Silver Editorials & Commentary

The Financial Repression Authority is joined by Richard Duncan, an esteemed author, economist, consultant and speaker. FRA Co-founder. Gordon T. Long discusses with Mr. Duncan the current Chinese situation and the ramifications being imposed on the global economy....

The broad stock market remained within a short-term consolidation on Wednesday, as investors reacted to the FOMC's Rate Decision release, among others. We continue to maintain our speculative short position (opened on June 1 at 2,093.94 - S&P500 index). However...

One of the oddest things in this increasingly odd world is the spread of negative interest rates everywhere but here. Why, when the dollar is generally seen as the premier safe haven currency, would Japan and much of Europe have government bonds -- and some...

Since the inception of the debt-based monetary system (with its fractional-reserve banking), the banks have been playing a nasty game of Russian roulette. The only reason that the system has not blown-up is because the relevant cycles have not adequately lined up to...

The event that will transform the Silver Market is when BIG MONEY finally moves into the sector in a BIG WAY. Even though the precious metals prices experienced new highs in 2011, this was due to only a small fraction of investor demand. The overwhelming majority...

Gold closed in New York at $1,283.90 on Monday. Then it slipped in Shanghai…then picked up again in London at the opening on Tuesday morning to over $1,280. The $: € moved from $1.1228 to $1.1268 overnight. The dollar index is standing at 94.46 down from 94.50.

There are numerous valid arguments for phasing out the Social Security System. These include the obvious, such as, since Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, meaning that it depends on revenue from current workers to pay for current retirees, it is a Ponzi...

The price of gold bumped up thirty bucks as silver rose about one buck. Is this liftoff—when the dollar falls sharply, and the price of each metal in dollar terms skyrockets? Is this the denouement when the gold bug does not get rich, because although his net worth...

After showing some negative divergence from long-term to near-term time frames, at the same time that it met a P&F projection, SPX had a two-day, 30-point decline which could be the start of a more important correction. However, confirmation will be needed to...

Cluff Gold (now Amaro), a gold mining concern focused on West African assets, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Samsung. Under the unusual agreement, the huge Seoul, South Korea based industrial company will be offering substantial funding to the...

The Good News is: The OEX (aka S&P 100, an index of 100 blue chip issues) closed at an all-time high last Wednesday. The Negatives: The market had a great week through Wednesday’s close. After that it deteriorated spectacularly. NYSE new highs fell from 275...

The 30-Year US Treasury Bond market has been trending up since 1981. This massive bull market is set to reach its conclusion next quarter if my analysis is correct. Let’s analyse the technicals of both price and yield of the 30-Year US T-Bond. We’ll begin with the...

Current investing model favors bonds over equities, therefore, investors should overweigh their portfolios with bonds over stocks for safety. Cash is also a position for those who are un-invested or under invested until this model favors equities again.

The theory was pretty straightforward: push interest rates down far enough -- in some cases to negative territory, where borrowers actually turn a profit on their debts. Subsequently, people will borrow money, spend it and growth will ensue.

As the June 23rd BREXIT (the UK-wide referendum to leave the EU) vote draws near, the polls indicate a close result. Those urging a vote for the UK to remain inside the EU are suggesting increasingly dire economic consequences that would follow a YES vote by the...

The broad stock market slightly extended its short-term uptrend on Wednesday, as the S&P500 index got closer to its last year's all-time high of 2134.72. There have been no confirmed negative signals so far. However, we can see technical overbought conditions...

Something very interesting took place in the COMEX Registered silver inventories last week. There were two very large transfers of silver from the Registered to the Eligible category. What makes these two large withdrawals so interesting is that the Registered...

The USDCAD looks just about ready to head back up, which will be the next leg of the bear rally that commenced in early May 2016. Let's check out the action using the weekly and daily charts.

First Majestic Silver has been one of the world’s best-performing stocks in 2016, nearly quintupling at best in recent months. This outstanding Canadian silver miner runs extensive operations in Mexico, and is one of this metal’s purest producers. Despite its...

In this article, we ask the key question on precious metals: when will silver outperform gold in price? Our answer is: right now in the process. We will show this by comparing gold and silver from the cycle analysis perspective. We will analyze the respective...

I don’t write the title because the precious metals took off Friday on the bad jobs report. Far from it. That is what gold is supposed to do under such circumstances as its fundamentals got a boost and the perceptions of a hawkish Fed got repelled.

More reasons why owning gold and silver should be at the top of everyone’s financial survival list, current elite-abused [abandoned] supply/demand considerations aside not being a part of the reasons where reason is utterly absent. Politicians have run amok. The...

Current investing model favors bonds over equities, therefore, investors should overweigh their portfolios with bonds over stocks for safety. Cash is also a position for those who are un-invested or under invested until this model favors equities again.

With new highs rising and the secondaries outperforming the blue chips, the market is in pretty good shape. I expect the major averages to be higher on Friday June 10 than they were on Friday June 3.

The reason I believe the markets have been manipulated is because Wall Street and the US government have bamboozled Americans as well other governments across the world by funneling their citizens money or funds into paper assets since the 1980’s. This is where the...

Well, we got our short covering rally in the broad market after non-confirmation of the recent low by various indicators, and now the market has risen up into shorting territory again. There was apparently a sudden 10% drop in China last night, which, although it...

The physical silver bullion market is seeing a “perfect storm” brewing according to an article replete with some recent videos about the silver market by Rory Hall of the precious metals website, The Daily Coin.

If you had told individuals before 2009 that we would be living in a negative rate environment in the near future, most would have treated you like a lunatic that just escaped from Ward 12. Fast forward a few years and voilà, bankers all over the world are...

Global investors snapped up a record 89.6 million one ounce silver coins in 2015, according to USAGOLD’s annual survey of global bullion coin sales. The strong 2015 showing follows an equally impressive 2014 for silver coins at 77.9 million ounces and 2013 at 85.4...

The silver price is set to surge 800% or “nine fold” in the coming years due to global industrial and technological demand, the “gadget boom” and tight supplies according to a leading mining executive, of First Majestic Silver Corporation.

Most Central Bank watchers know that our Federal Reserve has a dual mandate of stable prices in the context of maximum employment. But its use of the words “stable and maximum” is somewhat misleading. For instance, one would assume that “stable” inflation would lead...

One of the biggest buzz-terms of the falsetto, faux recovery has been ‘escape velocity’. If there are any NASA engineers left, they can correct me, but I believe the term was used in physics or perhaps rocket science to describe the velocity an object must reach to...

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The good news is: The market turned sharply upward last week. New lows declined sharply on both the NYSE and NASDAQ and the secondaries were stronger than the blue chips. The Negatives: As far as new highs and new lows are concerned, the NASDAQ and NYSE have been...

It's unclear what China was thinking when it was borrowed all those trillions to quadruple its capacity to make steel, cement and other basic industrial products. There's no record of it checking in with the other countries that have such industries to see if a...

Royal Canadian Mint just published its Q1 2016 Report…and the silver bullion coin sales figures were stunning to say the least. Not only did sales of Canadian Silver Maple Leafs surpass its previous record during the third quarter last year, it did so by a wide...

Regulations are nearly always introduced with the best intentions. In financial services, they aim to stop unscrupulous brokers and banks from ripping off the public through bad practices. Manufacturers are banned from making products which are dangerous to children...

This picture of one port tells a major story: Tankers are running circles around the Chinese port of Qingdao. One ship has been carving circles in the water for twenty days, waiting for a chance to offload at any one of several “teapot” (small) refineries in the...

The news unfortunately just keeps getting worse for customers and creditors of Northwest Territorial Mint. The prominent bullion dealer located near Seattle, Washington filed for bankruptcy court protection at the end of March. The losses of customers who never...

Last week I was looking for a big drop for the gold complex into May 19. We got a huge drop, but not the drop I was looking for. It seems gold is working out a 25-week low, while GDX is trying to run 21 weeks to its low. This would place the final washout somewhere...