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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.
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...
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