Silver Editorials & Commentary

Who are the 80 Participating Counterparties in the daily $1 Tr+ Reverse Repurchase Facility, and why are almost half of the Primary Dealers foreign?  It appears Chinese real estate developer Evergrande is going to stiff offshore creditors in a proposed restructuring...

Central bankers constantly miss the inflationary forest for the trees.  Two of the many ways in which they do this is myopically fixating on consumer prices and dismissing rising prices as a consequence of shortages.

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. We have closed out our positions in the energy sector with excellent profits, and will now wait for new set...

Silver is now on a long-term SELL signal. SLV is on short term sell signal. COT data is in bear market values. COT data is in bear market values. Testing support now.

China recently declared all crypto-currency transactions illegal. What does that mean, and could a liquidity crisis cause a flash crash in crypto?

Skyrocketing natural gas prices in Europe are already (before the real crunch may come in winter) causing MAJOR problems causing people’s electric bills to double- and more. It has also led to a major producer of fertilizer (CF Industries Holdings) to halt...

The selloff in stocks that started last week and continued on Monday has some market observers wondering whether this is a “Minsky Moment”. This refers to the idea that periods of bullish speculation will eventually lead to a crisis, wherein a sudden decline in...

America’s central bankers are tasked with impartial oversight over aspects of the American economy. But could these individuals be making decisions on interest rates and bailout operations based on what is best for their own personal investment portfolios?

The S&P 500 index closed virtually flat on Tuesday following Monday’s sell-off and late-day rebound off the 4,300 price level. Is the correction over?

The stock market has been in this run-away move which usually ends in a crash or a mini-crash. All previous corrections have held the prior resistance zone (support).

The gold and silver futures markets were designed to increase volatility and discourage physical ownership of precious metals, as revealed in 1970s-era disclosures. The futures markets have also created opportunities for manipulation.

If you are still waiting on silver to bring you huge profits, your wait just got longer. Below is a chart (source) of SLV prices for the past week…

Stocks are breaking down! The S&P 500 index fell almost 1% on Friday and today it is poised to open 1.8% lower. Are we getting close to a local low?

China’s Evergrande has been in the news lately, but not always in an understandable way. The real estate developer is just too big and its financial arrangements too obscure to be easily grasped by people with a lot of other things on their plates. Plus, China has...

With silver down over $1 today, it has many wondering, is this the bottom? While the COMEX silver price still isn’t showing you yet, there are a lot of developments happening NOW, that are laying the conditions for the REAL silver price to rise.

Silver is now on a long-term SELL signal. Long-term – on SELL signal. Short term – on sell signals. We closed out all of our positions with good profits.

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. We have closed out our positions in the energy sector with excellent profits, and will now wait for new set...

Back on June 21 we compared inflation with the fading CDNX/TSX Ratio using this chart (updated here). Nearly 3 months later, while inflation expectations look poised to turn back up TSX-V/TSX continues to robo-trend down.

Precious metals markets got dealt a technical blow after gold and silver sold off on Thursday. Stronger-than-expected economic reports boosted the U.S. Dollar Index, which in turn gave futures traders all the rationale they needed to pound longs with sell orders.

Stocks are going sideways since last Friday. Will they break higher and go back to the record high? Or the opposite? It still doesn’t look bullish.

When it comes to modern markets, risk assets and the now normalized yet twisted tango of fiscal and monetary policy gone wild, it’s safe (rather than sensational) to simply confess that nothing is real.

Stocks extended their short-term downtrend as the S&P 500 index fell slightly below its Monday’s daily low. Is more downside trading action coming?

With recent news from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Russia, it is clear the Petrodollar is dying. How will this affect the Gold and Silver markets long term as the dollar loses it's world reserve currency status?

On Friday stocks were the lowest since the end of August. We may see a rebound today, but is the market poised to go even lower then?

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939… By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, some 18 million Americans were unemployed and nearly three-quarters of the...

Silver is now on a long term SELL signal. SLV is on short term buy signal. COT data is now in bear market values. Testing support now.

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. We have closed out our positions in the energy sector with excellent profits, and will now wait for new set...

Stocks closed at a local low yesterday, but today the market will likely be trying to retrace the decline. So, is the S&P 500 heading lower soon?

The Fed apologists like to cling to falling lumber prices as proof that the current spate of price inflation is, in fact, "transitory". OK, fine. Lumber prices are back down due to a rush of supply. But what about all the other industrial inputs? What's going on...

Last week we wrote about the gold to silver ratio. Our points were that it measures the price of one metal against the other, just as we use the dollars per ounce to measure daily metals prices, and just as we use ounces per Corvette to measure purchasing power...

I’ve been warning that silver would likely invalidate its recent comeback above its previous lows, and it did exactly that. The decline is now likely to resume.

Stocks backed off from last week’s high yesterday, as investor sentiment worsened following Friday’s jobs data. But more downside may be coming.

Michael Pento joins us to describe the potential for: A 50% market crash. Deflation then Stagflation is coming. Owning Gold & Silver. The likelihood of a credit collapse.

What Would John Paulson Think About This Silver Video?

The chart above shows the gold/HUI ratio going back to 2001. I would have used GDX but I wanted to take the graph back to beginning of the precious metals bull market and GDX didn’t start trading until May 2006. It’s not perfect, but in general when the ratio is...

Silver prices are up, but will silver outperforming gold this year. Despite its dismal performance, silver remains the precious metals to watch. It could outperform gold as the global economy starts to falter.

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. We have closed out our positions in the energy sector with excellent profits, and will now wait for new...

Silver is now on a long-term SELL signal. Short term signals can last for days to weeks and are more suitable for traders. Long-term – on SELL signal. Short term – on buy signals.

A few recent articles bring to the public’s awareness that wealthy investors are preferring not to sell their assets, and thereby pay capital gains taxes. Instead they borrow against them, on margin. This reminds me of an experience I had some years back. I was on a...

It is not very surprising to me that nearly every talking head on Wall Street is convinced inflation has now become a permanent feature in the U.S. economy. This is because most mainstream economists have no clue what is the progenitor of inflation. They have been...