Gold Editorials & Commentary

Precious Metals closed last week and January strong, particularly Gold. The ancient metal of kings closed January up over 7% and Friday at a weekly all-time high of $2835/oz.

Bloggers were revved up when last week began, trumpeting a warning that China’s DeepSeek R1 threatened to crush America’s capital-intensive effort to lead the world in AI development. ZeroHedge was among the first to jump on the story.

In a number of past articles, I have tried to prepare those reading my analysis for the strong probability that we can see a long-term bear market. I have outlined the many reasons supporting my perspective, and have provided a few supporting charts in various prior...

At this point you have probably heard plenty about the stresses in the gold and silver markets.

As anticipated would happen this past week per “Gold Goes Long with Three Golden Goals”, Goal One “the next All-Time High for Gold”, was achieved upon the February contract price crossing above 2802 on Thursday at 13:39 GMT, in furtherance moving to as high as 2838...

Well, gold just broke out to a new all-time high yesterday, zooming $40 higher for the week now through this Friday morning recording to trade at $2,822 per ounce.

Amid a global scramble for physical gold and silver, both metals are breaking out, signaling the start of the next powerful phase in their bull markets.

At his press conference earlier this week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the following… “The public should be confident that we will continue to do our work as we always have, focusing on using our tools to achieve our goals, and, really, keeping our heads down and...

Gold sector cycle is up. Trend is up for gold & gold stocks. Waiting for a multi day pullback and set up.

If reports this week are correct -- there is a severe shortage of gold -- the metallic kind rather than the paper kind -- in the London market, caused by the desire of bullion banks to ship a lot of metal to the United States before President Trump imposes tariffs...

Gold skyrocketed to new all-time highs amid rising concerns over tariffs. Stockpiling in New York led to shortages in London ahead of Saturday's announcement. Since the November election, traders have moved (repatriated) nearly 400 metric tons into New York.

Gold is breaking out again, forging higher into new record territory!  Gold’s monster upleg over this past year or so has proven remarkable, overcoming plenty of serious challenges.  Yet most investors remain oblivious, hypnotized by the AI stock bubble.  So gold...

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The Federal Reserve put a pause on interest rate cuts at its January meeting, finally admitting what I’ve been saying for quite a while: price inflation is still sticky.

When all the euphoria about the election and the Executive Orders is gone, the annoying small problem of the $36 trillion US debt remains – a debt growing exponentially. And also a debt that Trump tactfully avoided to discuss in his election campaign. 

It hasn't been a good week if you're counting on the stability (or lack thereof) of the gold market.

On Sunday, after the Colombian government turned away two US military aircraft full of detained migrants, Trump announced he would place an emergency 25 percent tariff on all goods imported from Colombia.

Critical minerals have become the new frontline of the rivalry between the two superpowers.

The ninth myth in Robert Reich’s series on economic myths is titled “Wage Increases Cause Inflation.”

Stress in the precious metals markets continues on. With the latest news being that gold withdrawals from the Bank of England, which normally take a few days, are now facing 4-8 week delays.

If inflation is a general increase in prices, as most experts hold, then why is it regarded as bad news? What kind of damage does it do? Most experts are of the view that inflation causes speculative buying, which generates waste. Inflation, it is maintained, also...

Perhaps it's one thing to talk about what's going to happen when tariffs are implemented. Yet a whole different story once you're actually dealing with the consequences.

Yesterday’s gold market action was disappointing, but from a technical perspective the recoil from the $2790 cash market highs was expected and normal.

The conversation spanned a variety of topics, including the impact of the current political climate on precious metals markets, tariffs, economic challenges, and strategies for investing in metals.

The best performing precious metal for the past week was palladium, up 4.18%, which may have outperformed on certain incentives for EV growth being removed from with the incoming administration.

While the gold space has been obsessed over the gold streaming from London to New York in reaction to President Donald J. Trump’s tariff threats, even as it had little effect on price, the bigger story is that the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is quietly stockpiling...

Longtime bullion investors have been evaluating whether to buy, sell, or hold in recent months. The change in leadership in Washington DC has prompted some searching as to the direction of the markets.

Our proprietary cycle indicator is now UP. Speculation remains robust which is positive for overall higher gold prices. Our ratio is on buy signal.

I still expect Bitcoin to notch one or two more record highs on the hourly chart, but they will likely be the dying gasp of the bull market that began in 2009. There is reason to doubt that the broad averages will be swept up in this fetid blast of flatulence.

With the exception of Gold, the precious metals complex has been a tough place to trade since the last important high made in 2020. Since that 2020 high, the PM complex has been building a very bullish expanding falling wedge consolidation pattern, which has...