Gold Editorials & Commentary

Welcome, my son. Welcome to the inflationary machine. Welcome to the new economic regime of elevated inflation. That’s official because even central bankers have finally admitted what I’ve been saying for a long time: the current high inflation is not merely a...

It has been a disappointing year for profit-seeking precious metal investors, but for those few of us looking to accumulate gold and silver as the ultimate insurance against runaway inflation it has been an unexpected bonus.

If the Fed normalizes its balance sheet and markets freak-out, it will be a bridge too far. But interest rate hikes won’t crash a strong US economy.

Gold spent the better part of 2021 consolidating sideways, which eroded most bullish sentiment.  With little upside momentum to chase, investors largely abandoned this leading alternative asset.  And gold-futures speculators freaked out and fled multiple times on...

During the holiday week, not much happens in the marketplace. Investors focus on two things right now: whether Democrats will be able to pass Biden’s spending bill in the face of Senator Joe Manchin’s opposition, and whether the coronavirus Omicron variant will...

Money Metals president Stefan Gleason appeared today in a special interview by Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold Radio to discuss taxation of precious metals by the IRS, state and federal laws, premiums and minting challenges in the physical bullion market, and much...

The CFTC’s Rostin Behnam fined JP Morgan $75 million on Friday Dec. 17th (in addition to the other $125 million the bank received that same day) for once again evading regulators.

Merry Christmas to Everyone. Young retail traders do not want to trade and invest in gold and silver. They prefer investments which give monthly returns of over ten percent. They have an equally high risk taking ability. Young traders or people less than thirty...

With inflation surging, QE headed to the scrapyard (for now), and imminent rate hikes taking the main markets stage, gold looks solid… and feels solid too.

In the last Supply and Demand update, we discussed some different theories which attempt to explain what causes the gold and silver prices to move. We mentioned the: “…attempt to hold up a famous buyer of metal, while ignoring the thousands of not-famous sellers who...

“That’s all Folks!” - Porky Pig at the end of the Looney Tunes cartoon series. The above is what immediately came to my mind after seeing Friday’s price action in the precious metals sector. Why? Because of the reversals and tiny outperformance of silver.

During the last two weeks, I had the pleasure of traveling with my wife, Sharise, as we hosted our members on a cruise through the Caribbean. We then flew to New York, where we spent time with my father, whose health has been recently failing, and had the...

Who are you, Mr. Powell: a reptilian or a human? A dove or a hawk? Since we all know the answer to the first question, let’s focus on the second one. Markets decided that Powell’s last press conference was rather dovish, but a careful reading doesn’t support this...

The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, up 1.38%, after falling over 14% in the past five trading days. Three central banks met this past week, and all said that rates will go up to fight inflation. Rhona O’Connell of StoneX commented that the...

Ronnie Stoeferle discusses the latest economic news this week and why Gold and Silver are not responding as investors would normally expect.

Last week's action saw the gold market holding weaker into Wednesday's Fed meeting, with the metal dropping all the way down to a low of 1753.00. From there, a sharp rally was seen to end the week, here pushing all the way up to a Friday high of 1815.70 - before...

'Twas a week of hope for the precious metals, Gold therein rising low-to-high from 1753 to 1816 (+3.6%) and Silver per same from 21.41 to 22.69 (+6.0%). But given Gold is never really supposed to stray too far from the 1780s, let alone Silver be allowed to do...

Looking at the Dow Jones’ BEV chart below, specifically the cluster of BEV Zeros for the post March 2020 flash-crash advance; slowly but surely things are changing.  It’s been over a month since our last BEV Zero (November 8th).  That plus the bulls have been...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is DOWN. Gold sector is on long term SELL signal. GLD is on short term buy signal.

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Gold is real money; nothing more. That is a hard pill for some investors and advisors to swallow. Actually, it is the second part of the statement that raises the most concern.

Gold looked on the ropes heading into this week’s major Fed decision. With the Federal Open Market Committee expected to double the pace of its quantitative-easing tapering and pencil in more rate hikes sooner, gold-futures speculators were on a hair-trigger. The...

First a pandemic, then inflation, and now an energy crisis. Should you buy gold when preparing for the winter?

With the USD Index suffering a ‘sell the news’ event on Dec. 15, the FOMC’s hawkish Summary of Economic Projections wasn’t enough to uplift investors’ optimism. However, while the dollar day traders performed their usual disappearing act, the greenback’s...

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire is joined by none other than, personal finance legend, Robert Kiyosaki. Pulling no punches, the best-selling economic author makes his case for the imminent collapse of the entire paper money system. 

Some possibility that we concluded our daily & intermediate cycle low. I expect this to be a 5-8 day rally. $1,835 is the line to break, if gold breaks this then I will change my mind…

The Fed begins to get up steam and has finally turned its hawkish mode on. Was it something the gold bulls wanted to hear?

Federal Reserve Chairman U turn on inflation this year was politically motivated just to get a Re-nomination. Inflation and worries over price rise has resulted in Biden’s approval rating hitting lowest in his presidency. Inflation is the headline in every media in...

As I type this on Wednesday morning, there's really no sense in discussing other news or data-points today, as everything is meaningless ahead of the FOMC...which should stop you in your tracks when you consider how Fed-dependent EVERYTHING has become. The news...

Can The Fed Raise Interest Rates with the yield curve inverted? - Danielle DiMartino Booth explains the current difficult situation the Fed is in.