Important precious metals market news and pithy commentary for savvy investors. High-quality issue briefs, gold and silver price charts, and breaking news alerts. Join over 1.2 million individuals who receive our email news alerts.
"Frustration" no longer adequately describes what reformers in Congress – along with millions of investors and taxpayers who voted for reform – are feeling. For many, hopelessness is beginning to ...
Stefan Gleason
September 7th, 2017
In order to sell the program Modi employed a familiar strategy. He vilified the users of cash as tax cheats and criminals. He promised the measure would punish black marketeers, boost the Indian econo...
Clint Siegner
September 5th, 2017
The Chinese are preparing to launch an oil futures contract denominated in yuan and redeemable in gold. That is very bad news for the petro-dollar and for U.S. hegemony in the oil trade....
Clint Siegner
September 5th, 2017
Although, Silver Eagle sales for Jan-Aug 2017 are nearly 50% lower than they were during the same period last year. I believe the biggest factor that hurt Silver Eagle sales was the election of Donal...
Steve St. Angelo
September 1st, 2017
Money Metals Exchange is now accepting essays from applicants for its gold-backed scholarship fund for 2017. Funds will be awarded to students who understand that gold is money and are able to clearly...
Money Metals News Service
August 30th, 2017
The Death of the U.S. Dollar as the world's reserve currency will have a profoundly negative impact on the lives of most Americans. Unfortunately, 99% of the population has no clue. The only reason ...
Steve St. Angelo
August 30th, 2017
Gold's naysayers and doubters came out in full force earlier this summer as sentiment reached its nadir. The mid-year pullback in prices did, too. There can be no doubt about it now – gold has broke...
Stefan Gleason
August 29th, 2017
According to the most recent report on the U.S. Financial Institutions Derivatives trading activity, the U.S. banks held a record amount of precious metals contracts in the first quarter of 2017. Not ...
Steve St. Angelo
August 24th, 2017
In January, 2015, I penned an essay titled China's Global Gold Supply Game of Stones, outlining China's long-range goal to dominate the world's physical gold market. Well, events have moved massivel...
David Smith
August 23rd, 2017
Investors have been well-trained in complacency. They have spent the past few years watching markets shrug off momentous geopolitical events – each more quickly than the last. Brexit's impact faded ...
Clint Siegner
August 21st, 2017
Unfortunately for precious metals investors, there continues to be a great deal of misinformation about how much gold there is in the world. The biggest culprit that confuses precious metals investor...
Steve St. Angelo
August 21st, 2017
Dollars are created as debt. More dollars in circulation = more debt. More debt means consumption is "pulled forward" from the future so consumption can occur now. This usually ends badly....
Gary Christenson
August 16th, 2017
While gold demand in the West continues to languish, something has recently motivated renewed interest in the yellow precious metal in Germany and the United Kingdom. Now, when I say "renewed interes...
Steve St. Angelo
August 14th, 2017
The U.S. may somehow still find a way to get involved in a nuclear exchange with communists 26 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union – even if it's with a backwater country whose rockets tend...
Clint Siegner
August 14th, 2017
The Federal Reserve can make or break a president. Monetary policy influences all financial markets as well as the cycles in the economy. No president wants to have to run for re-election when the sto...
Stefan Gleason
August 10th, 2017
One of the major gold market indicators experienced a major shift in 2017. If we look at this gold indicator over the past several years, this recent trend reversal suggests something has fundamental...
Steve St. Angelo
August 8th, 2017
Republican leaders in Congress, with the urging of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, are anxious to raise the federal borrowing limit from $19.8 trillion – no strings attached. The only hitch is tho...
Clint Siegner
August 7th, 2017
In an interesting change of events, production at four of the top primary silver miners plummeted during the second quarter of 2017. This goes well beyond normal fluctuations in mining companies prod...
Steve St. Angelo
August 7th, 2017
The Bigger the Base, the Greater the Upside Case. This saying among technical analysts/chartists helps define where we are today in the precious metals – and where we'll soon be headed....
David Smith
August 3rd, 2017
Precious metals investors may not be aware, but silver investment has seriously outperformed gold in this major market sector. Even though precious metals sentiment and sales are currently lower than...
Steve St. Angelo
August 2nd, 2017
