Gold Editorials & Commentary

The silver price is just a few percentage points away from a 13-year high, with the current spot silver hovering at $32.60 as this article goes to press. Silver prices have not been this high since 2012 – if silver closes out the month of March above $32.50, it will...

As we’ve said and written so many times, and as history confirms century after century, and regime after regime, desperate (i.e., debt-cornered) nations do desperate things. And this, by the way, always results in more centralization from on high and more pain for...

Through many years of frustration among gold bugs due to the failure of gold stock prices to leverage the gold price in a positive way, there were very clear reasons for that failure. Reasons why it was not only logical, but probable that gold stocks would continue...

I’ve written here before about how the broad averages have struggled to go lower during what could turn out to be the initial phase of a bear market. Many traders, particularly greenhorns too young to have never experienced a bear market, appear to be buying each...

Market analyst and author James G. Rickards this week schooled ITM Trading's Daniela Cambone about the gold depository at Fort Knox.

There's been a lot of mysterious activity in the gold and silver markets over the past few months, and an increasing number of prominent analysts who continue to question whether the narrative that it was all just about the tariffs is really true.

A wrap-up of the previous week in precious metals.

The gold and silver markets have been riding a strong bullish trend, and according to Jordan Roy-Byrne, a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and Master of Financial Technical Analysis (MFTA), the best is yet to come. 

Whilst we’ve still our near-term negative bent for the price of Gold, nonetheless let’s reprise this from last week’s missive:  “…one thing to watch is a stirring of geo-political jitters which as you regular readers know can quickly send Gold higher — but generally...

Strong demand for gold coupled with a movement of metal to New York has caused a dramatic gold bar production problem at the state-owned Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation.

Occasionally, for the benefit new followers of my market commentary that come my way, I must write a tutorial on the Bear’s Eye View (BEV) plotting system. First thing I need to answer is; why even bother with a BEV plot?  Since the Federal Reserve was legislated...

Led by North American funds, ETF gold holdings grew globally for the third straight month. ETFs in every region reported inflows of gold totaling 108.3 tonnes. That drove total ETF gold holdings to 3,353 tons, the highest month-end level since July 2023.

The current bull market has been extraordinary. As Bridgewater reports, “Out of any 15-year period to be invested in equities dating back to 1970, the one we’ve just lived through was the best. Stocks have been on a relentless tear, with any dips quickly fading into...

Idaho yesterday formally ended state income taxes on gold and silver as part of its largest tax cut in state history.

Gold sector cycle is down. Trend is up for gold & gold stocks. A pullback is in progress.

The big US stocks dominating markets and investors’ portfolios just finished another earnings season.  They reported spectacular collective results including record sales, profits, and operating cash flows.  Yet their valuations still forged deeper into dangerous...

The long-awaited outperformance of gold stocks versus gold is now underway! Here are today's videos and charts.

Strong demand for gold coupled with a movement of metal to New York has caused a dramatic gold bar production problem at the state-owned Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (KOMSCO). 

Vince Lanci discusses the subtle shifts that may be taking place in the Gold and Silver markets including the shifting of capital from tech stocks towards Gold and gold stocks.

We had anticipated that the last US interest rate decision in mid-December would bring a bottom and an upward trend reversal in the gold market. Indeed, gold marked the end of its nearly two-month correction precisely on December 18th, 2024, with a low of USD 2,585...

Rand Paul, Elon Musk, and several others, have recently called for an audit of the US government’s gold holdings. This has reminded many Americans that the US government owns a hoard of gold—of 261 million ounces—at Fort Knox and other places. On the other hand, the...

(Due to the massively important and numerous events that swept the news on Tuesday, this editorial wound up becoming the kind of deep look normally reserved for Deeper Dives, so this week’s Deeper Dive is coming early because that is what it turned out to be.

VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, is pleased to share a lengthy but all-encompassing and deeply substantive conversation had in mid-December with GoldRepublic’s Alexej Jordanov.

Well, that was quick. I recently wrote about the detailed technical setup for gold that was predicting a correction in the gold price. I shared a couple of areas of concern.

In this episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey dives deep into the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, the ongoing trade war, and the gold market’s volatility.

Gold is setup for a major breakout in real terms. A recession and significant rate cuts is a near perfect catalyst.

Jim Willie is currently about as excited as he's ever been about what he's currently seeing in the financial, political, gold, silver, and geopolitical markets.

With the Trump administration recently releasing the list of the 5 cryptos that it expects to hold in a strategic reserve, there's a lot of attention on Ripple (XRP), which Dr. Jim Willie thinks is headed for a precious metals backing.

Back in December, while much of the country was riding a wave of optimism over Donald Trump’s presidential victory, I warned that we were hurtling toward a recession—and saying that it may have already begun. I also noted that the increasing likelihood of a ...

Official central bank gold buying started 2025 the same way it ended 2024 - strong. Globally, central banks added a net 18 tonnes of gold to their holdings in January.