Gold Editorials & Commentary

After last week's gold and silver selloff, Goldman Sachs has a new report out to their clients telling them how to respond.

After I posted today’s early heads-up, gold price moved several dollars lower, and now it’s even clearer that the breakdown below the rising line was not invalidated.

Most economic commentators consider a decline in economic statistics, such as gross domestic product (GDP), as indicative of a decline in the health of the economy. According to most experts, this decline in the GDP—which is called a recession—as a rule, arises...

Under the Federal Reserve system, the U.S. is not a capitalist country, it is a socialist welfare state for the elite, compliments of inflation.

The dollar is “unattractive.” At least that's how UBS sees it. In a recent note, the Swiss investment bank said it is time to “reduce and hedge exposure to USD before further dollar declines.”

Last weekend the Bank for International Settlements published its annual report for the year ending March 31, 2025. It includes some detail on the gold transactions carried out by the bank and in particular at the bottom of Page 195 it confirms that the gold swaps...

Today, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signed House Bill 7287 into law, which includes a provision removing the last remaining tax on purchases of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion.

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Many are wondering if it’s too late to buy gold, that gold has peaked, and they have missed their opportunity. We hope the below series of facts, figures and common-sense reality-checks will put such fears squarely to rest, as gold’s role, price direction and days...

The worst-performing precious metal for the past week was gold, down 2.99%, in response to the ceasefire in the Middle East and the prospects of new trade deals being announced. According to Raymond James, Mexico will not approve any new mining concessions.

The US Senate worked through the weekend on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The goal was to pass it quickly to ensure the House will then pass it and send it to President Trump’s desk before the July 4th holiday.

In a recent episode of the Money Metals Podcast, analyst Mike Maharrey sat down with Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter and CEO of the New Orleans Investment Conference, to unpack the forces driving precious metals higher—and why the rally may be far from over...

When I say, “the bull market is strong,” I only mean the market for selling words that are complete “bull____” is strong. The stock analyst bull that goes in your ears about the economy is reeks strongly these days.

Turks are holding billions of dollars in gold “under their pillows.” The Turkish central bank estimates that Turkish households have more $311 billion worth of unregistered gold, most of it outside of the official financial system.

There's one chart you need to follow which is going to tell not only you, but me and everybody else, when gold is going to make that next really big move higher, and it's going to get to $8,000 an ounce - maybe even higher than that.

In mid-March, I wrote the following: "The U.S. dollar has lost approximately 75% of its purchasing power since 1980. What this means is that it costs about four times as much today for comparable goods and services as it did in 1980.

Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, joins VRIC Media founder, Jay Martin, in a compelling conversation about the revolutionary shifts happening in the global financial system—the ramifications of which all point toward gold’s increasingly central role as THE...

The S&Ps and Nasdaq hit record highs last week, a surreal milestone that only the Wall Street toadies at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal who fabricate the news could take seriously.

Weekly recap and look ahead in the precious metals markets.

Amazing, eh?  ‘Twas but a week ago we cited Gold having come within just four li’l ol’ points of flipping its weekly parabolic Short trend back to Long had 3480 traded.  But it didn’t transpire, nor since did price really rise toward the revised 3476 flip level for...

As the United States is having its 4th of July national holiday next week, I’m going to take next week off. The Good Lord willing, I’ll be back two weeks from now.

Calls to bring Germany’s gold home are growing, and now voices in Italy are urging that country’s government to do the same.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is now down. GLD is on short term sell signal. Our ratio is on a new sell signal.

Politicians might prefer lower interest rates, but the Fed must protect its fragile post-pandemic progress on prices. Credibility is hard-earned and easily lost.

Every once in a while, you’ll hear somebody claim that gold is “a useless metal.” You may think I’m exaggerating, but I assure you, I’m not. I heard a commentator on MSNBC say it with my own two ears a few years ago.

It was just a few days ago when I wrote that June could easily be a down month for gold, and we didn’t have to wait for long. After the $60+ fall, gold is now down by almost 1% this month!

The gold miners continue to stack records, on the verge of reporting their best quarterly results ever.  And remarkably Q2’25 will prove the fifth quarter in a row they’ve accomplished that.  These high prevailing gold prices are fueling epic windfall profits for...

Money Metals Midweek Memo host Mike Maharrey isn’t buying the recent bearish turn in gold forecasts from Wall Street. In this week’s podcast, he pushes back against the prevailing optimism in financial markets and lays out a compelling, data-backed case for why gold...

Calls to bring Germany’s gold home are growing, and now voices in Italy are urging that country’s government to do the same.

While most of the attention in the precious metals world is focused on gold and silver, we've seen some interesting trading activity in the platinum market this year.