry, PhD, of Morning Notes, is bullish on gold, which he expects will double or more in price in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, with organizational skills developed in a previous career as professor of investments, Berry has created a 10-point "Discovery Investing" (DI) model by which all stocks in his universe are graded. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he tells us about plays on several small- and micro-cap mining stocks that he expects will perform quite well through either price appreciation on discoveries or takeover.
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Mickey Fulp: Cherry Picking Undervalued Juniors
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report (10/20/10)
Junior resource companies have been on a wild ride since 2009 and Mickey Fulp, the author of The Mercenary Geologist newsletter, thinks most of them are as overvalued as they've ever been. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Mickey discusses the handful of undervalued plays he's unearthed in an overvalued gold market.
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Greg McCoach: Preserving Your Precious Capital
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (10/6/10)
Mining Speculator Newsletter Writer Greg McCoach is nothing if not outspoken. "The U.S. government is now getting to the point that it can no longer pay the interest on its Treasury Bill debt through normal means. Once this leaks out, the Fed will start creating money on top of money. It will become a total Ponzi scheme," he says. But Greg believes that same fiscal foolishness is creating opportunities in precious metals. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Greg coaches you on how to preserve your capital with some junior mining stocks.
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Byron King Plays Gold, Silver and REEs
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (10/4/10)
Some people speak softly and suppress their opinions. Newsletter Writer Byron King is not one of those people. "We have to quit screwing around. We have to get back to basics, back to capital investments and making things—important things. Great countries mine metals and minerals," he says. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Byron shares several precious metals companies that are making important things and some juniors that are well on their way.
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David Morgan: Play Silver, but Don't Get "Stuck"
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (9/17/10)
What's up these days with Silver Guru David Morgan? In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he discusses his silver obsession and imparts some investment wisdom: "I'm not a pig. Bulls make money, bears make money—and pigs get stuck. I am not going to get stuck and neither are you, if you follow what I'm doing." David also discusses some of his "nonstick" silver holdings.
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Bob Chapman: Preserve Your Capital with Gold, Silver
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (9/15/10)
International Forecaster Editor Bob Chapman believes the world is headed for a single governing structure where gold and silver are commonly traded currencies. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Bob tells you why he thinks gold could still hit $1,600 this year despite the government's efforts to smother the gold price. He also offers a handful of equities he believes are worthwhile investments in such a price environment.
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Mosseri and Loud: Hedge Your Bets
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (9/1/10)
Everyday New York-based investment gurus Jeff Mosseri and Doug Loud make key decisions for their high net-worth clients. Many of those decisions involve strategically positioning investors in small- and micro-cap gold and silver plays. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, you will learn some of the names of those plays and how they use Mosseri and Loud as hedges against a failing economy.
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Louis James Gets Physical
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (8/27/10)
Casey Research Senior Editor Louis James is very familiar with the gold market and with junior gold companies that have projects all over the world. In fact, he's visited many of the most promising ones. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Louis offers tips on how to own physical gold and "paper" gold, and even picks some junior gold and silver plays with significant potential.
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Doug Casey: Exception Among Equities
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report (8/18/10)
As long as stocks remain overpriced, Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey says he'll avoid equities—except perhaps in favored sectors, such as gold. In fact, in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he posits that gold juniors might "go up by an order of magnitude or more, even while most other stocks are going down."
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Victor Goncalves: Putting Money on the Juniors
Source: The Gold Report (7/28/10)
Equities and Economics Report writer Victor Goncalves, in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, says the yellow metal is in its typical summer lull and will generally see more strength than weakness this year. He's enthusiastic about some undervalued juniors, saying good management is what makes or breaks these companies.
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Mike Niehuser: Producers' Upside Potential
Source: The Gold Report (7/21/10)
Beacon Rock Research Founder Mike Niehuser won't be surprised if gold crosses the threshold into 2011 at or above $1,500/oz. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Mike discusses companies with better-than-average return potential due to near-term production, pipeline projects for expanding reserves and promising exploration prospects.
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Chris & Michael Berry: Berry Picking in Colombia, Yukon
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (7/14/10)
One of the most respected economic strategists in America, Michael Berry, and his son, Chris, discuss the growing fears of deflation, as well as several promising junior gold plays in Colombia and the Yukon. It's all part of their "three legs of the survival stool" approach to investing that you will learn about in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report.
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Porter Stansberry's Theories of Relativity
Source: By Karen Roche of The Gold Report (7/9/10)
Stansberry & Associates Investment Research Founder Porter Stansberry, who built his reputation on finding safe-value investments that yield years of exceptional returns, shares with The Gold Report readers some of the things he's doing to hedge against market volatility and currency devaluation.
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Sean Brodrick: Bull Market for Gold and Silver
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report (6/2/10)
In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Weiss Research Natural Resources Analyst Sean Brodrick tells us he expects the bull market for precious metals to run for "quite some time," with silver reasserting itself as a monetary, investment and industrial metal. South of the border, some of the Mexican miners have an "embarrassment of riches"—which have largely escaped the attention of Wall Street.
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Roger Wiegand: EU Bailout Just Delays Inevitable
Source: Barbara Templeton and Karen Roche of The Gold Report (5/26/10)
Replacing most of Europe's currencies less than a decade ago, the euro is on the brink of extinction, according to Trader Tracks' Roger Wiegand, in this exclusive Gold Report interview. On the other side of the world, he doesn't pin his hopes on China as the engine for global economic growth as so many others do. So, is there a white horse waiting in the wings to lead the world back to economic good health? Read on. . .
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Gold vs. Silver
Source: Seeking Alpha, Morningstar (5/13/10)
The current [gold/silver] ratio is. . .at midpoint of high/low points over the last 10 years
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Bob Moriarty: Collapse as Certain as Time and the Tides
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report (5/5/10)
Talking heads are waxing enthusiastic over signals that the recession is receding, but debris from the derivatives debacle won't go away without a total financial system collapse, according to 321gold.com founder Bob Moriarty in this exclusive Gold Report interview. While hunkered down in their bunkers waiting for the apocalypse, he suggests folks invest spare cash in resource stocks—cheaper than they've been in nearly a decade.
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David Morgan: The Latest Skinny on Silver
Source: Ellis Martin of The Gold Report (5/3/10)
It's often called the "Poor Man's Gold," but according to "Silver Guru" David Morgan of The Morgan Report and silver-investor.com, silver is poised to outperform gold. In this exclusive interview for The Gold Report, Morgan gives us the straight skinny on silver and highlights several silver juniors.
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Gianni Kovacevic: Planes, Trains & Automobiles (& Rickshaws)
Source: By Tim McLaughlin and Karen Roche, The Gold Report (4/14/10)
Is there a China bubble? Not according to Gianni Kovacevic, corporate development strategist and principal of Kovacevic Consultants. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Gianni says that China will continue to be the primary driver of fundamental demand for copper and other resources, presenting a great opportunity for investors.
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Michael Ballanger: There's Still Money in the Juniors
Source: Tim McLaughlin and Karen Roche of The Gold Report (4/12/10)
While Union Securities, Ltd. Investment Advisor Michael Ballanger says we're still in a vintage bear market situation, he sees opportunities for investors in the junior mining sector. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Michael explains the rule of thumb he uses when investing in the juniors.
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