Silver Editorials & Commentary

Read the latest silver market commentary, editorials, essays and reports about investments and trends in the silver market and the economy in general.

 

February 10, 2024

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

On Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers will take on the Kansas City Chiefs. The winner will take home the silver! No... I’m not inferring that the winner will get a second-place prize. I’m referring to the Lombardi Trophy. It's made of silver.

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February 9, 2024

As governments continue to move towards the green agenda mandates, where the necessary metals to meet this mandates will come from remains less certain.

February 8, 2024

You’ve got to give credit to Visa, Mastercard, Discover and Amex. They’ve managed to build one heck of a booming economy. Despite surging price inflation, “resilient” American consumers have managed to keep spending money, driving “strong” economic growth – thanks...

While the Bitcoin Spot-ETF approval had marked a short-term top, prices pulled back sharply as expected. However, four weeks since the approval and BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF has overtaken Grayscale’s GBTC in daily volume. Consequently, Bitcoin prices have...

With many feeling what's required for a more significant rise in the silver price is to see the mainstream investment funds begin buying, there was another positive step in that direction this week. As CNBC published comments from a report by mega-bank UBS that it...

February 7, 2024

Silver premiums have been trending lower ever since the bank runs of 2023 led to several bank failures.

February 6, 2024

Silver demand is expected to rise 1 percent, hitting 1.2 billion ounces in 2024, the second-highest level on record, according to projections by the Silver Institute.

Why is clean water so integral to our existence? It's the elixir that sustains life, the universal solvent, the one substance we cannot do without. Yet, clean, running water remains out of reach for too many. H 2 O, our planetary building blocks, like proteins and...

A recent development in COMEX silver futures positioning has been unusual enough that I didn’t detect it at first, because it has been somewhat gradual.

Silver investors often wonder why the miners sell their silver to the COMEX rather than going straight to the end user.

February 5, 2024

It's been over 15 years since the global housing bubble burst, shifting monetary policy into inflationary overdrive, familiarizing us with unwanted acronyms like QE, MBS, and BTFP, and kicking the world off into the late stages of fiat monetary implosion.

February 3, 2024

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

Silver is on a long term BUY signal. Current data suggests a pullback. Cycle is down. Trend is up.

February 2, 2024

Michael Konnert, the founder & CEO of Vizsla Silver joins us to discuss Viszla Silver and the company’s Panuco project and why it could be the best undeveloped silver project.

January 31, 2024

The government and the Federal Reserve broke the economy and we have to buy it! Things may seem OK on the surface, but the economy is sliding toward a crisis. It's just a matter of time.

With gold and silver prices trading slightly lower to start the year, the premiums on both metals continue to sink.

January 30, 2024

Could the commercial real estate market be the next thing to pop in this bubble economy? According to a recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the answer is yes. And that could kick off the next major financial crisis.

January 29, 2024

Texas Governor Greg Abbott gave up on the Biden administration doing much to secure his state’s border with Mexico. An estimated 6 million people, including large numbers of fighting age men, have been pouring illegally into border states over the past 3 years....

Since the last significant peak on December 4th, 2023, at USD 25.91, the silver price experienced a 15.3% sell-off in two waves over six weeks, reaching a low at USD 21.91, so far. This downturn thoroughly dampened the start of the new trading year. Nevertheless,...

Effective immediately and in a move that smacks of panic, the Federal Reserve has shut down the arbitrage from the Bank Term Funding Program (the regional bank bailout) banks have been taking advantage of since November.

January 27, 2024

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.

Silver is on a long term BUY signal. Cycle is down. Trend is up.

January 26, 2024

The rapidly growing middle class in India has led to massive new energy demand, and the populous nation is increasingly turning to solar.

Silver is underpriced. In other words, silver is on sale. The current gold-to-silver ratio reveals this. This ratio tells you how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold. Or to put it another way, the gold:silver ratio tells you the price of gold in...

On one hand the White House and the Federal Reserve officials are holding to the mantra that the economy is still strong and roaring.

January 23, 2024

So, boss, about that pay raise... Do you feel like you’re taking two steps forward and three steps back? Well, no matter what Paul Krugman or Joe Biden tries to tell you, it’s not your imagination.

The silver price was down sharply this morning as a new week of trading begins. Which of course feels a bit counterintuitive given the supply and demand fundamentals, as well as some of the monetary events the Fed is facing over the next few months.

January 22, 2024

Kanye West recently posted a picture of himself on Instagram sporting titanium dentures. In the pose, Ye (as Kanye now refers to himself) referenced Jaws, the iconic James Bond nemesis featured in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.

“Whites lead yellow” is one of the sayings about the precious metals market. And the white – silver – is down. That saying describes one of the rules of thumb for the precious metals sector – that silver can be indicating something for gold.

On January 10, over a decade after the first Bitcoin spot Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) application, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally approved eleven applications on the same day.

The Federal Reserve is very confused about what might happen when all the extra money from the last printing spree finally runs out.

January 20, 2024

Our cycle indicator is DOWN. Current data suggests a pullback, but should see overall higher prices. Cycle is down. Trend is up.

Our benchmark SP500 is on long term BUY signal. Oil sector remains on long term BUY signal at the end of December. Gold sector is on a long term SELL signal.

January 18, 2024

As the 2024 general election gets closer, Democrats and proestablishment pundits are growing frustrated with the American public for not feeling as good about the economy as the so-called experts say they should. The elitism of this view aside, it is true that...

January 17, 2024

Once people start learning about silver and decide they want to own some, one of the first question that many people who are new to precious metals often ask is what type of silver should they actually buy.

You know all about price inflation and how it squeezes your wallet. But there are also ninja price increases out there that you might not notice. It's called "shrinkflation."

January 16, 2024

After a rally in both gold and silver on Friday, the market is looking for clues in regards to what the Fed is going to do when the Bank Term Funding Program expires in March, possibly at the same time that the reverse repo facility is running out.

January 15, 2024

A "top man" at the Federal Reserve, specifically the "Vice Chairman for Banking Supervision, a super duper important guy, is extremely serious about the Fed not renewing the regional bank bailout program that exploded onto the Fed's balance sheet last March to the...

January 14, 2024

The world’s largest silver producer could mine all of its existing reserves within two years, throwing silver’s global supply-demand balance even further out of whack than it is currently.

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