For the past eighteen months, gold stocks have been pummeled...What’s going to move these darn stocks? Will their day ever come? Could our research – gulp – be wrong? Jokes have even started circulating…[such as] a) What’s the difference between a seagull and a gold stock investor? The seagull can still make a deposit on a Mercedes. b) Gold equities may be bad, but I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every hour and cried. Laugh or cry, however, underneath this heap of stock-certificate debris is the contrarian opportunity of a lifetime. That’s a strong statement, I know, but below I present numerous well-researched reasons why I’m convinced gold stocks are one spark away from igniting the portfolios of those with the cash to buy, courage to act, and patience to hold. Words: 2800

In the 1930s...when unemployment breached 25% you started seeing authoritarianism really come into vogue....and we are seeing those kinds of unemployment rates in Greece and Spain.... [In fact,] what's going on in France is starting to look a little bit totalitarian - and this is in France of all places...The world and the global financial system are in an extremely dangerous situation so investors need to be careful and make sure they protect themselves.

In the 1930s...when unemployment breached 25% you started seeing authoritarianism really come into vogue....and we are seeing those kinds of unemployment rates in Greece and Spain.... [In fact,] what's going on in France is starting to look a little bit totalitarian - and this is in France of all places...The world and the global financial system are in an extremely dangerous situation so investors need to be careful and make sure they protect themselves.

“The sense that you have in Europe is that the European political union and the European economic union are faced with some real dislocations. That isn’t to say that it necessarily won’t survive, but certainly from the point of view of the private wealth in Europe, the money managers for those families are quite concerned.... and quite frankly, they have good reason to be concerned.... we have the very real possibility of experiencing a psychotic break in the markets, such as we experienced in 2008."

“The sense that you have in Europe is that the European political union and the European economic union are faced with some real dislocations. That isn’t to say that it necessarily won’t survive, but certainly from the point of view of the private wealth in Europe, the money managers for those families are quite concerned.... and quite frankly, they have good reason to be concerned.... we have the very real possibility of experiencing a psychotic break in the markets, such as we experienced in 2008."