Gold Editorials & Commentary

Commentators are trying to make sense of Russian moves. However, there is a back story which differs from much of the speculation, which this article addresses.

Gold and the USD act as if they are swinging on a seesaw. However, the apparent idyll cannot last forever – one of the assets will have to be grounded.

Today, on account of Russia's war against Ukraine, a worldwide currency war is raging as well and it is largely a war over gold.

World events are driving a volatile and potentially pivotal environment ahead for investors. Huge swings in financial markets are likely still to come.

Gold mining stocks as a whole have underperformed Gold since 2007. The GDX to Gold ratio from its 2007 peak to its 2015 bottom declined 80%.

The topic of de-dollarization has taken on new life, a result of major geopolitical conflicts around the world. And the ultimate act of de-dollarization would be a non-US country initiating a gold standard.

The Western financial system and world reserve currency is now in open decline. Just two years ago, I wrote a book warning that Western markets in general, and US markets in particular, were Rigged to Fail.

The month of March has been a wild one for the COMEX digital metals, and despite the war in Ukraine, this is not unusual. But soon we'll turn our attention to April, and we'll wait to see if a renewed rally toward $2000 gold is forthcoming.

An already high rate of inflation is almost certainly in the process of getting much worse, as the Ukraine War and the sanctions thereon are likely to lead to global shortages of many things, including energy, food, and the fertilizer to grow food.

As Ukraine’s Zelenskyy suggests his government could finally forsake NATO and embrace neutrality, should gold bugs be concerned about a sinking price of gold?

Gold at $20,000 is the latest price prediction from a high profile analyst. The article I read  makes a strong case for how the gold price could go to $20,000 oz. if the US dollar loses ninety percent of its current value.

The move into risk assets over the last few weeks has been surprising. We were due for an oversold bounce in stocks and bitcoin, but this seems excessive. Are we about to see a rug pull? Why is gold down while stocks are rallying? 

The Russian-Ukrainian war still rages, oil is still very high, inflation is supposedly ravaging the country, we are facing potential food shortages, the Fed is raising rates, and there does not seem to be an end to the bad news. Yet, the stock market continues to...

Neither the pandemic and inflation, nor war. Nothing seemed to be able to motivate gold to surge, although there were opportunities. When’s the next chance? 

Before we look at the Gold charts tonight there are a couple of things I would like to explain to our new members. Long term members have heard what I’m going to explain many times in the past when we start a new impulse move. It sounds pretty basic but very...

This past week was a stormy ride through the badlands of hell for bonds. Government bond prices took their worst cliff-fall since the Marshall Plan. The panic run of bonds over the edge was sparked by the fantasy belief that Russia might be retreating, bringing a...

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire analyses the blowback effect of freezing Russian assets on the precious metals market and the connection to a significant gold uptake we’re currently witnessing.

Two weeks ago the subject of the US Markets was the Ides of March and the spectre of bad news that hangs around that date since the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC and a prospect of a week of bad news. On 14 March the yiel d on the US 10 year Treasury note was at a...

Gold at $2000 oz. today is the same as it was in 1980 at $600 oz. In other words, on an inflation-adjusted basis, gold is no more valuable today than it was forty-two years ago.

Last week's trading saw gold forming its low for the week in Tuesday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1909.80 figure (April, 2022 contract). From there, a decent push higher was seen into later in the week, with the metal running up to a Thursday peak of...

Gold having completed its usual geo-political spike and fade finds its trade now more regularly played. The expected daily trading range (EDTR) is swiftly dropping from a war-high of nearly 50 points now to sub-40, and shall further shrink into the new week. Here...

The Dow Jones has improved its position in its Bear’s Eye View (BEV) chart below. Last time I published this chart, two weeks ago, the Dow Jones was a tad below its BEV -10% line. This week it closed at a BEV of -5.68%, making up about half it its loss from its last...

Lynette Zang joins us to discuss the US Dollar losing world reserve currency status with the SWIFT changes from Russia. We also discuss the seizing of bank accounts in Canada, hyperinflation, rising food prices and much more. The best way to protect yourself is...

The silver price had gone from $24 to over $26 and the gold price was up about $50/oz over the same period. Our basis indicator made it clear that the rapid runup in prices was driven primarily by paper traders buying futures contracts (with leverage). To say it was...

Gold sector is on long term SELL signal, but prices have found support at the 200ema. A new buy signal here will confirm a new up leg for the bull market.

Gold is often criticized by Wall Street as kind of a useless investment. Institutional investors prefer assets thought to contain the potential for growth, or “sprouts”. An investment has to produce a growing revenue stream – if it doesn’t grow it doesn’t compound....

The mid-tier and junior gold miners in their sector’s sweet spot for upside potential have powered higher in recent months.  Amplifying gold’s young upleg, they have already surged to major breakouts.  And the smaller gold miners’ gains are likely to grow much...

Big money always manufactures an exit rally for themselves. That is what we are seeing in the general markets now. The only thing that can save the US economy now from a recession is for oil to fall below $80.

The recent stock market rally is a trap. This is because Wall Street is vastly underestimating how hawkish the Federal Reserve will have to get in order to fight inflation. And how much weaker earnings and GDP growth will become as a result. The fact is Mr. Powell...

Gold is among the safest of havens in times of war, or any other type of geopolitical instability. During the 1970s, which saw a number of upheavals in the Middle East including the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, gold...