One way to hedge against inflation is to buy gold and silver. This is what hedge fund legends John Paulson and David Einhorn are doing. As Justice Litle pointed out last week in Taipan Daily , Paulson and Einhorn “have gold and gold stock positions running well into the multi-billions for their respective funds.”

It’s a recession but Byron King tells us that it is not too late for gold investing.  He has been encouraging gold bugs for over ten years now. Here he explains why owning gold and silver is the safest way to weather out this economic storm.

Byron King from Whiskey and Gunpowder thinks that we’ll see huge market declines in part because of a huge drop in consumer spending. As volatility increases and faith for the U.S. dollar circles the drain, two gold companies should soar.

A poor jobs report out of the United States sparked a buying binge in hard assets and that helped the gold miners to move higher during Friday trading on the Canadian Markets.

It’s a quick task to keep an eye on large-cap gold mining. Just a handful of companies sport market values above $10 billion. Near the top is Goldcorp.

Isn’t it true the Canadian oil sands yield a type of low-grade oil good only for synthetics and not for gasoline or home heating?

It was a mixed session on the Canadian markets during Wednesday trading as, believe it or not, the junior bourse outperformed its bigger brother.

Gold turned in a tepid performance during the New York session on Tuesday, rising well until nearly noon, where it peaked at $883, but then declining from there through the Globex and finishing weakly at $875.60, up $1.60. Overnight, gold has fallen off in London.

‘Check out the new Harmony uranium venture. It’s looking interesting…’ My ears pricked up. It is the most positive thing I have heard from any of my contacts in South Africa for a good few months. As I told Erin, it could not be more up-to-the minute, having both uranium and gold!

It was here in Manchester, England, that Europeans stole a march on the rest of the world. The Industrial Revolution made it possible for people to produce more wealth, more quickly.