Silver Editorials & Commentary

Silver has found support, and has resistance at 33. Long term – on BUY signal as of end of May. Short term – on buy signal. We are holding long term positions.

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth. The energy /oil sector should produce above average return over the next few years.

On Thursday the latest government inflation number is released in the US. And it’s set to be one for the ages, as even DeutscheBank is warning of an inflation crisis coupled with an economic “time bomb”!

As inflation continues to heat up, gold and silver markets are once again on the verge of breaking out. On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released much-anticipated Consumer Price Index data. The CPI came in at a full 5.0% year over year through May.

Market participants are all waiting with bated breath ahead of today’s CPI data release. It’s an important one after last month's shocker. So, what’s your plan?

As many commodities have continued to climb impressively, one stands out like a sore thumb to me: lumber . What can the price of lumber mean, or more importantly, do for you?

Stanley Druckenmiller, well-known hedge fund manager, said in a recent interview that he expected the U.S. dollar to lose its reserve currency status within the next 15 years. In my view, that’s a generous estimation; the facts indicate that it is more likely to...

The U.S. central bank has metastasized from an institution that was originally designed to assist distressed banks, to one that believes its purview now includes perpetuating asset bubbles, fighting global warming and reconciling racial inequities. Another...

There has been a lot of discussion on this channel, as well as others, about how the banks have suppressed the silver price far below its true free market value.

The U.S. central bank has metastasized from an institution that was originally designed to assist distressed banks, to one that believes its purview now includes perpetuating asset bubbles, fighting global warming and reconciling racial inequities. Another...

That the debt is unpayable may be obvious, but the endgame is not obvious at all. The Fed keeps printing, but no default. How come? Is a simple "reset" coming?

If we'd known the pandemic would trigger the most reckless monetary blowout in history, could anyone have imagined that the U.S. dollar a year later would have fallen by just 14%? That doesn't even qualify as a bear market, just a middling correction of a powerful...

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of May. Silver has found support, and has resistance at 33. Long-term – on BUY signal as of end of May. Short-term – on buy signal. We are holding long term positions.

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth. The energy /oil sector should produce above average return over the next few years.

A Dutch court has found an oil company, Shell, to be partially responsible for causing climate change, and has ordered Shell to reduce carbon emissions by 45% by 2030. Crucially, the 45% reduction is not just for Shell's own emissions, but the emissions caused by...

There is a big opportunity setting up in the silver market. It should be no wonder: with global inflation reaching levels not seen in 13 years, markets are increasingly becoming concerned with ever-rising prices. It seems everywhere we look, prices for the things...

The prices of the metals hit their lows by the end of April. Gold traded for around $1,685, and is now over $1,900. Silver was around $24, and is now over $28. These are big moves (though of course nothing like bitcoin).

The June E Mini S&P 500 futures contract traded well early yesterday morning before the cash open. Cash traders, however, had different ideas when the opening bell rang in New York.

The country has largely been divided into two camps. The first camp is full of people who just don’t pay too much attention. They have unshakable faith in Wall Street and government institutions.

A lot of people might be aware of historical cases of hyperinflation, like that of Hungary and the Weimar Republic, or even contemporary ones, like that of Venezuela. And yet, these are taught or reported like extreme cases, very far removed from the daily...

Thinking back to 2007 - 2008, I remember a time when the economic data just kept coming out rosy, even though I deeply suspected there was an underlying shoe to drop due to real estate and overlending. At the time, it seemed like every economic print was bullish,...

Precious metals markets are making modest advances in this final trading week of May. U.S. markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Memorial Day.

For months the bullion banks tried to cover up how close they were to seeing their fractional reserve bullion scheme collapse in the beginning of February.

Long term – on BUY signal as of end of April. Short term – on buy signal. We are holding long term positions.

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth. The energy /oil sector should produce above average return over the next few years.

The silver miners’ stocks have mostly been consolidating high since last summer. While they’ve enjoyed some sharp rallies, those have been within that sideways-grind trend. That lack of overall upside progress has left this tiny contrarian sector out of favor, with...

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been seeing more and more mainstream headlines about inflation fears being on the rise, both in the US and in Europe. Central bankers on both sides of the Atlantic have been doing their best to assuage these concerns, promising...

Do you have exposure to small-cap equities? How do the small-caps measure up versus the large-caps at this moment? There is always opportunity somewhere, and we do our best to find it. Not only in trading and business, but in life too. So, what can we find today in...

As detailed here back in January 2021, the movements of gold prices tend to get echoed about 20-1/2 months later in the movements of long-term interest rates. The replication of gold’s movements is not perfect, and we really should not expect perfection almost 2...

Spot silver jumped to $28.32 an ounce in August 2020, its best performance in seven years, and though the price retreated last fall, it finished the year up an impressive 47%, more than doubling gold’s 22% gain.

US economic data disappointed yesterday. The SPX remained largely unaffected as the dollar remained quiet. Does this remind you of anything?

The Biden administration is 125 days old, and things certainly feel different. What strategies are you employing to take advantage of the shift?

The charts below (SPX and GDX) show what I believe will happen into the month of June where I believe an important top will occur before a summer crash. The prognostication is not meant to take the place of the regular 2-3 e-mails I send out to my subs every day,...

Proponents of silver and their expectations for a much higher price have talked for years about the reasons “silver is undervalued” (their words, not mine). Whether it is a deficit in new production of silver or the gold-to-silver ratio, there is always something to...

The United States House Committee on Financial Services is hosting a party this week with the executives of the finest megabanks on Wall Street!

Investors who feared muni-bond defaults when the pandemic first hit created unusual opportunity for those willing to buck the tide. One of the winners was Doug Behnfield, a Boulder-based financial adviser at Morgan Stanley whose ideas have been featured here many...

I love passive income. Getting paid to literally do nothing is great. Having said that, earning passive income does require occasional doses of activity. You need to check on investments every so often, perhaps making adjustments as necessary. However, the more...

Silver has found support and has resistance at 33. COT data is supportive for overall higher silver prices. Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of April.

In recent weeks and months, the silver market has learned that there are additional obstacles to the silver price breaking through the $30 level, that the CFTC hadn’t informed anyone about outside of the banks.

Our long term stocks/bond model is in favor of stocks over bonds. Investors should overweigh their portfolios with stock/stock ETFs for maximum growth. The energy /oil sector should produce above average return over the next few years.