Author/Editor
Jeff Clark
Publisher
Casey Research
Description
Focuses on various aspects of investing in gold and gold-related investments. Jeff Clark left when Casey Research was sold to Stansberry in mid-2015, newsletter seems to have disappeared at that point.
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Yet another offshoot from Doug Casey’s International Speculator, Big Gold focuses on gold and silver producers. While his other publications focus on highly volatile junior explorers, these companies are generally larger, easier to trade, and much more mainstream. For example, Yamana and Silver Wheaton are typical of their picks. I get this one for free since I already subscribe to other Casey newsletters.
Their picks got clobbered with the downturn, but many have recovered quite a bit of ground. Unfortunately, when the market tanked they advised their readers to be cautious, especially of silver companies. For a newsletter that constantly promotes the idea of gold going to the moon and silver following after, you’d think they’d see this as an enormous buying opportunity. Luckily, I ignored their advice and have reaped the rewards.
Their rationale on why gold will skyrocket may be interesting the first couple of times you read through it, but it gets old quickly. Also, like many other gold promoters, they trudge out the old argument that gold went to $850 in the last gold bull market and that the inflation adjusted price would be $3000 (or more) today. This always seemed like a weak argument to me.
I believe Big Gold is not too expensive (I think it’s $100/year), but their picks are pretty obvious. If you’re at all interested in gold and silver, you can find the same information for free on the web.
well said these are my exact sentiments.
Apparently, a new name was given to this newsletter: Casey’s Gold & Resource Report.
Any appreciations for this cheap newsletter?
It’s now CASEY’S GOLD & RESOURCE REPORT (subtitles: Natural Resource Producers, Royalty Companies & Mutual Funds).
Well-written, the newsletter is offering a portfolio with low-risk stocks, funds… Of course, you’ll find a lot of the “usual suspects”.
Interesting, but some people can find this too “conservative”.
For the same kind of investors, I found more exciting David Skarica’s GOLD STOCK ADVISER (I’ll submit a review).
This is inexpensive at $79/yr. I like their layout, and find it to be an easy, simple, fun read, and instructional. Good for beginners, and good picks.
They post their back issues.
The only issue would be all the picks, too many picks in their portfolio. Sometimes hard to get into because by the time you get the issue, the stock has gone up. (It’s a monthly publication.)
My impression is this is a conservative, buy and hold newsletter. They always have as part of the portfolio some of the big boys, and avoid the small mining companies.
I have subcribed to Big Gold since its inception. It comes to me as part of the package, so to speak. It is definitely a broad brush publication. I particularly like the commentaries which I think are well written and often humerous. The research is typical Casey Research quality, that is, thorough and to the point. Still, I pick and choose from their recommendations, as i do with all the Casey publications. The final filter is always “you.” Big Gold’s primary aim is to limit trading and to buy right and hold, so to speak. They do a good job of that. No publication bats 100, but Big Gold comes in at 80% or better, and that is well above average.
I’m in my second year subscribing to Big Gold. The picks have performed well, especially his Best Buys.
RED Gold find in Ontario Canada?