Gold Editorials & Commentary

After last week's gold and silver selloff, Goldman Sachs has a new report out to their clients telling them how to respond.

Gold sector cycle is down. Trend is up for gold stocks, and down for USD and gold. A pullback is now in progress.

Silver is having a great summer, just clocking out June with one of its best performances of modern times.  Silver’s breakout surge and silver-ETF-share demand are far outpacing gold’s.  Such strong upside action in this seasonally-weak time of the year reveals...

The Federal Reserve Board voted last week to move ahead with a proposal to scale back the amount of capital that banks must hold as part of their assets. A Reuters report indicated that the amount of capital that banks must set aside will depend on the size of the...

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In the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey dives into the troubling trajectory of the U.S. dollar, recent warnings from international banks, and the growing shift toward gold among global central banks. 

The pace of central bank gold buying picked up slightly in May. Globally, central banks officially added a net 20 tonnes of gold to their reserves in May, according to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council. This compares to 14 tonnes in April.

There’s an old truth we forget at our peril: when money loses its integrity, freedom soon follows. Throughout history, the erosion of honest currency has marched in lockstep with the erosion of civil liberties.

Remember the story that I outlined in my gold price forecast for July 2025? We saw more of the same yesterday, but on a micro-scale.

Credit expansion, AKA more and more debt, into von Mises‘ Crack-Up-Boom would bring Stagflation at best, and Hyperinflation at worst in the not too distant future.

Last week, the Financial Stability Board (FSB), an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, published a report analyzing vulnerabilities in non-bank commercial real estate (CRE) investors. A key focus was the ...

The silver price has recorded its highest monthly close in 14 years at $36.05 for the month of June. The last time the price closed this high was July of 2011, when the precious metal notched a close of $39.23. Despite near-record prices, investor interest remains...

Earlier this month, in her first public speech as the Federal Reserve’s Vice Chair for Supervision, Michelle Bowman laid out her vision for how the central bank should oversee and regulate US banks. At the heart of her approach is pragmatism: identifying problems,...

By signing sound money legislation earlier this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ended Florida’s discriminatory practice of assessing sales taxes on small purchases of gold, silver, or platinum bullion and coins.

Economists were expecting find another 100k jobs were created based on today’s report, but we got 33k in net job destruction, instead, while the numbers from the last report were revised down in addition to this bad news. So much for “the economy is strong and...

After last week's selloff, the gold price has once again rebounded, and is now back up over the $3,350 level.

The gold bull run of the 1970s started with a default when the US defaulted on its gold obligations in August of 1971. The current gold bull market will likely end closer to major debt defaults.

After I posted today’s early heads-up, gold price moved several dollars lower, and now it’s even clearer that the breakdown below the rising line was not invalidated.

Most economic commentators consider a decline in economic statistics, such as gross domestic product (GDP), as indicative of a decline in the health of the economy. According to most experts, this decline in the GDP—which is called a recession—as a rule, arises...

Under the Federal Reserve system, the U.S. is not a capitalist country, it is a socialist welfare state for the elite, compliments of inflation.

The dollar is “unattractive.” At least that's how UBS sees it. In a recent note, the Swiss investment bank said it is time to “reduce and hedge exposure to USD before further dollar declines.”

Last weekend the Bank for International Settlements published its annual report for the year ending March 31, 2025. It includes some detail on the gold transactions carried out by the bank and in particular at the bottom of Page 195 it confirms that the gold swaps...

Today, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signed House Bill 7287 into law, which includes a provision removing the last remaining tax on purchases of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion.

Supreme Money Gold. The money of kings. It’s coveted by the citizens of China and India, and excitingly… it’s a key focus of savvy citizens in the West!

Many are wondering if it’s too late to buy gold, that gold has peaked, and they have missed their opportunity. We hope the below series of facts, figures and common-sense reality-checks will put such fears squarely to rest, as gold’s role, price direction and days...

The worst-performing precious metal for the past week was gold, down 2.99%, in response to the ceasefire in the Middle East and the prospects of new trade deals being announced. According to Raymond James, Mexico will not approve any new mining concessions.

The US Senate worked through the weekend on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The goal was to pass it quickly to ensure the House will then pass it and send it to President Trump’s desk before the July 4th holiday.

In a recent episode of the Money Metals Podcast, analyst Mike Maharrey sat down with Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter and CEO of the New Orleans Investment Conference, to unpack the forces driving precious metals higher—and why the rally may be far from over...

When I say, “the bull market is strong,” I only mean the market for selling words that are complete “bull____” is strong. The stock analyst bull that goes in your ears about the economy is reeks strongly these days.

Turks are holding billions of dollars in gold “under their pillows.” The Turkish central bank estimates that Turkish households have more $311 billion worth of unregistered gold, most of it outside of the official financial system.