Silver Editorials & Commentary

Bank bail-ins are becoming more and more of a hot topic. With changes in the laws, banks in the USA will have the ability to "bail-in" your money during a financial crisis.

Silver investors around the globe are a bit perplexed, as they see the US setting inflation records, yet the COMEX silver price has been getting hammered.

In October of 2019, I began writing/warning of the ignored yet ominous signals coming out of the repo and Eurodollar markets and what the illiquidity (i.e., lack of availability) of U.S. Dollars portended for our markets in the coming years.

Stocks went lower yesterday, as investors took profits off the table ahead of today’s FOMC release. Was it a reversal or just correction?

The charts of AAPL and the S&P 500 are synced to imply that a potential bull market top lies just above.  Both would require a rally of 4.5% from current prices to achieve 'Hidden Pivot' rally targets of major degree,  This means there's a good chance the...

Way back in 1921, a heretofore unknown Swiss psychologist by the name of Hermann Rorschach developed a test to examine the human mind in a manner which could be thought of as “a psychometric examination of pareidolia, the active pattern of perceiving objects, shapes...

One of the headlines this week was, the biggest rise in inflation since 1982. To put that into context we’ll need to look at some long term charts and what the Chartology looks like back then and today.

The charts of AAPL and the S&P 500 are synced to imply that a potential bull market top lies just above.  Both would require a rally of 4.5% from current prices to achieve 'Hidden Pivot' rally targets of major degree,  This means there's a good chance the...

You won’t be surprised to know I disagree with recent Federal Reserve policy choices. The Fed’s future choices are more important, though. Debating what they should do is one thing. Anticipating what they will do is critical.

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. Major signals can last for months and years and are suitable for long-term investors.

It has been no secret that Russia and China have been preparing for a post-US dollar dominated world for some time now. They have been doing this by setting up their own version of the SWIFT system which is what allows all participants worldwide to transfer funds to...

Stocks retraced some of their recent rally yesterday – was it just a quick downward correction before another leg up?

The world recovered remarkably well from its 2008-2009 near-death experience, thanks largely to China’s decision to borrow an ungodly amount of money and spend it on the mother of all infrastructure builds. This pulled most developed countries out of a hole that...

If you’re wondering why the media, markets and mandates are making less sense despite a constant flow of hard facts contradicting their message, it’s critical to watch what is done rather than said by the policy makers behind the fear and inflation “new normal.”

Campaigns to improve working conditions, union-led protests, strikes for better wages and tensions between workers and employers have always been part of our social, political and economic reality and are really nothing new.

The bulls pumped up the market, but with fundamentals deteriorating and corporations largely responsible for the spike, regular investors will be left holding the bag.

After scanning some recent headlines regarding silver, I was struck by the apparent fact that proponents of silver seem almost obsessed. If not obsessed, then certainly fascinated.

Now that even Jerome Powell has given up his hopes that the current bout of inflation has any chance of actually being ‘transitory,’ what happens next?

The U.S. dollar and precious metals futures have one thing in common. The value of the greenback and a contract for future delivery of metal are completely dependent on confidence. When, or if, that disappears, neither will be worth the paper they aren’t printed on...

The S&P 500 index broke slightly below the 4,500 mark on Friday, but it bounced from that support level again. Is this a bottoming pattern?

When the Federal Reserve chair has finally admitted that inflation may not be transitory, it's time to rethink how to invest. The Last Time We Saw This Economic Anomaly Was in the 1970s

Fed Will Never Raise Rates, It Would All ‘Collapse’ – E.B. Tucker, author of 'Why Gold, Why Now'.

Do you ever see graphs like this one and wonder why the unemployment rate has almost completely normalized since the start of the COVID pandemic crash; and, yet, employers everywhere are griping that they cannot find enough help, and articles everywhere are...

Why do we invest? Everyone has their reasons, but funding retirement may be the most common one. Whenever the time comes, we want to relax in comfort and security.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. SLV is on short term sell signal. Speculation pulling back from levels of previous tops. Testing support once again.

“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign…Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?” That was from a teenage song of rebellion some 50 years ago, by The Five Man Electric Band (from Canada), I believe protesting the “no shirt,...

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.

It’s no secret that Recep Tayyip Erdogan aspires to become the sultan of Turkey. But there is one huge obstacle that might block Erdogan’s path: the Turkish lira. The lira is one of the world’s junk currencies. Indeed, with each passing day, the lira hits new lows...

The S&P 500 bounced from the 4,500 level on Thursday, as it retraced most of its Wednesday’s sell-off. Was it a reversal or just another upward correction?

The yield curve is flattening. I don’t cheer-lead a given view, but if I were to do that I’d be cheering for a yield curve flattener to put a correction to inflationist dogmatists quoting von Mises to the herds and otherwise sloganeering about inflation and a “...

Of course, one of the most important and consequential parts of the incredibly complex organism that is the economy is money itself. It is its lifeblood and as the song goes, “it makes the world go round.”

Silver continues to wind and grind its way toward a major multi-year low. The chart pattern is increasingly clear for those with the proper perspective. Unfortunately, over the short-run, silver is doing what it tends to do best: frustrate the majority of investors...

Rick Rule (Part 2) explains why Silver supply is declining and it is likely unavoidable due to lack of investment in new copper mines and other base metals.

Silver Warning: This Is About To Happen To Gold & Silver - Steve Penny

Stock prices were volatile on Tuesday, as the S&P 500 fell to the new local low. But today it may rebound again…but will the downtrend continue?

Almost two decades ago, German economist Horst Siebert coined the term the “Cobra effect” to describe the real-world consequences of “well-intentioned” government interventions that go awry and produce the exact opposite results from what they aim for.

Not even close to transitory. After giving its turkey advice for Thanksgiving, the Federal Reserve finally gave up completely on the “Inflation is transitory” chorus it has been singing all year. Chairman Powell of the People’s Bank of Amerika stated outright today...

The emergence of the new Omicron coronavirus strain is roiling financial and precious metals markets. Investors fear government health officials will order new lockdowns to try to contain it.

The S&P 500 sold off on Friday after news about the new Covid variant. Today we will likely see a rebound but the short-term picture remains bearish.