Gold Editorials & Commentary

Almost exactly one year ago, on March 2, 2024, we had been following many charts for the PM complex, which were at critical inflection points and could have broken either way. Many of the chart patterns we had been following for six months or longer, waiting for a...

An end to the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency would mean disaster for the U.S. economy. The United States depends on global demand for dollars to facilitate its borrowing and spending. The greenback’s status helps support America’s economic and...

In a recent episode of the Soar Financially podcast, host Kai Hoffmann sat down with Stefan Gleason, the President and CEO of Money Metals Exchange, to discuss shocking irregularities during decades-old Fort Knox gold audits, secret global gold flows, investor...

The Dow, S&P 500, and the Nasdaq all sold off viciously yesterday, with the Nasdaq having its worst day since 2022. This brings overall stock market losses to $4 trillion since last month's highs.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s GDPNow model projection for real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2025 (Q1 2025) is now showing a slump to -1.5 percent. This marks a significant downward revision from the previous estimate of 2.3 percent on February 19, 2025...

The BRICS bloc — originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — has undergone significant transformation over the last twelve months. In August 2023, the group extended invitations to six nations: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi...

The US stock market bears eerie similarity to the market of 1929. The government’s macabre tariff tax tantrum could be the catalyst that sends this outrageously overvalued market into the abyss.  

“There is more money to be made in gold stocks compared to gold because gold stocks benefit from a leverage factor that potentially produces gains more favorable than holding gold itself.” 

Record-high U.S. gold stockpiles of 39.7 million ounces, worth approximately $115 billion, have been amassed in exchange warehouses due to a tariff-driven surge in U.S. gold prices. This unprecedented accumulation, driven by lucrative arbitrage opportunities,...

The US and China came closer to a full-fledged trade war last week when China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on key US agricultural exports. This was retaliation for President Trump’s increasing of tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States from 10 percent...

The global gold market is experiencing seismic shifts, and according to Jan Nieuwenhuijs, a gold market analyst for Money Metals, key developments in gold flows, central bank holdings, and U.S. gold policy signal significant changes ahead. 

The National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK) recently announced plans to sell dollars to ease the inflationary pressure caused by its gold purchases.

This is one of the most significant developments for gold and precious metals in a really long time because the number one indicator for gold and the rest of precious metals is turning bullish for the first time in almost 25 years.

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.