Gold Editorials & Commentary

Gold fought valiantly, gold fought nobly, gold fought honorably. Despite all this sacrifice, it lost the battle. How will it handle the next clashes?

“Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man...

As we enter 2022 and reflect on how each asset market performed the previous year, initial conclusions would suggest that for precious metals, the price action performance seemed highly contradictory. A deeper analysis, however, suggests that the market moves have...

This is a brief of our annual analysis of the gold and silver markets. In the full Outlook Report, we take an in-depth look at the market players, dynamics, fallacies, drivers, and finally give our predictions for gold and silver prices over the coming year.

We have all heard the phrase “earnings are the mother’s milk of stocks.” I believe the phrase was coined by Larry Kudlow. In fact, I have some commenters to my articles that claim that earnings are the only thing one needs to know about investing in the stock market...

There’s now plenty of confirmation that inflation is here and getting worse. Which brings me to a far less noticed consequence of U.S. dollar debasement practices – asset inflation.

The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, up 12.68%. Palladium soared to the highest in four months, writes Bloomberg, with traders looking to secure supplies amid growing tensions over Ukraine as Russia, the top metal producer, amassed troops...

In the first half of 2021, I bet my blog that the inflation I had been predicting would rise so hot through the year for so long that it would kill the stock market bull. It’s time to call the bet.

"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.  For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail." - Samuel Adams

In WW11, after the Allies had landed in Normandy and continued the invasion towards the German heartland, the writing was on the wall. Reason and logic said Hitler and Germany should capitulate to save lives; to begin to rebuild their bombed out country.

Last week's action saw gold forming its peak in Tuesday's session, with the metal spiking up to a new high for the move, here hitting a top of 1856.40. From there, a sharp decline was seen post-fed, with the metal dropping all the way down to a Friday low of 1780.60...

Author and market analyst, Harry S. Dent Jr. returns to the show with dire warnings for equities investors. If his metrics are correct, investors could face a 1929 or 2008-style market collapse in "The Everything Bubble" declining 55%-68%. 

"We begin this evening with Breaking News: the U.S. Money Supply has just crossed the $22 Trillion level, its pace these last two years increasing by $1 Trillion every four months, or some $8.6 Billion per day. {You should think about that} More later on this...

Monday was an interesting day in the stock market, for what’s it’s worth – as reported by CNN Business. Monday, January 24th the Dow Jones saw another miraculous ascension.  After the Dow Jones deflated 1,115 points from its previous close, it closed up 99 points...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. Gold sector is on long term SELL signal. Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle is UP. We are holding long term positions.

The article’s title is one man asking one question among several I could be asking, given the volatility of macro indicators on a day to day, week to week basis. But as FOMC rides off into the sunset it is the scenario that I think is most probable, given the...

Here are today's videos and charts.  The videos are viewable on mobile phones as well as computers.

At mid-December’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Fed officials began discussing quantitative tightening.  Effectively selling previously-monetized bonds to unwind quantitative-easing money printing, this revelation from the minutes rattled markets in early...

One of the key ratios for precious metals investors to understand is the Dow to gold ratio. The Dow to gold ratio asks: “How many ounces of gold does it take to purchase one share in each company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average?” The higher the ratio, the...

Despite death wishes from the doubters, the dollar took to the skies on the Fed’s hawkish wings. Gold and silver can wave from the ground for now.

In the epic struggle between chaos and order, chaos has an easier task, as there is usually only one proper method to do a job – the job that you can screw up in many ways. Thus, although economists see a strong economic expansion with cooling prices and...

Gold broke the uptrend line and failed to breakout higher. Will the gold cartel be able to break the $1,750 area pivot? Trying to trade gold is nearly impossible in a market like this.

The Fed has just released its first public consultation paper on a dollar-based central bank digital currency. For many, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a means of heading off private sector cryptos, but coincidentally the prices of bitcoin and others...

The Fed finally said it: the rates are going up. The USD Index and gold heard it and reacted. The former is at new yearly highs, while gold slides. The medium-term outlook for gold is now extremely bearish.

With rapt attention from all across the nation, the High Priest of Finance at the Federal Reserve took his position behind his presser pulpit. Biting his quivering lip again and again, he uttered his benediction over the US economy. He made sure to carefully speak...

The FOMC set the stage for a March interest rate hike, which was an aggressive signal. Gold got it and fell – but hasn't capitulated yet.

It seems that 2022 will be the year when the US Empire disintegrates faster than anyone could  have imagined. Empires need strong leadership but electing a weak octogenarian president certainly  fits the picture of a collapsing empire.

Keith Neumeyer joins us to discuss his thoughts on: •The silver & gold markets. The bullion banks' pricing control of the silver market. CPM Group & Metals Focus data reporting about the market.

If I'm reading all these articles properly, it seems that we're approaching the end of the world as we know it. In fact, I'm reading expectations of 40%, 50% and even 80% market declines. While I did not receive my invitation to this party, it seems that almost...

The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) peaked back on October 7, 2021, and has fallen by 72% since then as worldwide demand has fallen rapidly for cargo ships to haul iron ore and other “dry” cargos. This has a bearish implication for stock prices, as illustrated in this week’s...