Silver Editorials & Commentary

The gold market tested a key level this week. On Wednesday, prices rallied up to $1,800 an ounce. The following day, sellers came in to prevent gold from breaking out. As of this Friday recording, the monetary metal trades at $1,782 an ounce and is unchanged now for...

Headline writers hyperventilated last week over the prospect of higher capital gains taxes while the stock market took it in stride. Biden wants to double the levy on long-term investments to 39.6%, ending a felicitous run at 20% that was enacted 40 years ago under...

We all should be aware that the current Federal Reserve of the Unites States is not America’s first central bank. In fact, we’ve had a few others before this current disastrous iteration came into existence in 1913. We hope and believe it won’t be long before this...

Spot silver is trading around $26 per ounce…but you can't buy any at that price. Instead, you'll have to pay almost 50% more. That's right. If you want silver right now, you'll need to pay at least $35 per ounce.

David Morgan, known as “The Silver Guru” and founder of TheMorganReport.com, returns to Liberty and Finance to weigh in on the coming retail crowd-sourced #SilverSqueeze, and how the organic coalition of Reddit / WallStreetSilver / and other grass-roots retail...

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

Below, we consider two well-known names in modern markets, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, and current value investing legend, Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO Investment Strategies.

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.

Gold and silver improved last week and we saw a tentative breakout by precious metals stocks from the downtrend they have been stuck in since last August. The purpose of this update is to point out that even though the sector may back off short-term from the...

Remember how every month in 2021 started off hot and then saw a pullback and volatility occur by the second half of the month? Welcome to the second half of April.

As top officials around the world convene this week for a “climate summit,” President Joe Biden’s administration is planning the most radical expansion of government’s role in the economy since FDR’s New Deal.

Yesterday, spot palladium surged to a record high on bets that rebounding economies will fuel automaker demand, deepening supply shortfalls of the precious metal.

The silver price is today half of the January 1980 level. That was the peak at $50 which silver reached again 31 years later in 2011. But alas, the bullion banks, aided by the BIS (Bank for International Settlement) and central banks have again managed to push it...

One of the most unfortunate things I’ve witnessed in my 20+ year career in finance is how investors feel they are being protected by the regulators, only to find out that the regulators are often even more dangerous than the banks that keep melting down the economy...

While there has been a lot of debate in recent years as to whether the silver market has been manipulated or not, the LBMA and the CFTC just did everyone in favor of confirming it in their very own words.

Upton Sinclair famously observed that, “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Bitcoin mania hit an air pocket on Sunday with a so-far $11,500 plunge from last week's record-high $64,858. Groping for an explanation, Bloomberg and other mainstream sources attributed the drop to speculation that the U.S. Treasury might crack down on digital-...

There are fewer than two weeks to go before the next test of the Cabal’s resolve to keep on suppressing the precious metal prices. That is, if the REDDIT Ape-inspired movement to effect a bear squeeze on silver – and in effect also on gold - could gain enough...

The Fiat Currency Age is nothing if not repetitious. There are dozens of charts that illustrate how closely today’s financial bubble resembles its predecessors. But simple is better when expressing a hard truth, so let’s go with that old standby, margin debt. This...

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of March. Long-term – on BUY signal as of end of March. 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.

Credit Suisse is hours from collapse and the consequences could be a systemic failure of the financial system. Disappointingly, my dream last night stopped there. So unfortunately I didn’t experience what actually happened.

“Other than my Cincinnati Bengals breaking my heart, few things are more consistent than stocks higher in April.” As a stock nerd and NFL fan, I love this quote from Ryan Detrick , the chief market strategist at LPL Financial.

A discussion on what is money, and what is real money.

Anyone who says inflation isn’t a problem hasn’t tried shopping for a new home recently. Housing costs are skyrocketing. The median sales price of existing homes has spiked 16% over the past 12 months (from $270,400 to $313,000) – the fastest pace in 15 years.

Suddenly, out of nowhere BankAmerica has emerged as a major participant in precious metals OTC derivatives. This new fact is contained in the latest release of the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Quarterly Derivatives Report for...

The inflation trade is struggling for loft, a potential victim of its own, wild popularity. "We don’t have strong reflation-trade momentum at the moment because people are waiting for more data," said Daniel Tenengauzer, markets strategy chief at Bank of New York...

Recently I searched the Thoughts from the Frontline archives to see how often I used the word “bubble.” It was more than I thought, and I wasn’t quoting Don Ho. The bubbles I talked about were anything but tiny. Most of them subsequently popped, too.

Banks, and hence banking risk, come in a wide variety of flavors, largely because bank mismanagement and short-sighted absurdity comes with equal frequency. As such, a fuller discussion on banking risk would necessitate hundreds of pages and hundreds of examples.

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of March. SLV is on short-term sell signal. COT data is supportive for overall higher silver prices. 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.

In keeping with its historical performance, April has started off white-hot. We ended March, and Q1 for that matter, with more questions than answers.

Markets tend to move in cycles. They typically experience cyclical pullbacks after trending higher for a long period of time. Rarely do markets move straight up or straight down.

Two weeks ago in this space, we brought to your attention a looming and growing problem within the fractional reserve bullion industry. The situation has seemingly gotten more dire in the past few days, so we thought we should write about it again today.

So a single political party gains control of a lockdown-battered country desperate for any and all forms of government spending. Direct payments, loan forgiveness, infrastructure, all of these and more are not just possible, but popular. The president and his...

Central bankers and their comrades in Washington DC changed course in 2020. The policy shifted from “print money and hand it to Wall Street” to “helicopter money” in the form of direct payments and loans to citizens.

Perceived risk is a subjective assessment of risk or uncertainty, based on our limited perspective. Others' perceptions will influence ours, and actual probabilities of adverse events may differ significantly. The market is often a key determiner of perceived risk....

We all know silver is a small market and therefore volatile. We also know it outperforms gold. And if you’ve participated in one of its spikes, you know the gains can be both quick and breathtaking.

Silver remains on a major BUY signal at the end of March. SLV is on short-term sell 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 has a new long-term buy signal and should produce above-average return over the next few...