Gold Editorials & Commentary

Gold miners’ stocks were just slammed sharply lower as high-flying gold started wobbling.  Gold stocks’ great leverage to gold is a double-edged sword, amplifying rallies and selloffs alike.  These serious blows suffered by gold stocks have given traders pause,...

As you’ve likely heard, the inevitable pullback in precious metals continued yesterday, with spot gold dropping 5.29% and spot silver falling 7.03%, marking the sharpest one-day decline in over a decade.

A former Federal Reserve advisor said the recent selloff in gold and silver wasn’t just nervous investors booking profits on oversold assets. She thinks it signals deeper structural rot in the financial system.

Gold slips below $4,100 per ounce after a single-day drop of more than $100, while silver hovers just above $48. The speed of the move is the headline, but the setup is the story.

I'd say "hoard" since we're talking banks that usually have a vaults (or computers) full of cash, but that is just the problem: they don't.

If you don't like volatility, watch out in these gold and silver markets. Because the stunning swings continue, this time with the gold and silver prices shooting higher again.

After the big selloff in gold and silver, a Saxo Bank analyst says the metals are no longer overbought, but they are still under-owned.

A long time ago, a mythical community was totally free.  It had virtually no taxes, a tiny government, and everyone prospered. and was happy.

You’ve heard the expression, “throwing good money after bad;” well, we had an example of throwing bad money after bad. President Trump has been throwing the dollar after the Argentine peso in order to save the crashing peso.

There’s a strange contradiction among many gold owners. They buy gold to escape or reduce their dollar exposure but then look to sell that gold when the price of gold rises in dollar terms. And they measure their success in the very unit they don’t trust. 

Yesterday, you got to live through one of the most historic sell-offs in the history of precious metals trading on planet earth. But what the heck actually happened?

Gold peaked one trading day after we issued our Blow-Off Top Warning. A repeat of the 2006 pattern suggests a potential decline toward $3,500 in November.

You can bet that most vocal proponents for spectacularly higher gold and silver prices will see Tuesday's huge intra-day reversals as just another dip in price before the next jump to warp speed.

There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. If the past is any guide to the future the trigger to the fifth bust will include a key component - optimism on reform, replacement or just...

Chinese wholesale gold demand rebounded in September. This was partly due to a seasonal uptick in gold buying, along with continued support from investors as the yellow metal scaled new record highs.

Market analysts are searching for an explanation for today's bombing of gold and silver prices.

We've seen one of (if not the most) furious rallies in the history of precious metals trading, but today the selloff arrived. As the prices of gold and silver, and platinum and palladium for that matter, are all getting absolutely destroyed right now.

It's getting pretty wild out there in the International Gold Market. One day the price goes up $170, the next day it's down $90. Behind the scenes, there's a rather intriguing high-stakes game of poker playing out that Vince Lanci reveals in this morning's show. To...

As my metals market April to October cycle inversion reaches its potential crescendo today, I invite savvy investors to consider joining me… As I book some great fiat money profits… with an eye to eventually parlaying them into more supreme money gold.

We have ridden the uptrend in the Precious Metals sector for all its worth over the past several months, generally making substantial gains but after breaking higher yet again last week it suddenly reversed dramatically on Friday in a manner which suggests that...

The best-performing precious metal for the past week was silver, up 6.29%. Silver remains firmly higher on the week, still showing double-digit gains, but is now cooling from the speculative frenzy that pushed it into overbought territory. The healthy pullback...

Despite all the talk about DOGE and cost-cutting earlier this year, the federal government spent more in fiscal 2025 than it did the previous year and set a new spending record.

On a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviewed Greg Weldon. Gold had pushed past $4,300, and silver broke $54 on the day of recording. Asked if that’s bubble territory, Weldon said you can argue both sides, but futures open interest...

For most economists and commentators, a strong labor market is the key driver of economic growth. The reduction in the number of unemployed people supposedly means that more individuals can afford to increase their spending on goods and services.

Together, they examine the underlying drivers – from mounting sovereign debt and shifts in monetary policy to central bank gold accumulation and the weakening foundations of the global monetary system.

What's fascinating about this stunning gold rally (which is continuing again this morning), is that despite everything that's happened, especially in the West, very few people actually own any gold.

The recent collapses of Tricolor Holdings, a car dealership, and First Brands, an auto parts company, have triggered a wave of reactions and speculation among mainstream media, analysts, and investors. Many in the investor community appear to have suddenly...

It was a very important day because both gold and silver have finally smashed through two critical levels, $4,000 and $50.

Gold and silver have entered acceleration mode. With gold surging past $4,300 per ounce and silver trading at $54, early sell-offs are being swiftly absorbed – a clear sign of deep underlying strength. But the real story reaches far beyond daily price movements.

The aging bull market smells like it’s in a topping process, although it could take a vicious head-fake or two to new highs to set the hook. Last week, I raised the possibility that shares had entered a vortex similar to the one that led to the 1929 Crash.