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December 29, 2021 – More Serious Than I Thought
I did have every intention of offering some type of yearend review today and I will try to fulfill that intent, but I must confess to being absorbed in the matter of the new OCC report which I wrote about...
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December 27, 2021 – COT Report Comments
The holiday-delayed Commitments of Traders (COT) report published a short while ago, for positions held as of Dec 21, was, in a word, great. After four straight reporting weeks in which gold and silver prices got crushed to the tune...
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December 26, 2021 – Weekly Review/Another OCC Stunner
(Since there was some new information, in the form of the new OCC quarterly derivatives report, that I felt was worthy of timely dissemination, I am publishing this review today rather than tomorrow as planned. I do plan on...
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December 22, 2021 – Tastes Great, No Less Filling
Hard as it is for me to believe, it’s been nearly 50 years since the introduction of that tongue-in-cheek advertising campaign for Miller Light beer, which featured a variety of skits in which characters argued what was better about the...
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December 18, 2021 – Weekly Review
After three weeks of declines, gold and silver prices finished higher this week, gold by $16 (0.9%) and with silver up by 15 cents (0.7%). As a result of gold’s continued relative outperformance (or silver’s underperformance), the silver/gold price ratio...
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December 15, 2021 – Senseless?
I’m indebted to Mark Mead Baillie for the title of his recent article, in which he proclaimed that silver was a steal that had skidded in price senselessly, a word I wished I had come up with. And if “senseless”...