Gold Editorials & Commentary

High inflation won’t go away in 2022. Good for gold. However, it is likely to continue to climb and reach its peak. That sounds a bit worse for gold.

Tavi Costa joins us to explain the lack of investment going into the commodity sector. Underinvestment for many years is leading to a supply cliff for Gold, Silver, Copper and many other commodities.

As an overall disappointing year for gold and silver markets winds to a close, metals investors are looking ahead to 2022.

The new quarterly derivatives report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, part of the US Treasury Department, was released earlier this past week covering Over-The-Counter (OTC) derivatives positions of US banks, for positions held as of September 30...

In December 1997, The Financial Times ran an article entitled “The Death of Gold.” Since then, the gold price in US dollars has increased 519I% from $288 to $1,780. Today, after many political events and crises we have evidence of the continuous and in many ways...

Even as Omicron casts a smidge of doom over markets and upcoming Christmas celebrations, precious metals investors are feeling at least some holiday cheer this week.

The gold to oil ratio is an important indicator of the global economy’s health. Because gold and crude oil are both denominated in US dollars, they are strongly linked. That is because as the US dollar rises, commodities priced in USD fall, and vice versa. As the...

Americans pride themselves that during the 20th century they developed the United States of America to firstly equal all the world’s major powers and, after WWI, became pre-eminent in practically all aspects of human endeavour.

Last week's action saw the gold market selling down into Tuesday's session, with the metal dropping down to a low of 1785.00. From there, however, a resumption of the short-term uptrend was seen into later in the week, here pushing back up to a Thursday high of 1812...

Here are today's videos and charts.  The videos are viewable on mobile phones as well as computers.

With but five trading days remaining in 2021, Gold -- as we'll show -- traditionally is the gift that keeps on giving into year-end. But first, we've this: The last time 25 December arrived on a Saturday was 11 years ago in 2010:

Gold sector is on long term SELL signal. The trend is down for gold stocks. The trend is up for USD.

Welcome, my son. Welcome to the inflationary machine. Welcome to the new economic regime of elevated inflation. That’s official because even central bankers have finally admitted what I’ve been saying for a long time: the current high inflation is not merely a...

It has been a disappointing year for profit-seeking precious metal investors, but for those few of us looking to accumulate gold and silver as the ultimate insurance against runaway inflation it has been an unexpected bonus.

If the Fed normalizes its balance sheet and markets freak-out, it will be a bridge too far. But interest rate hikes won’t crash a strong US economy.

Gold spent the better part of 2021 consolidating sideways, which eroded most bullish sentiment.  With little upside momentum to chase, investors largely abandoned this leading alternative asset.  And gold-futures speculators freaked out and fled multiple times on...

During the holiday week, not much happens in the marketplace. Investors focus on two things right now: whether Democrats will be able to pass Biden’s spending bill in the face of Senator Joe Manchin’s opposition, and whether the coronavirus Omicron variant will...

Money Metals president Stefan Gleason appeared today in a special interview by Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold Radio to discuss taxation of precious metals by the IRS, state and federal laws, premiums and minting challenges in the physical bullion market, and much...

The CFTC’s Rostin Behnam fined JP Morgan $75 million on Friday Dec. 17th (in addition to the other $125 million the bank received that same day) for once again evading regulators.

Merry Christmas to Everyone. Young retail traders do not want to trade and invest in gold and silver. They prefer investments which give monthly returns of over ten percent. They have an equally high risk taking ability. Young traders or people less than thirty...

With inflation surging, QE headed to the scrapyard (for now), and imminent rate hikes taking the main markets stage, gold looks solid… and feels solid too.

In the last Supply and Demand update, we discussed some different theories which attempt to explain what causes the gold and silver prices to move. We mentioned the: “…attempt to hold up a famous buyer of metal, while ignoring the thousands of not-famous sellers who...

“That’s all Folks!” - Porky Pig at the end of the Looney Tunes cartoon series. The above is what immediately came to my mind after seeing Friday’s price action in the precious metals sector. Why? Because of the reversals and tiny outperformance of silver.

During the last two weeks, I had the pleasure of traveling with my wife, Sharise, as we hosted our members on a cruise through the Caribbean. We then flew to New York, where we spent time with my father, whose health has been recently failing, and had the...

Who are you, Mr. Powell: a reptilian or a human? A dove or a hawk? Since we all know the answer to the first question, let’s focus on the second one. Markets decided that Powell’s last press conference was rather dovish, but a careful reading doesn’t support this...

The best performing precious metal for the week was palladium, up 1.38%, after falling over 14% in the past five trading days. Three central banks met this past week, and all said that rates will go up to fight inflation. Rhona O’Connell of StoneX commented that the...

Ronnie Stoeferle discusses the latest economic news this week and why Gold and Silver are not responding as investors would normally expect.

Last week's action saw the gold market holding weaker into Wednesday's Fed meeting, with the metal dropping all the way down to a low of 1753.00. From there, a sharp rally was seen to end the week, here pushing all the way up to a Friday high of 1815.70 - before...

'Twas a week of hope for the precious metals, Gold therein rising low-to-high from 1753 to 1816 (+3.6%) and Silver per same from 21.41 to 22.69 (+6.0%). But given Gold is never really supposed to stray too far from the 1780s, let alone Silver be allowed to do...

Looking at the Dow Jones’ BEV chart below, specifically the cluster of BEV Zeros for the post March 2020 flash-crash advance; slowly but surely things are changing.  It’s been over a month since our last BEV Zero (November 8th).  That plus the bulls have been...