Gold Editorials & Commentary

For investors seeking exposure to gold, mining stocks and ETFs like GDX, which holds a diversified basket of approximately 46 gold mining companies weighted by market capitalization, may seem appealing due to their leverage to the price of gold. However, while...

The insane neo-Keynesian policies implemented by the Biden-Harris administration have created persistent inflation and record levels of debt with two objectives: to bloat Gross Domestic Product and jobs with public spending and government jobs.

We now move from the stage where I was, in a lonely manner, predicting for months inflation would rise near the end of summer to the stage where everyone is in on it because it has become obvious, so the rise in today’s report is suddenly no surprise.

There's been a lot of change in the structure of the gold market in the past week since the election.

We saw a small move up in the precious metals sector (and then back down), which is completely in tune with what I wrote yesterday, and as such, it doesn’t change the outlook.

The Wall Street Journal published an in-depth story Tuesday about an armed drug cartel that’s illegally mining gold from a China-owned mine in Colombia.

Gold fell 2.42% today in continuation of last week’s price action. Gold is experiencing a normal pullback after its whopping 50% rise this year. I'm not worried one bit. I'm now watching $2,600 in COMEX futures and the uptrend line as key support levels. Ideally, I’...

More voices are harmonizing with mine by saying that the recession already began this year. (Which is not to say they are saying it with any awareness of what I’ve been saying, as I don’t suppose they are.) Today, Ed Dowd says that Donald Trump is inheriting “a turd...

James Madison called public debt “a public curse.” We're currently cursed to the tune of $35.9 trillion and counting. To make matters worse, the size of the debt is exacerbating the debt.

Two days after Donald Trump became the first American since Grover Cleveland to win nonconsecutive presidential elections, the Federal Reserve announced a quarter percent cut in interest rates. Following this announcement, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell held a press...

We saw a lot of gold and silver short covering by the banks in the latest COT report. Ahead of this week's report, which will show us what the banks did while the price was declining in the days after Trump's election.

Is the US stock market now in a blow-off stage, like in 1929? If so, how will the coming collapse affect gold, silver, and mining stocks?

Triple Flag reported earnings this past week, which topped earnings per share (EPS) overestimates given by analysts covering the company. Triple Flag also beat revenue estimates of $67.18M with an actual $73.7M in revenue reported.

Gold is fundamentally money, but there is demand for the yellow metal in industry and technology. Industrial and tech demand accounted for 83 tons of gold in the third quarter, a 7 percent year-on-year increase. It was a 2-ton increase quarter to quarter.

Before your head explodes after reading the title of this article, I am going to ask you to maintain an open mind as you read through this article. It may cause you to begin to see the market as it is rather than as you believe it to be. In other words, try not to...

We discuss the reasons why a secular bear market will begin sometime in the next four years. Its a commentary on the conditions, not on Trump or his policy.

A lot of the market activity this year has been driven by the buildup to the election. But now that it's over, what's next for gold and silver? We've seen an historic rally for both metals in 2024. But with Trump on his way back into office, what will be driving...

Earlier this year, Gold broke out of its cup-and-handle pattern and made its biggest breakout in 50 years. It has steadily climbed higher but could be experiencing its first notable post-breakout correction. 

What a week for the Dow Jones, and gold.  Though looking at their Bear’s Eye View charts, nothing dramatic happened this week, as seen in the Dow Jones BEV chart below.

I’ve been confidently anticipating the Mother of All Tops since, like, around 1975, but this week I decided to go wholeheartedly with the flow. The result, technically speaking, is a robustly optimistic S&P target at 7644.50.

In this pre-US-election interview, VON GREYERZ Partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Jeremy Szafron of Kitco News to address the many ignored “elephants” in the room regarding recession indicators, sovereign debt levels, credit market deterioration, increasingly...

Gold’s +35.2% rally this year from 2072 to an All-Time High at 2802 might be couched catalytically as geo-political discomfort were (amongst other rationale) Vice President Harris to have defeated former President Trump, in turn installing her as the so-called “...

Countries outside the eurozone but inside the European Union, i.e., those that one day might join the eurozone—like Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, are positioning for a new gold standard.

India has brought more of its gold home. Last spring, the Reserve Bank of India repatriated 100 tons of gold, moving it from the UK to vaults within India's borders. 

It’s been a historic week in American politics as well as in financial markets. Following Donald Trump’s triumph at the ballot box, the S&P 500 spiked to a new record high.

Gold sector cycle is now down. Trend is up for USD and down for gold & gold stocks. Looking for a new set up to trade the short side.

Last week, I wrote Gold Could Collapse or Challenge $3000 in November. This week's election results support the former, and the odds now favor a pullback in gold to its 200-day MA (currently $2,400).

The big US stocks dominating markets and investors’ portfolios just finished another earnings season.  These elite companies continue to thrive, collectively reporting near-record sales and profits.  Yet their valuations remain deep into dangerous bubble territory,...

We have bull hammer candlesticks of power on the CDNX microcaps index and many individual component stocks too. The new US government realizes the little guy has been left behind, and now is our “microcaps time to shine!” Here are today's videos and charts.

A clear-cut win by Trump negates the risk of political turmoil and sends gold and silver plunging. But this bull market was never built on geopolitical risk — it’s a decades-long trend of ever-easier money and ever-greater debt that has sent gold to record heights...