Silver Editorials & Commentary

The Debt Black Hole keeps getting bigger. Household debt grew modestly in the fourth quarter of 2025, ending the year at another record high. Accor

Over the weekend, the US and Israeli governments attacked Iran. In the days since, both militaries have reportedly struck thousands of targets, and Iranian forces have retaliated by launching hundreds or even thousands of missiles and drones at Israel and at US...

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey sat down with Charlie Garcia, founder of R360, decorated veteran, former advisor to six presidents, and regular MarketWatch columnist, to unpack what he sees as a historic turning point in the...

Stocks used to turn feisty toward the end of the week, but as the chart shows, the last few ‘Freaky Fridays’ have been pretty tame. My gut feeling is that this picture of tedium is the calm before the storm, and that stocks are being heavily distributed ahead of a...

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

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is down. Cycle is up. Better opportunities in the oil sector.

With governments chest thumping their strategic metal stockpiles, while investment into the mining sector is starting to ramp into overdrive, we're entering historic times in the silver market (and a handful of other metals for that matter).

Silver is down today while other markets fluctuate. This tells us two things: 1. Silver’s delivery notice day will probably (no guarantees) not be a major issue. 2. The previously discussed outlook, based on the situation in the USD Index, the situation in the stock...

It's pretty amazing when you take a step back and realize that in the past three months, the silver price has gone from under $60 last November, to over $120 by January, then back down to $64, yet with the latest rally was back over the $90 level earlier today.

Taking a break from the things I could say about some of Trump’s lies and distortions in his State of the Disunion address, I want to focus on three particularly smart and positive things the would-be king is ordering up to help the little guy in 2026 in order to...

I have argued that the current economic environment has a lot of eerie parallels to 2007. We have extremely high asset valuations, the economy is loaded up with debt, and monetary policy has taken a similar trajectory, with easy money blowing up these bubbles. We...

Charlotte McLeod of Investing News Network sat down with Stefan Gleason, President and CEO of Money Metals Exchange, for their first conversation of 2026. 

Contrarians have been talking about the threat of de-dollarization for a long time. I was doing interviews about weaponizing the dollar in 2018 and the potential blowback, long before Russia invaded Ukraine. Back then, people mostly blew me off, assuring me that the...

The signs continue to emerge that the era of cheap silver is ending.

Friday was the day everything fell apart for King Donald McRonald. The Supreme Court finally got up the courage to tell the wannabe emperor he cannot declare fake emergencies and use those fakes to seize power that is not his to take.

A discussion of the silver/gold ratio and what it is likely to mean for gold and silver prices.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is down. Cycle is up. Better opportunities in the oil sector.

Our cycle indicator is up. Cycle is up. Trend is up. We are watching for new set ups.

Monthly Silver recap with Vince Lanci.

It's been a full-time job keeping up with the silver price over the last few months, and a lot has happened quickly. But with the dust settling a little bit this week, Vince Lanci takes a look at what to actually expect by the time we hit the year 2030.

Even despite the sell-off over the past month, the gold and silver prices have soared, as the growing loss of faith in government continues to build.

Paper silver has driven the market for years, but with metal in short supply, physical demand is beginning to exert control. After briefly skyrocketing to $120 an ounce, the silver price has corrected, retreating to the $75 range. However, one of the fundamentals...

China’s only silver futures fund just plunged 31% after a sudden rule change froze investors in place. Was this market structure — or something more strategic?

It’s really exciting watching those Olympic athletes trying to win those silver medals, eh? That's right, they are literally going for silver, not gold.

After silver's extraordinary rally in 2025-2026, we spent weeks analyzing whether this move was speculation or backed by fundamentals. Inside this comprehensive 54 page guide, you'll discover: what drove silver's historic surge, how to invest after a major rally...

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is down. Cycle is down. Better opportunities in the oil sector.

Our cycle indicator is down. Speculation according to COT is now supportive for overall higher silver prices. Silver is on a long term BUY signal.

It’s really exciting watching those Olympic athletes go for those silver medals, eh? No, you don’t need to send me emails telling me there is a typo in the first line of my article. I meant what I wrote. They are going for silver.

After rocketing parabolic in a popular speculative mania, silver violently crashed.  It suffered some of its biggest down days ever in recent weeks, shockingly-brutal plummetings.  Silver’s past reckonings after extreme toppings failing in crashes argue this current...

The silver market is projected to run its sixth straight structural supply deficit in 2026 as investment demand remains high. Based on preliminary data compiled by the Silver Institute, silver demand outstripped supply by about 95 million ounces last year, leading...

The signs of silver supply issues in China have been building over the past few months, and now we get the latest indication that a silver squeeze may have already begun.

We finally have a day where the gold and silver prices aren't moving around that much, although the actual physical silver in the global inventories is moving plenty.

The Seattle Seahawks will square off against the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday. The winner will take home a big chunk of silver. And it is worth a heck of a lot more than the trophy the Philadelphia Eagles took home last year.

The Debt Black Hole got a little bigger as U.S. consumer debt unexpectedly surged in December. Americans apparently put a Christmas spending spree on Visa and Mastercard.

Silver could be in for a hard slog over the next couple of months and maybe a little bit beyond that. But that's not what most people want to hear. Those that called the breakout, some of them, are talking about silver eventually going to 200, 300, or 500 and in a...

Looking at the froth in silver, it became apparent it was time to rotate from overvalued to undervalued once again.  Selling precious-metal ETFs like SLV and AGQ meant cash was available for the next trade, but where to go? 

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is up. Cycle is down. Better opportunities in the oil sector.

Cycle is down. Speculation according to COT data has peaked. Trend is up. We have taken profits and will wait for a cycle bottom.

Margin increases and excess leverage triggered last week’s selloff in metals, but the charts suggest an even more explosive rally could follow—similar to 1979–1980. A supply crunch or an outright default in COMEX deliverable silver in March or May could serve as the...

Cryptocurrencies are collapsing. Just a few hours ago today (Thursday), the price of Bitcoin (BTC-USD) touched $60k, down 23% from its $78k price in my original article on TalkMarkets two days ago. The selloff in Ripple (XRP) was worse. Its price at about the same...