Silver Editorials & Commentary

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. Speculation rising from lowest level in years. Support is holding.

A negative turn in social mood points to trouble in financial markets. Don't want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.

If I had to describe my last 500 letters in one word, it would be “complexity.” The older I get, the more I realize problems I once thought had reasonably straightforward solutions are, in fact, hideously complicated. That doesn’t make them unsolvable but it reduces...

So, the Fed “tapered”. Or did they? It appears that the “markets” doesn’t seem to be buying it one bit. If there was actually a threat of lower liquidity going forward the “markets” would have likely reacted by moving violently lower. Instead, they reached yet...

After months of outright denials and fiery persistence that inflation is not a problem and never will be, central bankers in the US, the EU and other advanced economies are now being forced to face reality, as well as the consequences of their own actions. Instead...

Peter Krauth joins us to discuss the current state of the economy, the silver market and some of his top favorite silver stocks.

For those that have been with Rambus Chartology for awhile know about this long term monthly chart that goes all the way back to the late 1970’s which I call, The End of the World History Chart. It is a satirical look at all the important lows that felt like the end...

The silver market, like other commodities such as soybean and cotton, are all derivatives. The price settlement mechanisms for these is a contract. For example, thousands of theoretical silver ounces are traded daily. While only one percent of physical silver is...

That the post-industrial era of fiat currencies is coming to an end is becoming a real possibility. Major economies are now stalling while price inflation is just beginning to take off, following the excessive currency debasement in all major jurisdictions since the...

Australia has been in the news lately over its aggressive response to the pandemic. But the bigger Down Under story might end up being interest rates. It seems that Australia’s central bank (RBA) had, like the Fed and ECB, been pegging short-term government note...

Lawrence Lepard joins us to discuss the latest Fed moves, including why he views our current economy as a Ponzi scheme on heroin. Also his favorite silver stocks, plus much more.

Friday's action indicates that the market has inside information that the Fed is going to taper? What to expect if the Fed tapers in November or next meetings and pulls the trigger.

The S&P 500 extended its bull market on Friday as it reached the new record high above the 4,600 level. Is this still a topping pattern?

So much for seasonality. Permabears were counting on the cyclical fury of autumn to rebuke revelers, but instead it is they who got rebuked, and badly. The stock market's strong rally during the traditionally difficult month of October has left many wondering what...

Before an aircraft can be used commercially, it must receive an airworthiness certificate.  The certificate is the plane's license to operate. Occasionally, a plane's airworthiness certificate will be revoked.  This is exactly what happened with the Concorde. 

The nice thing about Halloween is we can act scary without actually being scary. The vampires and zombies who knock on your door are just dressed-up kids having fun. We adults play along and give them candy. Everyone has a good time. The hardest part is staying away...

In case you had not yet noticed, there are some weeks where my patience and resolve pertaining to the maintenance of an overweight position in junior gold and silver developers is severely put to the test.

Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on buy signals. We are now long in gold ETFs.

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.

Inflation has permeated the macro markets; where to from here? Apologies in advance for some of the possibly confusing content to follow. But if this were easy anyone could do it, eh? There are a lot of balls in the air; balls known as inflation vs. deflation and...

The use of silver in electronics and electrical applications (excluding photovoltaics) is forecast to rise from 224 million ounces (Moz) in 2020 to 246 Moz in 2025, reflecting a 10 percent increase, and underscoring silver’s role in emerging technologies, according...

Stocks retraced their short-term decline yesterday, but today we may see a lower opening following the earnings releases. Is this a topping pattern?

Does the velocity of money need to increase for inflation to take hold? This week a post on Twitter garnered over 2,700 retweets and almost 20,000 likes. The tweet was from Cathie Wood, the founder of Arkinvest.

The US Federal Reserve’s official line is that inflation is only temporary, however we see things differently. The pandemic has put tremendous pressure on supply chains, and the prices of many agricultural commodities such as grain, corn and soybeans, have...

So far in 2021, we must have already used that Hemingway-inspired phrase at least a dozen times in these weekly columns. But now, as the investment world is finally beginning to realize that inflation is definitely not "transitory", it's time to use it again.

The performance of Apple shares has been a reliable harbinger of where greed and hubris would take this seemingly invincible bull market next. Apple is the biggest-cap stock of them all, worth $2.5 trillion, and it has increasingly become a sure thing for...

Gold and silver markets continue to gather upside momentum as inflation pressures spread throughout the economy.

Silver is on a long term SELL signal. Long term – on SELL signal. Short term – on buy signals. We are now long in gold ETFs.

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.

“When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed...

Many of the base/industrial metals have been surging of late, and copper appears to be next. What impact, if any, can we eventually expect this to have on the price of COMEX silver?

Stocks prices got even higher yesterday, as investors reacted to corporate earnings releases. Will the S&P 500 reach the new record high?

There was an early morning rally in the #silver market on Tuesday following Monday’s news that even Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell is now being accused of insider trading by front-running the Fed’s own policy actions.

Silver purchased in retail forms tends to be held for long periods of time, often sometimes over a lifetime and passed on to heirs. To some extent that’s because of the rather few opportunities silver investors have had to cash in at high-enough prices. While silver...

Here in the US, prices are rising, packages are shrinking and shelves are emptying. This is annoying, but it’s not (yet) the stuff of revolutions.

The 23rd anniversary of the Greenspan Fed's emergency rate cut on October 15, 1998 went unnoticed by markets and the financial media.  This is remarkable because this emergency rate cut laid the basis for everything that came after it; namely the generation of an...

Many years ago, when I was a rookie in the slash-and-burn wars of the 1970’s Canadian investment industry, I befriended a man that would turn out to have an entire chapter written about him in Peter C. Newman’s best-selling book about the “Who’s Who” of Canadian...

The debate continues but not much has been said that clarifies the issue for ordinary investors. What follows in this article should help. Inflation is the debasement of money by government and central banks. The Federal Reserve and all central banks practice...

Silver has moved in tandem with the CRB for most of the last fifty years. The initial rally in the CRB and silver from the oversold lows in March 2020 was impressive.

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. A big week for precious metals markets as inflation pressures push consumer prices to painful new heights.