How do you safely and securely move billions of dollars worth of gold?Very quietly. De Nederlandsche Bank (the Dutch central bank) did just that, moving over 220 tons of gold coins and bars… Read More

Have we already entered recession? Worse, have we been in a recession for years now? Recently I joined Jeff Tucker of the Brownstone Institute on an article about the Herculean task of tryin… Read More

Gold was one of the best-performing assets through the first half of 2024. Gold was up 12 percent in dollar terms through the first half of the year, hitting all-time highs along the way. Th… Read More

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up don’t miss a wonderful interview with Connor Boyack. Connor is the founder and president of the Libe… Read More

Government officials and media pundits keep trying to tell you that inflation isn't really that bad. In fact, the economy is great! You just don't realize how good you have it! In this episo… Read More

Despite calls for a big sell-off, gold holds above the key $2,300 support level and — as we noted on Monday — may be coiling for a new breakout. Holiday markets have often been a… Read More

The rush to buy gold in Vietnam and Thailand hasn’t let up despite high prices and long lines. Last month, the Vietnamese government launched a scheme to drive gold prices lower. The S… Read More

Central banks continued to buy gold in May, but the pace slowed moderately with China at least temporarily out of the picture. Central banks added a net 10 tons of gold in May, according to… Read More

(Trenton, New Jersey – July 1, 2024) -- For the second time in less than a year, the New Jersey legislature has voted to end the sales tax on purchases of gold and silver coins, b… Read More

After a rollicking spring rally, gold has settled into a trading range that seems typical for a summertime slowdown.One indicator is now pointing toward a big surprise soon, however. If we p… Read More

The political class keeps gaslighting us and trying to convince us that price inflation isn’t as bad as we think. The fact is it’s probably worse than we think. People like Paul… Read More

Even Nigeria is now bringing its gold reserves home to keep it safe from the West. According to a report by The Star, Nigerian officials decided to repatriate the country’s gold in Apr… Read More

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up we’ll hear from Axel Merk President of Merk Investments and well-known market commentator. Mike Maha… Read More

A colleague recently discovered a website called "WTF Happened in 1971?" The entire main page is filled with charts and graphs. All of them show some kind of significant shift beginning in 1… Read More

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey engaged in a comprehensive discussion with Axel Merk, President and Chief Investment Officer of Merk Investments.  Kn… Read More

As war wages across their eastern border, Poles seek safety. And they’re finding it in gold. Russian troops stormed across the Ukrainian border on Feb. 24, 2022. It was Fat Tuesday; a… Read More

The Federal Reserve is losing over $1 billion every week and you're on the hook. Since September 2022, the central bank has reported losses of around $176.4 billion. If it were a real compan… Read More

Despite the generally negative attitude toward gold you hear in the mainstream financial media, the vast majority of professional investors in North America own at least some gold and the nu… Read More

In the latest episode of Money Metals' Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey delves into the mischaracterization of gold by the mainstream media and its implications for investors. Maharrey star… Read More

If you listen to the mainstream financial media, you might think gold is a horrible investment and should generally be avoided. In this episode of the Money Metals' Midweek Memo, host Mike M… Read More

Dear Valued Reader, We're pleased today to grant you access to the Summer 2024 issue of Money Metals Insider – a FREE benefit for you, our valued reader. This special newsletter is pac… Read More

Call us traitors if you want, but advocates of free and transparent markets in the monetary metals may be pleased by this week's reports that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has a plea deal… Read More

Bank of America is eyeballing $3,000 gold. According to a report released by the big bank, gold prices could potentially hit $3,000 an ounce in the next 12 to 18 months as the Federal Reserv… Read More

The investment world generally treats gold like a second-class citizen. Sure, the mainstream will sit up and take notice during a strong bull run, but generally, the financial media and inve… Read More

You've probably heard the phrase, "Go for the gold!" Well, in hockey, they do things a little differently. It's "Go for the silver!" Tonight, hockey players from either Edmonton or Florida w… Read More

BREAKING NEWS – A Russian hacking organization appears to be in the process of blackmailing the Federal Reserve.  On June 23, 2024, the criminal organization LockBit 3.0, a Russia… Read More

You know gold is doing well when the mainstream sits up and takes notice. The mainstream financial pundits specifically, and the media in general, are typically apathetic about gold at best… Read More

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviewed Thomas James DiLorenzo, an accomplished author, President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and former econom… Read More

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up don’t miss a tremendous interview with Tom DiLorenzo, president of the renowned Mises Institute and… Read More

Since the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, investors have enjoyed higher yields on cash socked away in money market accounts and bonds. Higher yields have created some headwin… Read More

A few weeks ago, gold sold off on news that the People’s Bank of China didn’t add any gold to its reserves in May. At the time, I called it a “kneejerk reaction,” and… Read More

For the first time in American history, interest on the national debt just crossed the one trillion dollar line. In fact, it's projected to hit 3 trillion in just 5 years. As Wall Street Si… Read More

Central banks have been gobbling up gold, and based on responses to the World Gold Council's 2024 Central Bank Gold Reserves Survey, their appetites for the yellow metal aren’t going t… Read More

Indian gold demand remained strong last month despite record prices. India ranks as the world’s number two gold consumer, just behind China.  According to the World Gold Council… Read More

During this inflationary cycle, gold tended to sell off with any hot inflation news. Conversely, mainstream and institutional investors tended to buy when inflation appeared to be cooling. D… Read More

Author and historian Yuval Noah Harari recently commented that Bitcoin is a currency of “distrust,” emphasizing that “the preference for Bitcoin is based on distrust of hum… Read More

It's starting to get difficult for the most optimistic cheerleader to pretend this economy is "robust." We got more evidence today that the American consumer is tapped out. And that's really… Read More

Since mid-2021, we lived through the worst price inflation since the 1970s. CPI peaked in June 2022 at 9.1 percent. During this inflationary period, a lot of people sold gold as evidenced by… Read More

The Biden administration ran the biggest monthly budget deficit of the year in May as it continues to spend money hand over fist. Federal spending overshot receipts by $347.13 billion last m… Read More

On June 13, Tanzania Finance Minister Dr. Mwigulu Nchemba issued a directive in an effort to curb the widespread use of the U.S. dollar in the country. This is just one among many body blows… Read More

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap podcast, I’m Stefan Gleason. Coming up in a moment, Mike Maharrey talks with Greg Weldon of Weldon Financial. Greg breaks down the latest actio… Read More

Singapore is set to usurp London and New York as the world’s gold hub as the yellow metal shifts from West to East. According to the World Gold Council head of Asia-Pacific and global… Read More

The petrodollar quietly died this week. While it didn't get big headlines, the demise of the petrodollar could mean big trouble for a U.S. government that depends on dollar dominance to supp… Read More

Jp Cortez, executive director of the Sound Money Defense League, joined Charlotte McLeod of Investing News to discuss sound money, state legislative victories, and what is at stake in the up… Read More

Introduction In this episode of the Money Metals Exchange podcast, host Mike Maharrey speaks with Greg Weldon, CEO of Weldon Financial.  Weldon is known for his in-depth financial analy… Read More

It's almost as if the central bankers at the Federal Reserve are throwing darts at the wall to determine the trajectory of monetary policy. And I'm not convinced there is even a dartboard on… Read More

Strike up the band and wave the victory banners! Inflation is dead! Or is it? The May Consumer Price Index (CPI) report was cause for optimism. But price inflation is like that stubborn weed… Read More

It may be time to turn a little near-term cautious on silver. We recently got some signals of a potential rate cut from the Fed. A recent GDP revision from the US Department of Commerce said… Read More

Headlines like this have been pummeling the monetary metals sector in recent days: "Gold Is Getting So Expensive That Even China's Central Bank Stopped Buying." According to this particular… Read More

There was a big selloff in gold and silver last Friday sparked by a couple of news items. In this episode of Money Metals' Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey explains that it was a perfect exa… Read More

Silver use by the solar energy sector is one of the primary factors driving the overall demand for silver, and there is reason to believe photovoltaic silver off-take will continue to increa… Read More

Most people don't understand the enormity of the national debt, the amount of government spending, or the size of the monthly deficits. As a result, they come up with all kinds of absurd "so… Read More

Gold crashed through several support levels on Friday. The yellow metal plunged from $2,376 Thursday to under $2,300 by Friday afternoon. The mainstream financial media bandied about two pri… Read More

American consumers kept their credit cards in their pockets for the second straight month in April, a bad sign for an economy that has run on plastic for the last year. After cratering in Ma… Read More

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Later on in today’s program, we have an important update on Money Metals’ efforts to enact pro-sound mon… Read More

The FBI arrested a man last week who was allegedly involved a scam in which a phony FBI agent named “Jon Stryker” would bilk elderly victims out of their gold. Ram… Read More

Gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reported net inflows of gold for the first time in 12 months in May. Funds based in Europe and Asia led the way as total gold holdings by ETFs global… Read More

The Sound Money Defense League (SMDL) is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2024, marking a decade of relentless advocacy for the remonetization of gold and silver as legitimate currency.&n… Read More

A little bit is the first step toward a lot.  Now, imagine billions of people in Asia buying just a little bit of gold.  That seems to be the trend. We’ve reported on young C… Read More

How much gold is there in the world? The quick answer is not much - at least not relatively speaking. According to the World Gold Council, as of the end of 2023, around 212,582 tons of gold… Read More

When the Federal Reserve started raising rates, it precipitated a financial crisis. The central bank managed to paper over the problem with a bailout program, but the crisis continues to bub… Read More

Central banks’ monetary policies are the most perverse government intervention. Their consequences are dire, last for a very long time, and people don’t perceive them as problems… Read More

Gold has had a nice run over the last few months and it's garnered a lot of attention. Silver has kind of gotten lost in the shadow of gold's shine. But as host Mike Maharrey explains in thi… Read More

Welcome to the Money Metals Midweek Memo, hosted by Mike Maharrey, where we discuss news and commentary related to sound money, precious metals markets, and the economy.  Today's focus… Read More

Last month, silver cracked the key resistance of $30 an ounce level for the first time in over a decade.  It’s been quite a bull run for silver, and Chen Lin thinks it has plenty… Read More

After a weak March, central bank gold buying rebounded in April with global net purchases of 33 tons, according to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council. Net central bank gold b… Read More

You are paying more and getting less thanks to persistent price inflation. Politicians and talking heads on financial news networks often point to “strong” retail sales data to s… Read More

The Federal Reserve was sold as a way to "provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system." That's not what the central bank does. In fact, the… Read More

The money supply is rising again, and persistent price inflation is not a surprise. Price inflation occurs when the amount of currency increases significantly above private sector demand. Fo… Read More

The rapidly eroding confidence in our institutions gets plenty of news coverage. We expect it will be a dominant theme for investors in the years ahead. Investing success may require correct… Read More

Of course, everyone knows that the U.S. dollar is the global reserve currency. Yet a new analysis reveals that gold is actually the money that every central bank wants to hold. Let me first… Read More

Did the U.S. government really try to confiscate Americans' gold? The short answer is... well, there isn't a short answer. It's a complicated subject with more nuance than most people give i… Read More

(Baton Rouge, Louisiana – May 31, 2024) – Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed a new law reaffirming gold and silver as legal tender, making a symbolic statement in favor o… Read More

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up don’t miss a sensational interview with Peter St Onge, economist at the Heritage Foundation and a fe… Read More

The Reserve Bank of India recently brought a little over 100 tons of gold home. And more gold may be heading back to India in the near future. The Indian central bank repatriated the gold fr… Read More

In a recent episode of the Money Metals Exchange podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviewed economist Dr. Peter St. Onge.  The two discuss St. Onge’s early success and subsequent fin… Read More

Wow, it’s been some ride. Over the past four years silver has tested $30 three times. We’ve even seen silver reach new multi-decade highs in most major currencies. And until th… Read More

Last month, Zimbabwe officials introduced a gold-backed currency in an effort to stabilize the country’s economy. At the time, I warned that a gold-backed currency would be a great ste… Read More

It turns out renters and homeowners are living in two entirely different economies, at least according to a new study by the Federal Reserve. Who, ironically enough, made it happen. In shor… Read More

India imported more silver through the first four months of 2024 than it did in the entirety of last year. Indian silver imports totaled 4,172 tons of silver from January through April. That… Read More

This episode of Money Metals' Midweek Memo, hosted by Mike Maharrey, delves into the impact of government actions on the economy, the role of the Federal Reserve in inflation, and the strate… Read More

The Federal Reserve can't seem to get a handle on price inflation. It vacillates back and forth between dovish and hawkish, raising hopes for interest rate cuts one week and dashing them the… Read More

After a tepid March and April, Indian gold demand surged during an important May festival.  India ranks as the second-largest gold market in the world behind only China.  Moderatin… Read More

If you listen to government officials and central bankers talk about price inflation, you might think they don’t have the foggiest idea of what caused it. It might have been supply cha… Read More

Governments constantly tinker with prices. Government people claim it's in our best interest, but price manipulation creates all kinds of unseen negative consequences. Sometimes governments… Read More

In a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviewed Chris Ritchie, President of SilverCrest Metals.  SilverCrest Metals, headquartered in Vancouver, British… Read More

Could the world be creeping closer to a monetary gold standard?  Steve Forbes sees signs that it is. In a recent article published by Forbes Magazine, Steve Forbes wrote that it may see… Read More

Welcome to this week’s market wrap podcast, I’m Mike Gleason Coming up in a moment, we have an exclusive interview with Chris Ritchie, the president of SilverCrest Metals. Chris… Read More

Are the central bankers at the Federal Reserve just winging it?  It sure seems that way if you step back and take a long view of their decision-making. Fed officials project this aura o… Read More

The Reserve Bank of India has followed the lead of China and other Eastern central banks and ramped up its accumulation of gold. According to the latest data released by the RBI, the Indian… Read More

After the latest CPI report, the mainstream declared price inflation dead and put interest rate cuts back on the table. In this episode of the Money Metals' Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey… Read More

In the latest episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey dives into the current state of the economy, inflation, and the Federal Reserve's monetary policy.  Mike Mahar… Read More

The purpose of this article is to apprise you of the fact that the really big action hasn't even started yet, but it will soon and we will proceed to see exactly why in this update. Let&rsqu… Read More

(Charlotte, North Carolina – May 21st, 2024) – For the ninth straight year, a national precious metals dealer is teaming up with the nation’s preeminent sound money policy… Read More

Despite a rising price, Chinese gold demand remained robust in April. Strong investment demand more than made up for some weakness in the gold jewelry market.  This continues a trend of… Read More

All that glitters isn’t gold. Silver also has quite a shine lately. While gold has gotten the headlines, silver has had a solid bull run over the last several months. In fact, the whit… Read More

Wall Street is ecstatic after the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) hit 40,000 for the first time ever. The nominal record makes for plenty of pithy headlines. The Dow is indeed racing hig… Read More

Last week, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (HR 8421). The bill would do exactly as its title suggests: abolish the Fed. “Americans would be… Read More

(Birmingham, Alabama - May 14, 2024) – Alabama Governor Key Ivey today signed a bill that removes all income taxes on capital gains from the sale of gold and silver, enabling the… Read More

Welcome to this week’s market wrap podcast, I’m Mike Gleason Coming up in a moment, we have an exclusive interview with Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter and the CEO of the… Read More