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August 22, 2026
Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. GLD is on short term buy signal. GDX is on short term buy signal. Expect overall higher gold prices.
August 21, 2026
The Treasury announced a buyback program Wednesday aimed at suppressing yields on longer-term bonds. In response, the dollar fell below its 200-day moving average, while precious metals surged, with miners leading the move.
Friday starts with several markets sitting at genuinely important technical decision points. Some of the bullish scenarios we mapped earlier this week have already delivered - particularly across precious metals - while the dollar remains vulnerable below a key broken...
Smaller mid-tier and junior gold miners just finished reporting another spectacular quarter, their second-best ever. Despite gold plunging in a serious drawdown in Q2 proper, its smaller miners still earned near-record profits. That windfall combined with gold-driven...
The United States is closing in on a milestone that would have been almost unimaginable not long ago: $40 trillion in national debt. That staggering figure framed the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, as host Mike Maharrey examined what he calls the...
154 days. That’s how long it took the Trump administration to add another $1 trillion to the national debt. As of August 18, the national debt stood at $40,047,425,768,420.22. Let’s try to put the debt into some perspective.
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August 20, 2026
Treasury Secretary Bessent said Wednesday that Treasury would roughly double long-dated buybacks (of U.S. Treasuries) to at least $4 billion per operation beginning in September. The bond market responded strongly, and so did gold, while the U.S. dollar fell sharply...
There was a massively powerful breakout by the crypto sector today with them blasting higher on huge volume, a development that we had fortunately anticipated with Bitcoin and the Ethereum and Solana cryptos being recommended on the site over the past week or two. Gold...
President Nixon abandoned the gold standard. The deeper problem was a monetary system dependent on political judgment.
Despite gold's sideways price performance and increased volatility, Chinese gold demand remained generally stable in July. China ranks as the world’s biggest gold market.
August 19, 2026
Through the ongoing process of exchange, people eventually settled on gold as their preferred medium of exchange. Some commentators cast doubt that gold could fulfill the role of money in the modern world. It is held that, relative to the growing demand for money...
The US has the largest national debt of any country at $39 trillion. While the US debt-to-GDP ratio of 122% is smaller than Japan’s 204% and Singapore’s 172%, economists are worried about the level of the US’s debt because it restricts the levers that the Federal...
Central bank gold buying was one of the pillars supporting the gold bull market last year, and it has continued to bolster the market even as it faced significant headwinds due to expectations of a higher interest rate environment.
August 18, 2026
In 1973, the OPEC oil supply crisis sent gold soaring… while US rates surged. Today, fiendish government narrators have promoted a macabre scenario where skyrocketing oil and rising rates is supposedly very negative for gold.
The best-performing precious metal for the past week was silver, up 2.07%. Both gold and silver gained this past week following a series of economic data pointing to easing inflation, steady initial jobless claims, weaker-than-expected PPI, and a surprising 0.6%...
Where do we get our gold? Last year, mines globally produced 3,672 tonnes of gold, according to the World Gold Council. It was a new record, but only about 11 tonnes higher than the 2025 total.
August 17, 2026
Here are today's videos and charts.
These types of buying opportunities in secular bull markets are extremely rare and when they happen, you have to take advantage. Don't let this historic window pass you by.
August 16, 2026
Since my last article from mid-July, Gold has seen a very nice rally, with the metal running up to a test of the low-end 4500's, which is up some 500 points off the late-June trough. Near-term, the metal looks to be setting up for a sharp decline, with U.S. stocks...
Gold and silver finished out another volatile week with both metals moving higher Friday, as investors digest softer inflation numbers, a weakening U.S. dollar, and growing evidence that the Federal Reserve may be able to stay on the sidelines.
Should you regularly read the website’s daily Prescient Commentary, you already know that Gold this past week (on Monday, 10 August at precisely 18:31 GMT) provisionally eclipsed the 4434 price requisite to finally flip the seemingly endless weekly parabolic Short...
Where to begin with this week? Writing about the markets, in an interesting manner isn’t easy. Not much changes from week to week, or even since April, these past four months in the Dow Jones Bear’s Eye View (BEV) chart below.
August 15, 2026
Gold sector cycle is up. Trend is up for USD and for gold & gold stocks. A recovery rally is in progress.
2025 was a stellar year for the precious metals, as gold bucked the bearish market trends of late winter and spring, followed by the miners and eventually, silver. After silver wrestled leadership from gold it was up up and away for the precious metals, critical...
Despite gold trading sideways in the second quarter after its big price correction in the first, Chinese physical gold investment demand remained robust.
August 14, 2026
Despite a rough quarter for gold, its major miners just reported their second-best results ever. While their metal suffered a serious drawdown exacerbated by Fed-rate-hike fears, the miners still earned fat near-record profits. Those combined with gold stocks’...
Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report. Policymakers, pundits, and economists use this data to gauge the current inflation situation. For instance, the July CPI cooled a bit, raising hopes that the Fed will not raise...
One of the largest national precious metals dealers and depositories in the U.S. has again teamed up with the nation’s leading sound money public policy group to recognize state legislators championing sound money policies.
Money Metals Midweek Memo host Mike Maharrey opened this week’s episode with an old-fashioned banking analogy: Imagine somebody repeatedly claiming to have $100,000 in the bank but refusing to produce a statement or even balance the checkbook. The money might be there...
August 13, 2026
As Trump’s “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth demands a fifty-percent increase to the war budget—topping an eye watering $1.5 trillion—it may be instructive to remember that war spending has always and everywhere been the primary enemy of sound money. Some advocates of...
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