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August 1, 2024

Vince Lanci discusses why Gold could start to pull away, the current drivers in Silver and why Silver’s price action could be a tell for Gold’s upside potential.

July 31, 2024

It’s the Fed’s interest rate day and the Bank of Japan has just hiked its rates. What’s next? The first sentence explains most of what happened to the prices yesterday and today.

Did you know the Fed has already loosened monetary policy? While everybody focuses on the prospect of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut and salivates in the hope of easier money, most people completely ignore the other prong of central bank monetary policy – the...

Imagine you are the foreman of a factory. Inside the factory are two machines. Both machines consume materials, energy, and labor and produce the same product, perhaps cars, or toasters, or pencils.

On July 26, the national debt blew past $35 trillion for the first time. We are now cursed with a debt of $35,001,278,179,208.67. This milestone will likely raise some eyebrows, but nobody will do anything about it.

July 30, 2024

The news for gold is becoming more positive. For example, last week’s import tax cut in India is a new pillar of support for demand and Friday’s PCE report increased the odds of a September rate cut from the Fed.

This article is an analysis of how the Chinese central bank (PBoC) buys gold in London from Western bullion banks. Because the bullion banks take care of the gold transport for the PBoC, the shipments from London to Beijing are disclosed in UK customs data.

The best performing precious metal for the past week was gold, but still down 0.80%. MAG Silver provided its second-quarter attributable silver production of 2.19 million ounces, above CIBC’s expectations of 1.82 million ounces due to a combination of higher total...

So here is the thing. During a bull market or very bullish phase, indicators give the all-clear. Come on in, the water’s fine! Investors are always going to be complacent and market/economic signals at least stable (or quite positive) at market tops. It’s the way...

Americans are questioning all sorts of government functions these days. For example, the majority of people, according to polls, have doubts as to whether U.S. elections are free and fair.

Introduction

In a recent episode of The Morgan Report, host David Morgan interviewed Stefan Gleason, Chairman of the Sound Money Defense League and President and C

If you listen to politicians and pundits, you might think price inflation isn’t so bad. If you have to buy stuff out there in the in the real world, you know better. Heck, price inflation is so bad, even kids realize something is wrong.

July 29, 2024

Has anybody considered what might happen after a rate cut is announced? If the Fed signals a change in direction regarding interest rate policy, as expected by most observers at this point, does that also signal an end to increasing weakness in the economy? Will a...

As mentioned in my prior articles for Gold-Eagle, the last low of significance for Gold was due to form into the late-May to early-June window. That decline was favored to end up as a countertrend affair, before turning back to higher highs into July or later - then...

In his latest conversation with the David Lin, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses US political volatility (post-assassination attempt, pre-Biden drop out) and social unrest, with special attention on their near and longer-term implications for US and...

Silver continues to lead the sector lower with another 4% decline on the week. Gold declined by 1%. The gold and silver stocks are acting reasonably well considering the technical damage in Gold & Silver.

After another severe 2-day selloff in gold and silver the prices have stabilized as of Friday morning. And in today's show, Vince Lanci looks at who's actually been buying, and who's been selling.

July 28, 2024

This week, the Dow Jones closed everyday in scoring position, not one day below its BEV -5% line.  So, we continue assuming the advance that began last November (red circle below), has additional all-time highs coming in the weeks and months to come.

On the heels of last week’s piece “Another Gold Pop n’ Flop”, now we’ve “Gold Gets Gut-Punched … Again” But be thee not at ends, dear friends.  For as we’ll herein see, Gold’s weekly parabolic trend remains Long, which reinforces our “buy on the dip(s)” notion,...

One measure of investor apprehension is the VIX volatility index, also known as the fear index. The VIX spiked on Thursday to its highest level in three months.

July 27, 2024

The gold price has just recorded a new record all-time high: $2,483 in the spot market on the night of July 17, 2024. Although this new record is a welcome development for precious metals investors, just within the last week a new signal has developed which may...

One of the ways the government maintains its fiat money system is by throwing up legal and regulatory roadblocks to those wanting to use real money such as gold and silver. Reviving the use of gold clause contracts removes one of those barriers. 

In a recent Money Metals podcast episode, host Mike Maharrey sat down with Stefan Gleason, the CEO of Money Metals Exchange. The conversation covered a range of topics, including the opening of a new depository, the concept of gold loans, the current state of the...

Gold sector cycle is up. Trend is up for gold and gold stocks, down for the USD. We are now neutral and will wait for the cycle to turn down to take short positions.

July 26, 2024

The gold miners’ stocks are enjoying a strong summer, recently surging to new bull highs.  These upleg gains should continue mounting with gold’s autumn rally providing stiff tailwinds.  Outsized Asian demand usually fuels seasonal gold gains into late September. ...

Here are today's videos and charts.

I recently viewed Finding the Money, a video aimed at persuading a popular audience of the putative merits of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).  The video debuted this past May on several streaming platforms and theaters throughout the U.S.  Whether it succeeded or not...

July 25, 2024

It can, but it can also decline, and the latter is actually more likely. What a crazy idea, right? With the lower cost of money (interest rates), gold should be more attractive to investors (it pays no dividend), so its price should rally, right?

Gold lost its gains as today’s stock sell-off gained steam, leading to a liquidity crunch and margin calls. Still, the yellow metal is weathering the turmoil very well so far.

Gold’s breakout failed and fell back into the previous consolidation zone at $2300 to $2400/oz. Silver reversed hard and is threatening support at $29.

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