Gold Editorials & Commentary

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Like a powerful horse tied to a post, gold is chomping at the bit to make a surge. Farsighted metal investors are patiently anticipating the macro equivalent of a starting pistol to announce gold’s run.

The gold miners’ stocks are recovering after a rough summer, where they were sucked into heavy gold-futures selling on Fed-tightening fears. That scuttled their normal autumn rally, leaving this sector way behind year-to-date. But now gold stocks’ strongest seasonal...

We really needed to see gold make a higher high on this last rally and it does not appear that it will do it. Gold is vulnerable to more attacks on Monday morning. What could very well happen, a marginally lower low.

Willem Middelkoop joins us to discuss the recent shortages in energy, food and other commodities. Willem sees the early stages of hyperinflation as a possibility. Gold revaluation is a possibility for governments to address this crisis of debt and inflation. You...

The rise and fall of the Roman Empire is arguably one the most studied, written about and theorized over subjects in academia, with fiery debates raging for hundreds of years among historians, sociologists and political scientists.

So, QE ended (so far in Canada, but the Fed will follow suit) and the termination plunged gold prices in Canadian dollars. Will this repeat globally?

Egon von Greyerz sits down with Jim Lewis and Ivan Bayoukhi of Wall Street Silver to discuss the deteriorating situation of the global financial system and what it means for the fate of the United States dollar and precious metals.

Ethereum was the first smart contract platform to gain wide use and is still the market leader. Many competing smart contract platforms have tried to unseat Ethereum from the leadership position by capitalizing on its speed and cost issues. Solana is a new...

Here is the problem with gold. The last three times gold tried to get above the 200 d.m.a., it was not long before there was an attack.

We might see a plunge in gold prices quite soon. History repeats itself to a huge degree at the moment – let’s see what it has to offer.

I am going to let you in on one of my pet peeves this week: I abhor intellectual dishonesty in analysis. And, earnings season always brings to light some wonderful examples.

Many voices in the gold community are making a simple point. Look at the prices of oil, copper, and other commodities. They are skyrocketing. The mainstream explanation— shared by Keynesians, Monetarists, and many Austrians—is that the cause of this skyrocketing is...

At the moment of writing these words, gold continues to move around the $1,800 level, so nothing really changed in the last several hours. Not much changed during yesterday’s session either. While gold, silver, and mining stocks made new highs in terms of the...

Inflation worries have intensified, gold started to rally on Friday… and then Powell came, ruining the party and killing the bullish vibe.

For the first time in most Americans’ lifetimes, they are having to navigate chronic shortages. From bare shelves at discount stores to contract labor being unavailable, the supply of goods and services is seemingly unable to keep up with demand.

I would like to update some long-term charts for Gold to give you a feel for where Gold is at in its secular bull market that began at the 2000 double bottom low. I’ve said a million times that big patterns lead to a big move and the bigger the pattern the bigger...

The world is never returning to normal. The COVID crisis has changed daily life for billions and served as a catalyst and scapegoat for an increasingly decaying financial system. The world is now hampered by shortages and soaring prices, and it will only get worse...

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 4.35%. Gold steadied after a two-day advance as investors weighed comments from Federal Reserve officials indicating that interest-rate hikes aren’t imminent.

The USD Index has been eating its Wheaties, is itching for a fight, and it’s got solid fundamentals backing it up. Doesn’t look good for the metals.

These secular bear markets in the US Dollar lasts usually 6-8 years. The bull market likely ended early 2020. The $CRB has started a secular bull market.

Today's Federal Reserve regularly makes two extraordinary claims; Inflation is too low, The Fed has nothing to do with wealth concentration.

One of the benefits (or luxuries) of being removed from the commuting rat-race of my earlier life is the ability to devote large swaths of free time to reading – to the acquisition of either new sources of knowledge or new frameworks of opinion, neither of which can...

SPX Long-term trend:  The 4540 projection which had been in effect since the March 2020 low has now been reached but appears to have been only an intermediate target.  Hig

Last week's action saw the Gold market forming its low for the week in Monday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1760.30 figure. From there, a sharp rally was seen into later in the week, with the metal running all the way up to a Friday peak of 1815.50 -...

As expected, the Dow Jones closed this week at a new all-time high, a BEV Zero in its BEV Chart below.  This is the 43rd since it began making new all-time highs last November 16th, and since then hasn’t closed outside of scoring position.  What’s scoring position...

Solar panels are basically microprocessors, so it’s not a surprise that they’ve been following their own version of Moore’s Law, declining in price by 5%-10% each year. As a result, solar is now competitive with fossil-fuel-derived electricity in a growing number of...

Yesterday (Friday) it looked for all the world that Gold finally was getting some material upside grip, that finally the weekly parabolic Short trend was about to flip Long, that finally the M word crowd were "takin' it in the Shorts" (a somewhat vulgar StateSide...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is now UP. Long term – on long term SELL signal. Short term – on buy signals. Gold sector cycle is up. $$$ We are now long for this new up cycle.

Gold calmly continues cobbling its Handle, Miners lay in wait You see, there is all this noise out there. It comes mostly from inflationists touting gold in the same breath as copper, as oil, and as commodities of all flavors (and aside from gold and to a degree,...