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January 12, 2026
The market is doing exactly what strong trends do: rotating, not breaking. The dollar is cooling after a failed breakout, while metals are pressing higher into fresh upside territory. This is not chaos. It’s a clean, technical continuation with momentum on the bulls’...
Looking back on 2025, Piepenburg gives proper weight to the year’s headline economic events, including record-high gold and silver prices, but argues that these headlines pale in comparison to the real drivers behind precious metal moves today and tomorrow.
The Dow is poised to hit 50,000 this week, a milestone that would have seemed surreal when the blue chip average, plagued by covid, was bottoming near 18,000 six years ago.
It is commonly held that the long-term interest rate is an average of current and expected short-term interest rates. The short-term interest rate, it is maintained, is determined by the central bank policy rate, such as the federal funds rate in the US.
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January 11, 2026
As mentioned in my last article back in late-December, Gold was setting up for a key short- term correction, coming from several smaller tracked waves - though a move anticipated to end up as countertrend, before turning higher again into February. This February, 2026...
Six trading days into 2026 find Gold having already netted a year-to-date gain of +4.3% and Silver +12.4%. Or … just in case you’re scoring at home … to go deeper inside the data for the 138 hours so far traded, 81(59%) have been up for Gold and 75 (54%) have been up...
January 10, 2026
Gold sector cycle is now UP. Trend is up for gold stocks, down for USD & gold. We have taken profits and will wait for new set ups.
December capped off a booming year as gold ETFs charted the highest level of gold inflows, in dollar terms, on record. The gold price set new records 53 times in 2025. That drove investors to pour an unprecedented amount of capital into gold-backed funds.
January 9, 2026
The U.S. dollar extended gains, shifting very short-term momentum back in its favor. At the same time, EURUSD broke below the important technical support and reached an area where sellers may start losing control. This puts both markets at an inflection point, where...
The gold miners’ recently-finished Q4’25 will soon prove their greatest quarter ever fundamentally! Their coming reported earnings are going to skyrocket to epic records, mostly due to astonishing record gold prices. But stable mining costs and production will also...
In a recent episode of the Money Metals’ Midweek Memo podcast, host Mike Maharrey argues we are watching a familiar setup return. The financial system, he says, increasingly resembles 2019, when cracks began showing after the Fed attempted to tighten policy.
Gold now ranks as the world’s top reserve asset. According to World Gold Council data, global gold reserves are approaching $4 trillion. Treasury holdings total approximately $3.9 trillion.
The Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) is made up of exchange-traded futures on 22 commodities and is widely mimicked by ETFs and fund managers. On Nov. 28, 2025, the weighting for gold was at 19.4% and silver at 7.1%. On Jan. 8 the BCOM is set to change its 2026 target...
Three monetary riddles, partially overlapping, require at least a tentative solution before work on any genuine forecast for 2026 and beyond should begin. The completion of the forecast depends further on the taking of a view about the pre-election US monetary stimulus...
January 8, 2026
Silver is now moving back and forth intraday by as much as it was trading just 15 years ago… But while we’re looking at the short-term price moves, let’s not forget about the big picture.
January 7, 2026
Fiat bugs have been desperately trying to call a top in gold and silver. They were just waylaid (again) by geopolitical events in Venezuela and…
Economic freedom should include freedom in money. It’s a freedom even, as we say these days, that advanced economies don’t have. My guiding text for this talk is Friedrich Hayek’s celebrated essay “Choice in Currency.” That is chapter 7 of this excellent book—Hayek for...
Central bank gold buying picked up in September and gained momentum in October. That momentum carried into November with gold reserves continuing to climb.
Recently, two Federal Reserve governors delivered speeches with interesting differences. Michael Barr warned against weakening bank supervision, citing “growing pressures to scale back examiner coverage, to dilute ratings systems” that could lead to a crisis. Stephen...
January 6, 2026
The weekend brought dramatic headlines: US forces arrested Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a surprise military operation, sparking immediate safe-haven flows into gold. The yellow metal surged about 2% to approximately $4,450 per ounce as I'm writing these words.
The best-performing precious metal(s) of the year were silver and platinum, up roughly 145% and 135%, respectively. Both metals led 2025’s gains, driven by their roles as monetary safe-haven assets amid expectations of U.S. rate cuts and rising geopolitical tensions....
We’ve seen some sharp price swings in the gold market over the last couple of months. Should this diminish gold’s investment appeal?
Stagnating economies, together with high government debt loads, inevitably create funding crises and debt traps. Nowhere is this problem more destructive than for the fiat dollar.
Repo operations at the Fed on the last day of 2025 signal growing stress in the financial system, similar to the setup we saw in 2019.
January 5, 2026
Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the Venezuelan government nationalized American oil interests many years ago. The notion is that since “they stole our...
2025 was historic in that gold, silver and copper all rose significantly at the same time — the first time this has happened in 45 years.
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Washington state will begin penalizing citizens for protecting their savings in precious metals, imposing a sales tax on all new purchases effective January 1.
January 4, 2026
It’s time for a report card on my 2025 predictions. No sense moving ahead with where I see 2026 going until we see how 2025 went. I try to look back each year to see if I’m getting off track or still staying on course.
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