Does US government debt matter? Well, even if the Trump administration was able to create truly spectacular growth with its policies (unlikely but possible), it would still take decades to reduce the size of the debt significantly.

Donald Trump is again sowing chaos with respect to the trade war he has initiated. US trading partners were not looking forward to July 9, the end of Trump’s 90-day hiatus on so-called “reciprocal tariffs” he announced in April, which caused a broad sell-off in...

The worst-performing precious metal for the past week was gold, though it still rose 0.82%. According to Royal Bank of Canada, Northern Star’s fiscal year 2026 production expectations have been declining since a fiscal year 2025 downgrade in the third quarter.

Gold and silver prices outperformed nearly every asset class in the first half of the year. Geopolitical uncertainty, a weaker U.S. dollar, the threat of tariffs, central bank gold buying, and silver inventory scarcity all contributed to stellar performance.

Nvidia became the world’s first $4 trillion company last week, leapfrogging Microsoft, Tesla, Google and every other company struggling to stay in the AI game.  Our money is on Musk to compete the hardest. He is Nvidia’s biggest customer for their most powerful...

The gold and silver markets are about to open. And shortly we'll find out how silver responds in the Far East following Thursday and Friday's staggering rally.

On Thursday this week, the Dow Jones closed within 1% of making a new all-time high in its BEV chart below, with a BEV of -0.81%, to then pullback from a new BEV Zero on Friday, closing the week with a BEV of -1.43%.

Some big price moves unfolded this week in the silver market... and the poor man's gold is looking super strong right now after breaking above the key $37 level.

“If I may open, mmb, Gold is now +27.7% this year:  no way that’s boring…” Admittedly, dear Squire, perhaps a bit exaggerated is our title’s “boring” description for Gold.  So far this century, the 28-week year-to-date increase of +27.7% ranks second only to such...

Since hitting an all-time high of $3,500 in April, gold has consolidated and generally traded sideways in a range between $3,200 and $3,400 an ounce. Does this mean the bull run is over?

Even though we live in an uncertain age, markets reached all-time highs. For some, markets are supposed to foretell the future, so investors must be looking across the valley and seeing lotusland. Maybe markets are confident that Trump’s TACO effect will prevail....

American stock investors’ gold-upleg-chasing gold-ETF-share buying is mounting.  After mostly ignoring gold’s powerful bull run for 6/7ths of its lifespan, they are increasingly returning.  These investors control vast pools of capital yet still have super-low gold...

Here are today's videos and charts.

The future is now for Strategic and critical commodities at the heart of the current global macro alignment.

The gold price has been rallying for 18 months now. Although the rally has tailed off over the past 2 months. Is it over? Or still just getting started?

If you have ever felt the stress of trying to time an investment just right, you are not alone. Markets can feel like a game of musical chairs, except the music never really stops and there is always another chair. Precious metals, however, offer a rare sense of...

Gold has made impressive gains so far this year, but when it spiked up to touch $3500 in the middle of April it become heavily overbought which is why it then went into a rectangular consolidation pattern that has given time for the overbought condition to fully...

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman offered a pointed observation last week: some of the most consequential shifts in financial policy are not the product of deliberate votes or formal rule changes. Instead, they emerge quietly, when...

One of the most rudimentary topics in mainstream macroeconomics is inflation, and specifically the different methods of “measuring” inflation, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI). These concepts are taught in practically every...

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