Our financial predicament explained

Helga, the proprietor of a bar, realizes that virtually all of her customers can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, pay later.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | June 29, 2012 | 5:26 am

Six percent can draw gold from the moon

Following many years of net annual sales in the 400 to 500 tonne range, central banks, underweighted in gold and overweight in dollars and euro’s, became net buyers of gold.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | June 22, 2012 | 6:03 pm

Sweat of the sun a gift from the magi

A lesson on gold: history, terminology and implications.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | June 15, 2012 | 4:38 pm

Ignorance is a temporary condition

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | June 8, 2012 | 4:21 am

Niogold Mining Corp.

McWatters Mines acquired two major assets in the Val-d’Or/Malartic area from Placer Dome - the Sigma Mine and the Kiena Mine Complex.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | June 5, 2012 | 8:58 pm

Sprout-less gold Tier 1 capital?

Institutional investors tend to prefer investments that are thought to contain the potential for growth; growth = sprouts.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | May 25, 2012 | 11:00 am

An argument for a contrarian investment

While it might not look like it now, the most investable trend over the next 20 years is going to be in the resource sector, the renewable and non-renewable resources, the minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass a wealthier and growing global population is increasingly demanding from finite supplies and already strained production capabilities.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | May 19, 2012 | 10:01 am

Money slow down

Many have called for very high levels of inflation possibly leading to hyperinflation.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | May 13, 2012 | 2:59 pm

Money slow down

Many have called for very high levels of inflation possibly leading to hyperinflation.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | May 11, 2012 | 8:02 pm

A return to real money

On the night of November 22, 1910 a delegation of the nation’s leading financiers, led by Senator Nelson Aldrich, left New Jersey for a very secret ten day meeting on Jekyll Island, Georgia.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | April 27, 2012 | 9:05 pm

Nixon, gold and oil

In July 1944, delegates from 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire - the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference - and agreed to “peg” their currencies to the U.S. dollar, the only currency strong enough to meet the rising demands for international currency transactions.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | April 20, 2012 | 10:38 pm

Of debt, gold and Okun’s Law

Is gold’s run over? Let’s look at some facts.

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | April 13, 2012 | 8:30 pm

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