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07.23.19- Goldfinger, Silver And Gold
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07.22.19- The Real Potential For Silver Is $840/oz
Investors today have Hobson’s Choice. But they still don’t understand the options open to them. Thomas Hobson had a livery stable of 40 horses in Cambridge in the 16th-17th centuries. But customers only had a choice of one horse. They could either take the one nearest the door or none at all. Read More |
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07.20.19- The Gold Rush Heats Up
As holders of promissory notes issued by sovereigns and companies watch the real value of their savings drain away amid central bankers’ efforts to kick-start growth, the allure of one of the oldest investment assets has become ever stronger. These five charts show just how popular gold has become -- and how closely it’s linked to the downward spiral in yields. Read More |
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07.19.19- Silver Is Going Higher Regardless Of JP Morgan Or China
One of the finest books ever written on investing was “The Battle for Investment Survival,” by Gerald M. Loeb, the provider of today’s quote and a true legend in the distant, long-forgotten world of free market capitalism. Also credited with “Put all of your eggs in one basket and watch the basket,” it was an obvious slap-in-the-face to those who eat, drink and breathe the diversification mantra. Read More |
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07.18.19- Silver Price Forecast: Targeting $20 in 2019, $50 During 2020 and $169 by 2025
Gold outperformed silver by a wide margin during the first half of 2019. While gold was up 8%, silver actually fell nearly 2%. This pushed the gold/silver ratio to a 26-year high near 94, which is more than 50% higher than the average ratio over the past few decades. Silver had become significantly undervalued relative to the price of gold, hitting this extremity just a few weeks ago. But that all changed this week. Read More |
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07.17.19- Will the Multi-Polar World be
Russia has led the charge on central bank gold buying, having increased its official holdings from 400.3 tonnes in Q1 of 2007 to 2168.3 tonnes as of the end of Q1 2019. That’s a 442% increase in gold reserves.Read More |
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07.16.19- THE SILVER PRICE: Setting Up For A Breakout?
So, the BIG QUESTION many precious metals investors are asking, “Is silver going to follow gold’s move higher?” And, in several price trends in the past, silver does follow gold higher but also outperforms the yellow metal in the later stage. Read More |
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07.15.19- Gold is for Freedom and Benefit
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07.13.19- A whale is accumulating silver futures
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07.12.19- Deliberately Looking Away
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07.11.19- Gold Will Rise Even If The Fed Doesn't Cut Interest Rates
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07.10.19- The Only Way To Avert Economic Armageddon Is To Transition To The Gold Standard
We have been writing on the flaws in GDP: that it is no measure of the economy, because it looks only at cash and not the balance sheet, and that there are positive feedback loops. “OK, Mr. Smarty Pants,” you’re thinking “if GDP is not a good measure of the economy, then what is?!” Read More |
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07.09.19- Trump’s Call for a More Dovish Fed Gives Gold More Room to Grow
After many years of hawkish policies, the Federal Reserve’s intense turnaround appears to have taken the markets aback. In a matter of weeks, Fed officials went from reassuring investors that the economy is going strong to hinting towards prolonged monetary easing. Read More |
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07.08.19- A Tale of Three Cities
City One: Debtapolis In this fictional world a financial genius and his offspring executed a brilliant plan over several centuries.
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07.06.19- Here's Why Gold Has Been Used As Money For Thousands Of Years
However, gold also possesses elemental properties that has made it an ideal metal for money throughout history. Read More |
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07.05.19- 3 Metallic Amigos: AU, AG & CU
Gold is testing the high today after not even pulling a 38% Fib retrace. A real bull market launch may not pull back to a nice neat support/retrace level (38%, 50%) but that does qualify as a test of the big picture breakout at 1378, which has for years now been our (NFTRH) Bull/Bear line of demarcation. As long as that holds up, gold is in a bull market. Can it be making a very short-term double top? Ah, sure. But it can also be ready to rip higher. Point is, gold is not yet beyond a pullback potential to the 1350-1375 area but man, it’s bullish. Read More |
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07.04.19- The Patriotic and Moral Imperative for Owning Gold and Silver
Remember when you learned those words? It was back when everything was simple. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, the circulation manager of the Boston based "The Youth's Companion" magazine. The end of the Nineteenth Century was a much simpler time. The world was a much simpler place. It is not so simple anymore. When we recite those seemingly patriotic words, what are we really pledging our allegiance to? To the flag? To the United States? To the Republic for which it stands? Read More |
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07.03.19- Spokesmodels Left Speechless -
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07.02.19- Gold Receives Bullish Outlook From Anti-Dollar Trade
Anti-Dollar Trade Reinforcing Gold’s Bullish Outlook Over the past two weeks gold was posting its best run in over six years. While the metal’s outperformance is generally tied to a weakening dollar, Mark McCormick, a foreign exchange strategist at TD Securities, believes other currencies are also playing a major role in gold’s rise. Read More |
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07.01.19- Gold: BOOM Goes The Dynamite
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06.29.19- Time for an International Gold Reset
In 1913: A corrupt congress created the Federal Reserve and reset gold’s status. Paper currency units (bad money) eventually drove gold (good money) out of the financial system. Read More |
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06.28.19- Gold At Risk Of A Sharp Pullback Before Higher Again
At the same time, the Swaps (aka the “Banks”) have increased their net short position from 37k to 122k, or 85k contracts. This means that a full 88% of the increase in open interest has gone straight to the Banks’ net short position. Read More |
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06.27.19- On the Source of Authority
From the dawn of History and up until relatively recent times, humanity was governed by kings whose will was law; kings were supported by priesthoods who affirmed that the royal power was divinely instituted. Thus, kings were regularly regarded by their subjects as semi-gods. Read More |
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06.26.19- Silver Prices – The Next Five Years
Breaking News: COMEX paper gold contracts closed on Friday, June 21, at $1,400.10, up from $1,274 on May 22. Silver closed at $15.29, up from $14.41 on May 29. The S&P 500 Index hit a new all-time high on June 20. Gold closed at its highest price since 2013. What Happens Now?
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06.25.18- If History Still Matters, Silver Is Poised For A Huge Move
The gold/silver ratio – that is, how many ounces of silver it takes to buy an ounce of gold – has bounced all over the place since the 1960s. But whenever it’s gotten extremely high – say above 80 – silver outperformed gold, sometimes dramatically. Read More |
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06.24.19- Gold Price has Finally Broken Through a Key 5 Year Resistance Level
If gold closes above $1,400 by the end of the month, it could be setting the stage for another large bull market. Read More |
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06.22.19- Why is JPMorgan Above the Law?
JPMorgan is the largest and most important bank in the US and many would consider its CEO, Jamie Dimon, to be not only the most respected voice in banking, but in the corporate world as a whole. Given its high profile, JPMorgan is closely monitored and analyzed. Despite this coverage, very few know that JPMorgan is the dominant force in silver and gold markets. Yet public data demonstrate that JPMorgan has come to dominate the derivatives and physical sides of silver and gold. Read More |
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06.21.19- Sharps Pixley: The Gold Train Is Leaving The Station
As things start to spiral one’s mind turns to wealth protection and the option to move savings into gold. Hell, gold is already at an all-time high in Turkish Lira terms - gold has anticipated things and moved ahead of events in a stealth rally. He decides to hold off - who would buy at a record high … and then things worsen and correspondingly gold accelerates away. The train has left the station and he is locked into watching his savings and other assets dissolve as inflation soared to over 20% … and gold in Lira goes through the roof. Read More |
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06.20.19- How To Buy Gold For $3 An Ounce
Gold is trading at over $1,342 an ounce right now. So imagine buying it for $2-$3 an ounce instead. When Wall Street goes bargain hunting, it’s looking for discount gold. Read More |
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06.19.19- Gold Seen as Winner as Trade War Sees No End in Sight
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06.18.19- Why Junk Silver?
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06.17.19- Thucydides Trap and gold
The Thucydides Trap (pronounced “thu”, like you have a heavy lisp + sid + idees) is a term invented by Graham Allison, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Alison has been saying since 2015 that war between a rising power, China, and an established power, the United States, is inevitable, based on historical examples. The argument is fleshed out in his book, 'Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’sTrap?' Read More |
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06.15.19- Precious Metals:
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06.14.19- Gold Rips Higher While Oil Plummets
This signal doesn’t appear often. We’ve only seen it three other times since the 1980s. The first two times were in 1999, only months before the dot-com bubble popped. The third time was in 2008… just as the U.S. economy was entering its worst downturn since the Great Depression. Read More |
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06.13.19- 8 Reasons a Huge Gold Mania
I’m not talking about a garden-variety cyclical gold bull market, but rather one of the biggest gold manias in history. This gold mania will be riding the wave of an incredibly powerful trend… the re-monetization of gold. The last time the international monetary system experienced a paradigm shift of this magnitude was in 1971. Then, the dollar price of gold skyrocketed over 2,300%. Read More |
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06.12.19- Gold Has Out-Performed U.S. Dollar for Nearly 50 Years
Gold has Beaten U.S. Dollar for Nearly 50 Years As gold broke out of its rut to reach a three-month high in a week’s time, analysts at Degussa have offered a broader perspective on the metal’s performance over the previous decades. While few could argue the point that gold is currently handily beating the greenback for nearly 50 years. Read More |
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06.11.19- Is the Gold/Silver Ratio Headed to 100? Three Questions to Answer
While no one really knows the answer to that question, there are hints that can tell us when things might shift. And just how big that shift might be. Let’s look at some history and some data and see what it tells us… Read More |
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06.10.19- Gold Surges Near Breakout
Gold has largely flown under traders’ radars this year, mostly drowning in apathy. Actually this unique asset had a strong start, climbing 4.6% year-to-date by mid-February to hit $1341. While merely a 10.1-month high, gold was close to a major bull-market breakout. For several years now, gold has faced stiff resistance around $1350. It has repelled gold multiple times, looking like an impregnable Maginot Line. Read More |
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06.08.19- Could Gold Rally Above $3750
Now we ask you to review these findings and ask yourself the same question. What would it take for Gold to rally above $3750 (over 200% from current levels) and why do you believe it is possible? Read More |
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06.07.19- Gold Tests Resistance – Again. Will The Sixth Time Be The Charm?
It looks like fundamentals, including the Fed’s capitulation to choppy stock markets and trade-war related economic uncertainties, are trumping gold’s usual seasonality (strong in spring, weak in summer) at the moment. And those issues aren’t abating: Recent headlines paint a picture of an increasingly scary world: Read More |
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06.06.19- This week should be
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06.05.19- Sorry Permabulls, It’s Not Different This Time – Got Gold?
The shelf-life of financial topics is about as long as the lifespan of a mayfly (about 24 hours). Several months ago, a debate raged about the significance of the inverted yield curve (short term rates are higher than longer term rates). Most perma-bull pundits who populate mass financial media advised their minions to ignore the yield inversion because “it’s different this time.” Read More |
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06.04.19- Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Sends Gold Prices Climbing
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06.03.19- Silver – Eight Years Later
Old news! As they say, “Wash, rinse and repeat.” Gold and silver prices fell hard since their 2011 highs, while central banks levitated the S&P 500 Index, most stocks, and bonds with massive infusions of cheap debt. Read More |
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06.01.19- When (Not If) Silver Has
As if on cue, BTC began an epic upside run, easily slicing through his initial target! Following an $8,600 print, the price cratered to $6,600, then back to... $8,400! Who knows where it will be when you read this, but I suggest that there is something important to be learned here… Read More |
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05.31.19- Gold in the Age of Eroding Trust
In front of you, dear reader, lies the 13th edition of our In Gold We Trust report.1 It’s a special edition. Never before have we invested so much time, energy, money and passion into this report. Never before has the team for the report been so large. And never before have we analyzed such a broad spectrum of topics. For the first time, we are publishing the In Gold We Trust report in China, for a market that is becoming increasingly important for us and for the gold industry. Read More |
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05.30.19- Silver – Eight Years Later
Old news! As they say, “Wash, rinse and repeat.” Gold and silver prices fell hard since their 2011 highs, while central banks levitated the S&P 500 Index, most stocks & bonds with massive infusions ofdebt. Central banks also purchased stocks and bonds. Read More |
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05.29.19- The best ways to invest in gold
I’m not going to make projections about the price – whether it’s going to go up or down. Instead we’re going to look at the cost of buying and selling gold. How to buy gold on the cheap What’s the easiest, cheapest way to buy gold? Read More |
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05.28.19- Without Gold The Wealthy
The Sunday Times in the UK just published its annual Rich List of the 1,000 wealthiest UK residents. There are today 151 UK billionaires with a total wealth of £771 billion. When the list was started in 1989 there were 9 billionaires. Read More |
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05.27.19- Gold Rally, Real or False
As we wrote yesterday and asked why wasn’t gold much higher when the equities were getting slammed? The answer is simple, gold is in a downtrend and Thursday’s rally is nothing more than another selling opportunity. Read More |
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05.25.19- Gold & Silver Prove Once Again, They Go Up When Most Everything Goes Down
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05.24.19- None Dare Call It Nonsense
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05.23.19- Ted Butler Interview: JPM, Silver Investors & More
Butler: I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t frustrated as well. But I have no doubt that silver will eventually prove its great worth. Cook: Does everything still depend on what JPMorgan does? Read More |
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05.22.19- "I'm Not a Gold Bug -
I’m reminded of it now because a very astute reader of mine just sent me a copy of a presentation on gold he recently delivered. His case was built on the systemic risks all investors in today’s financial world face, but few recognize. Read More |
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05.21.19- Bullion Banks Gearing-Up To Dump Gold One More Time
GOLD is looking increasingly bullish, and why shouldn’t it?
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05.20.19- Is the Trade War a Catalyst for Gold?
There has been little follow through since. This begs the question, will a trade war lead to a new bull market in precious metals? The short answer is yes if it leads to a downturn and Fed rate cuts. Read More |
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05.18.19- Why We Need Gold
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05.17.19- Coming Economic Collapse
More than 99.5% of world financial assets are invested in other things but gold. That makes gold one of the least desired asset classes on the planet. Most professional as well as private investors would never consider gold as part of their portfolio. Read More |
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05.16.19- Crazy Not! Much Higher Gold Prices
He shows the many reasons to own gold in the following “Time Bomb – Global Risk” graphic. Read More |
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05.15.19- Finally, Silver Prices May Have Bottomed, But What Happens Next?
“At ~$15, the silver price is close to levels not seen since 2015 and we see little downside risk at this level. Any future economic hiccups and market sell-offs are likely to encourage investors to look for safe havens and alternatives to traditional financial assets,” the report said. Read More |
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05.14.19- To Stack Or Not To Stack: What To Do When You Get To 1000 Ounces Of Silver & 5 Ounces Of Gold?
I’ve Been Helping My Members weather the economic mess for over 20 years. Now I invite you to join my growing circle of successful investors and the 15,000-plus members we’ve helped scattered over the globe and over 100,000+ free newsletter subscribers have read our weekly e-newsletter. Read More |
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05.13.19- Precious Metals Are Setting Up For A Major Rally While The Broader Markets Are Primed For A Crash
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05.11.19- What Is A Bigger Alchemists’ Dream: MMT Or Transmutation Into Gold?
Great news for all who oppose the House of Lannister’s rule in King’s Landing – the final season of the Game of Thrones has eventually began, so the status quo in Westeros will be certainly challenged. Read More |
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05.10.18- Just Introduced Federal Legislation Would Require FULL AUDIT Of America’s Gold Reserves
The Gold Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 2559) – backed by the Sound Money Defense League and government accountability advocates – directs the Comptroller of the United States to conduct a “full assay, inventory, and audit of all gold reserves, including any gold in ‘deep storage,’ of the United States at the place or places where such reserves are kept.” Read More |
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05.09.19- Moves In Gold And Silver Will Be
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05.08.19- Opportunity knocks!
We ran this article last week for subscribers and are releasing it for the public this week. (We will then also re-run an article done last summer regarding junk silver.) Currently an anomaly exists that only a couple years ago could not have been imagined. 10 years ago it would have been considered an impossibility! Back in 2010, when gold traded around $1,000 per ounce, “numismatic” pre-1933 gold coins traded for huge premiums. This happened because there was fear the Obama administration might go the route of FDR and confiscate bullion. That did not happen, but we did get to see a precursor to what might be should (when?) confiscation become a reality. Read More |
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05.07.19- Gold An Important Portfolio Diversifier as Demand Increases by 7%
Global Gold Demand Rises By 7% in Q1 2019In their analysis of market metrics for the first quarter of 2019, the World Gold Council took note of a 7% increase in global gold demand compared to the previous year, reports Kitco. Read More |
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05.06.19- What Knocked Me Off My Feet About Bart Chilton’s Last Interview
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05.04.19- The Nature of Money
As the editor of the Silver Bear Cafe, I try to focus on the ramifications of world events. I try to understand how what's going on now will affect your pocketbook next week, next month, next year. It is my sole intent to help you consider the possibilities which will, in turn, help you prepare for your financial future. One of the most important aspects of your financial survival concerns your understanding of the nature of money. If you believe that precious metals do not constitute "money", you may have been misled. If you have been misled, who misled you? Why? And "What's wrong with this picture"? Read More |
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05.03.19- How Gold Could Stage
Futures settled at $1,272 Thursday, leaving them down 0.7% on the year. They lost 1% in April, for their third consecutive monthly decline. The world’s largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, SPDR Gold Shares (ticker: GLD), is down 1.1% this year. “In 2019, capital has been flowing into stocks, U.S. Treasuries, and recently, the U.S. dollar,” says Taki Tsaklanos, founding author at financial analysis provider Investing Haven. After gold rose earlier this year, “investors bumped into gold’s bear market wall [of $1,375 an ounce]. This bear market wall proved to be too stubborn, so capital found its way to other defensive asset classes,” he adds. Read More |
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05.02.19- More Trouble in Mexico: Second Largest Silver Mine Suspended Operations
The blockade was started due to issues with the local community in regards to water supply concerns and problems with a trucking contractor. However, the protests by the local community over water rights have been going on ever since the Penasquito Mine started operations in 2010. Read More |
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05.01.19- Why US Dollar Strength is Long Term Catalyst for Gold
The standard inverse relationship has not been a perfect one in recent months or years. In the chart below we plot Gold, gold stocks and the US Dollar. Read More |
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04.30.19- The Debt Time Bomb:
What a bunch of nonsense. Have you ever heard the phrase, “What a gold mine!”? That common, age-old expression was actually a positive reference to having something very valuable. Notably, a gold mine that paid its owners very well by producing gold. Read More |
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04.29.19- China Holds the Gold
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04.27.19- Market Report: PMs steadier
The lowest prices were seen on Tuesday, when silver sold off to $14.75, a level not seen since Christmas, and gold down to $1266.30. Volumes picked up noticeably on that day. Tuesday is also the day of the Commitment of Traders figures, so no doubt it will register as very oversold. We will know more this evening when the numbers are released after trading hours. Read More |
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04.26.19- Will Stephen Moore
Who Are You, Mr. Moore? There are still two vacancies at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. It’s possible that Stephen Moore will fill one gap, which has provoked great controversy. Read More |
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04.25.19- Fat tailed put option
The above quote has been atop www.jsmineset.com for over 6 months now. Recently, several readers have asked “what does it mean and why has the quote remained for so long”? With financial markets bloated and ready to implode without notice, let’s look at this very important concept and then expand on it as you will see. Read More |
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04.24.19- Bankrupting Coffee Shops – Precious Metals Supply and Demand
Last week was holiday-shorted due to Good Friday (it’s not an official holiday in the US, but it is in the UK. And this week’s report is a day late due to Easter Monday). The price of gold dropped $15, but the price of silver rose ¢4. Perhaps silver traders got word that we are paying interest on silver, which gives people a reason to hold silver? J The discussion in the opening essay [which can be found here, ed.] is germane to the topic of the gold price. It should be clear that—whatever its virtues—gold will not protect you from the second cause of rising prices (i.e., regulation that destroys productive businesses, and thus supply of goods, and hence causes prices to rise). The price of gold does not go up just because the city bankrupts another coffee shop. Read More |
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04.23.19- Manipulation of Gold Price Is As Evil As WWII Expropriation
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04.22.19- 95% Stock Market Loss
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04.20.19- Why Gold Could Rise
At Dohmen Capital Research, we believe a good recent example is the 2008 global crisis. Gold plunged 31% as credit tightened, the crisis accelerated and a rush to cash from all assets commenced. That was painful for bulls who didn’t know that a credit crisis causes all assets to plunge. But it also created a great buying opportunity at the bottom. Here is the chart of the gold ETF during that time: Read More |
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04.19.19- Gold Still To React To U.S. Dollar Weakness, Watch For A Move Higher
The precious metal’s prices dropped 0.32% this week, with the biggest losses seen on Thursday, when the metal fell 1.5%. June Comex gold futures were last trading at $1,296, up 0.21% on the day. The good news in all of this has been gold finding its footing, with prices expected to rebound slightly next week amid lower trading value due to a series of public holidays around the world for Easter. Read More |
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04.18.19- World’s Largest Primary Silver Miner Production Plunges
Furthermore, while silver production fell the most at its Fresnillo Mine, the company also experienced declines at its Saucito and San Julian Mines. Total silver production at Fresnillo PLC dropped by 15% in the first quarter compared to the same quarter in 2018. Read More |
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04.17.19- Dollar Dominance Under Multiple, Converging Threats
That push has been accelerated by Washington’s use of the dollar as a weapon of financial warfare, including the application of sanctions. The U.S. uses the dollar to reward friends and punish enemies. Read More |
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04.16.19- Time to Become a Hindu
Hindus make up 80% of India’s population and, to Hindus, gold is sacred. Lakshmi (pictured above) is the Hindu goddess of purity, prosperity and good fortune. Her symbol is gold, so gold plays an important part in Hindu ceremonial occasions and Hindus donate large amounts of gold to the temples in Lakshmi’s name. Read More |
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04.15.19- Cartel Desperate To Keep Gold & Silver Prices Down Right Up Until The Collapse
Editor’s Note: This post is subjective opinion and possibly offensive. Do not continue reading if easily offended. Read More |
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04.13.19- Silver Shortages are Here and Gold Scarcity is Coming
This is of course nothing new for the US which has practised MMT for soon 70 years. Not since the early 1960s has the US had a real budget surplus. Europe has had socialist governments for decades, but for the US it is a relatively new phenomenon. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has now picked up the baton from Krugman, arguing that socialism and deficit spending is the solution to the US problems. Read More |
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04.12.19- Golden Straws In The Wind
One of those straws is Russia’s continuing accumulation of gold reserves. Financial pundits tell us that this is to avoid being beholden to the US dollar, and undoubtedly there is truth in it. But why gold? Here, the pundits are silent. There is an answer, and that is Russia understands in principal the virtues of sound money relative to possession of another country’s paper promises. Hence, they sell dollars and buy gold. Read More |
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04.11.19- Sound Money From a Biblical Perspective
In today’s world, it is obvious that the competition of ideas is under serious threat and with it, the much-needed discussions on how to deal with certain topics or try to understand the world we live in. That is particularly worrying, especially when one considers that the western world went through the process of Enlightenment roughly 200 years ago. In the words of Immanuel Kant: Read More |
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04.10.19- If Evidence Of Gold & Silver Manipulation Isn’t Enough For Charges, Maybe Govt Is The Perp?
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In commentary posted SilverSeek, silver market analyst Ted Butler reports confirmation from former Commodity Futures Trading Commission member Bart Chilton that JPMorganChase assumed from the collapsing investment bank Bear Stearns a massive short position in silver and has been allowed to manipulate the silver market for years right to the present day. Read More |
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04.09.19- "Maintain Stable Prices" - Who are the Central Banks Kidding?
Below is the Fed’s Incompetence Chart. Some people would use a sophisticated description like an inverted yield curve when the rate goes negative. But that doesn’t tell the real story. Read More |
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04.08.19- CFTC Deep State Insider exposes the Precious Metals Manipulation … Game On!
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04.06.19- Weekend Rant: Confirmation,
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04.05.19- Silver Bullion Set to Soar
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04.04.19- Will Basel III Send Gold to the Moon?
Will it? It would be easy to say—as with all of their other predictions of gold to infinity and beyond—“wait and see.” But where’s the fun in that? We’d rather look into the nature of the claim, how banks operate, and what the regulation actually says. Read More |
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04.03.19- Commerzbank Sees $1,400 Gold, $16.50 Silver By Year-End
Gold started the year strongly, nearly reaching $1,350 an ounce last month, helped by a U.S. Federal Reserve that made a dovish U-turn and now appears cautious about hiking interest rates again. However, the metal subsequently gave up much of its gains and was trading at $1,303.60 as of 8:20 a.m. EDT. Silver, which has followed gold up and back down, was at $15.35. Read More |
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04.02.19- ADL Predictions for the Price of Gold
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04.01.19- A Primer On How To Buy And Store
I'm always surprised by how few people understand the options for buying precious metals. Even the very affluent. I recently returned from a conference full of highly-qualified investors who "get" the economic risks we discuss here at PeakProsperity.com. And on multiple occasions, I was asked if I could demystify the purchasing process for folks who wanted to build a position in gold and silver. Read More |
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03.30.19- FORECAST: $1400 Gold in 2019
Morgan says we’re seeing stagflation. While the global economy is shrinking, prices continue to rise. The yield curve has inverted regarding the 3 Month and 10 Year Treasuries. This signals a recession, Morgan says. Read More |
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03.29.19- Yield Curve Has Inverted.
Red alert! Or, actually, a yield alert! After months of worries, the yield curve has finally inverted. Well, maybe not the whole yield curve, but one of its segment. As one can see in the chart below, the spread between US 10-year Treasury and 3-Month Treasury dived on Friday to its lowest since 2007. Read More |
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03.28.19- The Biggest Short And
Since its creation in 1913, and especially after WWII, the Fed has always been behind the curve. It is hard to believe that this is just incompetence. The recent change of policy hardly seems to be part of a plan but rather another reaction to events. Looking back at the Fed’s policy decisions, it is clear that virtually all are reactive rather than proactive. Read More |
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03.27.19- Crescat Capital Analyst Says Firm is Buying Gold and Selling Stocks
Buying Gold and Selling Stocks is the Trade of the Century Crescat Capital ranks as one of the best-performing funds of 2018, boasting a return of as much as 41% through one of its arms over the course of the year. The firm is no stranger to equities and has frequently and prominently included them as part of their strategy. Read More |
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03.26.19- Only Gold Stands Against
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03.25.19- The Hidden Profit Inside Silver Eagles
But what if I told you that when selling certain types of coins, you could gain another layer of profit when you sell? A little leverage on the spot price when it rises. It’s entirely possible. Here’s how… Read More |
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03.23.19- On The Hot Seat...
Ted Butler:That’s the main reason my arguments have never caught on in a big way. Nobody wants to be associated with a conspiracy. However, I draw my conclusion from government data like the Commitment of Traders report and the Bank Participation report. There’s nothing conspiratorial about the data and my conclusions are factual. Read More |
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03.22.19- Gold - Preparing For The Next Move
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03.21.19- IT’S OFFICIAL; U.S. Silver Production The Lowest In More Than 70 Years
Unfortunately, there just aren’t too many economic silver deposits in the United States, especially with the high level of environmental and governmental regulations. Read More |
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03.20.19- The Road Ahead for the Dollar
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03.19.19- Palladium Panic-Bid To Record Highs As Putin Corners Market
Even as auto sales in key markets slow around the world, Bloomberg reports that demand for the metal - mainly used in auto catalytic-converters in gasoline vehicles - has remained robust as manufacturers scramble to get hold of palladium to meet more stringent emissions controls, particularly in China. Palladium has become the precious-est of precious metals. Read More |
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03.18.19- Jay Taylor: Under “Basel III” Rules,
And not surprisingly, the lion’s share of gold is flowing into central banks of countries that are in the sights of America’s killing machine—the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about in 1958. Read More |
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03.16.19- Bob Moriarty: Invest When You’re Terrified, Sell When You’re Pleased
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03.15.19- What Will You Be Holding When The Dollar Dies?
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03.14.19- 3 Things That Don’t Affect Price of Gold
To this point, Gold’s rallies have failed to make higher highs and higher lows because, although there has been improvement in fundamentals, the fundamentals have not turned bullish yet. The technical trigger will be Gold and gold stock outperformance of the stock market which will likely precede the fundamental catalyst of Fed rate cuts. The start of rate cuts will indicate declining real interest rates which is the key driver of bull markets in Gold. Read More |
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03.13.19- Precious Metals Analyst Says Gold’s Recent Dip Only Temporary
In a recent Seeking Alpha post, Metal Bulletin precious metals analyst Boris Mikanikrezai advised Americans not to look too deep into gold’s recent dip below $1,300. As Mikanikrezai explained, gold has too many strong upwards drivers to falter, and a pullback will merely act as a temporary consequence of selling pressure, says Kitco. Read More |
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03.12.19- Predictions for gold from a legendary natural resource investor
It’s when you get credit for a great quote, but no one really knows who said it first. If there’s any doubt, people’s go-to list is usually either Albert Einstein, Mark Twain or the former New York Yankees catcher, Yogi Berra. For example, there’s the quote, “predictions are hard, especially about the future,” which is often attributed to Berra. And “compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world,” attributed to Einstein. For Twain, pick a random quote, and people may give him the credit. Read More |
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03.11.19- Are You Ready for the
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03.09.19- Gold Could Reach $1,480 by 2020
Gold’s Technicals Will Bring the Metal to $1,480 in 2020 After a stellar run that saw gold all but erase its losses from the previous year, both new and old entries to the market have been left wondering: what’s next in store for the metal? Read More |
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03.08.19- Gold To Soar As Central Banks Try To Play God Again
What has changed is that the central banks are already turning the monetary spigots back on—all but the Fed. This morning the ECB announced new stimulus measures just two months after they supposedly tapered their QE program to zero. Think about that. They turned off the monetary spigots for a proverbial five minutes, German and EU economic data continue down the sinkhole along with inflation, and the ECB does a 180 back to QE and likely NIRP too (both of which clearly don’t work, but what else can they do?). This is the definition of a “Ponzi scheme”. Without increasing cash inflows, it collapses. That is the EU and global markets today. Read More |
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03.07.19- Gold And Silver Take The Stairs Higher And Elevator Lower- PGM’s Shine
Gold and silver had been taking the stairs higher The price of gold had been moving to the upside since mid-August when the yellow metal traded to a low at $116140. The most recent peak came on February 20, when gold reached $1344 per ounce on the continuous futures contract. The rally over six months took the price 15.7% higher, an impressive gain considering the decline last summer. Read More |
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03.06.19- Should we be investing in gold in 2019?
They say 10% of your wealth should be in precious metals… wonder will this apply to the Euromillions 6 and their €30 million each? John Lowe the Money Doctor gives the background. Read More |
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03.05.19- The Gold-Gambling Casino
Since that time, the world's use of gold as money has ceased, and as of today, gold's only function is as a means of saving wealth for future use. Today, the market for gold consists of two groups of individuals or economic entities: a) those who wish to acquire gold for the purpose of saving some wealth for future use, and b) those who hope to realize a profit in terms of paper money, by speculating in the gold market. Read More |
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03.04.19- Platinum vs. Palladium – What you need to know about the demand and price analysis
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03.02.19- How Smart Investors Will Profit From Rising Gold Prices
That’s why, for today’s guest essay, we’re featuring E.B. Tucker. As a board member of a gold royalty company, he knows a thing or two about owning and investing in gold. Below, E.B. explains why money is about to flow back into this sector… and shows there’s a better way to play the trend than just owning physical gold… Regular Diary readers will remember I wrote to you on Wednesday. I told you why I thought gold was headed to $1,500 this year. It’s currently trading at $1,330. Read More |
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03.01.19- Gold Price Forecast: A Warning Signal From The Far East
There have been solid fundamental reasons for gold’s run: primarily, the Federal Reserve last month hinted that it may not continue raising interest rates, as it had been assuring it would over the past three years. Such in turn has been considered a sign that the Fed may in fact reverse course and begin cutting rates later this year, which is generally considered negative for the value of the dollar and positive for precious metals. However, are these fundamentals enough to keep bullion’s run alive? Will this market narrative continue going forward? Read More |
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02.28.19- Bullish Sentiment Won’t Prevent a Breakout in Gold
Lesson learned. Turning to Gold, we find something similar during major breakouts in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In the chart below we plot Gold along with its net speculative position (as a percentage of open interest) and the widely followed daily sentiment index. Read More |
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02.27.19- U.S. Mint Sells Out Of 2018-2019 American Eagle Silver Coins
Last week, the U.S. Mint announced that it sold the last of its 2018-2019 batch of American Eagle Silver coins. According to Kitco, the U.S. Mint stated on Thursday that the series included 6 million units of one-ounce coins. In the announcement, the Mint blamed the shortage on market fluctuations and reassured investors that production of new coins is underway. Read More |
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92.25.19- Mr. Butler's Silver Newsletter
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02.25.19- The return to a gold exchange standard
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02.23.19- Gold – here’s why it just might be different this time
Our summer trade idea to buy with the aim of offloading in the winter for a 10%-20% gain has hit the target. As I write it stands at $1,344 an ounce. But now the bulls are coming out of the woodwork. Is it time to offload? Is this another false dawn or has this run got legs? These are the questions we ask in today’s Money Morning. Read More |
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02.22.19- Breaking: US Mint Sold Out of
The mint issued a statement late Thursday saying they had run out of last year’s and this year’s dated one-ounce coins. “Market fluctuations have resulted in a temporary sellout of 2018 and 2019 silver bullion. Production at the Mint’s West Point facility continues and when sales resume, silver bullion will be offered under allocation,” the mint said. Read More |
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02.21.19- The Coming Restoration of Silver
Currently, it is probably as far away (not time wise though) from being used as a monetary asset, as it has ever been. It is for this reason that silver is so under valued and such a must-buy. Read More |
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02.20.19- Gold Price Forecast: Will Gold Breakout Above $1360?
Gold is once again at a critical juncture just like last April. Will it tuck tail and run or finally breakout? I think we will know within the next few trading days. Below is our afternoon update for GDX. Precious Metal Investors have been beaten down trying to trade these markets over the last 3-5 years. Are investors expecting a breakout? I bet there are fewer bulls now than during last April's breakout attempt. If the masses aren't expecting it - then, a breakout is possible. Read More |
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02.19.10- Gold Could Regain Status as a True Global Currency
With a wobbly stock market, falling Treasury yields and rampant geopolitical strife, the focus on gold has been intense as of late. The metal’s price gains reflect this, as gold recently proved able to hold above a key resistance level, which holds bullish implications. Read More |
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02.18.19- Reason #437 to own gold: The Fed wants Negative Interest Rates
After cutting interest rates to nearly zero following the 2008 crisis, the Federal Reserve starting raising rates near the end of 2015 (from 0.25% to 2.5% today). Following the most recent hike in December 2018, Chairman Powell seemed hell bent on further tightening, saying “some further gradual increases” were in the cards. Read More |
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02.16.19- David Morgan Explains Low Silver Price
In short, his answer was that the banks currently have the ability to make silver just about any price they want. Because the price-setting mechanism is traded in paper, rather than physical metal. Which is rather stunning and amazing in its own right, yet still simple enough to understand, and worth exploring further. Read More |
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02.15.19- How to Prevent the Government From Having Control Over Your Financial Life
“I know the cops are there.” The receptionist looked around. She didn’t know what the man on the phone was talking about. There were no cops in the lobby. Just a delivery man standing in front of her desk, trying to drop off a package. But the man on the phone was right. The cops were there. Three dozen of them, watching every exit in the building… plus an undercover FBI agent posing as the delivery man. He was carrying a package of 1,000 gold coins... worth $1.5 million. Read More |
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02.14.19- The Next Goals for Gold and Silver Prices
If you’ve been following along every week, then you’ll recall that we were quite adamant regarding a year-end 2018 and Q1 2019 price rally for both gold and silver. From the November lows, we projected a rally in COMEX gold to $1310-1330 and a rally in COMEX silver to $16.35. Both peaked on January 31, with COMEX gold hitting $1331 and COMEX silver reaching $16.20. If you’d like a refresher of what was projected, please see these links: Read More |
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02.13.19- Gold’s Surge Has Been Disguised
Over the past two decades, the commodity has actually seen a widespread, strong, and sustained value appreciation around the globe against 72 currencies, according to Ross Norman, CEO of London-based bullion broker Sharps Pixley. That basket of currencies includes developed countries such as Canada, Australia, and Japan, as well as emerging markets including Brazil, India, and Iran. “Using the dollar gold price, as most of us do, has disguised what is actually quite a powerful bull market,” Norman wrote in a note last week. Read More |
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02.12.19- Shiny happy reserves
Central banks bought 651.5 tonnes of gold in 2018, the second highest on record and up 74 percent from the year earlier, according to the World Gold Council. As in the past three years, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey were significant buyers, but were last year joined by the likes of Poland, Hungary and India. Read More |
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02.11.19- Secret Kept from Public: We’ve a Modern Day Gold Rush Going On Right Now!
As we take the time to either add to our positions, or as we think about starting a position during this latest pullback in gold & silver prices, it may be helpful to put some things into a fundamental perspective. Read More |
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02.09.19- The Next Gold Move Is Here
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02.08.19- Gold is back in fashion
Last year was not a happy one for investors in base metals. The GSCI Industrial Metals index slipped by around 15% from its year-high in June, and the gauge lost another 7% from mid-December to January. It may have bounced since, but don’t expect a sustained revival, says Capital Economics. Base metals prices are likely to weaken as the Chinese economy keeps slowing. The gold price rebound, however – the yellow metal is now above $1,300 for the first time since last summer – does look sustainable. Read More |
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02.07.19- A Bull Market To Eclipse All Bull Markets: When Gold Takes-Out $1400 It Probably Won’t Look Back
The Fed didn’t just fold on Wednesday, it crumpled, capitulated. A long time ago we had figured out that when push came to shove, this is what it would do. However, we thought that it would take a market crash to force it to change course, in order that it could use that as solid justification for a U-turn, instead of which it only took a crashlet, or the start of a crash. Read More |
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02.06.19- A Move Higher Than This Price Will Confirm The Gold Bull Market
This Will Confirm The Gold Bull Market Gold is moving closer to confirming a multi-year bull market per my long-term comparison. A decisive mover higher than the $1375 area would be confirmation of the bull. Below, is the updated long-term comparison: Read More |
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02.05.19- Silver Forecast: Shortage To Send Silver Prices Soaring Above $20 In 2019
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02.04.19- Why China Is Buying Gold Miners… And Why You Should Too
I regarded the man for a moment. His business card was written in Sino script, but it turned out he was an American who had set up shop in Hong Kong several years ago… And was now riding a tidal wave of money. I’d come to Hong Kong’s central business district for meetings on my new Brazil gold project. This was my fourth sit-down of the morning, and the ultra-high grades from my mine had caught this mysterious man’s eye. I knew my numbers were real. But I wasn’t sure about his. Read More |
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02.02.19- Silver Outperforming Gold
Despite a good finish, 2018 was a rough year for silver. Its price slumped 8.6%, way worse than gold’s -1.6% performance. And that still masks miserable intra-year action. At worst in mid-November, silver had plunged 17.3% year-to-date. That was 2.2x gold’s comparable loss, and at $13.99 silver languished at a major 2.8-year low. A soul-crushing 96% of its early-2016 bull market had been reversed and lost! Read More |
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02.01.19- Central Bank Gold Purchases Hit A Record In 2018
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01.31.19- Looking at Gold (and Silver) from the Third Side of the Coin
The correct answer is "three." The front (obverse), back (reverse) and… the edge! When you think about it, this makes sense. From this angle – uncommon to most observers – a person can begin to look more deeply at a given subject. From the edge, you are able by definition, to see "both sides" of the story. Read More |
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01.30.19- Crossing Borders with
Gold has always been in something of a twilight zone in that regard. It’s no longer officially considered money. So it’s usually regarded as just a commodity, like copper, lead, or zinc, for these purposes. The one-ounce Canadian Maple Leaf and US Eagle both say they’re worth $50 of currency. Read More |
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01.29.19- How to Position Yourself for
The January 14 Bloomberg headline above might not seem like much to you right away – but it immediately caught my attention. Here’s why… When an industry consolidates, investors can make a lot of money. Consolidation means buyouts – which usually come at a premium… And premiums boost stock prices higher. [For example, see my January 15 essay on mergers in the biotech sector.] Read More |
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01.28.19- If You Could Design A Perfect World
If so you’re in good – or at least numerous – company. So let’s sketch out such a world. Start by envisioning an America in which a handful of oligopolies have captured banking, media, healthcare and several other important industries, while a tiny group of super-rich neo-aristocrats control as much wealth as the 200 million least-rich citizens. Read More |
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01.26.19- Gold hits $1300 as dollar slumps
The sell-off has been blamed on a Wall Street Journal report, which suggests that the Fed could be taking a more cautious approach towards the shrinking its huge balance sheet. Read More |
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01.25.19- If You Understand Gold,
Investopedia states that “A gold bug is an individual who is very enthusiastic about gold as an investment and its prospects for significantly increasing in value.” Finally the Free Dictionary defines goldbug as “1. A person, especially an economist or politician, who supports the gold standard or 2. A person who believes in buying gold bullion as a personal investment or 3. A gold beetle.” Read More |
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01.24.19- Peering Over the Abyss
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01.23.19- Here's Why the Price of Palladium Just Zoomed Past Gold
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01.22.19- 3 Reasons Gold Market Could See
3 reasons why gold market could run with the bulls According to Reuters columnist Clyde Russell, the very same drivers that propelled gold to its all-time highs between 2008 and 2011 could be making a comeback. In a recent Newsmax article, Russell outlines the three main supporting factors that backed the crisis-driven price spike and why each of them have made a return. Read More |
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01.21.19- About That Government Silver Confiscation...
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01.19.19- “Real” Inflation Expected to Rise – Hedge Your Bets With Gold
In the U.S., even economists who favor the dollar gold price might be blind to an upcoming rise in the financial power of the precious metal. That, and real inflation may become a better gauge to see just how well this measuring stick is doing. Though revealing it at the federal level may send the market into a panic. Read More |
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01.18.19- Gold - The Only Safe Place
Anyone who wants to protect their wealth should not be invested in any of the bubble asset markets as I have stated in many articles. But to also avoid counterparty risk is a lot harder. Read More |
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01.17.19- 10 Reasons Why Silver Will Outshine Gold In 2019
Silver was thought of as a godlike metal in ancient times and was associated with magic. It was often used in ancient religious ceremonies. Silver has a very robust profile of uses, including: electronics, automotive, medicinal, coins and medals, photography, and green tech. Silver has a six thousand year history of use as money, longer than gold, from ancient Mesopotamia to the US Constitution. Silver's production profile suggests that while it gets more and more valuable in society, the lack of primary mines, lower ore grades, and mill output portends a much higher rise in the price than gold. Read More |
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01.16.19- Side-Step the Financial and Political Circus
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01.15.19-Will The Next Silver Rally Exceed
Because while the wait has been frustrating for many, that’s not to say it will not end without due reward. Especially when you think back about what actually happened in 2011, and consider some of the dynamics involved. Read More |
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01.14.19- Top Ten Trends Lead to Gold
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01.12.19- $2,000 Gold and the Secret Gold Rally Hiding in Plain Sight
Below is a chart which shows gold prices denominated in Canadian, Australian and U.S. dollars. You’ll notice gold went on a tear in all currencies from 2000 to 2012. However, after that, gold priced in U.S. dollars has under-performed. Gold priced in Canadian and Australian dollars has been very strong and is within striking distance of all-time highs. Read More |
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01.11.19- Questions Only the DOJ Can Get Answered
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01.10.19- Silver Outperforms Key Markets,
However, that’s exactly what took place in December. I stated, since the beginning of 2018, that when the markets really started to decline the precious metals would likely disconnect and rally higher. Over the past month, the silver price jumped by 10% and gold 5%, while most of the broader indexes, base metals, and energy declined. Read More |
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01.09.19- All We Have Left is to
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01.08.19- Surest Way to Overthrow Capitalism
Any manager will tell you that it’s easy. Just look at the profit and loss statement. Profit is so powerful an incentive for managers, that one could never persuade them to operate based on any other indicator. And it would work—if economists had done their jobs properly. Read More |
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01.07.19- Gold's Safety Factor Kicks Into High Gear
Gold is clearly benefiting from fears of a global economic slowdown and should continue to do so in the weeks ahead. The equity market is trying to bottom and the threat of falling stock prices isn’t an immediate concern among investors right now. Read More |
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01.05.19- Precious Metals Are Overbought....And That's Not A Bad Thing
The run has been strong enough that one could consider both precious metals to be 'overbought' using standard technical indicators such as RSI (at top of charts below) and MFI (at bottom of charts below): Read More |
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01.04.19- GOLD…For Whom The Bell Tolls
No one wants to be too early in calling a bottom in gold as your career would then be aligned with those slightly unhinged perma-bulls that have been calling for a massive move up in gold year after year - and been perma-wrong. Nor do you want to be too late - because that would make you, well plain dull. Read More |
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01.03.19- Gold Price Survey Predicts Prices Could Reach $1,500 in 2019
A recent poll by Kitco News had nearly 5,000 retail investors share their forecast for gold’s price in 2019. The largest group of respondents, numbering 1,640 participants or 34% of the overall pool, predicted that gold would push above $1,500 an ounce by the end of 2019. Read More |
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01.02.19- Doug Casey and Rick Rule on Gold-Backed Cryptos
Crisis Investing chief analyst Nick Giambruno says there is a new kind of digital asset that marries cryptocurrencies and gold into one powerful new financial tool: gold-backed cryptos. If you missed his essay on this idea back in October. Dozens of these gold-backed cryptos are now sprouting up. And the potential is enormous. Investing legends Casey Research founder Doug Casey and Rick Rule – president and CEO of Sprott U.S. Holdings – are both excited about the huge potential of gold-backed cryptos as well. Nick recently interviewed the two on the subject, and today and tomorrow I’m sharing their fascinating discussion…Read More |
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01.01.19- Gold Barrels Into 2019 as Growth Concerns Spur Demand for Haven
Spot bullion is holding near a six-month high after topping $1,280 an ounce, and the metal is set for the best monthly gain in almost two years. December’s rally has pared an annual decline, the first full-year loss since 2015. Read More |
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MMT is the socialists’ dream. It officially stands for Modern Monetary Theory but a more appropriate name would be More Money Theory. Because MMT is just a fancy name to justify more money printing, more deficits and more debts. Socialists love MMT, because for a sovereign nation, it justifies constantly living above your means.
Life in the world of gold bullion is full of mysteries. Each mystery is like a straw in the wind, which individually means little, but tempting us to speculate there’s a greater meaning behind it all. Yes, there is a far greater game in play, taking Kipling’s aphorism to a higher level.
Perhaps the underlying manipulator of gold & silver hasn’t been JP Morgan, but perhaps it has been the US government itself? Here’s why… 
One of the Fed’s three main objectives is to maintain stable prices. But they have never achieved that at least not since 1971. Again, the Fed did a volte face because they have a total inability to read the economy. The clueless Fed overslept and realised a few years too late that the US economy was overheating. So at the time when the economy was turning down, the Fed started to increase rates and implement QT (quantitative tightening). But now they are panicking and reversing policy again. I discussed 
The manipulated price of Gold is now trading at $1,291.50, down $2.80 with the low right here at $1,285.90 and the high to beat at $1,297.80. The manipulated price in Silver is now at $15.085, up 1/10th of a penny with the low right here at $15.065 with its high at $15.175. The US Dollar is also as flat as the precious metals with its trade at 96.92, down ½ of a 100th doing the exact opposite of the real money sector and is closer to the high at 96.94 than the low at 96.81. All this of course was done way before 5 am pst and before the Comex Open. Venezuela’s currency situation now has Gold priced at 12,898.86 Bolivar losing 23.97 overnight with Silver pegged at 150.661 Bolivar gaining .749. After yesterday’s EXPLOSIVE Ted Butler article and the facts he presented, it is our opinion these price swings in the emerging market currencies, are about to happen in the primary currencies (imo) because of the CFTC’s past hidden transgressions against the price of Silver and Gold. 
A recent interview with former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton nearly knocked me off my feet because it confirmed what I have alleged, starting more than 12 years ago. I’ll include the interview later, but first I will set the background of the subject and timeline in order put Chilton’s words into the proper perspective. The subject is JPMorgan’s manipulation of the silver market. The timeline is important because Chilton does misstate some facts that need to be corrected. I’m not a big fan of articles that include lots of links to past articles, but in this case it’s unavoidable. 
A number of commentators have predicted that the rules of the Basel III bank regulations will cause gold to skyrocket (no, this article is not about our view that gold does not go up, that it’s the dollar going down, that the lighthouse does not go up, it’s the sinking ship going down in the storm).
Commerzbank looks for gold to climb as high as $1,400 an ounce and silver to $16.50 before the end of 2019.
As we’ve been suggesting for months, expect continued moderate price weakness in Gold and Silver through most of April 2019 and possibly into early May 2019 before a strong price rally will setup and push Gold prices well above $1500 before the end of 2019. Our Adaptive Dynamic Learning predictive price modeling system has been calling for this move for many months (see the chart below). This advanced predictive price modeling system is suggesting that in May/June of 2019, we will likely see a bigger price rally unfold in Gold and Silver which may be paired with some type of geopolitical or global economic event. 
Silver expert David Morgan tells Silver Doctors he expects $1400 gold in 2019. Above that level, there’s not much resistance until $1600…
The yield curve followed suit of the Fed and also inverted. Inverted yield curve is a sign of an incoming recession, they say. However, what is the background of this yield inversion and how will gold react to its emerging story?
The astonishing Fed again proved the consistency of its inconsistency.
This week, 
Have the Ides of March been delayed in 2019? Normally the Ides of March just means the date March 15th. Shakespeare made the expression ominous as it was the day that Julius Caesar was murdered. Today in 2019, the 29th of March seems more significant than the 15th. Because on the 29th, we first have the conclusion of Brexit. Or maybe we don’t! Brexit has been a tortuous process that after 3 years has got nowhere. All it has done is to reveal the EU elite’s megalomania as well as their intransigence. It has also revealed the complete incompetence of the UK government as well as Mrs May’s total indecisiveness and her inability to distinguish between activity and achievement.
Most precious metals investors expect to reap a profit on their gold and silver as a result of higher spot prices. 
With the latest release by the USGS, silver production in the U.S. is now the lowest in more than 70 years. We have to go all the way back until the year after World War II ended to see U.S. silver production less than it was in 2018. While many reasons can be attributed to the decline, the main factors are falling ore grades and mine economics.
The original silver dollar, created at the birth of the United States, was based upon the silver Spanish “Pieces of Eight” minted at the Royal Mint in Mexico City, under Spanish rule at that time. This was a very widely used coin throughout the world. Because in its early years the US had no mint, the first US silver dollars were minted in Mexico, for the Revolutionary Government of the US. The US silver dollar contained .774 ounce of pure silver. 
Palladium soared to a new record high over $1600 an ounce overnight, up 27% year-to-date, as global supply concerns dominate slumping-auto-demand fears.
In 2018, central banks added nearly 23 million ounces of gold, up 74% from 2017. This is the highest annual purchase rate increase since 1971, and the second-highest rate in history. Russia was the biggest buyer.
In Energy & Gold’s latest conversation with 
It’s important to understand Gold’s fundamentals as it will help us confirm a new bull market.
Gold is set to shine in 2019 
Silver recently started outperforming gold again, a watershed event. For long years this white metal has mostly lagged the yellow one, relentlessly battering silver sentiment. But gold surging into year-end 2018 finally sparked some life into moribund silver. This is a bullish sign, as silver has soared in the past once rising prices reach critical mass in attracting new investment capital. Silver looks to be nearing that point again.
Official gold purchases reached a new record in 2018 as central banks continued to diversify away from the U.S. Dollar. Not only was 2018 a banner year for central bank gold purchases, but it was also the highest amount for more than five decades. Central banks haven’t bought this much gold in one year since Nixon ended the convertibility of the U.S. Dollar into gold in 1971. 
Two years ago at a conference during which I both presented and attended, a Keynote speaker, "Rich Dad" Robert Kiyosaki, introduced me to a different way of looking at things. He posed the question, "How many sides does a coin have?"
It’s well-known that you have to make a declaration if you physically transport $10,000 or more in cash or monetary instruments in or out of the US, or almost any other country; governments collude on these things, often informally.
Are you sick of your 
What if I were to tell you that gold is within earshot of all-time highs. You’d call me crazy. But I’m not.
