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04.06.20- The Comex Does Not Trade Gold
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04.04.20- Silver and Sanity
Prices for silver rise as currency units are devalued. Silver sold for $1.29 in the 1960s. Today’s COMEX price is around $16.00 because dollars buy less. Prices for physical silver are much higher. The continual devaluation benefits the political and financial elite who own most paper assets – stocks and bonds. The bottom 90% pay higher prices for necessities plus interest on their debts. Savings in silver coins will offset devaluation and loss of purchasing power. Read More |
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04.03.20- Silver Shock Update: A New and Major Threat to Supply
That decline has just sped up. In a big way. As you might know, a plethora of mining companies around the world have announced they suspended part or all of their operations. It’s probably worse than we know, as I suspect other miners have curtailed activities even if they haven’t announced it. Read More |
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04.02.20- Silver Investing During The Coming Financial Storm
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04.01.20- The ‘Out’ Has Not Yet Begun To ‘Fall’
So, the stock market has dropped. Every government in the world has responded to the coronavirus with drastic, if not unprecedented, violations of the rights of the people. Not to mention, extremely aggressive monetary policy. And, they are about to unleash massive fiscal stimulus as well (for example, the United States government is about to dole out over $2 trillion worth of loot). The question is what will be the consequences? Read More |
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03.31.20- Supply of Gold Craters
While many countries have experienced some form of shutdown in response to the pandemic, Switzerland’s case is shaping up to be the most impactful to the gold market. When it comes to gold processing and storage, Switzerland is a pivotal countries in the world. Read More |
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03.30.20- Gold and Silver Break Free From Their Paper Chains
Last week I wrote “Paper Prices Dump, but Premiums for the Physical Metals Soar on Heavy Demand”. My sincere thanks to the many Twitter followers who alerted me to this phenomenon around the world almost two weeks ago now, in which prices for physical Gold and Silver were soaring and inventories were fast running out. Despite encroaching censorship, Twitter still remains an important tool for sharing valuable information. Since then, Silver prices reached a peak of around $35 CAD and ~$25 USD, but that was as of last Friday. It is now almost impossible to know what the real price is, because inventories have disappeared. It could be much, much higher now. We just don’t know. Read More |
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03.28.20- Swiss Gold Refiners Cease Production - End of Paper Market
Three of the world’s largest refiners – Argor, Valcambi and PAMP are based in Ticino. We are likely to see major pressure on the gold and silver paper market. More later in this article. Read More |
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03.27.20- Gold Price Forecast 2020: The Shift Towards Precious Metals Has Begun
Investment Themes Every decade has a distinct investment theme. One asset class rises to the top and outperforms everything else. Read More |
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03.26.20- The Time of the Vulture
Every so often, however, there comes a time when neither the hare nor the tortoise is the victor. This is when both the bear and the bull have been vanquished, when the pastures upon which the bull once grazed are long gone and the bear's lair itself lies buried deep beneath the rubble of economic collapse. This is the time of the vulture. – DRS, 1991 Read More |
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03.25.20- Gold Price Tells Us Nothing About Gold
People are obsessed with the price of gold. That is not surprising, given that most people likely view gold as an investment opportunity. "How much can I make and how quickly?" What really plagues gold investors and others is the question "Why didn't gold respond the way we expected?" Read More |
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03.24.20- Buy Gold and Silver While You Still Can, Warns Analyst
Jim Rickards: Get gold and silver now instead of waiting for things to get worse Read More |
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03.23.20- Corona, Exter’s Inverse Pyramid and the Coming Gold Spike
In my previous article “Coronavirus to Boost Gold Price” from March 5, I wrote, “Although I think gold has a lot more upside, it can be a bumpy road.” Since then, the US stock market has declined by about 21%, and gold took a beating too, having lost 10%. Many people question why gold is down, at the same time when stock markets are dropping at the fastest pace in history. In this article, I will set out my view on the developments that cause downward pressure on gold and what will happen going forward. Read More |
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03.21.20- This Is Why You Should Own High-Quality Gold Miners
Is there anyone left out there with good year-ahead business prospects? Why yes there is: High-quality gold miners have been accumulating reserves that made sense when gold was considerably lower. Now they’re producing at a profit and have free cash flow to distribute to shareholders. Assuming the gold price stays more-or-less at current levels, these companies will be almost unique in reporting positive year-over-year comparisons in 2020. Read More |
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03.20.20- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Is The Panic Worse Than The Virus?
With respect to the stock market, the modus operandi of the last 11 years is being stood on its head. Rather than ‘buy the dip.’ The new divine mantra is ‘sell the rip.’ Here’s why… Read More |
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03.19.20- It Is All Being Exposed…Now!
All of a sudden and immediately after the Fed and Treasury announced over $4 trillion in various stimulus and aid …interest rates on Treasuries are rising.For example, rates on the 10yr Tsy collapsed to .34% a week ago Monday.Now, after 150 basis points in cuts, the 10yr is trading over 1.1% just 7 trading days later! Read More |
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03.18.20-Is This the End of Gold or the End of Gold Market Rigging?
Surely there was some of that, but suspicion also must fall on governments and central banks seeking, as they long have done in times of crisis, to bolt the exits from the financial system, which they control. This suspicion must be especially strong because of what GATA disclosed last week — the refusal of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to answer a member of Congress as to whether the commission has jurisdiction over manipulative futures trading conducted by or for the U.S. government and whether the commission is aware of such trading: Read More |
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03.17.20- Masking The Drop In Open Interest
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03.16.20- Feeling Adventurous? Consider Silver
To understand why, lets start with the gold/silver ratio. The relationship between the prices of these two monetary metals tends to fluctuate within a wide band running from 20 to 90. A high reading implies that fear is the dominant emotion in the market, sending money toward the safest safe haven, which is gold, and away from silver, which is more volatile and therefore riskier. Read More |
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03.14.20- Move Over Coronavirus; Is This “Repo-Virus” the True Culprit of the Crash?
But there is another entity that could cause even more panic in the markets than a virus, and that’s the Federal Reserve. In fact, the Fed has already been creating uncertainty in the markets since last September. Back then, a sudden 10% jump in repo market borrowing costs caused panic and liquidity problems. The Fed reacted by injecting billions in cash in attempts to restore sanity (and liquidity). Read More |
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03.13.20- SALES EXPLODE: U.S. Mint Sells Another Million Silver Eagles Past Two Days
This brings to total Silver Eagle sales in March at 2.3 million, more than three times the previous month. On my last update, the U.S. Mint sold a total of 1,345,000 Silver Eagles as of March 9th Read More |
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03.12.20- Silver – Left Behind Today, But Not Tomorrow
The coronavirus is blamed for weak global demand and damaged supply chains. The Fed is worried; they lowered interest rates by half a point. But central banking is part of the problem. Central banks created bubbles, and those bubbles crashed in 2000, 2008, and 2020. Read More |
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03.11.20- Gold is Immune to the Coronavirus, Says Goldman
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03.10.20- Why are Gold & Silver Crashing?
Gold is down over 3% today as we write. Silver is down over 6%. The gold/silver ratio has soared to 95, its highest level since March 1991. Why is this happening? Aren’t gold and silver crisis hedges? One of the biggest reasons has to do directly with the stock market. It’s the same reason gold and silver crashed in October 2008. Read More |
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03.09.20- Gold steadily climbs back closer to multi-year tops on coronavirus jitters
Gold gained some traction on Friday and has now moved well within the striking distance of multi-year tops set on February 24. Read More |
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03.07.20- "The Market Slump Is Just Beginning" -
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03.06.20- Silver Backwardation Returns, Gold and Silver Market Report 2 March
Of course, when the price drops the injured goldbugs come out. We have written the authoritative debunking of the gold and silver price suppression conspiracy here. We provide both the scientific theory and the data. So we won’t say anything more about it today. Read More |
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03.05.20- Why Precious Metals Crash During Market Meltdowns
There is, however, one asset class that’s behaving rather strangely: precious metals. Despite their popular safe-haven status, gold, silver, platinum, and palladium — priced in U.S Dollars — have fallen 5% or more from their highs. But why, in a period of mass panic and fear, are metal investors experiencing heavy losses? The answer is volatility. Read More |
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03.04.20- Physical Gold Will Soon Break Free from the Paper Market in Spectacular Fashion
Fast forward to 2019, which was the year of vindication for all gold bugs. Multiple banking entities had been implicated in gold and silver market manipulation, including JP Morgan. It was no longer a “theory”; now it was fact. The problem is, whenever these institutions get caught illegally undercutting the market, they get a fine, at most. Essentially, they receive a slap on the wrist and then go right back to strongarming metals. Read More |
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03.03.20- Like Last Week, Gold Dropped in 2008. Then It Did This
There is a good reason behind the gold selloff and plenty of upside Read More |
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03.02.20- Stocks And Gold: What Happened Last Week
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02.29.20- Why Is Gold Tanking?
If you were expecting a major recovery today after yesterday’s bloodbath, you were very disappointed. Stocks opened higher this morning but soon fell back into red territory again, where they stayed throughout the day. The Dow ended up losing another 879 points today after yesterday’s 1,031-point hammering. Read More |
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02.28.20- How Gold Is Manipulated
There is hard statistical evidence to make the case, in addition to anecdotal evidence and forensic evidence. The evidence is very clear, in fact. I’ve spoken to members of Congress. I’ve spoken to people in the intelligence community, in the defense community, very senior people at the IMF. I don’t believe in making strong claims without strong evidence, and the evidence is all there. Read More |
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02.27.20- 2021 Social Security COLA Could Be “Infected” by the Coronavirus
According to official statistics, more than 64 million Americans receive more than $1 trillion in Social Security benefits. It also represents about 33% of total income for the elderly. Read More |
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02.26.20- Gold: The Piper Must Be Paid
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02.25.20- Silver and Sanity
Prices for silver rise as currency units are devalued. Silver sold for $1.29 in the 1960s. Today’s price is around $18.00 because dollars buy less. The continual devaluation benefits the political and financial elite who own most paper assets – stocks and bonds. The bottom 90% pay higher prices for necessities plus interest on their debts. Savings in silver coins will offset devaluation and loss of purchasing power. Read More |
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02.24.20- A Minsky Moment is coming for gold
Named after economist Hyman Minsky, the theory centers around the inherent instability of stock markets, especially bull markets such as the current one that has been in place for over a decade. Read More |
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02.22.20- Will COVID-19 Lead To A Gold Standard?
The crisis is likely to be a wake-up call for complacent investors, who are content to buy benchmark bonds issued by bankrupt governments at wildly excessive prices. A recession turned by the coronavirus into a fathomless slump will lead to a synchronised explosion of debt issuance for which there are no genuine buyers and can only be monetised. Read More |
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02.21.20- The World's Best Kept Investment Secret
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02.20.20- Surprise! Massive Consumer Debt Fueling 'Record' Economy
You can see how total outstanding consumer debt, currently at $4.2 trillion, has skyrocketed since 2008 in this graph. But the total amount of outstanding debt isn't the only problem, because as reported by Newsmax Finance, consumer borrowing in December also shot up the most in five months: Read More |
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02.19.20- What Do Crashing Emerging Market Currencies Signal About Future
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02.18.20- Widening Bid-Ask Spreads,
Welcome to our new Gold and Silver Market Report, or “Market Report” for short. We are separating this from the economics essay, which was attached for many years. As they used to say in many toy commercials of yore, “batteries sold separately”—or in this case essays. Read More |
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02.17.20- Copper market is a coiled spring
Three thousand years later homo sapiens figured out how to smelt copper from its ore, and to alloy it with tin to create bronze. Bronze was useful for tools and weapons, making it one of the most important inventions in the history of civilization. Copper was later used in roofing, and still is, for its strength and oxidized green look, as well as in works of art. Copper, or Cu, is also essential for all living organisms. Read More |
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02.15.20- Spotlight on the DOJ and JPMorgan
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02.14.20- Do You Solemnly Swear?
Assume (without laughing or crying) that our U.S. senators are honest individuals filled with integrity. Yes, I know, but stay with me… They voted last week during the impeachment trial for President Donald Trump. They swore to uphold the following oath: “Do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help you god?” Read More |
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02.13.20- Gold, silver prices up as coronavirus back on the front burner
Asian and European shares were mostly down overnight. U.S. stock indexes are also pointed toward lower openings when the New York day session begins. Read More |
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02.12.20- The Eternal Relationship Between Gold and Global Crisis
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02.11.20- Investing In Gold: The Biggest Upside With the Smallest Risk
For example, his subscribers are already sitting on 867% gains – and counting – from a single investment E.B. recommended last February. And he has plenty more opportunities like those on his radar… So don’t miss the replay of E.B.’s big event. Then read on for this weekend’s Diary guest feature… Read More |
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02.10.20- This Is What a Run on the Bank for Precious Metals Looks Like…
Put simply, available inventories are failing to keep up with demand (largely from the automotive industry). According to Refnitiv GFMS, the palladium market will be under-supplied by 883,000 ounces this year. Stresses on the physical market are showing up in spiking lease rates, illiquidity, widening bid/ask spreads, and disconnections between quoted spot prices and actual physical prices. Most importantly, the deficit in palladium supply is manifesting in the form of rising prices. Read More |
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02.08.20- You Cannot Go Wrong With Gold
I have quoted Brutus’ speech in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar many times in the last twenty years. But I believe that it is today more relevant than at any time in history, when it comes to economic affairs. Read More |
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02.07.20- The Eternal Relationship Between  Though it is often referred to by critics and elitist central bankers as a “barbaric relic”, there is no denying that gold is usually the go-to asset during times of crisis and uncertainty. And as much as they pretend to hate it, even the elites secretly stock the precious metal whenever the economy goes awry. In fact, you can almost predict when things will go bad simply by watching how much gold that central banks around the globe stockpile in a particular year.
As noted in my last article, the banking establishment is often privy to impending disasters, usually because they directly participate in creating them. This is why they always seem to know when to prepare and hedge their assets to weather the storm. Read More |
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02.06.20- The Guggenheim "#1 Conviction Trade"
In our 2020 forecast, we wrote that you should expect higher gold and silver prices this year due to a continuation of the trends from 2019. And we expect great things for “all forms of precious metal” as the global investment community slowly begins to add asset allocation to the sector. If you missed this forecast in January, here’s the link: Read More |
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02.05.20- Gold, only safe haven in town amid coronavirus outbreak, expected hit
Gold rose 4.8 per cent in January to hit a seven-year high on Friday, as investors sought out the safe-haven asset amid the coronavirus outbreak, a trend that will support its price this year, analysts said. It was up 4 per cent year to date on Wednesday. Read More |
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02.04.20- There’s Just Not That Much Silver Investment Insurance To Go Around
Why? It all comes down to ENERGY. While I have repeated myself many times over about energy being the driver of the economy, there is a large percentage of precious metals analysts and investors that still don’t “GET IT.” Read More |
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02.03.20- What lies ahead for gold in 2020
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02.01.20- Silver Prepares for Next Leg Higher
Following up on some of our recent metals research, we wanted to alert our friends and followers to the incredible opportunity that still exists in Silver. We’ve highlighted two of our more recent articles for reference and review, below. Silver continues to be one of the most incredible opportunities for 2020 and Silver Miners (SIL) could explode to the upside as the price of Silver rallies to close the gap between the Gold to Silver ratio. Read More |
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Inflate and Die - Stock Collapse and Gold Surge Imminent
After three decades of massive money printing and credit expansion, “inflate or die” has artificially kept the world economy going. But we are now in the 2020s moving in to the next stage which will be INFLATE AND DIE. Because, as stock and credit bubbles implode and money printing accelerates, the world will soon realise that not only is the freshly printed money worthless but also most of the manufactured money from the last 20 years. Read More |
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01.30.20- Sweet Spot for Gold’s Fundamentals
Let me explain. The most bearish points for Gold (aside from a blowoff in inflation) are when an economic recovery gains traction or when the Fed raises rates to combat inflation. All three scenarios entail stable or rising real interest rates and, therefore, no investment demand for Gold. At present, the Fed is seeking higher inflation while trying to keep the economy from falling into a recession. Do not expect higher real interest rates anytime soon. Read More |
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01.29.20- Alert: Silver Goes on Sale
This has pushed the gold/silver ratio back close to 90. It hasn’t been this high, meaning silver hasn’t been this undervalued compared to gold, since early last summer. It may not feel like it, since silver has been on the rise, but this level of volatility makes today a prime buying opportunity. Read More |
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01.28.20- Coronavirus Jitters Spur Safe Haven Demand for Gold
Gold prices soar as U.S. reports multiple patients infected with coronavirus Read More |
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01.27.20- Why Germany Is Going To War With Gold
In China and India, gold jewelry is a status symbol - a sign of wealth and success. In Germany, owning gold bars and coins, maybe a 24-karat necklace or two, is a means of preserving wealth, especially in times of war or economic crisis, something never far from Germans’ minds, considering their history. Read More |
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01.25.20- Mississippi Bill Would Remove Barrier to Use of Gold and Silver as Money
Sen. Joey Fillingane (R-Sumrall) introduced Senate Bill 2097 (SB2097) on Jan. 17. The legislation would exempt the sale of bullion or currency in gold, silver, platinum or palladium from the state sales tax. Read More |
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01.24.20- MSM Gold Reporting Becomes More Absurd By The Day
Practially every day prompts those who consider themselves market analysts to contrive explanations for movements in the gold price, no matter how implausible. Zaner Metals in Chicago attributed today’s slight decline in the gold price to concerns about the new virus that has appeared in China: Read More |
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01.23.20- The Tremendous Hidden Value
The majority of gold and silver analysts provide forecasts for precious metals based on the negative symptoms taking place in the economy and market (debt, derivatives, fiat money, etc), and not the fundamental factor… ENERGY. Read More |
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01.22.20- A New Gold Standard:
OVER the past century, monetary systems change about every 30 to 40 years on average. Before 1914, the global monetary system was based on the classical gold standard. Then in 1945, a new monetary system emerged at Bretton Woods. I was at Bretton Woods this past summer to commemorate its 75th anniversary. Read More |
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01.21.20- “Boiling Conflict” to Push Gold Past $2,000 in 2020
Bridgewater CIO: Gold could hit $2,000 due to loose monetary policies and geopolitical tensions Read More |
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01.20.20- The Cannibalization Of The Financial System Will Force Investors Into Silver
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01.18.20- Stock Market Ready to Crash, It Could Happen at Any Time
This week I will discuss Fed bubbles and a potential imminent major market event, including an extremely important chart and also the safest private gold vault in the world. But first, last week was overshadowed by Iraq and Iran, which again has reminded us of terrorism in various forms. Terrorism is not just an act of violence. Cyber attacks can have devastating effects like paralysing air traffic or making all your digital assets disappear. Read More |
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01.17.20- Silver Could Blow-Through $50 And Be At $85 Only 5 Days Later!
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01.16.20- Silver Price Forecast: Most Likely A Strong Decade Ahead
Central banks primarily buy gold, rather than silver. Investors view gold as a safe haven, rather than silver. Gold is for kings and queens, while silver is for gentlemen and ladies. Silver is more speculative. It is a smaller market, it is a primarily a mining byproduct of other metals rather than a directly-mined metal itself, and it is a metal that has both an industrial side and a monetary/jewelry side, with the industrial side being slightly larger. Electronic devices, electric vehicles, solar panels, and a variety of industries use silver. Read More |
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01.15.20- The 3 Reasons Gold Will Remain Above $1,600 in 2020
3 key reasons why the gold market is ready to trace back to $1,600 Read More |
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Here Is Why Gold Could Rise Above $7,000 An Ounce
So how did I reach that conclusion? Allow me to talk you through it, step by step below. How inflation could get going again US real interest rates are falling again. Read More |
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01.13.20- Gold’s New Bull Market and Why Over $7,000 Per Ounce Is “Logical” (Part I)
Unlike the gold bugs, I’m not a broken record. And unlike the barbarous relic brigade, I recognise gold’s importance in the modern world. Read More |
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01.11.20- Gold futures tally a third weekly rise
Gold futures ended higher Friday, finding support from weaker-than-expected monthly U.S. jobs data to score a third weekly climb, even as easing tensions in Middle East worked to dull haven demand for the precious metal. Gold had climbed past the “psychological $1,550 level as immediate reaction to the underwhelming December US nonfarm payrolls,” Han Tan, market analyst at FXTM, told MarketWatch. However, “bullion bulls are struggling to find cause for a sustained liftoff back to $1600 after the US and Iran appeared to walk away from the brink of an all-out conflict earlier this week.” Read More |
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01.19.20- How to return to sound money
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01.09.20- Gold And Financial Survival In The 2020s
2020 is of course perfect vision or “facilely accurate judgment or assessment” as Webster’s defines it. So why should we be able to forecast the 2020s better than we have the 2000s or the 2010s? Well, I can with confidence say that we won’t. Read More |
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01.08.20- I sure am glad that I own gold…
This most recent price bump is due to the panic over Iran. But the gold price is up nearly 20% over the last year, so there have obviously been plenty of other factors driving the price higher before the Middle East started flaring up again. And there will be plenty more after these tensions cool down. Trade wars, economic crisis in China, Bolshevik nonsense in the US, Brexit woes… the world is definitely not lacking in major issues that could continue to drive gold prices higher. Read More |
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01.07.20- As the World Embraces Clean Energy, This Metal's Price Will Soar
It's rush hour... yet it's quiet. Although the road is packed with cars rushing to their destinations, one after the other... the only sounds are the whip of the wind and the crunch of asphalt under their tires. No engine rumble can be heard. Quiet and efficient electric vehicles ("EVs") now comprise the majority of all automobiles on the road. The formerly empty fields to the sides of the highway are now filled with farms of silver-coated solar panels. Air-polluting coal power plants are nearing obsoletion. Shiny photovoltaic ("PV") panels can be seen on most houses. Read More |
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01.06.20- Gold Or Oil: Which Is A Better Iran Crisis Hedge? Here Is Goldman's Answer
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01.04.20- This Is Great News For Gold
But this imbalance has begun to reverse, in two ways. First, stocks have soared to nosebleed valuation levels — see Nasdaq caps $7 trillion decade with its best rally in 10 years. Apple, Gooogle and Netflix might continue to rise from here, but they’re no longer anyone’s idea of a safe haven. Read More |
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01.03.20- Gold Price Forecast: Gold To Rise On Fed Dollar Debasement
Gold and silver sometimes act on their own, independent of what is happening to the broader commodity world. However, at other points gold and silver will get pulled together with the rest of the resource sector – this is what is about to occur in the precious metals world. Read More |
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01.02.20- Gold Surges Due To Troubled Fed Repo & U.S. Treasury Market
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01.01.20- Money Printing And Physical Demand Will Drive Gold Higher
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12.31.19- Gold Is the Asset to Watch in 2020,
Gold is Byron Wien’s early pick for 2020 Although Wall Street veteran Byron Wien will wait until January to release his top 10 picks for 2020, the strategist nonetheless parted with some takes on what to expect next year. Read More |
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12.30.19- Central Bank Gold Hoarding
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12.28.19- The Metals Meandering Continues – So Please Maintain Patience
But, if you trade metals, you know that they actually spend much of their time consolidating. The reason is that their moves are so strong and powerful, they complete quite quickly, while spending the great majority of their time within a consolidation. And, that is what I think we are seeing now. Read More |
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12.27.19- 2020 Silver Set To Explode Like 2010 Silver!
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12.26.19- The Strongest Seasonal Advance in Precious Metals Begins Now
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12.25.19- Gold Acts as Wealth Insurance
But that doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know how to position yourself. That’s why I brought in my good friend E.B. Tucker to share a simple two-step gold playbook. As you may know, E.B. is a true gold expert. Before working in the newsletter business, he managed a precious metals equity investment fund. Today, he is on the board of a successful gold company. Read More |
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12.24.19- CIA memo explains how IMF's Special Drawing Rights were meant to displace gold
Our friend Stuart Englert, who is writing a book on gold price suppression, calls attention to a declassified 1970 Central Intelligence Agency memorandum asserting that the Special Drawing Rights of the International Monetary Fund were created in 1967 in large part to reduce the world's demand for gold and particularly to reduce exchange of U.S. dollars, the world reserve currency, for gold. Read More |
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12.23.19- Gold vs cash in a crisis
The hopeful and the fearful The beacon hopeful investors are following is best symbolized by analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who describe current market conditions as “primed for Q1 2020 net asset melt-up”, based on continued monetary easing (central bank asset purchases, low interest rates) and a pending resolution to the trade war. A first-round trade agreement between the US and China was reached last Friday. Read More |
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12.21.19- What If Just 3% Of The Population Stacked Silver?
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12.20.19- Is It Time for Silver Stocks To Blast Higher?
The investment was initially designed as a hedge against inflation, which was becoming rampant in the United States. The gold standard had just been lifted and the value of the U.S. Dollar was plummeting. During the early 1970s, buying gold was forbidden, so silver was the best alternative. And three brothers took advantage. Read More |
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12.19.19- Why Elon Musk Secretly Loves Silver
And by most measures, he has been wildly successful. Tesla orders hit a record 97,000 vehicles globally in the third quarter (not to mention 250,000 preorders for the new CyberTruck). The stock has more than doubled since May 1. And you might recall Mike Maloney is a big fan of Tesla cars. But there’s something you may not know about Elon Musk. He won't admit it publicly. Neither will most “green” company CEOs. But it’s a reality for all of them. Read More |
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12.18.19- US Official Gold Reserves Auditor
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12.17.19- The Ultra Wealthy Are Planning
High-net-worth individuals are using physical gold to combat uncertainty Read More |
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12.16.19- Silver Mine Grades are Plummeting—What Does it Mean for Your Holdings?
Why is less silver coming out of the ground? There are a number of reasons, but there’s one in particular that has sidestepped the notice of most investors, and it may surprise you to find out just how bad the situation has gotten. Let’s look at that reason and what it means for you... Of course, long-time readers have heard me outline before that new supply from silver mining is locked into a structural decline. Read More |
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12.14.19- A Missing Motive
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12.13.19- Inevitable For Hunt Brothers Silver Trade to Be Repeated
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12.12.19- As The Financial System Melts Down Gold And Silver Will Soar
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12.11.19- The End of an Epoch
What the heck did John Maynard Keynes mean by saying this? Overturning the existing basis of society?! Let’s begin by stating something that is both obvious and unpopular. We are living in days that could be called the end of an epoch. The signs are everywhere, and becoming more blatant. Read More |
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12.10.19- Silver Above-Ground Stocks A Mere Fraction Of Global Assets
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12.09.19- Dark Money Will Push Gold Higher
QE4R involves offering money to banks in return for short-term U.S. Treasury and mortgage bonds, in shades of 2009. The fact that the Fed is expanding its balance sheet through these repo operations allows it to pretend it is merely auctioning “adjustment-based” policy moves, rather than problem-based ones, to keep rates from rising and money becoming too expensive for banks. Read More |
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12.07.19- Gold Correction Not Over
Gold has enjoyed a strong 2019, still up 15.0% year-to-date as of the middle of this week. Unfortunately its gains have been overshadowed by a bigger stock-market surge, driven by extreme Fed easing. This central bank shifted its rate outlook from hiking to cutting, made 3 rate cuts in just 3.0 months, and birthed its massive 4th quantitative-easing campaign to monetize Treasuries! That’s incredible in just a half-year. Read More |
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12.06.19- Sell the Nasdaq and Buy Gold
Still, in modern times August 15th 1971 was a monumental day. That day was not the end of the financial system, and not even the beginning of the end. But it was perhaps the end of the beginning. Historians will recognise this paraphrasing of Churchill after the Allies’ El Alamein victory in 1942. Read More |
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12.05.19- Gold has outperformed the stock market over the last year
In fact, almost exactly one year ago to the day, I wrote that gold was cheap relative to just about every other asset class in the world. Since then, gold has been one of the best performing investments in the world. Over the last 12 months, the price of gold is up 21.1%, handily outperforming everything from the S&P 500 index in the US to stock markets in China, Europe, and Canada, plus bonds, real estate, and even major commodities like oil. Read More |
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12.04.19- What happens to gold if COMEX collapses?
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12.03.19- Gold Poised For A Pleasant Holiday Rally
On an intra-day basis gold has managed to hold continuous aggressive attempts to push the price below $1460 for the last 6 trading days, including today. Interestingly, last Tuesday (November 26) and Friday, gold shot up during the Comex floor trading hours in the absence of any news or event triggers. Read More |
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11.30.19- Gold and the Lender of Last Resort
The Fed has created $billions in the past ten weeks (more on the way) and fed those billions into troubled banks, hedge funds, foreign banks and others. Lack of Fed transparency forces us to guess which institutions the Fed helped with $billions of nearly free dollars. Read More |
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11.29.19- Eating the Seed Corn – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
The price of gold subsided a few bucks, and the price of silver blipped a few pennies. Not much action last week, groceries neither pumped into nor drained out of this asset class. Those who look to exchange capital goods for groceries need to find a different asset. Not even the S&P 500 Index provided a gain in groceries this week. It certainly wasn’t the much-vaunted store of groceries, Bitcoin, which leaked 12 of them last week. 10-year treasuries picked up some purchasing power, but not a lot. Read More |
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11.28.19- Gold Poised For A Pleasant Holiday Rally
Based on premiums being paid for gold after taking into account the import duty (this is data I receive daily from a high-priced subscription service we get for my fund), Indian importation is running full-tilt. For illustrative purposes, using $1455 as a base price, inclusive of the import duty plus the ex-duty price premium, Indians are paying the equivalent of $1644/oz for gold right now. This demand for physical gold is likely responsible for preventing a much deeper sell-off in the price. Read More |
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11.27.19- German Central Bank: Gold is the Bedrock of Stability for the International Monetary System
It was long believed in the gold space that Western central banks are against gold, but things have changed, for quite some years now. Instead of discouraging people from buying gold, or convincing them that gold is an irrelevant asset, many of these central banks are increasingly honest about the true properties of this monetary metal. Stating that gold is the ultimate store of value, that it preserves its purchasing power through time and is a global means of payment. Such statements, combined with actions that will be discussed below, reveal that more and more central banks are preparing for plan B. Read More |
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11.26.19- TD Securities: Make the most of price pullbacks, as gold will reach $1,650 in 2020
And while prices have somewhat pulled back in the fourth quarter, TD Securities’ strategists note that not much has changed in regards to gold’s outlook. The team pins the pullback largely on optimism surrounding a U.S.-China trade deal. However, trade tensions with China were just one of the many tailwinds pushing gold up, and there is still no guarantee that a satisfactory deal will be reached. Read More |
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11.25.19- Take Advantage of
But I wasn’t afraid… In fact, I called for $1,500 per ounce of gold in 2019. In August, it hit my target. Now, the price has retreated a bit since, but gold’s still flirting with $1,500 per ounce as I write. Read More |
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11.23.19- A Genuine Dilemma
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11.22.19- As Gold Soars, Silver Readies
In the year of precious metals, gold stands out while silver prices lies in wait Read More |
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11.21.19- Here’s Why $5000/Oz is a
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11.20.19- Rip Roaring Year-End Gold & Silver Rally? Only If These 2 Things Happen…
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” —Sir Isaac Newton (Newton’s Third Law) In nature, where everything moves freely absent human interference, her omnipotent forces are allowed to manifest themselves in manners that create a living ecosystem that supports life in the air, on land, and on and within the oceans. It is perfectly balanced to sustain itself and has done so over billions of years. Read More |
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11.19.19- The Perversity of Negative Interest
Perverse Inventives Second, negative interest perversely incentivizes some very perverse behaviors. Read More |
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11.18.19- The Cure For Dishonest Money
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11.17.19- The Gold Price IS NOT The Price Of Gold
At what point will gold turn from a minority interest attracting less than 0.5% of world financial assets to a mass-market investment? Read More |
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11.15.19- Don’t Look Now, But India Is
It didn’t make a lot of headlines, but India’s silver imports have seen a big jump. So big that we need to talk about it, because if this trend continues it could have a sizable impact on the tiny silver market. There’s a chart I want you to see, but first… How Important is Indian Demand? Read More |
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11.14.19- Why There Are Very Few Real Silver Companies
Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is the Mercenary Geologist, Mickey Fulp. Thank you for joining us. Two years ago, Mickey, we discussed the value propositions in tax-loss selling. Last year we did one on peak gold. I like to have your thoughts today regarding the value proposition of silver bullion, silver junior mining companies, and then those that extract silver, and if those aren’t the ones that we should be focusing our efforts on, then let’s find out what you are focusing your efforts on. So first let’s discuss silver bullion. There’s a number of speculators in the space that they’re always optimistic about the value proposition, currently the silver ratio is, what, in the 80s, mid-80s? Read More |
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11.13.19- To JPM And The CFTC:
While listening to this fun music, it led my thoughts to two Liars, as is beyond obvious… Read More |
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11.12.19- 2020 vision
In the February edition of this newsletter, we ran an article under the headline: Will 2019 be the year of the big breakout for gold? Though we would not characterize gold’s move to the upside so far this year as ‘the big breakout,’ 2019 has been the best year for gold since 2010 even with the recent correction taken into account. Back in September when the price gold reached $1550 per ounce – up almost 22% on the year – 2019 was looking more like a breakout year. Now with the move back to the $1460 level, the market mood has become more restrained. As it is, gold is up 15 of the last 19 years and still up 14.45% so far this year. Read More |
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11.11.19- Gold is the Alpha Currency
The Dow closed at 26,616 on Jan. 26, 2018, a new high. The Dow closed on November 5, 2019 at 27,492, a gain of 3% in 22 months. Gold closed at $1,352 on Jan. 26, 2018. Gold closed at $1,484 on November 5, 2019, a gain of 10% in 22 months. The Fed announced they would buy $60 billion/month in Treasuries but refused to admit it was QE. Sounds like welfare for the upper 1%…Read More |
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11.09.19- Expert: Gold Will Break Its All-Time High
In several cases, the hosts nagged me about my prediction, asking if I would stick with it. I did. In August, it hit my target. Now, the price has retreated a bit since, but gold’s still flirting with $1,500 per ounce, as I write. Here’s why I’m writing you today: I believe $1,500 is only the beginning for gold. Read More |
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11.08.19- Buy Gold Before Marxism
The whole country knows that Corbyn is a Marxist but very few understand the consequences of Marxism. But Corbyn has on the first day of his campaign clearly spelt out what Marxism really means. In true Marxist style, Corbyn attacked some of the UK billionaires and named them individually. Read More |
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11.07.19- Too Bad They’re Not Gold Bugs: A Review Of HBO’s Years And Years
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11.06.19- You’re Probably Underinvested In Gold
The Massachusetts senator and presidential contender made the announcement Friday morning, responding to critics who’ve demanded to see some details on her ambitious proposal. According to her campaign, the price tag to provide Medicare-style health care to every American would be “just under $52 trillion.” Read More |
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11.05.19- The Great Silver Heist
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11.04.19- 16 Tons and A Briefcase
The owners paid in script which coal miners used as currency. Script had no intrinsic value and was only good at the company store. The owners increased profits by coercing miners to buy goods at higher prices. Script cost next to nothing to produce. Read More |
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11.02.19- Sleepwalking Toward A Crisis –
The market levitates higher on phony economic data from the Government, Trump tweets, Fed money printing and hedge fund algorithms chasing headline and twitter sound bites. Currently the stock market, dulled by money printing and official interventions, could care less about economic reality and rising global systemic geopolitical and financial risk. Corporate headline earnings “beats” are considered bullish even if the earnings declined YoY or sequentially. Read More |
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11.01.19- As Gold Prices Prove Resilient,
How gold managed to post its best performance since 2013 The latest report by Bank of Nova Scotia examined what propelled gold to levels last seen in 2013, along with taking a look at why the metal could have an even better year ahead. Read More |
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10.31.19- Wealth Accumulation Is Becoming Impossible
A bank deposit comes with a risk. But instead of compensating you for the risk, the bank pays you nothing. So it’s a return-free risk. And worse than that, a negative rate means that you are paying the bank in order to take the risk of lending to them. Read More |
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Wag the Dog - The new COMEX and Shanghai gold contracts
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10.29.19- The Return of the Silver Whale?
I’d like to follow up on an issue I first raised with subscribers last week, namely, the possible reemergence of the silver whale in COMEX silver futures. I want to preface this by openly acknowledging I may be premature in concluding a big buyer has begun to accumulate large quantities of silver futures contracts, but the matter is important enough, in my opinion, to warrant attention now. This can be a complicated issue, so please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have. Read More |
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10.28.19- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Could Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Actually Save Us?
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is presented as a means to painlessly fund the large-scale infrastructure / alternative energy spending the nation desperate needs to rebuild and modernize. While most people support the goal of useful fiscal stimulus (as opposed to paying people to dig holes and fill them), the question remains: Will MMT work as advertised? Rather than dismiss it out of hand, I’m trying to approach the subject without ideological bias. Read More |
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10.26.19- Gold Seasonality Turns Positive – Prepare For A Big January
But not this year. Starting in May, when history says gold should be weak and gold bugs who know what’s good for them should be off doing other things, gold jumped from $1,250 to $1,500. Read More |
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10.25.19- Precious metals round-up
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10.24.19- Top Producers Silver Mine Supply Continues To Decline JAN-JUL 2019
Even though the decline of silver mine supply at these leading producers isn’t impacting the current silver market price currently, it will likely do so as the Fed and central banks lose control of their QE money printing and asset purchase policy. In less than two weeks, the total U.S. debt has increased by another COOL $85 billion. With total U.S. public debt now at $22.92 trillion, it’s only a matter of time, maybe just a few weeks before we reach another record of $23 trillion. Read More |
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10.23.19- Start thinking about silver before it becomes popular again
Ashurbanipal vanquished the city, purportedly seizing more than 75 metric tons of silver for his personal collection. At the time in the ancient world, the prevailing ratio between gold and silver was 1:2. In other words, 75 metric tons (= 75,000 kilograms) of silver was worth 37,500 kilograms of gold, equal to $1.76 billion in today’s money. Read More |
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10.22.19- French Gold in World War Two
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10.21.19- Money and the theory of exchange
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10.19.19- More Unanswered Questions
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10.18.19- The Coming Inventory Liquidation
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10.17.19- The Caveman’s Diary 2019: “Gold Good… Stocks Bad… Get More Gold”
We had a good time poking fun of simplistic theories as to what motivates people. Human emotions and motivations are complex. Except when it comes to money. Read More |
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10.16.19- In an Illusory World - Gold is the Truth Teller
Interestingly, Archimedes applied this principle to assess the gold content of the crown of King Hiero of Syracuse. A goldsmith had tried to cheat the king by replacing the gold in the crown with the same weight of silver. But since gold has twice the density of silver and therefore weighs considerably more for the same volume, the goldsmith’s deceit was revealed. More about the Eureka moment in markets later. Read More |
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10.15.19- A Global Gold Rush is Imminent
Davis believes that the government and the mainstream media have no intention of keeping anyone informed. Read More |
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10.14.19- UBS Boosts 2020 Gold Forecast
UBS ups its forecast again, expects gold to reach $1,720 next year Read More |
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10.12.19- Gold Demand Fragile
Gold investment demand is a major driver of gold price trends. Gold naturally surges when investment capital is flooding in, and slumps when it flows back out. While investment demand is a relatively-minor fraction of overall global gold demand, it is the most-volatile major demand category by far. Read More |
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10.11.19- Fed Balance Sheet Expansion, Unicorns, Unintended Consequences and Gold
While Jerome Powell and his “Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight” at the Fed prefer to use the term “balance sheet growth” in reference to money printing, the big-thinkers at the BIS call it UMPT (Unconventional Monetary Policy Tools).”Read More |
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10.10.19- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: "The effluent is about to hit the affluent."
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10.09.19- 3 Tips for Picking Junior Gold Stocks
The current correction may provide the last chance to buy before the bull market in Gold is confirmed and capital pours into the junior sector and pushes up prices. Here are three of our best tips to help you spot the big winners before the crowd. Read More |
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10.08.19- ETF Bullion Holdings Hit Record As Investors Go Gold Crazy
Investors can’t seem to get enough of exchange-traded gold funds. In September, gold-backed ETFs and similar funds snapped up an extra 75 metric tons of the metal worth almost $4 billion, according to a report published Tuesday by World Gold Council. Read More |
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10.07.19- Death Is Coming To The US Stock Market, Volatility Is Coming To Gold & Silver
Gold & silver may have a turn-around week, and I’m preparing for volatility in the markets. First, China is still on Golden Week. I do not think gold & silver are in the clear just yet. Read More |
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10.05.19- What’s driving the rare simultaneous rise in gold and the dollar?
The U.S. dollar is at an all time high. Gold is rising too. That’s rare. The Broad Trade-Weighted Dollar Index is at 130.69 at last count, after reaching its all time high of 131.57 in September. This is a broad dollar index that is weighted by trade volumes and includes the Chinese yuan as well as other emerging-markets currencies. Read More |
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10.04.19- Deflation or Inflation: Gold Doesn’t Care
In our view, gold investors should settle back with some popcorn and enjoy the coming fireworks, which will include the best gold bull market ever, with all the volatility that implies. We see new all-time highs just around the corner. The challenge is to take a position and stay the course. Central banks are about to pay for decades of bad policy and gold will reap the dividends. Read More |
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10.03.19- The Big Silver Shock:
A lot of readers liked our article on how much cash could flood the gold market once institutional investors start buying. Now it’s time to look at silver. And as most readers know, the silver market is much smaller than gold, meaning it could be easily overwhelmed—much more than gold—if these investors begin to take interest. Read More |
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1002.19-Gold's summer rally is just the start - UBS
In a report Tuesday, Joni Teves, precious metals strategist at UBS, said that she is upgrading her gold forecast as she sees prices pushing through $1,600 an ounce in the next 12 months. She added that she expects gold prices to push to $1,600 by the end of the year. Read More |
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10.01.19- Class-Action Suits May Eventually Result in Damages Paid Out to Cheated Metals Investors
The DOJ has even suggested the banks have been engaged in racketeering. Prosecutors may use RICO laws designed for taking down organized crime syndicates to prosecute these shady Wall Street firms. Read More |
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09.30.19- Gold Forecast: Thoughts About
But, is $25,000 per ounce for gold a reasonable number? And, when might we expect it? Pierre Lassonde, Canadian philanthropist and co-founder of Franco-Nevada, says gold could hit $12,500 an ounce by 2049; and that under the "right" conditions, it could go as high as $25,000. Read More |
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09.28.19- The Dow-to-Gold Ratio Says to Keep Holding Gold
I’m not supposed to be working, but when I saw what was happening in the equity and gold markets late last year, I drained my savings accounts and converted everything to gold. Then I started nagging my family members to do the same… Read More |
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09.27.19- Silver Gets Knocked Down Before It Goes on to Win the Fight
There are three possible scenarios I am watching. The highest probability scenario is that this is just a wave (4) pullback and we continue higher again in wave (5) to ~21 before we begin a wave ii reversal. Wave (4) should be a 3-wave A-B-C structure, with wave A down, B up, and C down to finish. A reasonable target for the bottom of wave (4) would be 17.40-50. This is the prior high and resistance, now support. Read More |
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09.26.19- GOLD vs. PAPER MONEY: Production Cost Is A Good Indicator Of Real Value
What’s interesting is that the Reserve Banks estimated the number of notes they were going to remove from circulation and destroy accounted for 75% of the U.S. Treasury 2018 print order. However, according to the FederalReserve.gov website, the currency in circulation in 2018 increased by approximately $100 billion: Read More |
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09.25.19- Banksters Finally Hit with Racketeering Charges – Better Late Than Never!
Yet claims of price rigging were simply dismissed by financial journalists and regulators as conspiracy theory. The banks’ defenders were bolstered by a 5-year-long investigation by the compromised Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) which ended without a single banker being prosecuted. Read More |
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09.24.19- Silver Price Forecast: Rare Signal Says Surge Ahead
Investors should carefully consider whether they have a proper allocation to the silver sector at this time. The Gold to Silver Ratio What is the signal we are referring to, which is flashing now for only the fourth time in the last two decades? Read More |
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09.23.19- Silver prices have big upside potential
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09.21.19- These are the Two Key Tailwinds for Gold’s Rise in Value
Record high debt and record low yields are the real tailwinds for gold Read More |
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09.20.19- Serious Inroads, But Still Unfinished Business
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09.19.19- Former Overstock CEO Byrne Dumps $90 Million Stock Gains Into Gold, Crypto "Out Of Reach Of Deep State"
And now, it looks like Byrne has finally checked out completely: on Wednesday after hours, he filed a Form 4 showing that he had sold his entire ~$90 million stake in the company into the stock's recent squeeze as lending desks struggled to figure out how to handle the company's recently proposed "digital dividend". Read More |
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09.18.19- Why Are People Now
On May 28, the price of silver hit its nadir, of $14.30. From the last three days of May through Sep 4, the price rose to $19.65. This was a gain of $5.35, or +37%. Congratulations to everyone who bought silver on May 28 and who sold it on Sep 4. To those who believe gold and silver are money (as we do) the rising price of silver may seem right as rain. Why shouldn’t the dollar go down? It’s a rubbish currency, and any moment everyone else will realize it. And therefore it should go down in anticipation of that, right? Read More |
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09.17.19- DOJ Accuses JPMorgan's Precious Metals Trading Desk Of Being A Criminal Enterprise
Well, almost everyone who didn't mind being designated a conspiracy theorist for years. And now comes vindication, because this has just been confirmed by the DOJ, which accused the PM trading desks at JPMorgan of being deeply involved in what prosecutors described as a "massive, multiyear scheme to manipulate the market for precious metals futures contracts and defraud market participants." Read More |
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09.16.19- Market Report: The importance
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09.14.19- Precious Metals Premiums Are Rising & $1,650 Gold Next Target
Tom explains that due to the negative interest rates, demand for gold in Germany has seen the largest increase since 2011. Furthermore, the World Gold Council reported that flows into European Gold ETF’s increased by 139 metric tons in 2019. Read More |
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09.13.19- The price of gold just hit a record high
Europe’s economic growth has ground to a halt. The German economy actually shrank last quarter, according to official statistics. So the European Central Bank is throwing everything including the kitchen sink at this problem. Their stimulus package is like a monetary defibrillator trying to shock Europe’s economies back to growth. Read More |
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09.12.19- Jim Cook Interviews Ted Butler: The case for a silver price explosion
Q: For a number of years, you have been insisting that silver would experience dramatic price gains. Any change in your thinking these days? A: Not only has there been no change in my thinking, the case for a silver price explosion has never been stronger. Q:: In what way? Read More |
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09.11.19- SILVER PRICE MANIPULATION: Setting The Record Straight
While I have no doubt there is an intervention in the precious metals markets, we must remember that the Fed and central banks are manipulating the ENTIRE MARKET with money printing, bond purchases, debt issuance, and zero (or negative) interest rates. However, the current price of gold and silver, even with the supposed market rigging, are still priced higher than their overall average production cost. Read More |
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09.10.19- This Gold Rally Is Different For One Critical Reason
As Forbes contributor Rob Isbitts notes, gold has had two major price breakouts over the past three decades. Each of them was brought about by immense geopolitical and economic turmoil, and Isbitts thinks we are heading for a third instance where investors worldwide flee to safety. Isbitts believes that this one, however, will be markedly different. In the previous two instances, while the gold market flourished, it also had a safe-haven competitor in the form of government bonds, as the 10-year Treasury’s yields stayed between 4% and 5%. Read More |
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09.09.19- Lessons From My Very First Gold Trade
A stranger in the seat in front of us turned around and uttered this sentence: “Be careful trading gold during a full moon.” There was a full moon that evening. But, I ignored the stranger’s advice and bought the gold ring anyway. Read More |
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09.07.19- The Missing Piece to the Puzzle
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09.06.19- Gold Prices Will Keep Rising Because Crash Conditions Are Becoming Obvious
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09.05.19- The Power of Scarcity
As what often happens when demand outpaces supply this dramatically, the value of the Popeyes sandwich has exploded on the secondary market. One Maryland man managed to sell his for $100, an incredible 2,400 percent markup over the retail price of $3.99. Read More |
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09.04.19- Are We Witnessing the Early Stages of a Bull Market in Gold and Silver?
After a disappointing June meeting between President Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping, Forbes contributor Naeem Aslam believes that Trump’s recent speech at the G7 summit did little to soothe worries that both economies will keep insisting on their respective trade terms. In the absence of a satisfactory deal, the Federal Reserve has looked to offset the effects of the escalating trade war by turning dovish and hinting towards a continuation of interest rate cuts. Read More |
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09.03.19- How To Ride The Gold (& Silver) Bull
The prospects for further gold and silver price appreciation has rarely looked this strong. Declining — heck, negative! — interest rates around the world. And central banks, including the all-important Federal Reserve, publicly committed to bringing them even lower going forward. Read More |
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09.02.19- Precious Metals Now Look
Of course, they are making up for some lost time as they were unable to increase the debt until the Whitehouse, Senate, and Congress passed a bipartisan deal for a two-year postponement of the debt-ceiling on July 22nd. Thus, the new agreement has kept the U.S. Government from shutting down or defaulting on its debt. Read More |
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08.31.19- World needs to prepare for return to gold standard as Washington disrupts financial order
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08.30.19- Silver rally is stealing the show even as gold surges to 6-year high
Precious metals are scoring impressive gains in August, with gold poised for a fourth consecutive monthly rise, though silver is steadily outpacing the price climb of its sister metal. Both have plenty of reasons to move even higher in the weeks to come, analysts said. “People are finally starting to believe that we are in a bull market in [precious] metals,” said James Hatzigiannis, senior strategist at Long Leaf Trading Group. “Silver is always known as a laggard to gold, and now you are seeing people getting into silver.” Read More |
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08.29.19- Gold Price Forecast:
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08.28.19- From Here, Where?
First of all, here's that post from January. Keep in mind that a precious metals rally was definitely NOT a popular opinion eight months ago. Both gold and silver were stuck in declines and ranges that stretched back to 2013, so most analysts and investors were pretty downtrodden and complacent. At TFMR? Not so much... Read More |
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08.27.19- Here’s a dirty secret few people know about gold
They called it Motel 6. And today the chain has grown to over 1,400 locations. If you want the most straightforward explanation for why you should own gold, consider your local Motel 6. It’s noteworthy that, today, the very same Santa Barbara location now rents its rooms for nearly $90 per night. Read More |
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08.26.19- Central Banks Are Purchasing Gold at Record Highs. Why?
As reported by Dion Rabouin atAxios, an unprecedented shift toward gold has been led by the financial authorities of the world in what appears to be a move away from the US dollar. The World Gold Council reported that central banks bought a historic high of 374.1 tons of gold this year. While this move accounts for only 16 percent of total gold demand, it offers an inside look into the minds of the central bankers. Read More |
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08.24.19- Debt Orgy: Gold $2,000 – Here’s the Precise Timeline!
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08.23.19- On The Job Training
While it took way too long for the Justice Department and the CFTC to finally crack down on spoofing, I suppose it’s a case of better late than never. And there can be little doubt that the regulators have cracked down on the illegal practice, which involves the entry and immediate cancellation of large orders solely designed to manipulate prices in the short term. Read More |
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08.22.19- 4 compelling reasons to be thinking about gold
The last few weeks has been nothing short of incredible… so many important things happening that have never happened before ever. Let’s take a step back together: Read More |
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08.21.19- Gold and Silver Headed Much Higher As Cartel Runs Out of Physical
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08.20.19- This indicator says silver has biggest upside potential in 30 years
At the time, it would have been silly to make any specific predictions about what the price would go to on a specific timeline. But it was correct to acknowledge the long term,physical precious metals hold their value. You hardly have to worry about losing value in silver, as long as you didn’t mind waiting. But one indicator in 2009 said you probably wouldn’t have to wait long. Read More |
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08.19.19- What The US-China Currency War Means For The Economy
A few months ago many of us read about the theory of “the nuclear option,” according to which China could generate a huge debt crisis in the United States and destroy the US economy if it sold its treasury holdings. As I mentioned at the time, China can become a greater economic leader, but the Chinese yuan cannot be a global reserve currency while maintaining capital controls and exchange rate fixing. Read More |
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08.17.19- The History of the World is
Most importantly, gold has been used as money in countless civilisations for thousands of years, facilitating trade and economic growth and acting as a store of value for accumulated wealth. Indeed, gold has been the ultimate form of money for thousands of years because it is a trusted form of money which retains its purchasing power over time. Read More |
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08.16.19- Silver prices with explosive upside
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08.15.19- Gold Bulls Must Love the Hong Kong Protests
It appears that the two steps forward, one step backwards approach of mainland China isn’t working as Hong Kong citizens are protesting again. The increasingly violent protests have plunged Chinese-ruled Hong Kong into its most serious crisis in decades, and the situation appears to be getting worse every week. What does it imply for the gold market? Read More |
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08.14.19- The Remarkable Resiliency
The chart below shows December paper gold in 5 minute intervals. Typically the price of gold is taken lower leading up to the a.m. London “fix,” in which the “price fix” process is characterized with heavy offerings. Lately the price bounces after that. And of course there’s the obligatory price-smack when the Comex floor trading commences (8:20 a.m. EST). Check that box. Then the “hey can I tell you the good news” item hit the tape about 4 minutes after the NYSE opened. Read More |
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08.13.19- Silver Will Benefit From
Big Business, numerous federal agencies, and politicians of all stripes hated them too. Even Tiffany & Co., the famous jewelry company, vilified them in a full-page advertisement in The New York Times, calling them “unconscionable.” The villains everyone loved to hate were the Hunt brothers. They were critics of the fiat money system and advocated for hard money based on commodities. Read More |
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08.12.19- A Currency War Will Only Weaken Growth And Strengthen Gold
This week we have verified that the reality is very different. China has reduced its holdings of U.S. bonds by $ 100 billion since the September 2018 highs and the result is that the U.S. treasury bond has strengthened without the need for Federal Reserve repurchases, while China has been forced to devalue the yuan when the country’s capital flight intensified (more than $40 billion in the first half, according to the IIF, registering the highest figure in ten months in June). Read More |
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08.10.19- Gold Price Hasn’t Been Suppressed For Decades Unless You Fail Basic Math & Logic At Same Time
All markets go up. All markets go down. No market ever goes straight up unless it’s the end of the world and in that case why would you care? Gold hit bottom in early 2016. Smart money was buying then. Gradually gold rose and fell with the tide until lately when it went on a roll. All the permabulls are screeching about a new bull market but it’s been a bull market for three years and been rising since a year past. Read More |
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08.09.19- Is the Federal Reserve losing control of the gold price?
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08.08.19- Carlin-Type Gold Deposits: What’s Next?
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08.07.19- Position Limits On Silver
The newly-installed chairman of the CFTC, Dr. Heath Tarbert, in office for only two weeks, submitted an op-ed to Fox Business News the other day, in which he laid out his goals for the agency. Dr. Tarbert comes to the agency with an impressive educational and professional background and as a Republican nominee, I had assumed he would continue in trying to lighten the regulatory burdens on the big guns in the financial industry. Instead, I came away with a very different take upon reading his opinion piece. Read More |
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08.06.19- There’s More to Gold’s Performance Than Meets the Eye
Gold Bulls Look Beyond Fed as Growth Slows and Recession Fears Rise Read More |
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08.05.19- German Gold in WWII
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08.03.19- Gold, the “anti-dollar”, will rise
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08.02.19- Short Squeeze Coming? A Preview Of The Silver Market For The Month Of August
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08.01.19- Trump Fed pick’s push for gold
Decades after the U.S. abandoned its policy of tying the dollar’s value to gold, President Donald Trump’s latest pick for the Federal Reserve, Judy Shelton, wants to bring it back into style. Read More |
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Unequivocally, gold does not trade on the Comex. The Comex trades paper gold derivatives. It is a futures and options exchange on which a small amount of 100 oz. gold bars change ownership each contract month. The transfer of title is facilitated by the creation of an electronic record called a “warrant.” But even these “warrants” which assign title to specific bars are derivatives. Presumably gold is “delivered” to the parties who stand for delivery (the “stopper”). But that “delivery” most commonly is the electronic transfer of a warrant from the entity short a paper gold contract to the entity who is long the same. 
Silver is real money, not a debt-based fiat currency that will eventually fail.Silver bullion production requires capital and effort to mine and refine. We use it for solar panels, iPhones, cruise missiles and thousands of other items. Silver is monetary sanity.
As many of our readers know, 
While the world has entered into a financial crisis, the worst is still yet to come. When the global contagion continues to spread, the crisis will turn into a FINANCIAL STORM, in which few are prepared. Unfortunately, the analysts on CNBC and Bloomberg continue to provide incorrect forecasts because they are looking at the markets in a linear fashion. What lies DEAD ahead is a collapse and disintegration of a way of life that won’t return as it was in December 2019. 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Physical gold is getting more difficult to come by, gold jumping to $2,000 by 2021 is a reasonable prediction, and Goldman Sachs tells investors to buy gold. 
What happens in the real world (not the paper monopoly world) when demand soars and supply disappears? 
The paradigm shift I spoke about last year is unfolding before our eyes. Precious metals are likely to emerge from the global COVID-19 crisis as the premier asset for investors. 
If the title of this article is in any way disturbing or seems incorrect to you, then I sincerely recommend that you read it through carefully and completely. It was written for your benefit.
An analysis of the current volatility in the gold market, and what to expect going forward.
How much of last week’s smash in monetary metals prices was caused by what seems to be the primary explanation for it — selling required to meet margin requirements for positions in other markets that were falling amid the worldwide virus panic?
Golds value remains inside yesterday’s trading range with the price at $1,470.80 down $15.70 after dipping to $1,465.60 with the ICE rally high at $1,519.30. Silver is still leading the declines with the trade at $12.150, down 66.10 cents and at its low of $12.11 with the ICE high to beat at $13.230. The new quarter’s US Dollar trade (June) now has a value of 99.205, up 105.3 points after reaching up to 99.395 with the low at 98.105. Of course all this happened already, before 5am pst, the Comex open, the London close, after 
Silver is getting crushed in the pandemic-driven flight to safety — which might have created one of those blood-in-the-streets opportunities that contrarian investors dream about. 
There is no doubt, if stocks don’t stage a turnaround soon, the coronavirus could bring the U.S. economy to its knees.
With the spread of the Global Contagion, the demand for physical precious metals has increased significantly. According to the U.S. Mint’s newest update, another million Silver Eagles were sold over the past two days. 
Breaking News: The DOW rose 455 for the week ending March 6. It fell 3,583 the previous week. Gold rose $105 and silver rose $0.87 for the week.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold is immune to the effects of the coronavirus, the Fed is once again driving a flurry of gains in the gold market, and the Royal Mint of Britain issues various unique gold coins and bars ahead of new James Bond movie premiere. 
This is it!
The big news this week was the drop in the prices of the metals (though we believe that it is the dollar which is going up), $57 and $1.81 respectively.
During last week’s Coronavirus market sell-off, 
Not long ago, the idea of gold and silver market manipulation was considered the realm of “conspiracy theory”. Alternative economists and precious metals investors were often accused of “wild imagination” or bitterness when it came to long periods of stagnation in the market. Despite a considerable amount of evidence to the contrary, our suspicions were not being taken seriously.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold’s losses alongside stocks are an expected result of the coronavirus panic selloff, expert sees the virus as the last straw needed to push gold to $2,000, Goldman raises its gold price forecast as the pandemic takes its toll.
The coronavirus crisis is perhaps the real “Black Swan” that no one saw coming. While the virus pulled the trigger on the loaded weapon aimed at the stock market, it’s not the cause of the 2nd fastest 10% decline in the history of stock market. Using “as adjusted” GAAP accounting applied to the current trailing 12-month SPX earnings to make them comparable to the GAAP standards applied to 1999 earnings, this was the most overvalued stock market in U.S. history. While Fed officials and Wall Street story-tellers rejected the notion that the stock market was in a bubble, this table from Crescat Capital demonstrates the stock market’s extreme degree of overvaluation: 
The coronavirus continues to take its toll on the stock market.
Is there gold price manipulation going on? Absolutely. There’s no question about it. That’s not just an opinion.
It appears that the coronavirus, officially 
In his State of the Union victory lap, the president crowed that the “great American comeback” entered this decade with the longest bull run in American history. Unsaid is that in dancing to all time highs, the bond and stock markets are priced for perfection. In normal times, this would not be as dangerous as it is today. 
“Inflate or die” was coined by the legendary and extremely wise Richard Russell of Dow Theory Letters. He understood the necessity, as well as the curse, of permanent central bank money printing already at the beginning of this century. Richard died in 2015 so sadly he didn’t live to see how right he was. 
Gold cannot lose this year.
As we write, silver is down 3.4%, one of its more volatile days.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold soars on the threat of a possible pandemic, the yellow metal is the place you want to be in right now, and gold and silver are looking like 2020’s top bets.
Germans, like Indians and Chinese, love their gold - although their reasons for buying and keeping bullion are somewhat different. 
JACKSON, Miss. (Jan. 21, 2020) – A bill introduced in the Mississippi Senate would exempt gold and silver bullion from the state sales tax. Enactment of this legislation would eliminate one barrier to using gold and silver in everyday transactions, a foundational step for people to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money. 
I sent 
Very few people understand the tremendous hidden value in every silver coin in the world. Unfortunately, most precious metals investors do not realize the critical factor in acquiring and holding the physical silver investment.
Don't expect the US to expect it...
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: CIO of world’s best-performing fund sees gold hitting $2,000, gold is still the go-to haven asset, and Victorian-era £5 gold coin fetches nearly $700,000 at an auction.
Day in and day out, the global financial system continues to cannibalize itself. Clear evidence of this points to the massive “Artificial” liquidity and asset purchase policy instituted by the Federal Reserve. While financial analysts provided several theories why the Fed was forced to inject liquidity via the Repo Market and also purchase $60 billion a month in U.S. Treasuries, the real reason has to do with the falling quality of oil and its impact on the value of assets and collateral. 
There is always a lot more attention on gold than silver.
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Why strategists expect gold to form a new base around the $1,600 level, gold could reach $3,000 by 2025, and constant gold buying shows risk aversion in the stock market.
In 
A year ago, in my occasional free newsletter, Atlas Pulse, I upgraded gold – which was trading at $1,239 an ounce at that point – to “bull market” status for the first time since 2012.
I’m growing more confident that we’re on the cusp of a big move higher in the precious metals sector because of the Fed’s massive money printing. Also, because the money printing and near zero interest rates are visibly not stimulating economic growth, we’re at the point at which unless the Fed continues increasing the amount of money it puts into the system, the melt-up in the stock market is completely unsustainable. 
In 1973, planes loaded with 35 million ounces of silver flew to Switzerland.
Late last year, gold was stuck below $1,300 an ounce. There was a lot of fear in the market because we were only a couple of months removed from gold’s lowest price since 2016.
Yet another former precious metals trader from JPMorgan has been indicted for spoofing and price manipulation by the US Department of Justice. Between all the criminal guilty pleas and indictments to date, it begs the question – were there any precious metals traders at JPMorgan which weren’t engaged in illegal trading activities? From my close professional observation for more than a decade, I would be dumbfounded if any JPMorgan precious metals traders were on the up and up. Perhaps it might be more expedient for the Justice Department to list the traders at 
This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: How gold is standing out among other precious metals, gold prices likely to keep rising as demand intensifies, and Serbia buys nine tons of gold after the president’s crisis advice.
With the stock market surging higher, the market riggers likely do not have to lean as heavily on gold & silver, however, to get a rip roaring rally…
Additionally, gold is due for a price correction here…
