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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.
The Central Banking Establishment Is Genuinely Worried About Trump, but Not for the Reasons They Say
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 $...
The precious metals market soared on Monday, most likely based on the most recent move in the Trump-Powell fight. On Sunday, January 11, the Department of Justice served grand jury subpoenas to the Federal Reserve over Chair Jerome Powell's congressional testimony...
When US unemployment ticked up to 4.6 percent in November 2025, the Financial Times declared that the Federal Reserve should cut rates to rescue workers. From the Keynesian view, if jobs falter, you throw more money at the problem. Yet those policies create short‑term...
January 12, 2026
2025 was quite the year for precious metals. Last year, gold rose by over 64 percent, setting 53 new record highs along the way. Silver gained just under 148 percent. Platinum’s price increased by 125.9 percent. Palladium was up just over 80 percent.
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