Gold Editorials & Commentary

The gold cartel is going to attack gold as much as they can to keep commodity markets in check. The miners are playing out as I warned this would. The cartel would undercut the lows of the mining stocks, attacking the miners

Exactly 50 years have passed since the US Government famously suspended the convertibility of US dollars into gold on 15 August 1971 in a speech announced by then US president Richard Nixon.

Central bankers were handed the Midas curse half a century ago. Midas turned everything that he touched into gold– even his own food. Exactly 50 years ago (15 Aug, 1971) central bankers were handed a much worse curse by Nixon. But instead of turning everything into...

Gold’s potential reward vs. the risk in stocks is absolutely compelling now. That is not a comment on near-term price action, but it is something a real risk/reward investor would be all over. Here is a chart we use in NFTRH to keep an eye on this concept while...

Afghanistan has fallen. The U.S. government’s nearly two-decade-long, multi-trillion-dollar “nation building” effort in the troubled, tribal country may now have nothing to show for itself.

The junior mining stocks’ extreme underperformance is the “new normal” that barely anyone talks about. Ignorance is pleasant, but it comes at a cost.

When I predicted the virus crisis of 2020 before there was any Corona, I did it using long-term cycles.  I’ve since suggested that investors need to be prepared for a possible (and potentially more ominous) war cycle in 2021-2025.

Hey, you want to hear a joke that’s just not funny? Gold miners’ performance. I told you it wasn’t funny. It’s very informative though. With gold stocks completely ignoring gold’s gains, the myriads of factors that I’ve been discussing for weeks might not have been...

Inflation eased a bit in July, but it remained disturbingly high. According to the latest BLS report on inflation, the CPI increased 0.5% in July after rising 0.9% in June. The core CPI, which excludes food and energy, also softened, as it rose 0.3% in July after...

Gold is probably at a resistance where it take another hit. I doubt the cartel will let gold get through on the first try.  Gold miners' bottom opportunity.

Nixon Abandons Gold 1971 - Bill Holter & Andy Schectman join us to explain what happened, the negative changes since 1971 and how the market is on the verge of forcing us back onto a gold standard.

Another Federal Reserve speaker speaks to manipulate gold price and bring it down. Boston Federal Reserve Bank President Eric Rosengren said yesterday that one more month of strong job gains could satisfy the U.S. central bank’s requirements for beginning to reduce...

The best performing precious metal for the week was platinum, up 4.93%. Barrick Gold’s earnings exceeded estimates as higher metal prices blunted the impact of rising costs and lower output for the world’s second-largest bullion producer.

Sometimes, bad luck can strike. But other times, a catastrophe comes from a series of bad decisions, each the reaction to the consequences of the previous one.

Gold commanded its unit to make another raid only to find itself stranded. The gold miners had already fled as fugitives, retreating without orders.

The gold price began to wander quietly and somewhat unevenly higher starting shortly after 9 a.m. China Standard Time on their Friday morning -- and that lasted until the 10 a.m. EDT afternoon gold fix in London.

As the market began its historic rally off the March 2020 low, many were convinced that we had begun a bear market. In fact, I witnessed many people posting about short trades in which one cannot lose during that rally. The common perspective was that due to the...

After eight years of writing about the precious metals for Casey Research, the folks at Stansberry & Associates—who just recently purchased controlling interest in the company—decided that my ‘niche market’ column didn’t fit into their plans.

There is some evidence that we are still in the bull market, which started in 2009 and which could continue into 2021 until major cycles take over, and it ends.  A move up to ~4500 is possible before the current bull market makes a final top…and SPX corrects into...

Gold just posted its best net weekly gain of the last five, price settling yesterday (Friday) at 1782. 'Course, hardly was the week's gain impressive solely by the mere up blip in the above Gold Scoreboard's evolving price track for this year. Indeed toward our...

Last week's trading saw gold forming its low in Monday's session, here doing so with the tag of the tag of the 1677.90 figure. From there, a sharp rally was seen into late-week, with the metal running all the way up to a Friday peak of 1781.90 - also ending the day...

This week the Dow Jones made four new BEV Zeros (new all-time highs), which on a BEV chart looks pretty boring.  And it’s not just these new all-time highs making the Dow Jones’ BEV chart below appear so tedious; since last November, the Dow Jones hasn’t corrected...

Gold bugs should never assume that the mainstream investing community actually understands finance. That includes the Wall Street Journal, which recently published an article (Gold as an Inflation Hedge: What the Past 50 Years Teaches Us) purporting to show that...

Gold sector is on long term SELL signal. A strong dollar is not friendly to the metals. Major support for gold is now at the weekly 200ema, just below $1600.

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

The gold miners’ stocks have suffered a weak few months, pounded by a couple big gold-futures purges on distant-future-Fed-rate-hike scares. The resulting bearishness flaring left this contrarian sector deeply out of favor. But with prevailing gold prices still high...

What do the portents say? Well, we’ve been looking for connections between gold and bitcoin, and we see a chance to fatten the coffers. Read on.

On Wednesday I made a post that showed the “metallic credit spread” (as coined by Bob Hoye) known as the Gold/Silver ratio (GSR) flipped on its head (to Silver/Gold) to indicate a dangerous situation for the S&P 500, if past is prologue. Here is that post and...

We’ve seen this movie before.

Most notably, it occurred in April of 2013, when high-frequency traders (HFTs) pocketed a billion or so dollars by taking the gold price down more than $250 over the course of two trading sessions.

The insights below were gathered from an excellent article by Matthew Piepenburg of Matterhorn Asset Management on “the implications behind central bank gold purchases (rising), negative real yields (falling), and Stanley Fisher’s Fed-speak (cringing).”