Silver Editorials & Commentary

Only about a week ago, one reader scoffed at me because oil prices had stabilized (or so the market theory d’jour went). The big stock market crash I had predicted had run its course, he thought. The Saudis and Russia had entered a deal on oil, and Iran was coming...

According to the CME Groups recent release, Comex Registered Silver inventories reached an all-time low yesterday. The Registered Silver inventories are those stocks ready to be delivered into the market. Looking at the data put out by Sharlynx.com, Registered...

A Market crash can be viewed as a monumental tragedy or a splendid opportunity depending on what side of the fence you sit on. If you decided to pour all your money into the market close to the top, then it would be viewed as a tragic event. If on the other hand,...

On February 16th, The Washington Post printed the article, "It's time to kill the $100 bill." This came on the heels of a CNNMoney item, the day before, entitled "Death of the 500 euro bill getting closer." The former cited a recent Harvard Kennedy School working...

The major U.S. market indexes got off to their worst start in history this year, which is a very strong statement. Are other areas of the market waving red flags as well?

QE for the people was actually proposed by Jeremy Corbyn last year in Britain…and it did not sit too well with central bankers. Mark Carney Governor of the Bank England had the audacity to state that QE for the people would remove “fiscal discipline”. Central...

Recent talk on the Internet has been about Peak Gold, Peak Silver and a general view that the planet’s natural resources are in danger of sliding into an irreversible decline in production, which no amount of pricing or technology can reverse.

Charles Hugh Smith and Gordon T Long analyze, with 25 slides, the strength in the US Dollar and what we can likely expect going forward. Both see a strong dollar in the future as it becomes, more and more a flight to safety associated with failed monetary / fiscal...

In the early part of Precious Metal bullmarkets, gold performs better than silver, but in the latter part silver outperforms gold. The reason is that the early part of bullmarkets in the sector are characterized by more serious and sober value oriented investors,...

The BSE SENSEX is the Indian stock index, which trades out of Mumbai or Bombay for those with a sense of nostalgia. Price hit a low of 22600 on the 12th February 2016 which was just over 24% down from the 2015 high of 30024.

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 good news is: Last week new lows nearly disappeared again. The Negatives: In late January new lows all but disappeared returning a couple weeks later. They disappeared again last week. If the pattern repeats we should see another week of non-threatening...

European bank stocks are crashing. Deutsche Bank (DB), Germany’s largest bank, has plunged 36% this year. Its stock is at an all-time low. Credit Suisse (CS), a major Swiss bank, has plummeted 40% this year to its lowest level since 1991.

Q: Most people do not value silver and prefer to invest in bonds from big governments. Why? A: Most people would prefer to follow the herd because following the herd is comforting and often correct. Occasionally it is disastrous. I suspect the next few years...

The price movement of silver goes with that of gold. Gold price has a high volatility compared to the equity markets like DOW, but the silver price has an even higher volatility. While the Dow index prefers low volatility, i.e. DOW in counter correlation with the...

In the last 100 years, there were three significant silver rallies with the current one still in progress. Below is a long-term Gold/Silver Ratio chart showing those silver rallies: I have highlighted the periods during which the silver rallies occurred from bottom...

It is my privilege now to be joined by a man who needs little introduction, Marc Faber; editor and publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. Dr. Faber has frequently appeared on financial shows across the globe and he's a well-known Austrian school economist,...

Your average person probably doesn’t even notice. And they certainly don’t seem to care. But an incredibly nefarious plan to get rid of all cash is well in process. Your average person probably doesn’t even mind. Credit cards and smartphone payments are very...

European Banks holding European sovereign debt may have to take haircuts and be part of bail in plans should that same debt default, according to a plan being pursued by German government advisers. In another attempt to shelter German tax payers from the largess and...

The “devalue or die” currency wars are picking up steam; Japan’s central bankers are not alone when it comes to taking rates into negative territory. A host of European nations are now joining the bandwagon, and the latest victim is Sweden.

What will the price of silver be in 2021? You can find articles suggesting the price of silver will be over $1,000 and under $10. Perhaps this is the wrong question.

Again, we had another big drop in the dollar this week. No, we don’t mean against the dollar derivatives known as the euro, pound, etc. We mean by the only standard capable of measuring it: gold. The dollar fell 1.4 milligrams, to 25.1mg gold. Or, if you prefer, 0.1...

According the most recent official data, the US continues to import record volumes of silver. This is quite interesting because retail physical silver investment and industrial demand dropped off toward the end of the year.

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 good news is: There will be great opportunities when this decline is over. The Negatives: In the early years of this century housing was the only game going. The Fed kept the game going by keeping interest rates too low for too long. When housing finally...

The Federal Reserve Board finds itself back in a quandary of its own making. When Fed chair Janet Yellen pushed through an interest rate hike this past December, she confidently cited an "economy performing well and expected to continue to do so."

On the long term chart of the monthly closing price of silver, the price has bottomed at the end of the five-year bear market in January and has started to reverse higher into a new long term bull market.

As we're talking here, we're seeing a continuation of a modest but positive price action in the metals. A rally seems to be a longtime coming here. I'm sure it's a welcome sight to folks like you. We'll see if it ends the week on an up note, here, and if the rally...

Today’s guest on The Silver Investing And 47Forum Presentation Series is Andy Hoffman from MilesFranklin. Andy and I covered a range of PM topics… as well as bit of classic fiction. Andy, if you don’t know him, is the marketing director at MilesFranklin, a full...

Last Thursday (January 28) there was a flash crash on the price chart for silver. Here is a graph of the price action. If you read more about it, you will see that there was an irregularity around the silver fix. At the time, the spot price was around $14.40. The...

In folklore, a bullet cast from silver was the only weapon that was effective against werewolves, witches, and other monsters. But is silver a great way to currently slay the markets?

Silver finally managed to push through its upside resistance just above the $14.50 level this week and attracted some additional upside follow through as the US Dollar weakness brought on the macro trade ( Dollar down – BUY commodities).

Wow, did the US dollar move down this week! It dropped more than it has in quite a while. It fell 1.3mg gold, or 0.1g silver. Gold and silver bugs of course are excited, as they look at it as the prices of the metals going up $55 and 72 cents respectively. The...

The good news is: There will be great opportunities when this decline is over. The Negatives: New lows returned in threatening numbers last week.

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.

Is this economic recovery real? Well if you base your observations on how far the Dow has risen since the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and on the B.S statistics the BLS puts out, the answer would be a yes. However, if you do just a little cursory digging, you will...

The drumbeat of bad (and sometimes just plain weird) news has risen lately -- but today's batch stands out. Here's a small sampling: US jobless claims were higher than expected, and continue the rising trend of the past few weeks.

It wasn't that long ago that anyone could walk into their local community bank and purchase a one-year certificate of deposit with a risk free return of around 5 percent. In the late 1980's that same CD would have yielded more than 9 percent. Less than a decade...

The insidious nature of the war on cash derives not just from the hurdles governments place in the way of those who use cash, but also from the aura of suspicion that has begun to pervade private cash transactions.

I am not what many consider to be a Perma Gold Bull, but I do expect a 3rd phase of the 2000 Gold run to take place and end in a spectacular blow off top phase. That being the case, I also watch intently when we get these bear market lows for signs of a bigger...