Gold Editorials & Commentary

Gold sector cycle is down. Trend is up for USD and down for gold and gold stocks. COT data is not helpful at this point.

Gold’s recent pullback sure overstayed its welcome, increasingly vexing as August marched on.  That festering weakness really did a number on sentiment, leaving mounting bearishness in its wake.  Flaring gold-futures short selling was the dominant reason gold...

Here are today's videos and charts.

Matterhorn Asset Management partner, Matthew Piepenburg, sits down with Rick Rule and Jim Rickards at the recent Rick Rule Precious Metals Symposium to discuss the future of the USD, the rising BRICS tide and the Realpolitik of any realistic (i.e., immediate) gold-...

It’s still Uncle Buck and then everybody else in the fiat debt paper world. You can tell that is true by how the world quakes when he shakes. The US dollar is the anti-market to risk ‘on’ speculation, mainly in the areas of commodities, resources, materials and...

After more than two years of high inflation, the Federal Reserve finally has inflation back on target. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI) has grown at a continuously compounding annual rate of 2.1 percent over the last three months, new data...

It’s the deposits. Bankers never used to worry about the money customers left in their banks. When deposited, the money was lent out while depositors could come and get their money anytime if it was a demand deposit. Thus, the depositor and the borrower had the use...

In this extensive presentation by Matterhorn Asset Management partner, Matthew Piepenburg, we separate the iconic America from the current and debt-soaked America to better prepare investors with facts and figures rather than platitudes and nostalgia.

In the past few years the world watched the Federal Reserve embark upon an unprecedented inflationary period, that has resulted in the higher consumer prices we're all facing right now.

The yield curve is pulling back currently as the Wizard has resumed complete control. Jerome Powell tilted publicly last week to make his most recent statement of complete control.

We know that Silver has a base going back to 1950 but there are two other charts that have similar bases.

They say that the history rhymes and that’s generally true. Sometimes, the rhymes are almost identical. Like right now in the miners.

Global gold bug excitement continues to build, and rightly so, as the current metals market rally gains momentum. US bond and gold charts are showing strong synergy, and on that note, please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this 30yr T-bond chart. A double...

Gold rose for the first four days of the past week, extending a climb from a five-month low, as the dollar weakened on new economic data. Traders trimmed gains on Friday as the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy is leaning towards one more rate hike in September.

The 15th BRICS Summit ended on August 24th, as expected, with new member states. The core members (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) were joined by Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Argentina. While there are many...

The Anti-Concept of Purchasing Power leads us to the Anti-Concept of Inflation. That pseudo-equation already smuggles that any increase in the quantity of money causes prices to rise, regardless of the cause and circumstances of the increase, and regardless of the...

Making an investment in physical gold and silver is easy. Insuring these new valuables stored at home is more difficult. It may be outright impossible in larger amounts.

Professional daredevils have all kinds of reasons for performing insane stunts. Maybe they just like the thrill of danger, maybe they feel like they have something to prove to the world, or maybe they just want to prove something to themselves.

The American consumer is struggling as credit card debt explodes, pandemic savings run out, and salary growth cools. With retail numbers plummeting, Americans are piling up debt and depleting savings as incomes lag behind inflation. Mortgage delinquencies are...

Subtle, yet important. That’s what the changes in the precious metals were like on Friday. The breakdowns in gold and mining stocks were verified, just like they were supposed to, and we made money on this rebound through the quick long position (10th profitable -...

You will want to get yourself some gold and silver because not one paper currency has ever survived and this shit storm is just getting started.

The closing price for spot gold in New York today is $1915. Forty-three years ago, in May 1980, gold was priced at $515. Being somewhat generous, and since gold has been higher (above $2000) recently, we might say that the gold price has quadrupled over those forty-...

An important change has unfolded in the global gold market. The East has been driving up the gold price, predominantly in late 2022 and the first months of 2023, breaking the West’s long standing pricing power.

Leaders of the Western democracies are unprepared to deal with the forces that will end the fiat dollar’s dominance as the preferred medium of international trade settlement, in place since the end of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971.

Just as a standard financial insurance policy is meant to only pay out when bad things happen, gold will only pay out when bad financial things happen. Sure, it’s assigned price can rise with other asset markets, but it’s price related to risk assets will under-...

This 25 minute video with Matthew Piepenburg and myself is probably one of the most important discussions that we have had. For years we have both warned investors about the consequences of a system based on unlimited money printing, debt creation and money...

A handful of tech moguls already control the global flow of information, but their influence over our lives will only expand and deepen if Congress doesn’t do something soon to pry their greedy hands from the ultimate fruits of AI development.

Willem Middelkoop, the author of The Big Reset and founder of Commodity Discovery Fund, returns to the show, and we discuss the intriguing dynamics of the global markets, the challenges posed by inflation, and the potential shifts in the financial landscape. We also...

This past week wherein Gold finally garnered a wee bit of grip, ’twas Sweet Sister Silver who showed how to rip!  Whereas Gold settled yesterday (Friday) at 1943 for a +1.3% weekly gain, Silver settled at  24.285 for a reigning +6.8% weekly gain.  Let us thus duly...

Precious metals markets are rebounding this week as central bankers from around the world gather at Jackson Hole.