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April 21, 2026
The best performing precious metal for the past week was silver, up 6.20%. According to Canaccord, K92 Gold production beat estimates at 46,700 ounces versus 42,800 ounces, marking a strong start to 2026 as the company progresses toward full-year guidance of 190,000–...
If you had told most people a few years ago that we’d be seriously talking about $8,000 gold today, they would have thought you were crazy. Well, we’re crazy.
On Friday, Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz "completely open." Oil crashed 10%. Stocks hit all-time highs. Trump posted "THANK YOU!" By Saturday afternoon, IRGC gunboats were firing on tankers. By Sunday, the US Navy had shot and seized an Iranian cargo ship.
In the latest Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey welcomed back veteran market analyst Gregory T. Weldon for a sweeping discussion on precious metals, the U.S. dollar, geopolitics, inflation, and the growing disconnect between financial markets and economic...
Few things are more head-shakingly trying to the sound money economist than listening to the endless academic and policy debates about trade. Lost amidst the back and forth over surpluses and deficits, the “appropriate” level of subsidies or tariffs, is the fact that...
April 20, 2026
You can trust the prolific and ever-entertaining British author Dominic Frisby to produce a most timely book on a most relevant asset class. In The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics & Power, released last year in Britain but only available in the US...
Here are today's videos and charts.
Is there enough selling left to push gold below 4100? I don't think so.
Two successful professionals—one a semi-retired entrepreneur, the other a top attorney—both had the intelligence and capital to manage their own investments. Yet both watched their portfolios suffer devastating losses, despite doing everything conventional wisdom told them to do...
April 19, 2026
The stock market, as well as the precious metals, and their miners are recovering nicely, nothing really exciting is going on. Making this is a good opportunity to review my Bear’s Eye View, or BEV charting technique, before we move on to the Dow Jones’ BEV chart...
At yesterday's U.S. House Agriculture Committee oversight hearing, Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig pledged to assist efforts of members of Congress who recently introduced the SILVER Act.
With Gold having settled its week yesterday (Friday) at 4849, the compressing of range continues. Clearly during April, daily range has been narrowing.
While some stocks went up (especially in the Oil/Gas and Fertilizer/Ag sectors) and many went down during the worst of the war related headlines (and in software, the AI-mageddon hype), stocks in the Uranium sector maintained an orderly correction/consolidation that...
Not much has changed… and that in itself is the story. The dollar still struggles to regain strength, while gold and silver continue to hold near key resistance zones. That tells us one thing: the market hasn’t made a decision yet, but the pressure is building, and a...
April 18, 2026
Gold sector cycle is UP. Trend is up for USD and down for gold & gold stocks. Counter trend rally in progress.
Consumer spending is “under strain” according to a recent New York Times report. That’s bad news for an economy that depends on people buying stuff. We see this consumer strain reflected in the slowing growth of consumer debt.
April 17, 2026
Gold remains really high despite March’s sharp correction, not far off January’s extraordinary records. So speculators’ capital firepower available for buying gold futures should have already been spent, largely tapped-out. Yet astonishingly specs’ upside bets have...
First, much of the gold supposedly backing America’s financial credibility may be lower-quality metal that does not meet modern international standards. Second, the silver market could be heading into even tighter supply conditions as a new disruption tied to China...
Yesterday was Tax Day. It’s a source of misery for many of us as we write a big check to the IRS. But did you know the IRS isn’t the source of your biggest tax bill? In fact, you don’t even get a bill. You just pay the tax every time you buy something.
At today’s U.S. House Agriculture Committee oversight hearing, Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig today applauded – and pledged to assist the efforts by – two members of Congress who recently introduced the “System Integrity through...
April 16, 2026
Yesterday, I wrote that the relief rally was likely to reverse as the relief itself was an illusion. And it seems that most markets are already realizing that. Gold is down 0.29%. Silver is down 1.45%. Bitcoin is down 1.60%. Copper is down 0.61%. The dollar is up 0.23...
On April 15, Americans face the deadline for sending to the federal Internal Revenue Service a report on all their income. Most Americans do this because failure to do so is likely to result in fines and possibly imprisonment. If one obstinately resists this, of course...
Could income taxes ever encourage someone to switch from a higher-paying to a lower-paying job? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is yes. I have a recent example of this in my own family.
April 15, 2026
Oil is at $95.60. Up 33% since the war began. The Strait is mined. The blockade is in effect. Iran is threatening to close the Red Sea. Israel's Mossad chief just pledged more covert operations to topple Iran's government. The IAEA has been barred from Iran's nuclear...
Over the last year, the precious metal markets have seen historic increases and then decreases in price. This, of course, is the result of the workings of supply and demand, but there have also been cries of market manipulation.
Government is expensive, and America is running up the bill to the tune of $40 trillion. Every April, Americans are reminded of this basic truth. On April 15, the IRS forces citizens to confront what the government takes directly from their income.
April 14, 2026
The past sessions brought exactly what we’ve been waiting for: follow-through, level-to-level movement and in some cases… clean execution of previously outlined scenarios. In other words - this wasn’t a guessing game - this was structure playing out. And today, instead...
The debt-funded conflict between the American and Iranian governments now features a blockade of Hormuz. This blockade moves physical war to the back burner (which will upset millions of chickenhawks around the world) and it moves stagflation to the front.
The recent pullback in gold equity prices may trigger more acquisitions. Junior exploration and development stocks experienced the largest share price declines in March relative to their intermediate and senior peers, and this may act as a near-term catalyst. G Mining...
In a rapidly shifting geopolitical environment, gold continues to demonstrate both its resilience and its complexity as a financial asset. In a recent episode of the Money Metals Podcast, host Mike Maharrey spoke with Joe Cavatoni, Market Strategist for North America...
The US Treasury Department last week released its monthly report on federal spending and revenue. March spending for the US federal government was up by more than $20 billion, or by nearly four percent, from March of last year. In spite of the administration’s claims...
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