Mark Mead Baillie

2024’s second quadrimestre is now complete. So let’s start with our title’s second phrase “GDP Defies Belief”. For Q2’s annualized GDP growth rate was just raised from an improbable first estimate of...

FedChair Powell’s “Friday Thunder” echoingly careened throughout the cascading heights of Wyoming’s Grand Tetons, across the nation and ’round the world. “The time has come” rate cut quip resulted in...

As herein penned last Saturday: “Gold is well within range for a fresh All-Time High (above 2538 basis December) in the new week” And so it came to pass, the yellow metal (basis December) trading...

Let’s start with stocks, notably citing the hilarity of the FinMedia & Herd hysteria.  Not that we need be reminded, however, this past Monday’s (05 August) selling underscored the stock market’s...

Futures contacts — far and away the most liquid non-physical form of gold trading purely by price — regularly “roll” from one expiry month to another, (but not consecutively), the current leap per...

On the heels of last week’s piece “Another Gold Pop n’ Flop”, now we’ve “Gold Gets Gut-Punched Again” But be thee not at ends, dear friends. For as we’ll herein see, gold’s weekly parabolic trend...

Upon Gold’s record run this past Tuesday into Wednesday’s fresh All-Time High of 2488, we gave pensive consideration to entitling this week’s piece as “The Joy of Being Wrong”. After all, given...

“And so we are halfway.” In this case It is not Fräulein Irma Bunt to James Bond (in the guise of Sir Hilary Bray) whilst walking upon the snowy flanks of Switzerland’s Schilthorn –[O.H.M.S.S, UA,...

To be sure, our recent missives have been near-term negative for Gold, at least technically so, an eye to the 2247-2171 zone apropos.  Still, as you know, Gold these past two weeks has been...

First to Gold, then the economic mold (its detritus, all told). As herein anticipated a week ago: Gold’s weekly MACD (moving average convergence divergence) has now confirmed crossing to negative,...