Gold Editorials & Commentary

Speculation remains robust which is positive for overall higher gold prices. A text book perfect bull market: consolidation then breakout. Next high target: $3100/$3150.

Since President Trump took office and introduced his policies, financial markets have faced a wave of uncertainty driven by a mix of complex and often conflicting forces.

Central bank gold demand topped 1,000 tonnes for the third straight year in 2024. To put that into perspective, central bank gold reserves increased by an average of just 473 tonnes annually between 2010 and 2021.

The level of disruption taking place at the federal level under Trump 2.0 is progressing much faster than anyone anticipated. Uncertainty is rising over tariffs, revelations of fraud within USAID, and the renewed "Maximum Pressure" campaign against Iran. There's a...

God took 7 days to make the world. Hitler transformed Germany from a democracy to a violent authoritarian state in only 100 days. Today’s US political climate too is changing as President Trump’s Maganomics remakes America and the world. It might take less than 100...

The gold miners’ stock prices have largely decoupled from their metal, which overwhelmingly drives their profits.  This fundamental disconnect has spawned a shocking valuation anomaly, with gold stocks far too low relative to gold.  But this aberration won’t last,...

We have a truly generational breakout for the CDNX junior stocks index in play this week. Here are today's videos and charts.

The NY Fed has recently published a study on bank failures in the U.S., examining the reasons why banks fail. For this study, the regulator constructed a large database with balance sheet information for most U.S. banks dating back to the Civil War.

Gold’s back in the mode of setting a new record high (almost) every day. Sure, it's taking a break today, down a few dollars after a torrid run over the past week.

Gold demand followed prices higher and set a new record in 2024. According to data compiled by the World Gold Council, total gold demand rose by 1 percent to 4,974 tonnes, driven by robust central bank buying and surging investor interest in the East.

On January 17, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook and Update. It attracted little attention in a media environment flooded with stories about then-incoming President Trump, but it should have been one of the big...

Bart Brands joins us to discuss what's happening in precious metals!

Even despite fewer rate cuts than expected last year, gold was still the best performing asset. And it is again so far in 2025. And now cracks are emerging in the tech stock market, as well as in the precious metals infrastructure.

If you were hoping today would be the day that things would settle down in the gold and silver markets and return to normal, then don't watch this one.

The official platforms of American political parties are often short on substance and long on platitudes. Sometimes they are a mishmash of contradictions and promises that won’t be kept. Almost nobody reads them even in the year of their adoption, let alone a...

Gold Ratios are indicating our projected countercycle is slowly coming to be and that is to the benefit of the gold mining industry.

Because we tend to look at gold's performance in dollars, it's easy to forget that it is also priced in other currencies. We know that gold set records in dollar terms, but, how did it perform in other countries? In most currencies, it did even better.

The gold price just hit another new all-time high, as questions continue to emerge about what's really driving the market dysfunction. And in today's show, Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics explains why there's more going on here than just the impact of...

After closing at 0.54 percent in July 2020, the yield on the 10-year US Treasury Bond settled at 4.57 percent in December 2024. Some commentators believe that the massive increase in yields is because of a strong increase in inflationary expectations.

It seems surreal that Donald Trump has been in office for only two weeks. That’s because the amount of excitement he’s generated so far… is already more than most presidents generate in an entire four-year term.

The best performing precious metal for the week was platinum, up 9.00%, and breaking through $1,000 per ounce. Gold exports to the U.S. from Europe’s main refining hub in Switzerland jumped to the highest since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as traders scrambled to...

The flow of physical gold and silver from London to New York continued last week, with JPMorgan announcing plans to move $4 billion in metal to deliver against futures contracts. Meanwhile, big players in the gold market are reportedly begging central banks to...

Americans got an eyeful of the waste and fraud which has been rampant in federal spending last week. A barrage of announcements by the Trump administration included putting the brakes on a $50 million program to buy and supply condoms to people in Gaza.

So after months of talk, new tariffs have finally been enacted. Which means that the volatility we’ve seen over the past few months isn’t likely to go away any time soon.

In a recent Money Metals podcast, Mike Maharrey interviewed Helen Viljoen, founder and CEO of Nebu Gold, a South African company that has pioneered the concept of “investment jewelry.”

Are we heading for a repeat performance of the resurrection of inflation that we saw in the mid-1970s? It sure appears to be setting up that way.

With an overwhelming majority, the Wyoming state senate has voted favorably on legislation that would establish a stockpile of gold for the Cowboy State.

Precious Metals closed last week and January strong, particularly Gold. The ancient metal of kings closed January up over 7% and Friday at a weekly all-time high of $2835/oz.

Bloggers were revved up when last week began, trumpeting a warning that China’s DeepSeek R1 threatened to crush America’s capital-intensive effort to lead the world in AI development. ZeroHedge was among the first to jump on the story.

In a number of past articles, I have tried to prepare those reading my analysis for the strong probability that we can see a long-term bear market. I have outlined the many reasons supporting my perspective, and have provided a few supporting charts in various prior...