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Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Buffett Buys a Copper Stock!

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Just kidding. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway may or may not own copper stocks. I did not dig deep enough to find out. For the purposes of this post it does not matter.

With the Buffett Buys a Gold Stock! hysterics last summer, the subsequent (and inevitable) fallout and the Buffett Pukes a Gold Stock! resolution, you never know. It’s worth asking the question about what sort of investors are now true-believing in copper and the industrial metals where once upon a time last summer gold was the object of affection.

Look, the contrarian dynamics in play now are 180° from where they were last spring, coming out of the deflationary crash, when we first started to get a handle on and act upon the coming inflation aimed at reflating the economy. NFTRH has used a lot of indicators, starting then and continuing today to be on the right (inflationary) side of this macro dynamic. With all due respect and foresight about macro decision points to come, we remain on the inflationary side today.

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The Gold & Gold Stock Corrections Are Normal

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Corrections in Gold and Gold Stocks are completely normal in an inflationary macro market phase

Every week I notice the agony ratcheting up incrementally. While the rest of the casino takes off to the speculative heavens, gold sits on its heavy ass and the gold miners go nowhere in a downward-biased perma-correction. Or so it seems. It’s all normal and I’ll explain why.

First of all, it is not healthy to be railing against unseen nefarious manipulative interests. That is emotion and emotion has to be kept out of it (and yes, I get as aggravated as the next guy sometimes, but it cannot affect your plan or you will be the victim, the mark). You have to take what the market gives you and roll with it. All markets are manipulated when you consider that the greatest manipulation of all is courtesy of the Federal Reserve, implementing its MMT (Modern Monetary Theory), err, that is TMM (Total Market Manipulation) toward desired ends.

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Gold is So Normal it Ain’t Funny

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The metal that Huey digs from the bowels of the earth is fine

You see, with silver out-performing gold (since well before the #silversqueeze promotion), with inflation expectations rising, with cyclical commodities rising, with the government set to panic a shit load more fiscal policy into the economy… gold is normal. It is still unwinding a blow off in fear and angst after the deflationary spring.

Of course the two red towers that mysteriously reversed gold out of a pair of breakouts (of sorts) are of suspect origin. But maybe da boyz was just doin’ da bugz a favor in presenting a great buying opportunity to come by keeping gold on its proper corrective course. The best support area is and has been the low-mid 1700s (with allowance for a spike to the lower trend line).

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