Gold Editorials & Commentary

This fireside chat, entitled “Death of an Empire – Scary Insights,” discusses the changing dynamics of the global financial system, with Asia becoming increasingly independent from the West. There is too much debt in the world, particularly in the US, and central...

We are in the midst of a system bank run, which are in the greater sense really a bank run on the United States of America, the issuer of the reserve currency of the world.

A bond by any other name is still a bond. A bond is a debt and all debts are IOUs. Corporate bonds, municipal bonds and U.S. Treasuries all fit the same definition.

De-Dollarization is a real, all too real trend, though it is both fascinating and disturbing to see what is otherwise so obvious being deliberately down-played, excused or ignored from the top down.

Yeah, right. A headline here just two weeks ago implied that stocks were about to go bananas: Why a Permabear Is Certain We're Going Much Higher.  Hubris aside, this was based on the very bullish chart of just one stock, Chipotle (CMG). It had just crossed the $2,...

Rafi Farber, The End Game Investor, returns to the show to discuss the current chaos in the markets and the dilemma faced by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Rafi explains the challenges of balancing inflation control and the need to prevent bank failures...

The time to make money is when a market is trending, preferably trending strongly. The problem that many Traders have is they don't get on the trend early. They don't really recognize that a strong trend has developed until the trend has already matured.

Last week the S&P 500 closed at a nine-month high. Bond yields rebounded from support. A stronger stock market and higher bond yields means Fed rate cuts are pushed out farther into the future. That puts pressure on Gold and Silver.

Since mid-March, our oft-stated target for Gold has at minimum been its still-standing All-Time High of 2089 … and beyond!  … such that throughout we’ve not chosen a forecast high for this year.

The Dow Jones was up for the week by 126 in dollars, or 0.34% in BEV terms in the chart below. Making a close above its’ BEV -5% line, or closing in scoring position as far away this week as it was last week. If you’re a bull on the stock market, seeing the Dow...

After knocking on the door of new record highs over the past few weeks, the gold market is pulling back. Bulls had faced a lot of overhead resistance in futures trading. It finally proved to be too much to overcome – at least for the near term.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is DOWN. GLD is on short term sell signal. GDX is on short term sell signal. XGD.to is on short term sell signal. GDXJ is on short term sell signal.

The gold miners just finished reporting their latest quarterly results, revealing how they are actually faring fundamentally.  Those proved somewhat mixed for the largest gold miners dominating the leading gold-stock benchmark.  While production stayed stable,...

The gold market correction continues although there are some nice air brake candlesticks, especially in the silver stocks.

First let me get this in print up front; the gold price (like most/all markets) is manipulated in different ways. It can be talked down, it can be subject to paper buying/selling that does not bear resemblance to its street value (per the supply/demand dynamics of...

Banks have been tightening their lending standards, and they plan to keep doing it throughout the rest of the year. Last week, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve released a new report on how much banks plan to expand or tighten lending in coming months....

Todd Hoffman, the creator of Gold Rush on the Discovery Channel, joins the show, and we discuss the current state of the economy and its potential impact on silver and gold. Todd expresses concerns about a possible systemic crash of the US dollar and its...

Gold and silver have experienced significant rallies since the lows of last fall, with gold rising from $1650 to over $2,000, while silver rallied from slightly below $18 to over $26, before the recent correction.

Despite the stock market rally so far in 2023, the S&P 500 Index has not come close to regaining its all-time high put in early last year. What has soared to new highs, however, is the stock/bond ratio.

When looking for an investment, the approach I take involves looking at the global, big picture conditions. I study trends, read the news, basically watch and listen to what’s going on in the world.

The big question now is whether the Fed will pivot or not. Some, not a few, already believe that the decision has been made. Does it really make any difference? We think not.

In this video we analyze two charts: Gold against the 60/40 portfolio (total return) and Gold against a 60/40 Fund (which may not include total return).

Argentina recently made headlines with its announcement that it plans to pay for its imports from China in Yuan. Inevitably, gold commentators jumped to the spurious conclusion that this decision signals another step towards “de-dollarization.”

We've got more confirmation today that metals have begun an intermediate degree decline.  Ride out this correction and I'll try and call the bottom in real time for subscribers when I think it has arrived. I want to warn people this may become more severe than what...

Pyotr Kurzin returns to the show, and this time we discuss the geopolitical issues concerning him for 2023 and how they will impact commodities like gold. Pyotr also talks about the overall global economic outlook and the inflation shockwaves happening across the...

In this discussion between Egon von Greyerz and Alasdair Macleod, on the state of the current banking system and the importance of gold, the speakers express concerns about the sys

What if bitcoin just topped? What does it change for the price of gold going forward, if anything? Many years ago, people wanted to buy gold but didn’t really want to store it in their homes, pay for safekeeping and insurance during transport, and so on. The demand...

The American government is a debt-oriented mess and sadly, most proposals to fix it involve even more debt.

Tectonic shifts lie ahead. These will involve a US and European debt crisis ending in a debt collapse, a precipitous fall of the dollar and the Euro with Gold emerging as a reserve asset but at multiples of the current price.

Palladium was the best-performing precious metal of the week, increasing by 1.3%. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) raised their palladium holdings by 17,202 troy ounces. China continued to add to its gold reserves for the sixth consecutive month, as central banks...