Gold Editorials & Commentary

[Many readers of these weekly commentaries may not be aware that the focus of Rick’s Picks each day is on timely trading ideas. Below is chat room banter for a typical ‘freaky Friday’. The discussion includes several trades that were posted ahead of actionable...

Jeffrey Tucker returns to the show, and we delve into the current state of the precious metals market amid rising inflation. Tucker critiques mainstream financial narratives, highlighting the misleading portrayal of economic recovery and the real impacts of...

Oh oh; the Dow Jones may have closed last week at a BEV Zero, but then broke below its BEV -3% level this week, closing the week with a BEV of -2.27%.  Is the rally over?  It may be, but until the Dow Jones actually breaks below its BEV -5% line, falling below...

We’ve penned it before, so let’s pen it again: “Gold when technically overbought [as clearly now ’tis] might actually be considered a good thing … [as] great bull markets (or the resumption thereof) do breakout as such.”

Coming up don’t miss an exclusive interview with Corey Maita from MintID. Money Metals’ Mike Maharrey talks to Corey about how he has used unique technologies and innovation to fill gaps in the retail bullion market and how he’s created products in direct response...

Gold has broken out firmly and has no overhead resistance. Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. Our ratio is on buy signal. Trend is UP for gold stocks. Trend is UP for gold.

Central banks continued to add to their gold reserves in February, albeit at a slightly slower pace. On net, global central bank gold reserves increased by 19 tons in February with some selling pushing down that total. It was the ninth straight month of net central...

The gold miners’ stocks are building steam, enjoying mounting upside momentum with gold powering to nominal record highs.  Speculators and investors alike are taking notice of this high-potential sector that has long been overlooked.  Despite their recent surge,...

Gold is in the beginning stages of a new bull market that should last into the 2030s. The last breakout of this magnitude was in 2005, which triggered a 6-year bull run. By 2030, we see gold hitting our longer-term price target between $8000 to $10,000.

With the increasing gold price of late comes the assumption that the expected cut in interest rates will open a torrent of cheap money that will bring the U.S. dollar down with a thud.  But, what would happen to the gold price if the Fed doesn’t cut interest rates...

Here are today's videos and charts.

In recent weeks, gold has reached new all-time highs in many currencies, including the US dollar, the euro and the Swiss franc. We want to take the euphoric mood among gold investors as an opportunity to focus on a fundamental topic.

In recent days we've seen divergence between the precious metals and stocks, a rise in bond yields, and continued worries that inflation is headed higher again. Which has Bloomberg warning of a stock market crash similar to 2007-2008, that may be the foundation...

Gold is clearly in breakout mode. We look at historical cyclical moves in Gold and argue it could reach $5000 before the end of 2026. This will require an economic downturn.

Many prominent American founders warned us about paper money. Thomas Paine may have summed it up best: “The evils of paper money have no end.”

Reflecting on his childhood in this episode of Money Metals’ Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey recalls those playground disputes where challenges were met with the retort, "Oh yeah? What are you going to do about it?!" 

In this brief, 13-minute compilation of insights from 2023, VON GREYERZ, AG partner, Matthew Piepenburg, reminds us of prior warnings which are truer than ever (and playing out) today as the stock market totally divorces itself from the real (and recessionary)...

Axel Merk, President and Chief Investment Officer at Merk Investments, who manages two Gold ETFs, analyzes Fed Policy and the Gold Market. He believes that Gold will perform even better in a hard landing and is worried a hard landing could be on the horizon.

Gold is rallying regardless of what’s happening in other markets, and while there are signs of a top, gold appears to simply not care about them at the moment.

Why are gold and commodities up and stocks under pressure as long-term interest rates rise?

Gold broke another intraday record on Monday. This continues the gold bull run that has been ongoing for several weeks. But there is something else happening that’s quite unusual.

Last month, the US Senate passed a resolution saying the over 34 trillion dollars (and growing) national debt threatens national security. A few days later, a bipartisan majority of the Senate voted for a 1.2 trillion dollars spending bill.

Yesterday Goldman Sachs put out a report on Uranium, that sent one particular stock soaring higher. And once again, the gold price set another new all-time high.

After a few years of having no trading positions in gold, I opened a long one. This might seem perplexing for those who read only free analyses from me and didn’t have the full picture – in the last few years I had long and short positions in mining stocks (...

Is it really a bull era for gold? We bring some insight into this exciting issue.

The best performing precious metal for the holiday shortened week was gold, up 2.79%. According to Bloomberg, gold was steady ahead of a slew of inflation reports that may offer more clarity on when central banks will start cutting interest rates.

I like to entertain seriously views I disagree with, but it’s hard to describe a new hypothesis on the left about the United States’ economic dynamism relative to Europe’s as anything other than “cockamamie.”

The label “prepper” carries some baggage. Even after all this country has seen in recent years, some still consider those stocking up on food, ammo, bullion, and other emergency essentials as a little bit nuts.

In these days of rampant inflation, it’s imperative that we return to the gold standard—and the real thing too. By this I mean the classical gold standard, not the so-called “gold exchange” standard, and with no fractional reserve banking, just as the great Murray...

An elderly woman in Maryland lost nearly $800,000 in a gold scam. The incident underscores the importance of using caution when buying, selling, and handling gold and silver. Montgomery County Detective Sean Petty told NBC4 that the woman was taken by a “well-...