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January 21, 2026

The best-performing precious metal for the past week was silver, up 11.00%. Gold and silver climbed to record levels in a broad-based metals rally after the U.S. Justice Department threatened the Federal Reserve with a criminal indictment, reviving concerns over the...
“This is sell America,” says today’s top headline. “U.S. dollar, Treasury prices tumble and gold spikes as globe flees U.S. assets.” The Dow plunged 870 points, at one point reaching more than 900 down shortly before close.
While many Western investors still lack exposure to precious metals, a Hong Kong billionaire has allocated a quarter of his wealth to gold and advises others to do the same.

January 20, 2026

Gold-themed savers should be ready to pounce and get more gold (and more silver too)!
The U.S. markets were closed yesterday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but gold and silver clearly didn’t get the memo. 
Indian gold demand has remained resilient, despite record-high prices, driven by strong investment demand. India ranks as the world’s second-largest gold market.

January 19, 2026

The latest clash between President Trump, Federal Reserve Chair Powell, and the Department of Justice has been widely portrayed as a constitutional crisis for central bank independence. The DOJ is investigating whether Powell made false or misleading statements to...
Silver is going vertical and a near-term spike to $120 to $140 is possible in the coming days/weeks. Once silver prints its final blow-off high, a terrifying correction of 30% to 50% is possible, followed by a period of consolidation.
Putting any kind of bow on the current headlines to conveniently explain or “wrap up” recent events in Venezuela would be a fool’s errand. The extraordinary mix, as well as polarized views, as to the personalities, policies, economics, military acumen, and even...
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January 18, 2026

I’ve been gone for the past month.  Let’s take a look at what has changed these past four weeks.  Looking at the Dow Jones’ Bear’s Eye View chart below, not much has.  Though since Christmas Eve, the Dow Jones has made five new all-time highs, or BEV Zeros (0.00%) in...
With a massive metals bull market in full swing, it’s always worth us stepping back from time to time to review the Big Picture. The background to all this is of course the accelerating collapse of the current fiat money system in the face of hopeless intractable...
Hardly shall Gold get to 5546 in a straight line.  For given today’s milieu of this metals’ mania mayhem, prices — both by valuation and technicals — look as having achieved a max … ’til ’tis onward to the next higher climax.

January 17, 2026

There has not been much use writing about the precious metals rally lately because, why add to the noise? The time for making noise was back in the spring when the Gold/Silver ratio topped (Silver/Gold bottomed) and we prepared for a stronger rally in the precious...
Was that a top? Quite possibly. More importantly, even if it wasn’t a top, it’s likely that we’ll get one soon given what stocks are doing. And in particular, what are the previous leaders doing. For now, let’s take a look at the metals and miners.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. Trend is UP for gold. Trend is up for gold stocks. Trend is down for USD.
Consumer borrowing cratered further in November, likely reflecting growing consumer stress, as price inflation persists and credit cards become maxed out.

January 16, 2026

Despite the influx of tariff revenue, the federal government continues to run a massive budget deficit. The December budget shortfall came in at $144.75 billion, a record for the month. That was 68 percent higher than December 2024.
Everybody knows we need sound money; but what exactly is sound money? A good way to answer this question is to consult the works of the two greatest economists of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. I am proud of the fact that Mises’s widow...
In a recent episode of Money Metals' Midweek Memo podcast, host Mike Maharrey argues that the most important economic warnings rarely arrive with flashing lights. They show up first in markets, and right now, he says, precious metals are doing the talking.

January 15, 2026

Silver was among the best-performing asset classes of 2025, alongside platinum and gold mining equities. With gains of 148% in U.S. Dollar terms and 118% in Euro terms, the precious metal significantly outperformed equity markets as well as Bitcoin. The rally was...
When I first began buying gold when it was around $300 in price (yes, I am 55 years old), I remember people saying how they would not want to live in a world of $1,000 gold. This fear was based upon the commonly held expectation that the world would be more...
The latest VRIC Media interview with Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ AG, delivers a sober and unflinching assessment of why record gold and silver prices are not the cause of today’s instability, but a clear symptom of it.
On Sunday night, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell announced that Trump’s Department of Justice had served the Fed with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment of Powell.
The claim that protectionism serves “higher ends” rests on a confusion about both economics and the non-economic goals people actually value.

January 14, 2026

The best-performing precious metal of the week was silver, up 11.80%. Prices set a fresh record, closing above $80 per troy ounce for the first time. Gold and silver miners raised the most cash through share sales in more than a decade last year, led by smaller players...
According to the leader of the monetarists school, Milton Friedman, our knowledge of the world of economics is elusive. Consequently, it does not really matter what the underlying presuppositions of a theory employed to ascertain the nature of reality are. In fact,...
Analysts warned that the December CPI report would be “muddy.” It was. But you will find what you really need to know about the current trajectory of inflation in two unrelated charts.
The silver price is rallying again this morning and as the precious metals continue their historic surge, Michael Oliver warns that these stocks are walking on glass at this point.

January 13, 2026

Big round numbers are in play and in that regard, one question for investors to consider is this: Could gold hit $5000 while the Dow hits 50,000 and silver hits $100? It seems likely and gold stock enthusiasts may want to also note that GDX is also closing in on the $...

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