Gold Editorials & Commentary

The article’s title is one man asking one question among several I could be asking, given the volatility of macro indicators on a day to day, week to week basis. But as FOMC rides off into the sunset it is the scenario that I think is most probable, given the...

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At mid-December’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Fed officials began discussing quantitative tightening.  Effectively selling previously-monetized bonds to unwind quantitative-easing money printing, this revelation from the minutes rattled markets in early...

One of the key ratios for precious metals investors to understand is the Dow to gold ratio. The Dow to gold ratio asks: “How many ounces of gold does it take to purchase one share in each company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average?” The higher the ratio, the...

Despite death wishes from the doubters, the dollar took to the skies on the Fed’s hawkish wings. Gold and silver can wave from the ground for now.

In the epic struggle between chaos and order, chaos has an easier task, as there is usually only one proper method to do a job – the job that you can screw up in many ways. Thus, although economists see a strong economic expansion with cooling prices and...

Gold broke the uptrend line and failed to breakout higher. Will the gold cartel be able to break the $1,750 area pivot? Trying to trade gold is nearly impossible in a market like this.

The Fed has just released its first public consultation paper on a dollar-based central bank digital currency. For many, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a means of heading off private sector cryptos, but coincidentally the prices of bitcoin and others...

The Fed finally said it: the rates are going up. The USD Index and gold heard it and reacted. The former is at new yearly highs, while gold slides. The medium-term outlook for gold is now extremely bearish.

With rapt attention from all across the nation, the High Priest of Finance at the Federal Reserve took his position behind his presser pulpit. Biting his quivering lip again and again, he uttered his benediction over the US economy. He made sure to carefully speak...

The FOMC set the stage for a March interest rate hike, which was an aggressive signal. Gold got it and fell – but hasn't capitulated yet.

It seems that 2022 will be the year when the US Empire disintegrates faster than anyone could  have imagined. Empires need strong leadership but electing a weak octogenarian president certainly  fits the picture of a collapsing empire.

Keith Neumeyer joins us to discuss his thoughts on: •The silver & gold markets. The bullion banks' pricing control of the silver market. CPM Group & Metals Focus data reporting about the market.

If I'm reading all these articles properly, it seems that we're approaching the end of the world as we know it. In fact, I'm reading expectations of 40%, 50% and even 80% market declines. While I did not receive my invitation to this party, it seems that almost...

The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) peaked back on October 7, 2021, and has fallen by 72% since then as worldwide demand has fallen rapidly for cargo ships to haul iron ore and other “dry” cargos. This has a bearish implication for stock prices, as illustrated in this week’s...

Where’s Jay?  As the US stock market tumbles, investors (who have devolved into QE welfare worshippers) want to know where their “sugar daddy” Jay Powell is. 

Gold rallied by almost $10 yesterday, the stock market reversed, but gold miners declined anyway. What is this witchcraft?

Have you ever had the feeling that all of this has already happened and you are in a time loop, repeating Groundhog Day? I have. For instance, I’m pretty sure that I have already written the Fundamental Gold Report with a reference to pop-culture before…

We now have the highest rates of inflation in forty years - but this inflation is much more painful than it was forty years ago. 

I have been writing for Seeking Alpha for over a decade now, and I have also been running a service for investors for over a decade as well. And, I think I have seen it all.

The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, up 12.21%. Suki Cooper of Standard Bank noted investors were factoring in a recovery in auto demand, but emission standards are likely to get tougher. Last year, palladium fell 22%. Kirkland Lake’s...

You don't have to be a fortune teller to predict some of the precious metals’ behavior in the market. Any incoming signs take the shape of a bear.

I think metals are going to break out to the upside. Most retail does not make money because of leverage.

The Federal Reserve doesn’t know what to do.  Even worse, though, is that it probably doesn’t make much difference what they do – or don’t do. The definition of dilemma is: “a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives,...

If there is one mystery in the gold market that I believe has eluded analysts and commentators (certainly including yours truly), it is a compelling explanation for the unprecedented and massive inflow of physical metal, more than 30 million ounces, that came to be...

Predictions of what could be the Greatest Crash on Wall Street have been floating around for a long time, longer than a year at least. The Covid crash of March 2020 resulted in a spike in the more intense “This is it!” claims from letter writers, but with assistance...

Last week's action saw the gold market forming its low in Tuesday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1804.70 figure. From there, a decent rally back to higher highs for the move was seen into later in the week, here pushing all the way up to a Thursday...

I thought I’d use the Dow Jones BEV chart plotting the entire bull market spanning from 1982 to the close of this week.  In the past forty years, the Dow Jones has risen from around 700 in August 1982 to 36,799 just a few weeks ago.  What does that mean in BEV Terms...

Silver, baby! From its close of a week ago (22.99), the white metal has since traded as high as 24.76 -- that's +7.7% -- en route to settling yesterday (Friday) at 24.35 for a weekly gain of +5.9%.

Investors fell into a shopping frenzy as tensions increased between Russia and Ukraine. Was the purchase of precious metals as safe haven justified this time?