Gold Editorials & Commentary

It looks like Great Britain sold its gold too soon. And are some lessons to be learned from this British experiment with reserve diversification. Between 1999 and 2001, the British government sold about 395 tonnes of gold in a bid to diversify the UK’s reserves.

Today’s top economic article is about the battle between stocks and bonds and even between US bonds and the global economy, which is all going to intensify this year. While I wrote extensively about that in this past weekend’s Deeper Dive, it’s helpful to see that ...

China announced an increase in its official gold reserves in November. It was the first reported increase after a 6-month pause, and it appears it wasn't a one-off event. And by the way, the Chinese have a lot more gold than they admit.

For decades, I’ve been urging the CME to convert the 100ounce futures contract to a no-margin physical market contract. I’ve also been urging them to launch a one-ounce gold futures contract.

I recently read an article which was warning about a repeat of a 1929 Depression. While I believe the author correctly believes that we are approaching the end of a long-term bullish market cycle, his theory is that we will continue to see inflation due to further...

According to many commentators, a growing economy requires a growing money stock, because economic growth gives rise to a greater demand for money. Failing to add more money, it is maintained, will lead to a decline in the prices of goods and services, which, in...

In this opening Gold Matters discussion for 2025, VON GREYERZ principals, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, address their major risk concerns for the year ahead, namely: market risk, political risk, currency/inflation risk and banking risk.

Investors keep looking to the Fed for supposed “forward guidance”. They are looking in the wrong place. Since mid-December, bond prices have declined another 5% and are currently at new 52-week lows. Here is an updated chart of U.S. Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)…

Many Americans are rooting for Donald Trump and his appointees to succeed in their herculean task of slowing or reversing government growth.

It was easy to watch the gold and silver markets in 2024 as they rallied throughout most of the year. But there are risks to an extension of that rally in 2025, including what happens in the stock, yield, and Bitcoin markets.

In a recent episode of the Money Metals Podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviewed Brien Lundin, a renowned expert in precious metals markets, publisher of Gold Newsletter, and organizer of the prestigious New Orleans Investment Conference. 

After a multi-year effort backed by Money Metals, the Sound Money Defense League, and other in-state allies, the Kentucky legislature approved a bill that included ending the sales tax on purchases of precious metals in 2024. 

The World Gold Council (WGC) reports that global physically backed gold ETFs saw net inflows in December, reversing previous trends with an addition of $778 million. Asia and Europe led the inflows, while North America experienced modest outflows. Notably, 2024...

Gold closed the week at a new all-time high against foreign currencies. Gold and Silver had a strong week while the miners showed less strength. We see a bit more strength before metals and miners retreat from resistance again.

Although the major indices were down just 1.6% on Friday, it felt like a big day. Everything that matters to the U.S. economy was moving the wrong way: stocks were falling across the board; interest rates and energy prices were climbing; dollars were growing dearer...

Whenever Gold is technically in a “Short trend” — yet price doesn’t substantively “go Down” — we say ’tis a “beautiful thAng”.  Indeed, Gold’s ongoing Short trend just recorded its ninth consecutive week per the rightmost red parabolic dots as seen here:

Gold and silver have traded quietly but with a positive bias this week, and it looks like we'll be closing out the week on a positive note.

Lawmakers in Wyoming have introduced legislation today to create the “Wyoming Gold Reserve.” Introduced by sound money champion Senator Bob Ide (R-Casper), Senate File 96 amends and further implements the Wyoming Legal Tender Act, a popular 2018 law that had removed...

Current data supports overall lower gold prices. Current data favors an overall higher dollar. Trend is DOWN for gold stocks.

Some of gold’s most-volatile days erupt after monthly-US-jobs data is released.  This granddaddy of all economic reports can really move markets

Here are today's videos and charts. 

For the first December since 2019, gold-backed ETFs globally reported net inflows of gold. Asian funds drove the global increase in ETF gold holdings to close out 2024.

Money-supply growth rose year over year in November for the fourth month in a row, the first time this has happened since the four months ending in October of 2022. The current trend in money-supply growth suggests a significant and continued turnaround from more...

Francis Hunt, TheMarketSniper covers a bevy of issues and comments on a few live charts. We focus on the S&P 500 priced against currency in circulation, the secular trend change in the bond market and its implications and close with comments on Gold, Silver and...

We saw the big move in gold and silver in 2024. Although the reaction by the morning stocks was still somewhat muted. So how are the banks looking at the mining equities in 2025?

Gold prices notched a series of highs in 2024 and the run could extend into 2025. “Investors are optimistic about gold and silver for 2025 because they are so pessimistic on geopolitics and government debt,” said Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault, via...

Almost regardless of the macro backdrop, some commodities get popped and dropped, Whack-a-Mole style.

The first episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo for 2025 recapped an extraordinary year for gold and silver. Host Mike Maharrey detailed how these precious metals thrived amidst challenging economic conditions, outperforming most traditional assets. 

Now as we're halfway through the second trading week of the year, the markets remain fixated on the paradigm-shaking policies that the Trump administration continues to advertise are coming.

After surging to the highest levels of 2024 in October, central bank gold buying continued in earnest in November. Based on the latest data collected by the World Gold Council, central banks added a net 53 tonnes of gold to their holdings in November. That pushed...