After last week’s dynamic upside surge of roughly $40 from the low of the week, today’s moderate selloff does not change our overall view and bullish demeanor in gold.

Strong statements coming from both sides suggesting massive levels of destruction continue in the war of words, escalating the current tensions between the United States and North Korea.

Charles Dickens expressed it well in his novel, A Tale of Two Cities. He describes a period of time that contained both positive and negative experiences. The dichotomy of the human condition in which there is good and evil, prosperity and poverty.