Gold Editorials & Commentary

Starting from a low of USD 2,353 on July 25th, gold has been able to push further upwards over the past four weeks. Last Friday, spot gold prices climbed above the magical USD 2,500 mark for the first time. The bulls carried this momentum into the first half of this...

Gold has set another record high as Jerome Powell confirmed the Fed pivot. While gold has been driven to these heights by Eastern buying, we're now seeing Western investors flocking to the metal as the shift to easier monetary policies begins.

As the tricky stock market crash season months of September and October approach, I’ve urged heavily invested gold stock enthusiasts to consider buying put option insurance, allocating 2%-5% of the portfolio’s value for the purchase. 

Gold climbed back above $2,500 per ounce after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powel signaled that the time has come for interest-rate cuts. TD Securities Bart Melek, global head of commodity strategy, expects bullion to rise further to more than $2,700 in the coming...

According to some commentators, to counter inflation interest rates in the US must increase to a level that effectively restrains the economy. It is held that this increase in interest rates does not have to cause a recession if Fed’s policy makers could orchestrate...

The National Bank of Poland was the biggest central bank gold buyer in the second quarter. A Euronews report speculated that the country is "preparing for the worst."

You may beat the inflation rate back down, but all future inflation happens from the new higher benchmark of prices that never fall back down, and central banks never stop trying to push them up.

Greg Weldon discusses the outlook for the economy, Federal Reserve policy and why we are headed for stagflation. He has potential 3-year upside targets of $4900 Gold and $100 Silver.

Whether we like it or not, the bullion banks still play a large role in the gold and silver markets.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell held a press conference at the annual Jackson Hole economic conference today, and he all but said that a September cut to the federal funds rate is a done deal: “The time has come for policy to adjust. The direction of travel is clear.”

Gold Stocks and Silver should lead Gold as it trends to $2900 and $3000 in the coming months.

Gold keeps reaching new highs, but silver stays dormant. What's the deal? The deal is October 1978, when gold finally broke to new highs from 1974 but silver did basically nothing. Three months later though, by the beginning of 1979, silver began its parabolic run...

In recent months and years, we have been writing about potential future breakouts in Gold and Silver. That potential became a reality earlier this year. Gold exploded out of its 13-year cup and handle pattern through $2100/oz, and soon after, Silver broke out of a...

FedChair Powell’s “Friday Thunder” echoingly careened throughout the cascading heights of Wyoming’s Grand Tetons, across the nation and ’round the world.  “The time has come” rate cut quip resulted in a decided Dollar dip, Gold in turn getting the bid for a gradual...

This week I’m using a Dow Jones BEV chart going back to 1980, to point out how many new all-time highs (0.00% = BEV Zero) the Dow Jones has seen these past forty-four years.

As central bankers from around the world gather in Jackson Hole to foist their agendas into the media spotlight, investors are counting down the days until the Federal Reserve starts cutting rates.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is DOWN. Speculation has set a new high. The divergence between gold and silver remains a concern.

Many investors put gold and Bitcoin in the same category. Some people even call Bitcoin "digital gold." Is this a fair comparison?

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with economist Daniel Lacalle to discuss pressing economic issues, including inflation, government policy, and the future of the U.S. dollar.

The mid-tier and junior gold miners in this sector’s sweet spot for upside potential just finished reporting truly-spectacular quarterly results.  Fueled by dazzling record gold prices and lower mining costs, smaller gold miners’ unit earnings skyrocketed to their...

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Get an exclusive seat to this condensed version of a two-part interview between VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, and Gary Bohm of Metals & Miners. Piepenburg squarely addresses some of the most pressing topics of our time

The Bureau of Labor Statistics just zapped 818,000 jobs out of existence. That's one heck of an eraser.

After a nice summer correction the US stock market is where we expected; rallying after a healthy sentiment clean-out.

In this morning's show, Vince Lanci talks about the latest positioning by the CTA (commodity trading advisors) in the gold market as we approach the election and this year's BRICS meeting.

Advanced retail sales accelerated by 1% for the month of July, according to figures that are seasonally adjusted but not adjusted for inflation. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones were looking for a 0.3% increase. June sales were revised to a decline of 0.2% after...

In the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo podcast, host Mike Maharrey dived into the ongoing impacts of inflation, Federal Reserve policies, and the latest developments in the gold and silver markets. 

GDX and GDXJ are inching closer to major breakouts. A small junior index is close behind them, emerging from a 12-year base. Broad sentiment remains skeptical of gold stocks, which adds fuel to the fire.

In a powerful display of grassroots pressure, Nebraska politicians beat a hasty retreat this week after attempting a brazen tax grab that would have reimposed sales taxes on purchases of gold and silver in the Cornhusker State.

In 2024 alone, we've seen the Philadelphia Federal Reserve publish a study on the effectiveness of a gold standard, confirmations that the BRICS are moving forward plans for a 40% gold-backed settlement currency, and a senator propose revaluing the Fed's gold...