Gold Editorials & Commentary

Basis GDX, gold stocks hit an all-time high yesterday… and gold is powering up the charts again today!

Economist Torsten Slok produced an interesting chart showing how the inflation cycle of today resembles that of the 1970s.

The best performing precious metal for the past week was gold, up 3.64%, on expectations that the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates by 50 basis points at its September 17 meeting, as a weaker-than-expected gain in Nonfarm Payrolls highlighted the lackluster...

With the price of gold at record highs and demand surging in Asia, many ultra-wealthy families are embracing a 19th-century model and jumping into the gold business, taking on the role of bullion traders, financing, shipping, and flipping gold without the middlemen...

The U.S. dollar is experiencing a rare volatility squeeze, indicating that a major move is near. While the most likely direction is downward, any move will have a big impact on precious metals.

For the third straight month, gold flowed into ETFs globally, led by North American and European funds. This continues the general trend this year. Gold inflows into ETFs through the first half of 2025 hit levels not seen since the pandemic.

For almost two years now, the gold price seems to just keep going up. And now that it's crossed over the $3,600 level, we're starting to see some familiar times of another area in past history.

US producer prices increased by the most in three years in July amid a surge in the costs of goods and services, suggesting a broad pickup in inflation was imminent, Reuters reported in mid-August.

Following the release of last month’s official federal jobs numbers, President Trump complained that the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was publishing inaccurate, too-low employment numbers to make Trump look bad. So, Trump fired the commissioner....

Even though the Fed has indicated that they're likely to begin cutting rates again after a pause this month, we don't have that recession signal yet. This is significant gold against the stock market.

It seems like we are starting to see a trend here. As El Salvador just became the latest country to add gold to its reserves, doing so for the first time in 35 years.

Today is 06 September 2025.  Do you recall up to where Gold traded on this very date 14 years ago? “On this day in 2011 price reached an all-time high of 1923, right mmb?” Precisely so, Squire, yet then for nearly nine years ’twas never higher.

The gold bugs are right. Gold is an important asset that everybody should hold. And yet, the mainstream looks at these so-called gold bugs with derision. 

Our proprietary cycle indicator is up. GLD is on short term buy signal. GDX is on short term buy signal. XGD.to is on short term buy signal. GDXJ is on short term buy signal.

August Payrolls is just one among many quickly degrading economic markers. It is interesting that the Trump-decapitated BLS is reporting no better numbers than the BLS, pre-decapitation. The only thing keeping the Good Ship Lollipop afloat are the embedded Education...

The latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, hosted by Mike Maharrey, explored why gold and silver are surging to historic highs, how inflationary pressures are building, and why central banks are moving away from the U.S. dollar.

If a dollar were constant, like an inch or an hour, trade would collapse. A core part of currency’s purpose is to contract and expand, signaling scarcity and abundance.

Higher gold prices have put a damper on central bank gold buying, but the World Gold Council still categorized August purchases as “firm.” Globally, central banks added 10 tonnes of gold to their reserves in August.

We used to hear about the bond vigilantes, and for the past few decades, we've wondered when they would return.

This is our end of the month monthly recap with Vince Lanci. He is the editor and publisher of the great goldfix on Substack. He's also an adjunct professor of corporate finance at the University of Connecticut.

After the silver futures broke through the $42 level on Tuesday, while the gold futures set another new all-time record high, there's been a pullback on Thursday.

Goldman just wrote about gold price being possibly at $5,000. And you know when those forecasts were also getting out of control? In 2011. At the top.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced changes to the Fed’s monetary policy framework in his remarks at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Summit. Most notably, the Fed has decided to scrap its controversial Flexible Average Inflation Targeting (FAIT) regime in...

For six months straight, manufacturing has been receding, according to the Institute for Supply Management. What I find most revealing in today’s ISM report about this period of manufacturing recession are the comments that tell a tale on tariffs that confirms the...

Yesterday, the gold futures rallied over $3,600 per ounce for the first time in history. Although what was even more shocking about the move was that it happened while the dollar was rallying too.

This week, the Financial Times reported that new reporting rules set to take effect in the autumn will allow banks to hide troubled loans and conceal signs of distress in their lending portfolios.

The best-performing precious metal for the past week was silver, up 3.12%, and ending the month higher by 9.98%, making it the strongest performer among precious metals for the month. For the first time since 1996, foreign central banks now hold a larger share of...

With a NASDAQ and S&P 500 (narrowly driven by seven, mega-cap monopoly powers) enjoying a seemingly immortal ride North, all feels eerily normalized in the land of Wall Street Oz.

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with veteran trader and market analyst Greg Weldon, founder of Weldon Financial, to discuss the accelerating bull market in gold and silver, Federal Reserve policy, global de-dollarization...

Government regulators in India are considering easing restrictions on the inclusion of gold ETFs in the country’s pension funds. This could supercharge India’s already surging gold investment market.