Gold Editorials & Commentary

“The concept of transitory is really this: it is that, uh, the increases will happen. We’re not saying they will reverse. That’s not what transitory means. It means that the increases in prices will happen, so there will be inflation, but that the process of...

In this 23-minute MAMChat, Matterhorn principals Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg address gold’s recent “flash crash” in the context of technicals, fundamentals, and good ol’ fashioned price manipulation from the bullion banks.

In the space of two trading days, the world of gold and silver prices was turned on its head. On Friday and Monday, silver plunged to its lowest level of 2021, gold touched its low for the year and the silver/gold price ratio also rose to its most undervalued level...

Following three previous reports, the WGC revealed two more interesting publications at the turn of July and August. The first one is the report about gold demand trends in Q2 2021. As we can read, the demand for gold was virtually flat in Q2 (y-o-y), but in the...

Both gold and crude oil peaked at all-time highs in 1980. Those highs are still intact when the effects of inflation are accounted for. Below are the charts for both gold and crude oil…

Precious Metals – in particular Gold and Silver – have recently hit their respective Fibonacci 100% measured moves to the downside. At the same time, both also reached critical support levels where they may remain close to for a while.

Struggling to contain the economic fallout from the pandemic, central bankers have realized that keeping interest rates low and maintaining hundreds of billions in monthly asset purchases (ie. quantitative easing), have not given the desired economic boost; now they...

I thought it was important to address the bombing of the gold market in the past few days. I have received numerous calls from people who are concerned with the recent action. I believe even more so because the Basel 3 regulations were supposed to make the price of...

The gold market has no shortage of issues following Sunday evening’s “flash crash” that saw prices drop sharply at the open.

In a recent episode of The Keiser Report, Egon von Greyerz and Max Keiser discuss the 50th anniversary of the demise of Bretton Woods, Nixon suspending the dollar’s convertibility into gold, “transitory” inflation, how stock and bond markets are pricing-in inflation...

The gold price dropped precipitously on Sunday evening, August 8. Or it was smashed down, depending on which headline you read. We look at the data to see what really happened to the price of gold.

It has been a very challenging year for precious metals investors, and our struggles may continue a while longer. However, all is not lost and we are not yet doomed to repeat the pattern from 2013-2018.

Another day, another decline in junior miners – and another increase in profits from short positions in them. Shouldn’t we expect a rebound though?

In this, the second part of our Market Volatility research article, we’ll take a look at how Precious Metals, the US Dollar, and the US major markets have moved into a sideways price trend which supports a pending future volatility event.  The big “mini flash-crash...

What’s supersized tastes the best, and that’s why the drop in gold miners was the juiciest thing of recent days. Apart from my last 2forU, of course.

The dip in the gold price over the past few days doesn’t change anything on this long-term chart. The bottom line is this: Like money, gold is clearly superior to fiat.

On Sunday evening 8 August at 6:00pm New York time, as the trading of gold futures contracts commenced for the week and the COMEX GCZ1 December 100 oz gold futures contract opened at $1765 per ounce, there was nothing in the market or in wider macro news to suggest...

Where should a smart investor park their savings in this current market, where stocks are expensive and continued low interest rates make income-yielding investments a joke?

The US economy added almost 1 million jobs in July, building solid ground for tapering. Meanwhile, the PMs’ sandy foundations crumbled spectacularly.

How will financial news organizations and gold and silver market analysts explain tonight's smashing of monetary metals prices in the futures market?

Overnight, on Sunday and early Monday, Precious Metals and Oil started a fairly big collapse which quickly bottomed and recovered – at least in the Precious Metals markets.  Crude Oil is still moving lower in early trading on Monday, August 9, 2021.  Can we learn...

The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, but still off 1.28%, as precious metals took a hit across the board. Sudan’s official gold output nearly doubled in the first half of 2021 as authorities reined in smuggling, a Sudanese Mineral Resources...

The precious metals futures markets launched shortly after Richard Nixon closed the gold window and removed the last vestige of gold backing from the Federal Reserve Note. Officials introduced paper gold and silver contracts specifically to increase price volatility...

In the liquidity void that follows the resumption of futures trading, and which saw US futures trade modestly lower, a sudden burst of selling in the gold futures contract sent Gold prices plunging to as low as $1,677.0 or almost $100 lower from the Friday close of...

What a week! Gold has dropped almost $60 since Friday, and silver came along reaching new yearly lows! Are you prepared for a wild ride downwards?

Below we unpack the implications behind central bank gold purchases (rising), negative real yields (falling) and Stanley Fischer’s Fed-speak (cringing).

The DJIA is obviously losing intermediate momentum, but it can regain it if it can work its way back into a short-term uptrend right away-- which does not seem likely with the short-term cycle ready to keel over. A correction in NDX would also help SPX turn down...

…That is the question which Wall Street has to answer. Whether in the new week, next month or only by 2022 is not important; the direction the stock market will take is important for various reasons.

Last week's trading saw gold rallying into Wednesday's session, with the metal running up to a high of 1835.90. From there, however, a sharp decline was seen into late-week, here dropping all the way down to a Friday low of 1759.50 - also ending both the day and...

The graphic shown above is a massive granite wall that is part of the Canadian shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that forms the ancient core of the North American continent (also known as the North American craton...