Gold Editorials & Commentary

While Flash US PMI declined further in January, the input inflation accelerated. It’s not clear whether the Fed should become more dovish or hawkish – and that impacts gold.

Between 2020 and now, quite a lot happened, quite a lot of money was printed, and we saw a war breaking out in Europe. Yet gold failed to rally to new highs. Gold Had Chances.

Before starting today’s analysis, I would like to emphasize that we might see some erratic price movements with regard to the USD Index – gold link. The reason is that today is the day when the news from Europe hits the market. The ECB President spoke, and the...

Gold has fallen and appears to be on its way to invalidating the recent breakout. What happens when it slips below $1,900?

Last year was one of the worst on record for a conventional stock and bond portfolio. The major stock and bond market indexes both fell by double digits.

The glory of gold. In a world ravaged by debt, fiat, and war… is it a time for gold bugs of the world to be bold?

In 2022, central banks will have purchased the largest amount of gold in recent history. According to the World Gold Council, central bank purchases of gold have reached a level not seen since 1967. The world’s central banks bought 673 metric tons in one month, and...

Before we move into a review of the last few months of market action to learn what most investors did wrong, I think it is important to begin this missive by reposting something written by Robert Prechter in The Socionomic Theory of Finance (a book I strongly...

In his most recent discussion with Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold Radio, Matterhorn Asset Management principal, Matthew Piepenburg, weaves together the various threads of historical cycles, political psychology and the hard math of cancerous global debt to make...

Joe Biden entered the Oval Office with relatively low approval ratings. The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, an economy in decline, rising consumer prices, and potential scandals simmering in the background haven’t helped his approval ratings over the past two...

Jim Rogers returns to the show to discuss the Fed's ability to handle a higher interest rate and its potential impact on the economy, the US government budget, and corporate high-yield junk bonds.

For today's video I'm gonna just illustrate the need for patience. Last year I said I think this is going to be a difficult year, and we had a huge huge move up out of the 2020 bottom, this four year cycle low, and one of two things either happens when you get a...

The best performing precious metal for the week was gold, up 0.36%. Silver has continued to outperform gold, up 10% over the last three months driving the gold/silver ratio down to 80:1, closer to the historical average (76:1).

The chart is meant to put Friday’s giddy short-squeeze in perspective. If you are a bull and feeling a little discouraged by what you see, that is what I had intended. What better time to rack bears than in the final hours of a week that was more comic relief than...

Gold so far has seen a very good start into the new year. Driven by an extremely tense geopolitical situation (Cold War 2.0) as well as a weaker US-Dollar and the threat of U.S. insolvency (“debt ceiling”), the price of gold was able to increase by around $110 or 6...

It seems that all too often lately the gold mining sector is in tow with commodities in general and broad global stocks in its ups and downs. As a leader, but not THE leader of the rally that is fine for now as long as we’re still on the back end of the originally...

We start with this past week's highlight (or better stated "lowlight"): on Wednesday, our Economic Barometer tied for its worst one-day plunge in the 25 years we've been maintaining it. Here 'tis, and as we wrote that day to our Investors' Roundtable, (as inebriated...

The Dow Jones continues having difficulty breaching its BEV -5% line in its Bear’s Eye View chart below. On Monday this week, it made its third failed attempt since last August to break above this level. Seeing the Dow Jones close the week with a BEV of -9.30%, just...

As global elites gathered in Davos this week to discuss their plans for controlling the world economy, the gold market is delivering an alternative message.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. Current COT data supports overall higher gold prices. Our ratio is on buy signal. Trend is DOWN for USD. Trend is UP for gold stocks. Trend is UP for gold.

Markets fell 20% last year, in its worst yearly performance since the 2008 financial crisis. However rising market optimism on signs of cooling activity is perversely based on the belief that the increase in rates would tame inflation and a recession leading to...

Gold and its miners’ stocks both just flashed major Golden Cross buy signals.  These powerfully-bullish indicators are among the best in all of technical analysis, widely followed and revered.  They argue odds are mounting that recent months’ parallel gold and gold-...

The Fed likely has one or maybe two more rate hikes before they pause in the second quarter. The US must raise the Debt ceiling before July to avoid a technical default. Bank lending standards approach recessionary levels supporting widespread weakness.

The line for the self-checkout registers at my neighborhood Albertsons stretched into the store’s produce section. Is this human progress? I wondered, scanning my groceries—this just after I had filled my car’s gas tank at a not-so-convenient convenience store near...

Here are today's videos and charts.

While the stock markets in the US have remained choppy over the past few months as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, one of the surprises in the markets has been how the precious metals have rallied in the face of the central bank's tightening...

The slow but steady implosion of global bond markets is no longer a debate but fact. Knowing this, investors can better brace themselves for the policy and market reactions to come.

The purpose of this essay is not to convince the reader of the necessity for change. It is to present some commonsense policy changes to attempt to mitigate the economic harm that has been done to Western economies, especially to the United States and the United...

In 2011, the Federal Reserve invented new accounting methods for itself so that it could never legally go bankrupt. As explained by Robert Murphy, the Federal Reserve redefined its losses so as to ensure its balance sheet never shows insolvency. As Bank of America’s...

There are a lot of ways that people look at to determine gold and silver values.