Gold Editorials & Commentary

As the concern with geopolitics peaked, so did gold price. Silver and mining follow. Are you prepared for the likely outcome?

Let us hear no ghost stories about Banksters attacking gold or as Larry would say inflicting a “take down” on poor old gold, as if it’s planned, personal and a war of good vs. evil. Well it is, but “evil” is a moving target and sometimes wolves hide in sheep’s...

We're about six weeks into fiscal year 2024, but if this year looks anything like last year, we can assume the federal government will continue to pile up debt at astonishing rates.

Colonel E.C. Harwood, who founded the American Institute for Economic Research ninety years ago in 1933, adamantly opposed the first and second Bretton Woods systems because he believed that governments needed to face the hard budget constraint inherent in the...

Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital and the Milkshake Theory joins us to provide his latest thoughts on Gold, the US Dollar, and the factors driving current trends.

With war, debt, the dollar, and rates all in play as key drivers for gold, what’s next for the price?

The best performing precious metal for last week was platinum, up 4.90%, but lacked headline news around the price movement. Gold futures put in their fourth weekly gain, although without the lower payrolls number reported last Friday, it was heading for a loss.

All I have heard over the last year is that we are about to head into a recession – an economic construct suggesting a negative market environment. And, this has kept many quite bearish of the stock market, with most looking at the rally from 3500 to 4600SPX as the...

You saw how miners soared on Friday – everyone did. But do you know why it happened? This time, it’s actually quite clear…

A change of tone and tempo this week from our good friend Richard Charles, owner of Lake Tahoe-based Alpine Capital. His observations concerning gold’s historical role during periods of intense global strife should remind us that bullion’s sometimes crazy price...

Much of the M&A focus in 2022 was on Canada. In Q3 alone, there were a total of $562.8 million worth, including Kinross Gold acquiring Great Bear Resources for $1.44 billion. Agnico-Eagle and Kirkland Lake Gold completed a $10B merger to become the third-largest...

Gold failed to make a new monthly all-time high for October and is struggling around resistance at $2000. Its showing distribution. However, the gold stocks are showing bullish head and shoulder bottoms (especially GDX).

Below, we consider just how far America has fallen from its founding vision (and something we can do about it).

From our purview, Gold appears on the perch of a downside lurch:  a classic post-geopolitical pullback. “Unless like you’ve said that maybe ‘it is different this time’, right mmb?” 

As the Federal Reserve puts a hold on interest rates, investors have to ask themselves whether the elevated inflation rate is also on hold.

The stock market was remarkably strong this week; five daily advances that lifted the Dow Jones up by 4.47BEV points in the chart below, or 1,644 points since last Friday.  I’m not going to argue with success, it was a very good week for the bulls.  But what about...

The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) released new jobs data on Friday. According to the report, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs rose 150,000 jobs in October, month over month. The unemployment rate rose slightly from 3.8 percent to 3.9 percent over the same...

Gold sector cycle is up. Trend is now up for gold and gold stocks. In recent years, gold stocks have a tendency to bottom in the summer/fall time frame.

Gold Miners (GDX) may be forming a head and shoulder bottom. The FOMC left rates unchanged - the stock market is rebounding. If the Fed is done hiking, gold may be heading to a November breakout.

The gold miners’ stocks are lagging gold’s strong young upleg, their gains falling behind.  Their striking performance gap is undermining gold-stock sentiment, leaving traders even warier of this sector.  While definitely vexing, this anomaly has only arisen over...

Here are today's videos and charts.

Should you buy gold now? Or, should you wait? The pat answer is “it all depends”; which is true, but, it’s an inadequate answer. A bigger problem might be the question itself. Why would someone who is planning to buy gold now decide to wait?

The New York Federal Reserve said on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, that the estimate for the neutral rate for Q2 has eased to 0.57 percent from 0.68 percent in Q1. Analysts typically translate that rate into a real-world setting by adding the neutral rate to the Fed’s...

This article discusses one diverse component of the broad global markets; the US S&P 500. The market has some poor underpinnings that we routinely keep track of in NFTRH and are beyond the scope of this public article. Also beyond the scope are macro risk...

Amazing what a week or two can do! Literally a few trading days since Oct 6th, it was “Here we go again! Another day of losses!” as if we had suffered through a daily beatdown of epic proportions for months. (It was 2 weeks and a 10% loss on GDX by the way....

Alan Blinder thinks American households and workers have never had it so good. But because they’re trusting their lying eyes instead of experts like him, they’re disgruntled about the economy. Why don’t the hoi polloi appreciate that “unemployment is near record...

The latest central bank gold purchase figures are out, and they show that central banks just set a record for the amount of gold they've purchased over the first 3 quarters of a year.

Gold closed October at $1994, failing to close above monthly resistance at $2000. Monthly and quarterly resistance remain at $2000, while yearly resistance remains at $1900. Should Gold close at $2010 or higher on December 31 then it will make a new yearly,...

As the US (and foreign) deficits and debt-loads continue to surge to levels that were once unimaginable, the recognition of the value of precious metals as an asset class is increasing at an accelerating rate.

The average American investor holds a diversified portfolio of stocks… and their government holds a diversified portfolio of debt-funded wars. The horror in Gaza will likely become regional, but by then it may already be overshadowed by US neocon meddling in the...