Silver Editorials & Commentary

“Big Beautiful Bill” can’t stop growing. This pile of pork that required two pallet boards and a forklift in order to move him from the House side of the Capitol building to the Senate, is getting fatter with each passing day. It may not even be possible, at this...

Despite the prevailing notion that the Federal Reserve has implemented “tight” monetary policy, the money supply has expanded by more than $600 billion since its low point in mid-2023.

Our cycle indicator is down. Speculation now at levels of previous tops. A pullback is in progress.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is up. Cycle is down. VIX is now up, caution is advised.

Here are today's videos and charts.

We have been here before. President Trump’s latest bashing of Fed Chair Powell isn’t without precedent. Chair Powell was the object of President Trump’s scorn during his first term, too.

You hear about gas prices every day. The President brags that per-gallon prices have dropped to $1.99 in some places. After paying over $4.00 here in Las Vegas, I wonder where he is talking about. He ran on bringing down prices at the pump, saying “drill baby drill...

We've been reporting on how the banks silver short position has been getting eerily close to the all-time record high set back in July of 2016. And while last week's COT report was delayed, it finally came out earlier this week.

While silver has been relatively quiet in recent weeks following its encouraging breakout, this doesn’t signal failure—rather, it looks like a healthy pause typical of low-volume summer trading.

Here are some of the latest news items concerning government and central bank stances on cryptocurrencies. Each item is followed by my comments…

“War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!” — I’ve had the classic Edwin Starr song running in my head ever since news of the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities broke Saturday evening.

Silver continues to look impressive on many hard down days for gold. Is it the new safe haven for metals market investors? What about the other white metals… platinum and palladium?

Money-supply growth rose year over year in April, marking the ninth month of growth in a row. As of April, the money supply appears to be continuing into a period of solid monetary growth coming out of a period of historically large swings in monetary trends from...

Our cycle indicator is UP. Speculation now at levels of previous tops. No overhead resistance.

Even as the Federal Reserve stood pat and held interest rates steady at between 4.25 and 4.5 percent, the Swiss central bank slashed its rates to zero and indicated that negative interest rates are a possibility.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is up. Cycle is down. VIX is now up, caution is advised.

Another day, another bearish confirmation. And I don’t even mean (not one but) two breakdown in silver that we see in today’s pre-market trading.

Powell & Company at the Federal Reserve sees an elevated stagflation threat. In response, they decided to do nothing. The Fed held interest rates steady between 4.25 and 4.5 percent. Rates have remained at that level since last December.

As you may know, the silver supply isn't currently in the best situation. The market's been running a deficit, and as today's guest Ian Harris mentions, we're on track for the industrial usage of silver to soon consume the entire mining supply. Which as you can...

There are few people in the world who have a more up close look to the money flows in the gold, silver, and mining equities markets than Rick Rule.

The silver price spiked back above the $37 level on Tuesday. And to recap what was driving the move, and also get you ready for today's Fed meeting, Vince Lanci digs in with this morning's Markets and Metals.

War cycles can end with a whimper or a boom. The 2021-2025 cycle still has about five months remaining. After failing to end the Ukraine war as promised, the US government is on the brink of being dragged into another war. This one features the warmongering...

After running a surplus in April thanks to tax day, the federal government was back to business as usual in May, spending massive amounts of money and charting another big budget deficit. 

Despite the somewhat furious silver rally over the past few weeks, silver analyst David Morgan thinks there's still a long way to go.

Our cycle indicator is UP. Speculation now at levels of previous tops. No overhead resistance.

Our benchmark SP500 is on long term BUY signal. Oil sector is on a long term SELL signal. Gold sector is on a long term BUY signal.

Did you know the Seminole Indians refused to conduct trade using paper money? True story. When doing business with white traders, the Seminoles insisted on barter or silver coinage.

It’s all eyes on Israel and Iran today, so let’s dive right into it. Key Drivers of the Current Crisis. For many, this might appear to be a surprise, but this escalation didn't emerge from a vacuum. The current crisis represents the culmination of months of...

Silver just surged above $35 for a major decade-plus secular breakout!  Seeing this long-slumbering asset famous for huge parabolic moonshots start running again is increasingly piquing traders’ interest.  After lagging gold’s mighty cyclical bull, historical...

In the latest Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey tackles two central themes roiling markets and politics: silver’s long-awaited breakout and the persistent failure of Congress to rein in spending, despite the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” 

A few days ago Bank of America raised their silver price target to $40. And now UBS just raised their target to $40 as well.

Silver broke out last Thursday, soaring through the seemingly impenetrable resistance at $35. The bloggersphere and social media were suddenly flooded with alerts and memes headlined “Hi Ho Silver!”

Right as the silver price is breaking out again, the banks have just increased their silver short position to the second highest level in history!

Over the past week we've experienced one of the more forceful silver rallies in quite some time. And Goldman Sachs says it's not done yet.

While accounting rules are intended to foster transparency and facilitate accurate financial reporting, they can also mask the true financial state of an organization.

Consumer borrowing unexpectedly surged in April as Americans tried to get ahead of potential price increases due to tariffs. This reversed a trend of declining consumer borrowing since the beginning of the year.

Now with the silver price over $36, we're starting to see more attention on the market. CNBC even went out of their way to churn out two full paragraphs in their article about how silver just broke $36 for the first time in 13 years.

Silver has cracked a key resistance level of $35 this week blasting above $36 late in the week. The last time we saw $36 silver was in 2011, when it was on its way to a record high near $50 an ounce.

In Silver Worth $150–$170? we laid out the long-term structural case. In Gold and Silver Shine as the Fed Cuts Rates, we noted the conditions for a breakout. And in Why I’m Watching Silver Like a Hawk and Gold Like a Central Banker, we warned that the gold-to-silver...

With silver set to blast to an all-time high (and stay there), the silver miners could go ballistic. Here are today's videos and charts.