Gold Editorials & Commentary

What a difference two weeks can make in the market!  Not all that long ago, I was trashing the old-tired bulls on Wall Street for not having what it took to have the Dow Jones close in scoring position (BEVs from -0.01% to -4.99%).  I take a week off, and in my next...

And so for Gold, as the expression goes, “Santa came early this year.”  In settling the week yesterday (Friday) at 2092, February Gold (the current “front month”) en route traded to as high as 2096, +7 points above the prior “front month” 2089 All-Time High that had...

As trading for the final month of 2023 kicks off, the gold market is pushing toward a historic breakout. The monetary metal rallied to $2,060 an ounce on Wednesday, marking its highest close of the year. It then gave back a few dollars on Thursday. As of this Friday...

Gold sector cycle is up. Trend is up for gold and gold stocks, and down for USD. A monthly close above $2000 confirms a major breakout, with no overhead resistance.

In October, the Conference Board LEI experienced its 19th consecutive monthly decline. This prolonged downturn, only surpassed during the 2008 and 1974 bear markets, strongly signals an impending recession.

While looser monetary policy may seem bullish in the short term, the medium-term ramifications could upend the yellow metal.

The mid-tier and junior gold miners recently finished reporting their latest quarterly results.  These smaller producers are fundamentally-superior, in the sweet spot for upside potential in major gold uplegs.  Indeed their Q3’23 operational and financial results...

While the subject of this article, the ratios of the main Precious Metal stock indices to the price of gold, may seem rather dry and statistical and thus boring, if you are interested in weighing up the prospects of making serious money in the PM sector going...

Here are today's videos and charts.

First off, despite the pain and agony endured by long-term holders of gold stocks, it is a bull market and it has been a bull market since the January, 2016 low (with bull market defined as a series of higher highs/lows).

U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D) recently released the “Special Report on Greedflation.” This publication attempts to explain high inflation by an appeal to corporate greed, and it further proposes policies on how to deal with greed. As one could imagine, this report is...

Many economists believe that inflationary expectations cause general increases in prices. For instance, if there is a sharp increase in oil prices, people will form higher inflationary expectations that set in motion general increases in the prices of other goods...

Both gold and silver have experienced a significant rally in price over the last month. But with gold above $2,000 again, while silver's over $25, will the rally continue?

Gold is breaking out and at the start of a new secular move. This implies the stock market and the Nasdaq, which Bitcoin follows, will be in a secular bear market soon.

Commencing from the low on October 6th at USD 1,810, the price of gold surged by nearly USD 200 or 11% in the subsequent three weeks, reaching USD 2,009. A two-week retracement brought the prices back to the 200-day moving average (back then at USD 1,933) by mid-...

As the price of gold continues to flirt with the psychological resistance of USD 2,000, having gained a respectable 8.3% over the past year, mining stocks have failed to yield returns. Mining Stocks – Unpopular Yet Promising.

For over a year now the main topic of discussion has been regarding the likelihood of a “hard landing” versus a “soft landing” for the US economy — based on the actions of the Federal Reserve, which controls the money supply and interest rates.

Are the chickens coming home to roost for the US Treasury? As Ryan McMaken noted in a recent Mises Wire article, the United States is in a debt spiral and there’s no easy way out.

Matterhorn Asset Management, AG partner, Matthew Piepenburg joins Kai Hoffmann, CEO of Soar Financially, to follow-up on core themes discussed earlier in the year. Sadly, the trends previously addressed in May (sovereign debt spiral, Main Street pain, recessionary “...

We got the silver signal, we saw the analogy to the previous low-CPI-number surprise, and now we have this. We have a situation in the USD Index that is a screaming buy alert.

Gold is on the cusp of making a new all-time high while Silver challenges resistance at $25-$26. We discuss the key weekly resistance levels as well as the monthly resistance levels.

It’s said that there’s no fever like gold fever. Big bank analysts definitely have a very positive outlook on the world’s greatest metal but… Is their outlook valid?

With the new buying pressure following the Israel / Hamas war, combined with speculation that the US Federal Reserve may be done hiking interest rates in the near future, gold is preparing to break out from a major 4-year consolidation.

It has certainly been an interesting year or so since we struck the low in October of 2022. If you remember, most were looking for the market to head considerably lower at the time. But, then again, what else is new? Most expect the market to continue linearly in...

Over the longer term, gold and silver aren’t the only assets which have been trading in a range. Stocks have also been struggling to establish a trend either higher or lower over the past 3 years.

The world is now witnessing the end of a currency and financial system which the Chinese already forecast in 1971 after Nixon closed the gold window. Again, remember von Mises words: “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit...

An excerpt from this week’s edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 785 on the state of the US stock market bubble as developed and sustained by another bubble (in policy-making)

Silver just shot up, and given what the stock market is doing, it makes perfect sense. Namely, it’s most likely the final part of the rally in them both, and the same is the case for gold and mining stocks.

Market implied Fed Funds rate discount a string of cuts starting in January 2024 and culminating in a 4.492 percent in January 2025. These expectations are based on the perception that the Federal Reserve will achieve a soft landing and that inflation will drop...

Matterhorn Asset Management partner, Matthew Piepenburg discusses the future of the USD with Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital in this thoughtful “debate” hosted by Adam Taggart of Thoughtful Money.