Gold Editorials & Commentary

This week’s landmark Federal Open Market Committee decision to launch quantitative tightening is one of the most-important and most-consequential actions in the Federal Reserve’s entire 104-year history. QT changes everything for world financial markets levitated by...

There is a £1 trillion debt time bomb hanging over the United Kingdom. We are nearing the end of the time-bomb’s long fuse and it looks set to explode in the coming months. No one knows how to diffuse the £1 trillion bomb and who should be taking responsibility. It...

During the last week, the major market indices rallied again. Although there was no news to account for it, there was a reason.

The Chinese have announced that they have perfected a scheme, to be launched formally in the market by the end of the year, by means of which exporters of oil to China will accept the Chinese currency, the Yuan, in payment for the oil; for this deal, the Chinese...

The global economy is now in an expansionary phase, with bank credit being increasingly available for non-financial borrowers. This is always the prelude to the crisis phase of the credit cycle. Most national economies are directly boosted by China, the important...

I'd like to share a personal investment tale with you, the origins of which go back a ways. I became involved in physical precious metals/futures trading in 1972 after reading Harry Browne's book, How to Profit from the Coming Devaluation.

Everyone is making a big deal about the Fed's so-called "balance sheet reduction” which starts next month. Let’s assess some facts. First of all, the Fed plans on shrinking its balance sheet by $10-$30 billion per month. The Fed balance sheet is currently $4.5...

Global debt levels have reached unprecedented levels, pension deficits are rising and the US interest rate cycle is on the turn. Frank Holmes, chief executive of highly regarded investment management group US Global Investors, believes that investing in gold is a...

The generally accepted definition of TROJAN HORSE (*) is a person or thing intended secretly to undermine or bring about the downfall of an enemy or opponent. In today’s world, the THE Trojan Horse is Bitcoin – manned by ‘geeks’ using the unbridled greed addiction...

In an extensive, must-read report published on Monday by Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid, the credit strategist unveiled an extensive analysis of the “Next Financial Crisis”, and specifically what may cause it, when it may happen, and how the world could respond assuming...

October 19, 2017 marks an important holiday in the Indian culture. Diwali begins. Diwali is one of the biggest festivals for Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains. It is a lavish celebration of the victory of light over darkness with its gleaming candles, luxurious works of art...

Several weeks ago, I surprised most investors by issuing my “Book Profits Now!” call for the precious metals asset class. When I did so, head and shoulders top formations immediately formed on gold and GDX, and prices have swooned.

Global debt may be under-reported by around $13 trillion because traditional accounting practices exclude foreign exchange derivatives used to hedge international trade and foreign currency bonds, the BIS said on Sunday.

Global debt may be under-reported by...

Gold swaps by the Bank for International Settlements, Dave Kranzler of Investment Dynamics writes today, correlate inversely with the gold price. That is, the more gold is swapped by the BIS, the more metal is made available to bullion banks for sale into the market...

A quote often attributed to St. Augustine, the early Christian theologian, is: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” I feel blessed to be able to travel as much as I do—not because I’m a big fan of 10-hour flights or living out of a...

Physical demand for bullion rounds, coins, and bars remains somewhat soft in the US. This year’s run higher in prices as well as rising geopolitical tensions has whet the appetites of some investors, but it has not yet triggered broad participation.

Even for bitcoin last week was an eventful week. The price hit a recent low of $2,980, falling 40% and recovering by nearly 25% in the space of three days. Last week was a good example of the vulnerabilities in the cryptocurrency space to government announcements...

Previously, we have discussed the issue of a currency’s backing. From comments and emails, we realize this topic could use a bit more illumination. And there are some related concepts that should be addressed at the same time.

Now that the Irma-induced delay of the rally is behind us, SPX was allowed to reach its long-standing 2500 target. But will it stop there and reverse to start its descent into October/November, or will it move higher, first? There is some disagreement in what the...

Brief as our missive is this week, so we deem same for gold's present pullback. Greetings from Squaw Valley, where six months ago we'd better than 22 feet of snow up at High Camp. Yet just as it has melted away, so has gold melted up, establishing a high for the...

On August 11 the potential and reasoning for anticipated pivots in the US stock market and the gold sector were noted in this article: Potential Pivots Upcoming for Stocks and Gold.

Gold sector is on major buy signal since early 2016. Major signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for long-term investors.

Here are today's videos and charts.

Gold has surged dramatically to major breakouts since its usual summer-doldrums lows. That’s naturally rekindled interest in this leading alternative investment, despite the record-high stock markets. Investors are starting to return to gold again to prudently...

Back in January 2017, we predicted that 2017 would be a year of a $USD collapse. At that time it was obvious to us, plain as day, that the Trump administration would want a weak $USD in order to implement its economic policies.

This year North Korea has launched a dozen missiles. With the latest one it has threatened the U.S. with ‘ashes and darkness’ as Kim believes it ‘should be beaten to death like a rabid dog.’

Because of the $20 trillion size of the total U.S. national debt, the Federal Reserve acting to increase interest rates would ordinarily create severe financial problems for the government over time, due to sharply rising interest payments on the debt. There is,...

Now that gold has become overbought on Comex, the price is vulnerable to being trashed, yet again, by the too-big-to-fail banks. It is a familiar operation in gold futures markets, where speculators buying contracts protect themselves with stop-losses.

For the first time since we’ve been keeping track, two separate Category 4 hurricanes struck the mainland US in the same year. It should come as no surprise, then, that the combined recovery cost of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is expected to set a new all-time high...

Whistleblowers run a two-pronged battle - on the one hand they are lauded for their honesty in exposing wrongdoing in the fields in which they are involved - on the other, they are hated and despised for their actions by those who want to cover misdeeds, or preserve...