Silver Editorials & Commentary

Silver prices have retreated since hitting a multi-year high in early March. While disappointing to bulls, they should find some encouragement in the white metal’s technical and fundamental drivers.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal, but prices have found support at the 50ema.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth.

The S&P 500 index gets closer to the 4,500 level again. So is this a new uptrend or still just an upward correction following the recent declines?

The global silver market realized growth in every demand category in 2021, marking the first time all key sectors rose in tandem since 1997. Surpassing pre-pandemic volumes, total global silver demand achieved its highest level since 2015, surging 19 percent to 1.05...

Russia is quickly moving to make the Ruble convertible to gold. Once this move is complete, the public will panic buy silver.

For many of us, as pleasurable as it might be to picture Twitter in the hands of Elon Musk, and to imagine a despairing Jack Dorsey committing seppuku, Musk should save his billions for more useful purposes.

Inflation pushes the 30-year Treasury bond yield through long-term moving average trends! Okay, let’s take a breath. I don’t like to use ‘!’ in titles or even in articles. In fact, when I see too many of them I immediately think that someone really REALLY wants me...

Silver is on a long term SELL signal, but prices have found support at the 50ema.

Believe it or not, most silver is a byproduct of base metal mines like zinc. Yet right now, zinc smelters are shutting down because energy prices are too high, so the only place to get zinc is from the exchanges. But supply is running out, and the market is getting...

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth.

Inflations have an inbuilt mechanism which works to burn them out. Government (including the central bank) can thwart the mechanism if they resort to further monetary injections of sufficient power.

Silver has been suppressed for a very long time. Don't buy at the end of the move, buy at the start of one! We are at the beginning of the big silver move.

Last week, a former high-ranking Fed official disclosed that the Fed is determined to "break" the stock market. If they succeed in this, the impacts will be felt across all markets, so maybe we should take him seriously?

By signing sound money legislation yesterday, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has ended Virginia’s discriminatory practice of assessing sales taxes on smaller purchases of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion and coins.

Stocks fluctuated following their recent decline on Tuesday and the S&P 500 index closed slightly below the 4,400 level. Is this still just a downward correction?

We currently have two distinct sources of inflation, with the first being the previous supply chain-driven inflation, and the second being the inflation from the Ukrainian War and the related sanctions. With the release of the March Consumer Price Index, for the...

How the White House and Federal Reserve plan to get the situation back under control remains a mystery, but if you want to be prepared for what's coming, click to watch this video now!

As Russia appears to be on the verge of defaulting on its debt, the U.S. debt market is also signaling trouble ahead. Treasury bonds, long considered to be among the safest investments, are rapidly plunging in value as yields surge. The largest T-bond exchange-...

For more than a year, I've recommended what my friend Doug Behnfield calls the 'barbell strategy' to secure one's nest egg against the deflationary hard times that lie ahead.  As formulated by Doug, a wealth-management advisor based in Boulder, the barbell portfolio...

An old Danish proverb, later attributed to everyone from Mark Twain to Nostradamus to Yogi Berra, says, “Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.” I would refine it a little: Predictions are actually pretty easy. Accurate predictions are very...

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire unpacks the Bank of Russia’s shocking decree, declaring the bank will accept only gold or gold-pegged Ruble payments for oil, energy and commodities. The precious metals expert explains how Russia’s attempts at...

The Silver Institute President, Bradford Cooke, joins us to discuss the dispute between First Majestic CEO Keith Neumeyer and the Silver Institute. Plus we get Brad's take on the silver market, Russia/Ukraine, commodities and more ...

Silver is on a long term SELL signal, but prices have found support at the 50ema.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth.

Foreign critics have long chafed at the “exorbitant privilege” of the U.S. dollar as global reserve currency. The U.S. can issue this currency backed by nothing but the “full faith and credit of the United States.”

The silver price is down again today, while the move towards a gold-backed Ruble continues. So where does this leave the average investor who's just trying to keep their money safe?

Counting on the Fed to ride to the rescue when the bubble finally pops?  You had better have a Plan B, and for good measure, a Plan C, since America could be in for something far worse than mere recession when the asset boom abruptly ends, as it must

Matterhorn Asset Management principal, Matthew Piepenburg, sits down with Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold Radio to discuss the seismic shifts in the global financial system now emerging in the wake of Russian sanctions. Pulling from data not otherwise easily...

Silver is on a long term SELL signal, but prices have found support at the 50ema. Major signals can last for months and years and are suitable for long term investors.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth.

The silver miners' stocks have rallied in recent months, but are still underperforming gold stocks. Silver lagging gold is mostly responsible, driven by big stock-market down days dampening enthusiasm for speculation. But silver will ultimately mirror and amplify...

It appears to me that just today the EU and the rest of the world just found out how serious Mr. Putin was about only taking Rubles, gold or bitcoin for payment from countries that are hostile to Russia.

The S&P 500 index extended its uptrend once again after breaking above the 4,600 level. However, today we will likely see some profit-taking action.

The new Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s Quarterly Derivatives Report was just released for positions held as of Dec 31, 2021. The report covers Over-The-Counter derivatives positions, including precious metals derivatives held by US banks, meaning that...

“We are witnessing the birth of Bretton Woods III – a new world (monetary) order centered around commodity-based currencies in the East that will likely weaken the Eurodollar system and also contribute to inflationary forces in the West.” – Zoltan Pozsar, Bretton...

Stocks extended their short-term uptrend on Friday, but this week we may see some more uncertainty and a possible profit-taking action.

Last week's commentary was skeptical that the short squeeze begun two weeks ago in the broad averages would prove to be just a bear rally.  Based on the latest technical evidence, it now seems likely that stocks are headed to new all-time highs.

In these letters, I look at the economy and tell you what I think, for better or worse. Recent missives were mostly negative. I regret being the bearer of bad news but sometimes that’s just reality.

Global bond markets have suffered unprecedented losses since peaking last year, as central banks including the Federal Reserve look to tighten policy to combat surging inflation.