Gold Editorials & Commentary

Dear Mr. President, Recently you have expressed an intention to do an audit of the gold at Fort Knox and presumably also the other vaults where the U.S. monetary gold is stored.

With all the attention focused on the wasteful spending being unearthed by DOGE and talk of “rebate” checks, you might think that the Trump administration is finally getting the federal government's reckless borrowing and spending under control. But if we turn our...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. GLD is on short term buy signal. GDX is on short term sell signal. XGD.to is on short term sell signal. GDXJ is on short term sell signal.

The major gold stocks are on the verge of a momentous technical event, a dozen-year secular breakout.  With their leading index just single-digit percentages away, that could happen any day now.  Gold stocks surging to decade-plus highs should generate much bullish...

If the whispers of revaluing the US gold reserves prove true, it could be an instant boon to the peoples’ (currently debt-addled) asset base.

We have what appears to be a generational breakout for the CDNX junior stocks. Here are today's videos and charts.

There are three headline news items which have attracted a significant amount of attention in the gold space lately. They are as follows: 1) gold "shortages" in London, 2) gold reserves at Fort Knox,  and 3) revaluation of U.S. gold reserves. Both the headlines and...

Gold has momentarily paused just below $3,000, catching its breath while building momentum for its next move. With energy accumulating, a breakout above $3,000 could be just around the corner.

Gold demand in China continued to show signs of growth last month despite the relentless climb in prices. China ranks as the world's largest gold market.

Gold had quite a run in 2024, hitting record highs 40 times. That momentum carried over into 2025, with new record highs above $2,900 an ounce. One might expect these higher prices to put a drag on demand for gold jewelry, but surprisingly, the impact has been...

Gold is rallying again this morning. At the same time we're finding out that China's Treasury holdings have just dropped again.

Gold continues to explode higher as fractures spread in the global gold market. I’ve been reporting on the extraordinary gold flows of recent weeks, which have been driving the price of gold to record levels.

In the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey dives deep into the Federal Reserve’s ever-changing stance on inflation, the reality behind rising consumer prices, and a seemingly unrelated yet important development—the end of the U.S....

Since December, there have been many odd occurrences in the global gold market. These have led to all sorts of speculation as to what events of significance might be going on behind the scenes. Let's do some speculating here today too.

In 2025, Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Russell Vought ordered the cessation of all supervision and examination activity, effectively halting the agency’s regulatory functions.

First Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talks about ‘monetizing the assets on the US balance sheet for the people,’ and now Bloomberg is publishing articles about how a gold revaluation is drawing a lot of attention on Wall Street.

The gold market just hit another new all-time high today. Which is also coming right as Goldman Sachs has just raised their price target to $3,100 per ounce.

Since 1973, America’s gold has been officially valued at just $42 per troy ounce—but that may soon change.

An X exchange over the weekend is bringing new light to an issue long shrouded in mystery — the status of America’s purported stockpile of 8,133 tons of gold stored in Fort Knox and other government vaults across the country.

Ryan King, Senior VP of Corporate Development & part of Calibre Mining’s management team, provides a complete company outlook for 2025. Production at the company’s new Valentine Gold Mine is months away and the company will be moving to the phase 2 expansion...

Gold ETFs experienced outflows, and platinum ETFs declined, indicating a potential shift away from these metals among ETF investors. The limited change in palladium holdings suggests a more resilient investor sentiment toward the metal, however, contributing to its...

After a big surge in the price like the current one, wise investors are neither all-in nor all-out of precious metals… with this caveat: Gold is the world’s greatest currency, so there’s no need to sell it for fiat simply because the risk of a correction grows as...

Topics like bond yields, dollar debates, or yield curves can be admittedly, well, boring. And things like politics can be, well… emotional at best or divisive at worst.

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with financial analyst Greg Weldon to discuss the state of global markets, gold’s record-breaking rally, and the looming debt crisis threatening economic stability.

It’s clear that the Federal Reserve hasn’t won the inflation fight. With the CPI trending higher for four straight months, the markets aren’t pricing in another interest rate cut until September.

Ayn Rand thought a lot about the philosophy of money. She understood gold as money functioned beyond providing safe haven, a store of value, and a medium of exchange. It has moral and cultural implications. People refer to it as “honest money” for a reason.

Often various factors are perceived to be important in determining a currency rate of exchange. For instance, for some commentators an increase in the government foreign debt is regarded as pointing to a likely deterioration in economic fundamentals ahead. This...

Last week, we wrote about the Near Perfect Setup in gold stocks but that a correction or pause was likely before a sustainable breakout. Gold closed the week at $2900 after trading as high as $2968. It has measured upside targets of $3000 and $3050. 

Most people have forgotten that the income tax was only imposed in 1913. Before then, the US government was funded almost entirely from tariffs and excise taxes. So, it’s possible to run the government solely on tariffs. But only if the size of the government is...

US President Donald Trump has proposed supplying Ukraine with ongoing military aid in exchange for access to its abundant reserves of rare earth minerals — elements critical to high-tech industries and defense applications. This proposal aligns with Trump’s long-...