Gold Editorials & Commentary

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire is joined once again by Craig Hemke, founder of the TFMetalsReport, a well-respected gold and silver blog, renowned for boldly exposing market manipulation.

Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle is UP. We are holding long term positions.

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While gold has been grinding higher, it hasn’t soared yet despite raging inflation and rolling-over stock markets.  The main reason has been the lack of investment capital inflows.  But long-apathetic investors are starting to return, flocking back to gold exchange-...

Beware, the Fed’s tightening of monetary policy could lift real interest rates! For gold, this poses a risk of prices wildly rolling down.

The US Federal Reserve, whose job is to keep unemployment in check and inflation in the “Goldilocks” zone of 2%, is telegraphing three interest rate increases of 0.25% each (1% at the high end of the range) this year.

The field of economics has long and often very embarrassing history of absurd theories, blatantly wrong assumptions and hypotheses, spectacularly wrong predictions and entirely avoidable policymaking blunders; a few of them hilarious, most of them catastrophic, some...

In this update we are going to do something that we haven’t done for a while, which is to examine the charts for the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF, code GDX, in an effort to figure out where it is in its cycle, and as we will see there is every reason to be...

Gold didn’t shine in January. The struggle could continue, although the more distant future looks more optimistic for the yellow metal.

As the gold “community” rationalizes gold’s currently low standing… I don’t care how unpopular it may be, I cannot alter the truth as I see it. Marketing is fine, but never at the expense of truth, as with much financial media/analysis (with little disclaimers...

Last week Goldman Sachs revealed its latest projection for the gold price… “In a report published Thursday, the bank (i.e. Goldman Sachs)said that it is raising its 12-month price forecast to $2,150 an ounce, up from its previous target of $2,000. The bank also...

Well, let’s just say the next recession is smoking right outside your window. You’re lying in your bed at night. You can’t see the intruder, and you don’t think he’s in the house yet, but you know he’s there because you can smell his cigarette smoke through your...

Numerous animal metaphors (hawk, dove to goat) are employed below to make sense of an otherwise imploding financial “barnyard.” Among such squawking beasts, two financial elites from Goldman Sachs and Bridgewater are making the latest noise; but as we soon discover...

There is still a debate on the quantum of interest rate hikes in March. None of the Federal Reserve speakers have backed an aggressive 0.50% interest rate hike in March. In my view, an interest rate hike between 0.10% to 0.25% interest rate hike will be there in...

With the Fed set to hike rates and kill QE, markets are in turmoil. Some bank analysts are forecasting seven hikes this year.  

Gold fought valiantly, gold fought nobly, gold fought honorably. Despite all this sacrifice, it lost the battle. How will it handle the next clashes?

“Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man...

As we enter 2022 and reflect on how each asset market performed the previous year, initial conclusions would suggest that for precious metals, the price action performance seemed highly contradictory. A deeper analysis, however, suggests that the market moves have...

This is a brief of our annual analysis of the gold and silver markets. In the full Outlook Report, we take an in-depth look at the market players, dynamics, fallacies, drivers, and finally give our predictions for gold and silver prices over the coming year.

We have all heard the phrase “earnings are the mother’s milk of stocks.” I believe the phrase was coined by Larry Kudlow. In fact, I have some commenters to my articles that claim that earnings are the only thing one needs to know about investing in the stock market...

There’s now plenty of confirmation that inflation is here and getting worse. Which brings me to a far less noticed consequence of U.S. dollar debasement practices – asset inflation.

The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, up 12.68%. Palladium soared to the highest in four months, writes Bloomberg, with traders looking to secure supplies amid growing tensions over Ukraine as Russia, the top metal producer, amassed troops...

In the first half of 2021, I bet my blog that the inflation I had been predicting would rise so hot through the year for so long that it would kill the stock market bull. It’s time to call the bet.

"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.  For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail." - Samuel Adams

In WW11, after the Allies had landed in Normandy and continued the invasion towards the German heartland, the writing was on the wall. Reason and logic said Hitler and Germany should capitulate to save lives; to begin to rebuild their bombed out country.

Last week's action saw gold forming its peak in Tuesday's session, with the metal spiking up to a new high for the move, here hitting a top of 1856.40. From there, a sharp decline was seen post-fed, with the metal dropping all the way down to a Friday low of 1780.60...

Author and market analyst, Harry S. Dent Jr. returns to the show with dire warnings for equities investors. If his metrics are correct, investors could face a 1929 or 2008-style market collapse in "The Everything Bubble" declining 55%-68%. 

"We begin this evening with Breaking News: the U.S. Money Supply has just crossed the $22 Trillion level, its pace these last two years increasing by $1 Trillion every four months, or some $8.6 Billion per day. {You should think about that} More later on this...

Monday was an interesting day in the stock market, for what’s it’s worth – as reported by CNN Business. Monday, January 24th the Dow Jones saw another miraculous ascension.  After the Dow Jones deflated 1,115 points from its previous close, it closed up 99 points...

Our proprietary cycle indicator is UP. Gold sector is on long term SELL signal. Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on sell signals. Gold sector cycle is UP. We are holding long term positions.