Gold Editorials & Commentary

Before we move into a review of the last few months of market action to learn what most investors did wrong, I think it is important to begin this missive by reposting something written by Robert Prechter in The Socionomic Theory of Finance (a book I strongly...

In his most recent discussion with Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold Radio, Matterhorn Asset Management principal, Matthew Piepenburg, weaves together the various threads of historical cycles, political psychology and the hard math of cancerous global debt to make...

Joe Biden entered the Oval Office with relatively low approval ratings. The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, an economy in decline, rising consumer prices, and potential scandals simmering in the background haven’t helped his approval ratings over the past two...

Jim Rogers returns to the show to discuss the Fed's ability to handle a higher interest rate and its potential impact on the economy, the US government budget, and corporate high-yield junk bonds.

For today's video I'm gonna just illustrate the need for patience. Last year I said I think this is going to be a difficult year, and we had a huge huge move up out of the 2020 bottom, this four year cycle low, and one of two things either happens when you get a...

The best performing precious metal for the week was gold, up 0.36%. Silver has continued to outperform gold, up 10% over the last three months driving the gold/silver ratio down to 80:1, closer to the historical average (76:1).

The chart is meant to put Friday’s giddy short-squeeze in perspective. If you are a bull and feeling a little discouraged by what you see, that is what I had intended. What better time to rack bears than in the final hours of a week that was more comic relief than...

Gold so far has seen a very good start into the new year. Driven by an extremely tense geopolitical situation (Cold War 2.0) as well as a weaker US-Dollar and the threat of U.S. insolvency (“debt ceiling”), the price of gold was able to increase by around $110 or 6...

It seems that all too often lately the gold mining sector is in tow with commodities in general and broad global stocks in its ups and downs. As a leader, but not THE leader of the rally that is fine for now as long as we’re still on the back end of the originally...

We start with this past week's highlight (or better stated "lowlight"): on Wednesday, our Economic Barometer tied for its worst one-day plunge in the 25 years we've been maintaining it. Here 'tis, and as we wrote that day to our Investors' Roundtable, (as inebriated...

The Dow Jones continues having difficulty breaching its BEV -5% line in its Bear’s Eye View chart below. On Monday this week, it made its third failed attempt since last August to break above this level. Seeing the Dow Jones close the week with a BEV of -9.30%, just...

As global elites gathered in Davos this week to discuss their plans for controlling the world economy, the gold market is delivering an alternative message.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. Current COT data supports overall higher gold prices. Our ratio is on buy signal. Trend is DOWN for USD. Trend is UP for gold stocks. Trend is UP for gold.

Markets fell 20% last year, in its worst yearly performance since the 2008 financial crisis. However rising market optimism on signs of cooling activity is perversely based on the belief that the increase in rates would tame inflation and a recession leading to...

Gold and its miners’ stocks both just flashed major Golden Cross buy signals.  These powerfully-bullish indicators are among the best in all of technical analysis, widely followed and revered.  They argue odds are mounting that recent months’ parallel gold and gold-...

The Fed likely has one or maybe two more rate hikes before they pause in the second quarter. The US must raise the Debt ceiling before July to avoid a technical default. Bank lending standards approach recessionary levels supporting widespread weakness.

The line for the self-checkout registers at my neighborhood Albertsons stretched into the store’s produce section. Is this human progress? I wondered, scanning my groceries—this just after I had filled my car’s gas tank at a not-so-convenient convenience store near...

Here are today's videos and charts.

While the stock markets in the US have remained choppy over the past few months as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, one of the surprises in the markets has been how the precious metals have rallied in the face of the central bank's tightening...

The slow but steady implosion of global bond markets is no longer a debate but fact. Knowing this, investors can better brace themselves for the policy and market reactions to come.

The purpose of this essay is not to convince the reader of the necessity for change. It is to present some commonsense policy changes to attempt to mitigate the economic harm that has been done to Western economies, especially to the United States and the United...

In 2011, the Federal Reserve invented new accounting methods for itself so that it could never legally go bankrupt. As explained by Robert Murphy, the Federal Reserve redefined its losses so as to ensure its balance sheet never shows insolvency. As Bank of America’s...

There are a lot of ways that people look at to determine gold and silver values.

Our friend Craig Hemke from the TF Metals Report Returns to the show to discuss the ongoing debate about the Federal Reserve's monetary policy and why no one should believe their statements about their plans for the next few years.

I have now been writing public articles for over 11 years on Seeking Alpha. And, through the years, I have covered many topics publicly, including the S&P 500, oil, the US Dollar, bonds, emerging markets, and many others.

Peter Grandich returns to the show to discuss the Federal Reserve's current position and future plans. He also talks about the ongoing retirement crisis in the U.S., with two-thirds of the workforce living paycheck to paycheck and unable to save for retirement.

In the financial markets, history shows that rather than lots of exciting predictions, mundane preparation for surprise is a much better tool for building immense wealth… wealth that is sustained.

Who is not expecting a correction in precious metals right now? It’s always the smart, sensible, but knee-jerk posture following a rebound that follows a bear market. I even wrote about potential downside targets when the sector hit resistance roughly six weeks ago...

The best performing precious metal for the week was gold, up 2.91%. Lundin Gold reported another strong quarter with fourth-quarter production of 121,000 ounces, ahead of consensus and bringing full-year output to 476,000 ounces, above the high end of guidance of...

Federal bureaucrats use proxies to stifle all kinds of activities they don’t like. The “Twitter Files” are revealing this tactic to a new wave of Americans, but it has been around a long time.