Silver Editorials & Commentary

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of July, but may change this month end. 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...

The silver miners’ stocks have been pounded lower this summer, collateral damage from gold’s selloff on distant-future-Fed-rate-hikes fears. That has devastated this tiny contrarian sector’s psychology, leaving it mired in deep bearishness. But that dark sentiment...

Is America becoming a nation of gamblers? The lure of potential cash windfalls is driving rampant speculation in financial markets and record traffic to casinos.

This month marks fifty years since President Richard Nixon closed the “gold window” that had allowed foreign governments to exchange US dollars for gold. Nixon’s action severed the last link between the dollar and gold, transforming the dollar into pure fiat...

Stocks changed little on Tuesday, but the S&P 500 reached a new record high. Is the market able to break above 4,500, or is it running low on fuel?

The prices of a lot of things are up these days, which fits the common definition of “inflation.” Meanwhile, an increasing number of products are appearing at the same price but in smaller packages.This is inflation’s slippery first cousin “shrinkflation.” Here’s a...

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 remains on a major BUY signal at the end of July, but may change this month end. Major signals can last for months and years and are suitable for long-term investors.

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 regarded as the best value hard asset around, and it really doesn’t matter in the long-term whether J. P. Morgan and the other banks try to suppress the price or not. Like gold, it has intrinsic value and, in the situation of high inflation that we are...

It’s another day and another silver price smash down, and I’m happy to be joined by Andrew Pollard from BlackRock Silver and Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics to shed some light on what is going on with the silver price.

Stocks sold off yesterday as the fear of Fed tapering grew. Monday’s run-up was definitely a bull trap, and our short position is profitable now.

To keep it simple: Nope! Not this time anyway. That is, however, what you hear from the wistful market makers who want to see last week’s CPI release as proof inflation was “transitory.” Let me disabuse you of that fantasy entirely.

On Twitter earlier this week, someone sent me a note asking if this weekend's events represented "Peak America". I responded that "Peak America" actually came a long time ago. The fall of Afghanistan is just the latest milepost on the way down.

As most of the western world doubles down on easy money policies, one nation stands out and moves ahead with raising rates: Russia. This follows a pattern of a massive shift in power and dichotomization from west to east that can be seen both in finance and...

The pandemic has had long-lasting implications on our world — from the public health sector to the financial markets. In the wake of the financial uncertainty that the pandemic has produced, the fiat monetary system continues to be questioned by more and more people...

There is increasing confusion in America about how to handle the rapid spread of Covid’s delta variant. The stock market can usually tell us how much fear is out there, but this time Wall Street seems, if not quite clueless, then certainly heedless.

First, I apologize for not getting an article out over the last two weeks – 08 AUG and 01 AUG.  Something came up at work that required me to work both weekends.

We gold and silver bulls have been grasping at everything that could shake the prices of the precious metals loose from the claws of the predatory Big Banks, pinning our hopes in turn and in combination on the Reddit Apes, increased deliveries from Comex and...

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of July. Looking for support at 21. Long term – remains on BUY signal at the end of July. 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...

There are many good reasons that could easily explain the flock of so many wealthy families and investors to Switzerland and all of them have been reinforced by the pandemic.

The covid crisis, and especially the destructive governmental responses to it, have wreaked havoc with the global economy and with our societies. However, the chaos and the widespread uncertainty that prevailed over the last year and a half also served as a useful...

We’re continuing our quest to see if the COMEX will actually deliver any physical silver, and on today’s show Rafi Farber provides an update to what’s happening.

Last Friday, the price of silver fell from around $25.15 to a low around $24.25, or -3.6%. We were told, also on Friday, that this drop occurred at a “weird hour when there was no liquidity.” In fact, it happened shortly after noon in London. We were earnestly...

For thousands of years, there has been a dominant international currency. Until August 15, 1971, when President Nixon closed the gold window and revoked the right of foreign governments to redeem their dollar assets for gold, all the dominant currencies had either...

Stacking silver bars and coins is awesome, but do you know how many cool silver products are out there for your collection? Today Yarra shares some of her favorite silver pieces, and announces the winner of the First Majestic silver medallion!

As the U.S. Senate moves closer to passing a trillion-dollar spending bill that includes some infrastructure priorities, critics are warning that the public is being taken for a ride.

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of July. Long term – remains on BUY signal at the end of July. 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...

Sometimes fantasy becomes reality. At other times, a dose of reality will temper fantasies of outsized and unjustified proportion. Some silver investors and analysts could use a dose of reality. Below is a chart of silver prices dating back to 1915…

As the S&P 500 chugs higher and higher, have you been monitoring the sector strength over the last month? Taking a deeper look into leading sectors paints a different picture.

The summer (inflation) cool down continues… We anticipated it in NFTRH well ahead of time using the (monthly 30yr yield) Continuum as a visual guide. The idea was that the inflation uproar of Q1…

It’s no secret that the S&P 500 has been leaving all bears in the dust. How does the recent rate of change measure up to previous bull runs? After seeing many bull and bear markets over the years, I have never quite seen a slope of this magnitude. Of course, a...

While it is becoming increasingly common knowledge that the price of silver has long been suppressed below it’s true fair value, what is less often discussed is just how far out of line it actually may be.

Jerome Powell, after last week’s FOMC meeting, said inflation has run hotter than expected. However, he wants to assure Americans that the destruction of their dollars’ purchasing power is temporary. His diagnosis? Ballooning demand for goods and services when the U...

The summer doldrums in precious metals markets have tested the patience of bulls. The silver market has been hit especially hard in recent weeks, but price stayed above the $24 level and avoided dipping to new lows for the year. 

Silver has been stuck within a rangebound consolidation between circa $22 and $30 for the better part of the last year. Unfortunately, we are now observing signs that silver may be set to decline back as low as the mid-$18 range, before it continues any higher. Two...

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of July. Long-term – remains on BUY signal at the end of July. Short term – on sell signals. We closed out all of our positions with good profits.