Gold Editorials & Commentary

Supporters of tax cuts argue that they eventually "pay for themselves" and lower deficits through economic growth and increased revenue, even without significant spending cuts. 

Four days after “Liberation Day,” President Donald Trump spoke with reporters. He was asked, “Is there a pain in the market…you’re unwilling to tolerate?” He replied irritably, “I think your question is so stupid.

With the U.S. weaponizing the dollar and trade, some people in Germany are calling on the Bundesbank to move at least some of its gold out of New York and bring it home to minimize the risk of U.S. meddling.

What is the world’s most important question? Got gold? The fiat and debt-themed American empire is burning, and a full rate cut (demanded by the nation’s president following a highly questionable jobs report) would only fuel the growing fire.

Trump is badgering Powell relentlessly about interest rates. Aside from being great theater (of the absurd), the odds are near zero that the Fed will cut in June and very small they’ll cut in July. CME Group, which we have noted tends to be more of a wind sock than...

New Gold hit a nine-year high, underscoring growing investor confidence driven by operational performance, sustainability leadership and consistent production across its Canadian assets. The company’s improved safety metrics, strong local hiring and emissions...

On the latest Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey welcomed Michael Pento, founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies, for an in-depth look at the gold market and broader financial trends.

Various tools and machinery that individuals have produced were produced in order to better produce consumer goods. The quantity and the quality of various tools and machinery—capital goods—places a limit on the quantity and the quality of the production of consumer...

Government spending comes at a cost to our standard of living: it’s time to stop counting weapons systems as citizens’ economic welfare.

Americans are accustomed to assets being priced in terms of Federal Reserve note dollars. It makes sense, of course. The dollar is the currency of the realm. There is, however, a real problem with using it as a benchmark.

Discussion with Rick Rule covering the following topics: Gold & Silver Hated, Tolerated or Loved, Generalist Investors, Outflows in Precious Metals, Rick’s Strategy in Gold & Silver, Metrics Rick Uses to Evaluate Stocks, Stocks Can Rise & Be Cheaper Than...

You're going to be hearing a lot more about Basel III and the implementation (or lack thereof) of the capital treatment rules that affect how gold is classified.

Bob is there any similarities between the crisis going on in the global economy comparable to 2008?

Platinum is soaring and palladium jumped higher, too. Both serve as important signals, especially the former.

The stock market is in a topping process, brazenly manipulated by white-collar carnies who cut their teeth at Sloan, Wharton and Stanford. These newly trained ass-bandits have been working Microsoft shares to hold the broad averages aloft while they offload...

Everyone likes to be flattered by being called “great,” especially Donald Trump. Equally as flattering is to have one’s entire country called “great” if not “the greatest,” “exceptional,” or “indispensable.” Or perhaps even “a shining city on a hill,” reminiscent of...

Weekly wrap-up in precious metals.

After writing about the faulty economic numbers put out by the federal government (or not put out on time as if they were hiding them or are figuring out how to continue forward while downsizing), we have another report that came out on Friday that shows the job...

I thought I’d start this week off a bit differently, so I’m beginning with my Dow Jones to Gold Ratio chart.  This chart illustrates how since the dollar’s link to its $35 gold peg was broken in August 1971, the Dow Jones and gold, have for the most part been...

We simply must start with the spotlight on Silver:  Sweet Sister Silver!  As if shot out of a cannon this past Monday, Silver swiftly soared, by Wednesday reaching 36.27 — a level not having traded in better than 13 years (since 29 February 2012) — then onward to as...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. Gold sector cycle is up. Trend is up for gold & gold stocks, and down for USD.

Gold stocks just surged into another decisive secular breakout, at an unlikely time.  Gold remains mired in a six-week-old high consolidation, and is just entering its seasonally-weak summer doldrums.  So seeing outsized gold-stock strength now is unusual, though it...

For the first time in five months, gold-backed ETFs globally reported modest outflows in May as investors took profits.

As U.S. debt soars and foreign central banks stockpile gold, four members of Congress today introduced a bill to require the first comprehensive audit of America’s gold reserve in decades.

Central banks have been aggressively adding gold to their reserves over the last three years, and several African banks are poised to join the party.

The precious metals sector is showing increasing bullish momentum, with silver, platinum, and mining stocks breaking out in recent weeks. These moves point to a likely intermediate cycle low for gold on April 7th. If this cycle count is accurate, we’re now eight...

Is private equity (PE) going dark? And what does this have to do with gold? In fact, the answers are becoming harder to ignore.

Mike Maharrey opened this week’s Money Metals Midweek Memo with an anecdote about metal detecting—a light segue into a serious look at gold scarcity. He recounted the 1979 discovery of the Golden Beauty, a nearly 10-pound gold nugget found in Western Australia, now...

Incentives matter. Policymakers ignore this axiom at their own risk. The U.S. government’s weaponization of the dollar has made many countries wary of holding greenbacks, and we’ve seen an accelerating de-dollarization over the last few years.

The New York Fed recently released its household debt report for the first quarter. The chart below shows percentages of delinquent loans.