Silver Editorials & Commentary

The economy is booming! That is the mantra from the mainstream media all the way up to our illustrious President. My opinion is that these people are either clueless or evil- I’ll let you decide.

The prospect of Federal Reserve rate hikes continues to rattle Wall Street and cloud the outlook for precious metals.

Attention silver investors. The paper silver market is breaking as we speak. There will be weekend-long coverage here at Arcadia Economics, on what will also be the 1 year anniversary of Silver Squeeze weekend.

The ‘Fed put’ – gone until there’s blood in the streets

There are two great bubbles out there. One – the financial mania that is becoming obviously reckless, but being a party in prosperity is widely celebrated. The other is the bubble in the political markets which has become amazingly radical. But going the other way,...

The US Senate will soon vote on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s nomination to a second term. One of the senators opposing Powell is Elizabeth Warren. I don’t often agree with Senator Warren, but I do agree with her assessment that Powell is “dangerous.”...

The S&P 500 index was trading 4% lower yesterday before closing 0.3% higher. So was it an upward reversal or just another temporary bottom?

The Federal Reserve published Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation, and solicits comments about its ideas for a central bank digital currency (CBDC). This is our extended commentary offered in response.

The recent selloff in stocks makes many investors more than a little nervous, particularly when they lack broad diversification.

There is no safety, as in times past when the Fed was draining money out of the economy and could just flip back to pumping money in, because the Fed is running the outflow pump fast and furious, and the Fed has no option for reversing the pump or even just stopping...

After a 3-day silver price rally, Bill Holter checked in on the show. To find out what’s going on, why the markets are reacting like they are, and what you can expect next, click to watch this timely call with Bill Holter now!

Markets are about to go biblical. 2022 is starting off great for Precious Metals. Can we keep things going?

Ed Steer joins us to discuss the latest in the Silver market with his analysis of the market. Silver is sitting on the launchpad, Bank of America is heavily short the metal.

With the bull market in an apparent topping process, it will always be insightful to ponder Apple's chart. It offers a window into the minds of money managers, many of whom have staked their careers on the uptrend of just one stock.

Forget bond pricing as a way of gauging what inflation is going to do. The Fed is still buying the lion’s share of the bond market. So, while bonds have begun pricing in inflation, they have a lot more to price in over the next couple of months as the Fed continues...

Joe Brown from Heresy Financial joins us to discuss his recent Silver related video about this subject, plus other issues happening with the Fed and the economy.

The last two missives I have penned were entitled “Crossroads” and “Crosshairs” so I deem it only appropriate to name this one “Crossfire” because up until this week, we did not have the actual financial upheaval that I have been predicting since mid-December...

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. SLV is on short term buy signal. COT data supports overall higher prices.

Summary

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 broke below its early December low. Are we in a new bear market or is this still just a downward correction?

It seems amazing to me that virtually all the economic news that comes out just gets worse and worse and, in each case, it is reported as “UNEXPECTED”.

While the USD show is gaining applause, silver has decided to present its repertoire too. Was its rally just a magic trick or a good omen for gold?

This week, 'The Silver Guru' David Morgan of The Morgan Report joins Dave Russell to explore what might happen in the Silver Market in 2022, as well as what makes silver the world's most undervalued metal. Watch the full episode to learn more.

I was advising to add to your physical silver last several weeks during the pullback. The constant manipulation of the price has created a physical shortage, it is starting to look that way.

It’s happening again. The Fed is threatening the financial markets with tighter money, and the markets are reacting like addicts being shoved through the front door of a rehab center. They’re not happy, and they have good reason – actually two good reasons – to be...

Stocks remained above their previous low on Friday, and today they are expected to open much lower. Will the downtrend continue?

The chart above suggests that interest rates on 30-year T-bonds could be on their way up to 3.02%, a more than 40% increase over the current 2.11%.  That is not necessarily bad news for investors, since a market adjustment of that magnitude would make it unnecessary...

The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 2.66% on positive physical demand noted traders. Gold is heading for its best weekly performance since mid-November amid a rout in the dollar as money managers pared back bullish bets. The dollar is on...

Sometimes the best thing about a blog post is the comments it generates. That’s frequently true on DollarCollapse, especially when friend-of-the-site Bruce C is doing the commenting. Here, in the first of what will hopefully become a series (under Bruce’s byline),...

Jim Rogers & Warren Buffet, legendary investors talk silver Revisiting Interesting comments from legendary investors about silver.

Financial advisors used to believe in a balanced portfolio between bonds and stocks. Central banks changed all that.

Another set of bombshell inflation reports rattled markets this week. On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing consumer prices continue to rise at the fastest rate since 1982. The all-items index has risen 7% for the past 12 months ending...

Silver is on a long-term SELL signal. SLV is on short term buy signal. COT data supports overall higher prices. SLV is now at major support.

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.

You can plainly see where a silver price of $34 is not out of the question, and that’s a number that would certainly…

Andy Schectman joins us to describe what he is dealing with on the silver and gold wholesale market.

Stocks retraced some more of their recent declines on Tuesday. Will the market continue higher following today’s consumer inflation data?

How did we get back to the precipice of the year 2000, where tech stocks plunged 80% and the S&P 500 lost 50% of its value over the ensuing two years? Well, start off with the fact that the amount of new money created by our central bank in the past 14 years is...

Does it seem odd that the silver price fell over 11% in 2021, despite it being a record year of demand, while the market was also in a deficit for the 2nd straight year?

According to Doug Ramsey of the Leuthold Group, 334 companies trading on the New York Stock Exchange recently hit a 52-week low, more than double the amount that marked new one-year highs. That’s happened only three other times in history -- all of them occurring in...