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.

Every fraud has its own demise built in. I have written this many times in the past, but I believe now that we are seeing a few examples of what I am talking about.

While copper went through its correction we have been noting each week in NFTRH that the Industrial Metals index, GYX had never aborted its bullish stance. Trends remained up and the index price held the SMA 50’s intermediate trend all the while copper (CPER, which...

As most can recall, in 2008, banks — the ones deemed “too big to fail” — were supported by one of the largest government bailouts in world history. Expect to see another banking crisis soon, but this time, it’ll be different.

“Robinhood is the poster boy for the craziest, most unregulated stock market era since 1929. That one ended in tears. This one will also.” – WallStreetOnParade.com

The September 26 election was an extremely close race, with the eyes of the world fixed upon the country as it tried to find the successor of Angela Merkel, one the most influential and longest-serving leaders in Europe.

The S&P 500 index extended its short-term decline yesterday. Is this a new downtrend or still just a correction following last week’s breakout?

Globally, the picture is similar to the situation in the United States, with slowing economic recoveries, rising inflation, and for the most part central banks—and governments—without dry powder to fight any slowing.