There was a seismic shift in the global financial money system last year when Russia was cut out of the SWIFT system. Because not only was Russian removed, but it served as a warning signal for other countries that they could potentially be next.

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire reports on the accelerating adoption of a gold benchmark price for silver and commodity trades between nations, while examining the main drivers behind the current gold price rally.

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While the mainstream financial media talks a lot about the latest news in the stock and bond world, there's usually little, if any coverage of the precious metals. Which made it somewhat eye opening to see CNBC talking about the dynamics in silver, where there was a...

The US government recently hit its $31.5 trillion debt limit after years of careening baseline spending on entitlements combined with emergency COVID-19 spending in the last few years to produce record-busting deficits.

It is time for our weekly show where we get an update on what is happening in the physical silver world, particularly in terms of premiums and product availability, and which has become a more important part of the market.

In the early weeks of 2023, the gold price has continued to rally, yet silver's price is now down on the year. Which has left many silver investors feeling confused as to what's going on, and why silver has not followed in tandem with gold as is often the case.

After a brutal 14-months bear market, Bitcoin prices reached an important low at 15,479 USD on November 21st, 2022. Since then, prices traded sideways for around six weeks. Over the last two weeks, however, Bitcoin exploded higher, reaching nearly 21,600 USD as of...

A weekly chart in our favorite metal shows that the price action in silver hasn't been this tight for this long since before silver squeeze.

Seemingly every day, there are news reports and political commentators repeating economic fallacies that should have been dead and buried long ago.

Current COT data supports overall higher silver prices. Cycle is up. Trend is up.

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of bonds over equities. VIX is now down and markets are up.

Retail sales and industrial production fell more than expected. With a recession on the horizon, silver may fly if the Fed stops the hikes!

Silver premiums went to some of the highest levels in history towards the end of 2022. Although in the end of the year, and into 2023 they've dropped to the lowest levels since 2020 reports Andy Schectman of Miles Franklin.

What a curious start to the year in COMEX Digital Gold and COMEX Digital Silver. The pair usually trade in tandem but, so far in 2023, prices have been moving in opposite directions. And it's not just price. As you'll see in this post, it's also sentiment and...