Gold Editorials & Commentary

Monday’s stock market meltdown did not hurt gold, but the miners and silver took a hit. The big question: Is this the start of a bear market in stocks or is it just a dip that should be bought?

Short-term interest rates are now as negative as they were in the inflationary 1970s. But that’s where the similarity ends. As the above chart sindebtedness was relatively modest as a percentage of GDP, which gave that financial system the resiliency to withstand...

Mining stocks dropped without anyone’s help – gold holds tight, but this is rather an anomaly. Will we see carnage when the king of the PMs collapses?

The public suddenly starts pawning their assets to pay for that lifestyle. Would most people take that as a sign that the celebrity's financial position is not nearly as strong as they want the world to think?

Last week, Powell testified before Congress. On the one hand, Powell admitted in a way that inflation had reached a level higher than expected and is above the level accepted by the Fed in the longer run:

Any one who has ever flown on a small aircraft should be familiar with an aircraft's weight and balance limits.  I worked on St. Croix for a year, and flying to the island always required a short flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico.  The plane was very small - it sat...

For the Dow Jones, the story remains the same; while not roaring into historic territory, it’s not crashing down either.  Closing the week with a BEV of -0.88%, the Dow Jones is comfortably in scoring position for making a new BEV Zero.  Since last November, the Dow...

Last week's trading saw gold forming its low in Monday's session, here doing so with the tag of the 1791.00 figure. From there, a slingshot higher was seen into later in the week, with the metal pushing all the way up to a Thursday high of 1835.00 - before backing...

Taking a sip from a crocodile pond is risky, but some animals try anyway. And die. Beware, as trying to profit from the PM’s pool now could end alike.

SPX Long-term trend:  There is some evidence that we are still in the bull market which started in 2009 and which could continue into 2021 before major cycles take over, and it ends.

The latest attempt to move the global economy away from the dollar’s dominance involves a plan by Biden to issue $650 billion of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) through the IMF

In this second part of our research into how capital is being deployed across the globe and why traders/investors continue to pour capital into the US equities markets, we’ll explore how the US major indexes have reacted to the continued investments by the US and...

Parsing our title, Gold is gripping in completing a fourth consecutive up week. Moreover per the above Gold Scoreboard, recent weekly closes [green rectangle] continue to track those of a year ago, indeed so much so that were such pattern to be maintained, we'd find...

Gold sector is now on a new long term SELL signal. Speculation according to COT data is now in bear market values. Gold broke support, confirming the $1900 level as a “failed recovery top.”

Inflation has soared recently. The CPI annual rate surged 5% in May, which was the fastest jump since the Great Recession. However, the Fed officials still maintain that inflation will only be temporary. Some of the analysts even claim that inflation has already...

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The gold miners’ stocks are still grinding sideways after last month’s Fed-rate-hike scare.  This technical basing is laying the foundation for this interrupted gold-stock upleg to rebound.  Today’s low gold-stock prices relative to the metal they mine will amplify...

A lift in the gold price is welcome news to gold investors, after a topsy-turvy first two quarters saw the precious metal retreat to a one-year low of $1,686 per ounce on March 31. 

When asked about where inflation is now and how it relates to how high the Fed thought inflation would reach and what the Fed’s targets for inflation really are, Powell made it clear that inflation is running much hotter than the Fed thought it would be and for...

Having just gotten from the Bank of England an exemption from the "Basel 3" protocol that threatened to make the "paper gold" business prohibitively expensive for bullion banks, the London Bullion Market Association announced yesterday that the European Banking...

As the markets react to the somewhat shocking CPI and Inflation data while Q2:2021 earnings continue to roll across the news wires, we wanted to take a minute to explore the recent Fed comments related to “Transitory Inflation” and what that really means.

Investors prick up their ears to front-run the FED’s taper. It looks like a tricky game though, given its contradictory statements – what’s the truth? You Don't Say!

Since the big CPI and PPI prints earlier this week, markets have been trying to figure out direction and sentiment. What will be the outcome of continued higher inflation prints?

Americans believe they have the best military in the world. That said, when was the last war that America has won? However, a by-product was the mighty American industrial machine that spent decades creating the supply/chain logistics, which lowered costs, boosted...

If there is anything positive about 21st century finance, it's that the internet allows you to find all sorts of analysis to consider. Back in the day, you were stuck with the ravings of your commission-hungry stockbroker and his sell-side research.

The US stock market is at incredible heights and a reduction in central bank money printing could theoretically create…  an all-markets waterfall.

Since the origin of the Federal Reserve in 1913 the US dollar has lost ninety-nine percent of its purchasing power. Not coincidentally, but in direct reflection of the dollar's loss in purchasing power, the price of gold has multiplied one hundred-fold from $20.67...

No doubt most of you know all about the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, otherwise known as “GATA” founded in the late 1990’s by my two dear friends Bill Murphy and Chris Powell. I freely contribute to Bill’s website (lemetropolecafe.com) arguably the best place on...

Gold’s days in a glamorous apartment at the top of the PMs’ building are numbered. We’d better prepare for a rapid elevator ride to the first floor.

The General Manager for the Bank of International Settlements – the central bank of central bankers – is planning for “absolute control” of the money we all spend.