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August 14, 2026
Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. Policymakers, pundits, and economists use this data to gauge the current inflation situation. For instance, the July CPI cooled a bit, raising hopes that the Fed will not raise...
One of the largest national precious metals dealers and depositories in the U.S. has again teamed up with the nation’s leading sound money public policy group to recognize state legislators championing sound money policies.
Money Metals Midweek Memo host Mike Maharrey opened this week’s episode with an old-fashioned banking analogy: Imagine somebody repeatedly claiming to have $100,000 in the bank but refusing to produce a statement or even balance the checkbook. The money might be there...
August 13, 2026
As Trump’s “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth demands a fifty-percent increase to the war budget—topping an eye watering $1.5 trillion—it may be instructive to remember that war spending has always and everywhere been the primary enemy of sound money. Some advocates of...
If markets dropped 35% tomorrow, would you know exactly what to do? Most people wouldn't — but this rotation strategy has helped others dramatically limit those kinds of losses. See how it works while you still have time to act...
August 12, 2026
The mid-year correction is over: Gold, silver, platinum, and miners all formed major lows, setting the stage for the next leg of the precious metals bull market. The biggest gains may still be ahead: We expect much higher prices into 2030–2031, with the most explosive...
The best-performing precious metal this past week was silver, up 10.28%. Silver outperformed the complex due to its higher beta sensitivity to gold prices, supported by an unexpected decline in U.S. payroll data that pushed Treasury yields lower and reduced...
This month marks 55 years since President Richard Nixon closed the “gold window,” severing the last link between the US dollar and gold. Under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement, foreign countries pegged their currencies to the US dollar, which was then pegged to a fixed...
Sen. Rand Paul has become Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s pawn. A few weeks ago, Bessent insisted all the gold is in the vaults at Fort Knox.
Platinum and palladium have participated in the broader precious-metals rally, but beneath the price action, important differences are emerging.
China’s official gold buying accelerated further in June, and the Chinese central bank is beginning to bring some of that gold home. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) officially purchased 640,000 troy ounces of gold in July. The nearly 20-tonne increase in reserves was...
August 11, 2026
The narrators say all that matters for gold is that America’s biggest fiat money soup kitchen (the Fed) might raise rates a quarter point, and that’s incredibly negative for gold.
It’s all been bullish after the summer swoon, as anticipated. While one reliable indicator we track (a smoothing of the Equity Put/Call ratio using moving averages) has failed to crack SPX into a proper correction, indexes like the SOX and NDX did crack hard. SPX...
Friday gave metal bulls something to celebrate, with gold confirming a major breakout and silver finally pushing above its consolidation.
In this latest edition of Gold Matters, VON GREYERZ Partner Jonny Haycock and Alasdair Macleod, Strategic Advisor at VON GREYERZ, discuss many of the dislocations appearing in markets.
According to many, the key cause of a general increase in prices is inflationary expectations. For instance, if there is a large increase in the prices of oil, individuals, it is held, will start forming expectations for higher inflation ahead.
It was almost exactly six months ago today, on February 2nd, that I put the Precious Metal Stocks Trades Portfolio back to 100% cash after an important measured-move price objective was reached on most of the precious metals complex.
August 10, 2026
The yen carry trade is an investment strategy where traders borrow Japanese yen at a very low interest rate, convert it into higher-yielding foreign currencies, and invest in global assets to pocket the interest rate gap.
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August 9, 2026
It turned out to be a pretty good week to own gold and silver. After a rough finish to July, the precious metals market got back on its feet this week. Gold clawed its way higher day after day, silver outperformed once again, and then Friday's weak U.S. jobs report...
In settling yesterday (Friday) at 4401, Gold just posted its second best of the 31 full trading weeks year-to-date: a +7.4% increase, second only to the +8.3% gain for that ending back on 23 January.
For a change I thought I start off with a chart of the Dow Jones, in dollars, along with its 52Wh High & Low Lines. As seen below, this week (Monday to Wednesday), three times the Dow Jones pushed up its 52Wk High Line.
There is an unimaginable fortune floating between 150 and 400 million miles from Earth. It’s an asteroid named Psyche. Some people think we can solve global poverty by mining this space gold and other precious metals.
August 8, 2026
Asian banks have beefed up their gold product and service offerings in recent months. According to The Banker, this represents “a structural wealth shift in wealth allocation.”
This week has once again proven that key technical levels matter. The support and resistance zones we've been tracking over the past several weeks continue to dictate price action across multiple markets. One by one, markets are either reaching their projected targets...
Breakout this week and spiking up. Gold sector cycle is now up. Trend is up for USD and for gold & gold stocks. A recovery rally is now in progress.
August 7, 2026
Gold stocks just soared to a big technical breakout, mirroring and amplifying their metal. Like gold, its leading miners’ ETFs had spent months winding ever tighter in a bullish chart pattern known as a falling wedge. Those usually resolve in strong reversals and...
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh continues to project a tough stance on inflation, repeatedly promising to restore price stability and keep inflation anchored at the central bank's longstanding 2% target. But according to Mike Maharrey in this week's Money Metals...
Gold flows into ETFs flipped positive globally in July. After two consecutive months of outflows, every region reported positive flows of metal into gold-backed funds in July. With Europe leading the way, gold ETFs reported net gold inflows of 23.5 tonnes in July,...
In this video, I'm going to tell you about the silver and gold bottoming signal that nobody is talking about.
August 6, 2026
Various factors are converging which suggest that the Precious Metals sector is about to break out into a major new uptrend and it looks like we have waited long enough.
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