Gold Editorials & Commentary

A clear-cut win by Trump negates the risk of political turmoil and sends gold and silver plunging. But this bull market was never built on geopolitical risk — it’s a decades-long trend of ever-easier money and ever-greater debt that has sent gold to record heights...

In this week’s Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey dives deep into the broader economic landscape as the U.S. approaches another pivotal election. 

As the United States braces for the aftermath of a decisive Trump victory for the Presidency, the principles of sound money seem destined to take a backseat to what is politically expedient – at least at the federal level.

ETF gold holdings globally increased for the sixth straight month in October. Big flows of gold into North American and Asian ETFs offset outflows from European-based funds.

With Donald Trump back in the driver’s seat, America is gearing up for policies that put the country first: boosting jobs, cutting regulations, and going full-throttle on energy independence.

And no, I don’t mean Trump’s presidency, but that’s true as well. I mean the rally in the USD Index and the declines in the precious metals and mining stocks.

Bond prices collapsed nearly 3% post-election and are down 12% since mid-September. Whatever that tells us did not change because of election results. The action in bonds is contradictory to the prevailing assumptions of a melt-up in asset prices because of expected...

Trump’s victory was an all-out sweep. He took all of congress to a shimmering red victory in the wake of his own presidential win, thoroughly reformed the Republican party in his image, and he won the electoral vote by a large margin and even dominated the popular...

Donald Trump is the projected winner of the 2024 presidential election. After winning back states he had lost in 2020, Trump performed well in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—states Kamala Harris needed to win. Trump has won more than enough electoral votes to...

Trump has been elected President, and the gold and silver prices are getting slaughtered today. Meanwhile the dollar has risen sharply, and the bond market is also getting clobbered.

Not only did we have the election last night, but early indications are that the decisiveness of Trump's victory may even lead to less post-election legal action.

Since breaking above USD 2,530 in late August, gold prices have only known one direction: upward. Following a meteoric rise, a new all-time high of USD 2,790 was reached last week on Wednesday. A significant consolidation or even a genuine correction have been...

This year is shaping up to be one of the most legislatively successful in US sound money history. Money Metals Exchange was instrumental in achieving six new sound money victories, as well as one key defensive win. The upshot is that sound money legislation,...

After more than a year of anticipation, the U.S. presidential election is finally upon us. News coverage is at a fever pitch, and rhetoric from both sides has turned increasingly intense. Many people are experiencing election fatigue, ready to get past the noise and...

Gold and silver have been on a tremendous run in 2024. In fact, they are the two best-performing assets this year.

Gold was smashed last Thursday, dropping over $50 an ounce at one point during the trading session. Since then, the price has traded sideways as investors contemplate the potential outcome of the U.S. presidential election, with results expected tomorrow evening......

After slowing in August, central bank gold buying rebounded in September. On net, central banks globally added 40 tons of gold to their reserves. This compares to an 8-ton increase in global central bank gold holdings in August, according to the latest data compiled...

It’s November 2024, and you might have heard there’s an election going on. Like almost all elections in living memory, this one is being billed as the single most important political event of all time; and although that’s probably an exaggeration, it will indeed...

Today is the US election. It’s unlikely to change the fact that fiat has failed… or change the disturbing fact that most Western citizens still have no gold.

As I have been writing publicly for over 13 years, and have been running my services for and teaching trading and investing to thousands of retail customers and money manager clients for the same, I have learned a lot about how most of you approach the market.  ...

In a recent episode of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, Dr. Ron Paul welcomed Jp Cortez, an influential sound money advocate and policy expert from the Sound Money Defense League, an extension of Money Metals Exchange. 

How will tomorrow’s election impact gold and silver markets? Bullion investors who support Donald Trump may get what they hope for. The polls mostly favor a Trump win in key battleground states, though Kamala Harris appears to have a slight edge in the popular vote...

There is a fine line between happiness and misery, as Dickens describes in David Copperfield. Copperfield’s landlord, Mr Micawber, was just on the wrong side of happiness by six pence. 

There have been quite a few breakouts this year in precious metals. None have been bigger or more significant than Gold breaking out of its 13-year cup and handle pattern and clearing $2100/oz easily.

According to the most recent report from the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy added only 12,000 payroll jobs during October. This was the smallest month-to-month employment gain in nearly four years. Moreover, total private jobs fell ...

Our time target for the bull market will be registered on election day. Of course, there must be a (+/-) tolerance built into the time target because who among us is a legitimate Swami, able to read the future in pin-point fashion? None of us, that’s who. Least of...

I'm going to do a short little video show you why it's a bit dangerous to try and catch every penny, especially in the silver market, and we see this at every top. Whenever I start to see signs that we may be forming an intermediate top I suggest maybe it's time to...

If it's been a while since you've heard an update about how the Basel banking framework applies to the gold & silver markets, and especially if the whole concept was a little confusing the first time around, then today's show with Vince Lanci is for you!

Vince Lanci discusses the potential for increased volatility during the US Presidential Election. He says the next $200 move in Gold could be lower.