Silver Editorials & Commentary

2021 was a rough year for FSM, taking into consideration the royalty payment settlement it made to the Mexican Government, the environmental permit issue with the SEMARNAT, and the disruptions to the ramp-up of Lindero from the virus crisis, among other likely non-...

JP Morgan's New York silver vault is running low again as inflows into SLV are pressuring the bullion bank. Meanwhile, Comex has been bleeding physical platinum at an alarming pace since July 2021, and the European Federation of Energy Traders sounds the Red Alert...

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.

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.

As the Yield Curve flattens, this inflation is different from the 2020 inflation. In 2020 an inflationary yield curve more steep was in the bag as the Fed dropped and pinned the Funds Rate and sucked up every bond it could get its hands on (in order to monetize/...

There are times when you read things that really hit home. One of those things happened to me yesterday when I read an article on Zerohedge. It stated that if the US stock markets were to drop 25% (4 times what they were down at the time) the level of overvaluation...

Steve St. Angelo gives us the latest on the energy markets and how this is also leading to a fertilizer and food production crisis.

Sometimes weeks happen in a day, and we seem to be living in such times. In my latest Patron Post I laid out how Putin’s War and the sanctions imposed by the West and other nations will cause a tectonic shift in the new world order. It’s already happening.

Whenever a movie has been a huge hit, the film industry tries to follow it up by doing a sequel. The sequel is almost invariably far more costly, as there’s the anticipation by those who create it that it will be an even bigger blockbuster than the original.

The biggest financial paradigm shift in our lives is underway, and there's no turning back. No one knows exactly what it's going to look like going forward nor how we'll be able to get there.

The S&P 500 extended its short-term uptrend on Friday after breaking above the early March local high. Will we see some profit-taking action soon?

With the supposed bear rally about to enter its fifth week, I am reminded of Gideon Drew, "the thing that wouldn't die" in the 1958 horror movie of that name. Like Drew, the stock market has become a disembodied monster, able to command loyalty and even murderous...

Patrick Karim discusses the latest in the silver charts plus more. He shows us and explains how Silver is performing now compared to the past 100 years.

In the wake of defensive buying following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, silver has just triggered a key technical level which now points to higher prices.  In this article we will detail the expected moves for silver, referring to the following chart.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal, but prices have found support at the 50ema. Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on buy signals. Cycle is UP. We are holding long term positions.

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.

One quick glance at different news headlines or just 5’ switching between TV networks suffice to convince even the most naive news consumer that there is something seriously wrong with the way public discourse was (d)evolved in our societies over the last years.

We will let you know what we are doing once we know what we are doing was the message from the Federal Reserve statement and Chair Powell’s press conference that followed.

Tyler Wall joins us to discuss the situation that all bullion dealers are dealing with right now. Nobody can get enough supply. Everyone is on allocation with the mints. Inventory is extremely low.

Given what has been going on the advance in silver since the last update early in january has been modest, and it is only in the past few weeks since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began that it has really started to get moving.

Does this make sense? As I am writing this on March 15th., the Fed is beginning its 2-day meeting which will conclude tomorrow with an anticipated .25% interest rate hike- or maybe .50.

Michael Oliver discusses the latest data on the silver momentum chart, the overall market, inflation and more.

The run in commodities has been stunning. It’s not just silver and gold feeling the love, but oil, wheat, aluminum, nickel, soybeans, corn and others. Given all that is going on in the world, we think Gold and silver are setting up for a much bigger move.

The S&P 500 index extended its Friday’s decline yesterday, but it remained within a week-long volatile consolidation. Is this a medium-term bottoming pattern?

The Arab Spring refers to a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. Largely a response to corruption and economic stagnation, the Arab Spring started over a shortage of bread....

In retrospect, nothing much has changed since I published my original article $100 Silver Has Come And Gone in October 2019. The price is higher than it was at the time the article was written, and that is certainly positive. However, the net change since then does...

Considering the size of the crude-oil market and its geopolitical importance, the rally begun two years from $6.50/bbl amidst fears of a Covid-caused Depression ranks as one of the most spectacular and consequential in history.

Another volatile week of trading saw precious metals markets rally to new highs for the year on Tuesday before suffering a sharp drawdown on Wednesday and more selling here today. As of this Friday recording, the gold market shows a weekly gain of 0.8% to bring spot...

Back in the good old days, recessions were simply the unpleasant part of the business cycle. Consumer choices, exuberant businesses, and monetary policy would periodically generate growth contractions. We debated the timing, but recessions didn’t come out of the...

Major signals can last for months and years and are suitable for long term investors. Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on buy signals. Cycle is UP. We are holding long term positions.

With the war in Ukraine and imminently tightening monetary policy consuming most of investors’ bandwidth, it’s easy to overlook the historic meltdown happening right now in Chinese financial markets.

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.

Imagine what an oak tree's underground root ball looks like, with supportive tendrils spreading out in all directions, not unlike what the limbs of this magnificent specimen are doing above-ground.

EB Tucker joins us to discuss how he is approaching the markets right now. Silver, Gold, Russia, Ukraine and much more.

Stock prices remain very volatile, as the Ukraine conflict keeps dominating headlines. Will the market reverse its downtrend?

Tragic though the situation in Ukraine has become, the real war which started out as financial in character some time ago has now become both financial and about commodities. Putin made a huge mistake invading Ukraine but the West’s reaction by seeking to isolate...

Every once in a while, one regrets not acting sooner, not acting soon enough. In our case, we did not publish this Tuesday evening. We should have. Today the price is down, and others may also call for lower silver prices.

To paraphrase Lenin, decades will go by with not much happening and then a decade's worth of change will happen in a matter of weeks. Well, here we are.

In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire is joined by Dr Stephen Leeb, a renowned American economist and a financial author to contemplate the impending commodities shortage and the dramatic consequences of a silver scarcity for the developing countries....

The U.S. economy is already deteriorating due to the humongous fiscal and monetary cliffs. These cliffs are now being compounded by the war in Eastern Europe and near record-high inflation. And, the Fed’s “PUT” is much lower and smaller in size than Wall Street...