Gold Editorials & Commentary

Lawrence Lepard joins us to discuss the Crackup Boom & Everything Bubble. You can't taper a Ponzi Scheme. Also discussing his investments in silver, gold and other commodities.

“If I were the Fed chair, I would have raised rates early in the fall. When we get this broad-based increase and it starts making its way to wages, you’re behind the curve and you need to start moving.” - Ethan Harris, Head of Global Economics Research, Bank America...

While the EUR/USD held on to its ECB-induced gains, the bearish fundamental realities confronting the currency pair were confirmed on Feb. 7. To explain, while euro bulls think that the ECB will have a hawkish awakening, I warned on Feb. 4 that the prospect is much...

What a surprise! The US labor market added 467,000 jobs last month. As the chart below shows, the number is below December’s figure (+510,000) but much above market expectations – MarketWatch’s analysts forecasted only 150,000 added jobs. Thus, the report reinforces...

Americans are waking up to some uncomfortable truths. One of these is the fact that government bureaucrats and the corporate media regularly lie about what is going on in the world.

Those that have come to read my articles over the last decade know that I am not the typical analyst. I do not abide by the common perceptions that many falsely retain about the market. Rather, I have found something that is much more reliable as a market tell, and...

Gold extended its gains as the dollar weakened after U.S. Federal Reserve officials played down prospects of aggressive rate hikes coming imminently. The dollar ticked lower amid the positive risk sentiment. Gold regained the psychologically important $1,800 an...

The United States reached a new milestone this week, but it’s nothing to be proud of. For the first time, the national debt hit 30 trillion dollars.

Is deflation around the corner for investors? Geopolitics is becoming more and more decisive for daily events. Sweden fears an attack by Russia and it is indeed becoming more and more likely that at least Ukraine and Taiwan will be attacked.

Gold’s latest feats increased investors’ appetite. The outlook for the dollar, however, remains healthy. That can only mean one thing.

There are two charts below for your observation. We will review each of them in sequence and then provide some commentary and conclusions.

It is a well-known fact that the view individuals have of the world around them is very much coloured by a filter that operates between their eye and their brains. The filter is the combination of their preferences and prejudices regarding the state of the world in...

Last week's action saw gold forming its low in Monday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1785.80 figure. From there, a gradual push higher was seen into later in the week, with the metal hitting a Friday peak of 1815.80 - before backing off the same into...

On the heel's of last week's piece "Gold's Technicals Look Terrible", such condition essentially remains the case, be it by various classically-accepted technical studies on any of Gold's daily, weekly or monthly measurings. (Again as Cosell would've put it: "That's...

Before I begin my weekly market letter, I thought I’d give credit where credit is due.  On Monday, January 31st of this week, for the first time the US National Debt broke above $30 trillion dollars.  This achievement in malfeasance would not be possible without the...

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire is joined once again by Craig Hemke, founder of the TFMetalsReport, a well-respected gold and silver blog, renowned for boldly exposing market manipulation.

Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle is UP. We are holding long term positions.

Here are today's videos and charts. The videos are viewable on mobile phones as well as computers.

While gold has been grinding higher, it hasn’t soared yet despite raging inflation and rolling-over stock markets.  The main reason has been the lack of investment capital inflows.  But long-apathetic investors are starting to return, flocking back to gold exchange-...

Beware, the Fed’s tightening of monetary policy could lift real interest rates! For gold, this poses a risk of prices wildly rolling down.

The US Federal Reserve, whose job is to keep unemployment in check and inflation in the “Goldilocks” zone of 2%, is telegraphing three interest rate increases of 0.25% each (1% at the high end of the range) this year.

The field of economics has long and often very embarrassing history of absurd theories, blatantly wrong assumptions and hypotheses, spectacularly wrong predictions and entirely avoidable policymaking blunders; a few of them hilarious, most of them catastrophic, some...

In this update we are going to do something that we haven’t done for a while, which is to examine the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, in an effort to figure out where it is in its cycle, and as we will see there is every reason to be...

Gold didn’t shine in January. The struggle could continue, although the more distant future looks more optimistic for the yellow metal.

As the gold “community” rationalizes gold’s currently low standing… I don’t care how unpopular it may be, I cannot alter the truth as I see it. Marketing is fine, but never at the expense of truth, as with much financial media/analysis (with little disclaimers...

Last week Goldman Sachs revealed its latest projection for the gold price… “In a report published Thursday, the bank (i.e. Goldman Sachs)said that it is raising its 12-month price forecast to $2,150 an ounce, up from its previous target of $2,000. The bank also...

Well, let’s just say the next recession is smoking right outside your window. You’re lying in your bed at night. You can’t see the intruder, and you don’t think he’s in the house yet, but you know he’s there because you can smell his cigarette smoke through your...

Numerous animal metaphors (hawk, dove to goat) are employed below to make sense of an otherwise imploding financial “barnyard.” Among such squawking beasts, two financial elites from Goldman Sachs and Bridgewater are making the latest noise; but as we soon discover...

There is still a debate on the quantum of interest rate hikes in March. None of the Federal Reserve speakers have backed an aggressive 0.50% interest rate hike in March. In my view, an interest rate hike between 0.10% to 0.25% interest rate hike will be there in...

With the Fed set to hike rates and kill QE, markets are in turmoil. Some bank analysts are forecasting seven hikes this year.