Silver Editorials & Commentary

This past Friday the BLS released another "whopper" set of employment numbers. The economy supposedly created 271,000 new jobs. I was fortunate to be able to speak with John Williams (I encourage you to subscribe to his service at www.shadowstats.com) and asked him...

I can already tell NFTRH 368 is going to be a flowing thing because there is a lot of on-point material to talk about. So the usual standard charts will be minimized in favor of trying to get a good read on what is in process in the markets, in policy and in the...

In a follow up to last week’s excerpt from our recent Q&A with Ted Bulter, questions were asked about warehouse movement in other commodities and about the big ETF…Are you seeing the frantic movement of metal in other commodities markets?

What’s the difference between the Supply and Demand Report November 1, and the Supply and Demand Report November 8? Just a minor punctuation change. Last week, we asked (rhetorically) if silver would have a 14 handle again.

It looked as if the FED had decided to go all in with money printing. And, it looked like the FED officials were lying through their teeth with all the jawboning since Janet Yellen became FED Chief. Not only was the FED continuing with ZIRP and QE money expansion,...

The last update posted on October 18TH called a top in silver…and that is what it turned out to be. On its 3-month chart we can see that silver broke down from a small Head-and-Shoulders top at the end of October and then went into a steady day after day decline...

The good news is: Last week the secondaries outperformed the blue chips for the first time in quite a while. The negatives: The advance – decline lines (ADL) have been persistently weak and new lows have remained high.

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.

This is episode number 6 in this series where we are discussing what’s really influencing prices right now versus what will ultimately become the manifestation of the fundamental reality.

Since the 1980s, markets have had to adapt to a world of infinite credit. Of course, this credit has not been available to everyone: it has been principally deployed in favour of governments, financial markets, and big business. It amounts to a cartel, planned or...

Fear sells…and like misery it demands company. The so-called crash in August triggered dozens of hibernating bears to emerge from the woodwork. Rested from the last severe beating they took, they are ready for another healthy dose of pain.

Consider these round number costs in digital (dishonest) dollars: 1,000 ounce Silver Bar - $17,000, or Hillary Clinton speech - $300,000, or F-35 Flight helmet - $400,000, or F-35C Navy Fighter Jet - $300 Million, Silver mined globally each year - $15 Billion, or...

The odds of being struck by lightning are an insignificant 0.03 percent, yet many people still worry it might happen to them. There’s even a name for it: astraphobia. Similarly, some muni bond investors worry about municipal bankruptcies, based on recent high-...

Due to the nature of modern money, it would technically be possible to adjust the way the monetary system works such that governments directly print all the money they need. If this change were made then there would be no requirement for the government to ever again...

About a week ago, as gold rallied into the $1170 – $1190 area, the roadmap I laid out for gold was “first a scary drop, and then an upside pop.”

In a report sent to clients on Sunday, Bank of America Corp. strategists totted up the results of 606 global interest-rate cuts since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the $12.4 trillion of central bank asset purchases following the rescue of Bear...

All eyes will be on this week's monthly labor report. The report, which is due Friday at 8:30 am ET, may impact the outcome of the Fed's December meeting.

Paul Mason, writing in The Guardian, describes how we are already at the beginning of a financial Apocalyse. “A predicted global meltdown passed without event. But there are enough warning signs to suggest we are sleepwalking into another disaster.”

One of the common themes we have spotted is that many of the readily available tools doesn’t provide their users with any meaningful edge. If the indicator is easy to use and easy to master, that means a plethora of individuals will be relying on it to give them...

Last week China’s central bank (the PBOC) cut borrowing costs for the sixth time in a year and eased the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for the third time this year, in a desperate attempt to achieve the prescribed growth target of 7% off the back of ever-...

During our recent Q&A interview with silver analyst, Ted Butler, the issue of frantic in and out movement of physical silver within the COMEX warehouse system came up more than a few times. We asked Ted if he could describe how this movement literally works…

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 market has been following the 3rd year seasonal pattern with a negative bias. The seasonal pattern calls for another week or two of strength. I expect the major averages to be higher on Friday November 6 than they were on Friday October 30.

As we consider whether the silver bull has restarted…and its consequences for mining stocks, it is salutary to examine how leveraging silver via mining stocks can be a hit or miss. This is best shown in one of the most favoured silver mining stocks, Pan American...

Hey guys, stay right there. I am really excited once again to be here. We are live and also we get to continue our discussion that started about a month and half ago about the reality of Silver prices right now. We’re doing a deep dive. Last week we spent time...

The markets seemed to like what the Fed had to say yesterday, including the part about definitely, for sure, no kidding around this time raising interest rates in December. Especially elated were currency traders, who bid the US dollar up on the news.

With comparatively little fanfare, Fidelity Investments has announced that 100% of their $115 billion Cash Reserves fund, the world's largest money fund, will be invested in US government debt by December 1st of 2015. It is expected that many other money fund...

The London property market is being increasingly recognized as a bubble and now even leading international banks are warning that the bubble may be set to burst.

Many individuals and experts state that market timing is impossible. The answer to this question is yes and no. We all know there are seasons in a year and we know roughly when winter, summer, fall, and spring will begin.

In our previous article, we discussed the technical case for a significant long-term bottom now being put into place in the silver market, of magnitude comparable to the bottom we saw in late 2008, which led to a 400% rally in silver, and over 1,000% gains in many...

On November 3rd, the US government will again run out of money due to a debt ceiling artificially imposed by Congress. This is the third time in four years that a radical faction has taken the country to the brink of default to extort concessions that are at best...

We are listing excerpts from past market updates to illustrate how the mass mindset is always wrong. Even big shots like Bill Gross are not exempt from being sucked into this black hole, otherwise known as the mass mindset. Herd psychology clearly indicates that...

The European Commission is taking legal action against six European countries, including the Netherlands and Luxembourg, after they failed to implement rules that would allow for depositors to have their cash confiscated.

There May Be Gains To Capture In Stocks In The Coming Years, But Risk Management May Be Very Important Down The Road.

Gold and silver spot prices lost ground to a strengthening US dollar last week. The dollar enjoyed its best week in 5 months, as other major world currencies weakened. European central bankers are once again hinting at more stimulus, and the Chinese government cut...

Bill Holter from JS Mineset joins SGTreport.com for this late October precious metals and global economic implosion update.

In part one we stated that “Silver looks like it has bottomed and will move substantially higher.” In summary: The long-term silver to gold ratio is a good indicator of bottoms in silver prices. That ratio was recently exceptionally low and appears to be climbing...

SPX had an original base projection to 2040 which corresponded to reaching the first tier of resistance formed by overhead supply developed during most of 2015. Just as it was about to roll over from that level, it was rescued by comments from Euro Central Bank’s...

The weakness in the secondaries is troublesome, however, new highs are coming to life and the next 2 weeks are seasonally strong. I expect the major averages to be higher on Friday October 30 than they were on Friday October 23.

Not much has changed since First Majestic Keith Neumeyer’s complained to the CFTC. Silver prices are still firmly locked paper limbo. In our recent interview with silver analyst, Ted Butler, given that his call to the miners was the prime catalyst, one of our...