Gold Editorials & Commentary

Do you like this week’s title above?  I’m sure (hope) it catches lots of attention, but I admit it’s a bit of click-bate for this week.  Still, it’s appropriate as a title, as you’ll discover further down in this week’s commentary.  If Lord Tennyson can write things...

As voters weigh their options for President, investors are weighing their options among the major asset classes. More on that in a moment. But first, let’s check in on precious metals markets.

A colleague recently discovered a website called "WTF Happened in 1971?" The entire main page is filled with charts and graphs. All of them show some kind of significant shift beginning in 1971. There are over 75 of them!

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey engaged in a comprehensive discussion with Axel Merk, President and Chief Investment Officer of Merk Investments. 

Current data favors overall lower gold prices. Gold sector cycle is down.

The PCE Index statistics were released today, and you might wonder what impact they will have on the price of gold. Let’s dig in.

As war wages across their eastern border, Poles seek safety. And they’re finding it in gold. Russian troops stormed across the Ukrainian border on Feb. 24, 2022. It was Fat Tuesday; a day Poles typically line up for jelly-filled donuts called pączki. Instead, they...

The gold miners will soon report what will almost certainly prove their best quarter ever.  Mostly due to Q2’s record-shattering gold prices, gold miners’ earnings should soar off the charts.

The Fed's PCE inflation report could mark the low for gold. Here are today's videos and charts. 

Despite the generally negative attitude toward gold you hear in the mainstream financial media, the vast majority of professional investors in North America own at least some gold and the number has been growing in recent years.

Legendary commodities investor, Rick Rule. Rick, the founder of Rule Investment Media, joins the show, and he shares his seasoned insights into the recent trends and movements within the gold and silver markets.

Gold is likely to rally this week (it's already underway), but what's likely next can surprise you.

I spend a lot of time tracking the ripple effects of embarrassing and unsustainable debt levels on our credit markets, rate markets, equity bubbles, inflation metrics and, of course, the daily-debasement of our currency’s inherent purchasing power.

Welcome back to Wall Street Silver. Joining us today is Chris Vermillion, Chief Market strategist at TechnicalTraders.com.

Gold has made six major breakouts since the end of the Gold Standard in 1971. Only two of the breakouts retested the breakout. Those two were the two previous breakouts to new all-time highs: 1978 and 2009.

A subscriber sent me analysis calling for a “Monster [bullish] reversion trade for the ages” based on the extreme under-performance of the Equal Weight SPX (RSP) to the Headline SPX. The writer’s conclusion is that after such an extreme divergence the spring back in...

The investment world generally treats gold like a second-class citizen. Sure, the mainstream will sit up and take notice during a strong bull run, but generally, the financial media and investment gurus tend to spurn the yellow metal. 

Bank of America is eyeballing $3,000 gold. According to a report released by the big bank, gold prices could potentially hit $3,000 an ounce in the next 12 to 18 months as the Federal Reserve begins cutting interest rates and rising debt drives economic uncertainty...

In this morning's market update, Vince Lanci takes a look at a new Goldman Sachs report that highlights what the CTAs (commodity trading advisors) have been doing in the gold market. Where recent price action and new mid-year allocations have them close to the end...

The technical setup of Gold & Silver is similar to the one that preceded the huge gains in the 1970s.

The main global economic theme right now is sticky inflation and fading growth. The Dow has been drifting sideways since March 21. For gold, the drift began on April 12.

According to Bank of America, China gold ETFs continued to see inflows, adding $253 million and marking the sixth consecutive month of inflows. Gold ETF buying in China is driven by weak equities, a weakening local currency, and decreasing bond yields. Chinese gold...

You know gold is doing well when the mainstream sits up and takes notice. The mainstream financial pundits specifically, and the media in general, are typically apathetic about gold at best. More often than not, they’re downright antagonistic.

In this extensive interview with Adam Taggart of Thoughtful Money, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses a wide range of market forces impacting investors in an almost surreal 2024 of rate tensions, credit vulnerabilities, currency (USD) shifts and...

Generally speaking, the dollar and US bond yields rise and fall together, signaling a positive correlation between the two. Conversely, the price of a bond and its yield are negatively correlated. The lower the price, the higher its yield. A rising yield favors...

We can see on the chart that the annual CPI rate is under 5% almost eighty percent of the time and that prices actually dropped about ten percent of the time (red years 1920’s, 1930’s). The potential for volatility increases, though, because of the cumulative...

The Federal Reserve has a 2-percent inflation target. Central bankers are supposed to conduct monetary policy such that the long-run trajectory of the price level follows a 2-percent growth path. Most policy-focused macroeconomists think this is a reasonable way to...

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviewed Thomas James DiLorenzo, an accomplished author, President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and former economics professor at Loyola University Maryland. 

The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey plummeted to its lowest level in seven months. The index reading for June came in at 65.6, down from 69.1 in May and under the consensus expectation of 72. In the current conditions and expectations categories,...

The rally to take the gold price over $2,400 per ounce happened so quickly, that for a while it felt like the gold price was just going to keep going up every day.