The performance of Apple shares has been a reliable harbinger of where greed and hubris would take this seemingly invincible bull market next. Apple is the biggest-cap stock of them all, worth $2.5 trillion, and it has increasingly become a sure thing for...

Gold and silver markets continue to gather upside momentum as inflation pressures spread throughout the economy.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth.

“When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed...

Many of the base/industrial metals have been surging of late, and copper appears to be next. What impact, if any, can we eventually expect this to have on the price of COMEX silver?

Stocks prices got even higher yesterday, as investors reacted to corporate earnings releases. Will the S&P 500 reach the new record high?

There was an early morning rally in the #silver market on Tuesday following Monday’s news that even Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell is now being accused of insider trading by front-running the Fed’s own policy actions.

Silver purchased in retail forms tends to be held for long periods of time, often sometimes over a lifetime and passed on to heirs. To some extent that’s because of the rather few opportunities silver investors have had to cash in at high-enough prices. While silver...

Here in the US, prices are rising, packages are shrinking and shelves are emptying. This is annoying, but it’s not (yet) the stuff of revolutions.

The 23rd anniversary of the Greenspan Fed's emergency rate cut on October 15, 1998 went unnoticed by markets and the financial media.  This is remarkable because this emergency rate cut laid the basis for everything that came after it; namely the generation of an...

Many years ago, when I was a rookie in the slash-and-burn wars of the 1970’s Canadian investment industry, I befriended a man that would turn out to have an entire chapter written about him in Peter C. Newman’s best-selling book about the “Who’s Who” of Canadian...

The debate continues but not much has been said that clarifies the issue for ordinary investors. What follows in this article should help. Inflation is the debasement of money by government and central banks. The Federal Reserve and all central banks practice...

Silver has moved in tandem with the CRB for most of the last fifty years. The initial rally in the CRB and silver from the oversold lows in March 2020 was impressive.

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. A big week for precious metals markets as inflation pressures push consumer prices to painful new heights.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth.