ABSTRACT

There are many advisory newsletters being published on various aspects of gold and the number is increasing rather than diminishing. It has taken more than two years to compile the list below; it comprises a large sample, but not a complete list. For the individual investor who is uncertain of his requirements it is possible to examine a number of newsletters through the following avenues:

There are six publications that contain extracts or summaries of other newsletters:

American Gold News, Cecil L. Helms, PO Box 457, lone, Cal. 95640, USA. Monthly, $US10 a year. Includes Green’s Comments and the International Harry Schultz Letter

The Bull and Bear, Bull and Bear, PO Box 611146, N Miami, Fla. 33161, USA. Monthly, $US10 a year ($US17 foreign). Comments and opinions on gold shares and gold from a wide range of gold and investment advisers.

Consensus: National Commodity Futures Weekly, Consensus Inc., 30 W Pershing Road, Kansas City, Mo. 64108, USA. Weekly, $US291 a year. Contains commodity reports and market comments as well as daily prices for gold and other commodities

Hard Money Digest, Royal G. Krieger, 3608 Grand Avenue, Oakland, Cal. 94610, USA. $US124 a year

Newsletter Digest, Newsletter Digest Inc., 2335 Pansy Street, Huntsville, Ala. 35891, USA. $US75 a year

The Duck Book, Robert White Inc., PO Box 1928, Cocoa, Fla. USA. $US10 ($US25 foreign) for a lifetime subscription (his, not your’s). Includes a series of 100-page supplements (three between September 1980 and February 1981) which reprint extracts from a number of hard money newsletters

Select Information Exchange, 2095 Broadway, New York, NY 10023, USA, a financial publications subscription agency offers a package of 30 sample subscriptions to gold newsletters for $US18. Bull and Bear is included in their current list

Matlock, Larry K. and Michael D. Silber, Who’s Who in Hard Money Economics?, National Committee for Monetary Reform, 8422 Oak Street, New Orleans, La. 70118, USA, 1981, provides a guide to the main purveyors of hard money advice

Almost all of the newsletters listed here offer sample copies or trial subscriptions. It has been the author’s experience that those which do not are not worth pursuing