Gold miners are drifting lower as interest rates on 20 & 30-year treasuries, move higher. We like these four Gold miners and think they are cheap protection should the market fall as well as just too cheap a valuation. We think that more difficult market times are ahead of us (this year) with rent and mortgage deferments drop away, Impact from the small – medium enterprise damage from government policy related to COVID-19, and failure of the vaccines to create herd immunity as fast as we would like, comes into focus. Gold (and silver) miners are a hedge against a general market sell off. If the market goes into a hard correction, we believe long interest rates will back off creating both a safe haven for equity investors and an attractive monetary backdrop for the miners. Continue reading