Stefan Gleason

Foodflation is registering at the checkout lines of your local grocery store – and in a bigger way than has been seen in decades. Many bullion dealers are also struggling despite surging demand for their products…

Gold and silver markets are inching closer to embarking on new uplegs. Silver outperformed last week and appears to have the momentum behind it to lead a fresh precious metals breakout.

For the first time in a very long time, mining stocks are showing leadership. That has profound implications for precious metals markets.

The massive set of stimulus measures rolled out last month by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve has left many Americans wanting more… and politicians scheming for new ways to dole out additional trillions in cash.

Whether it’s the People’s Bank of China or the U.S. Federal Reserve, central bankers are keen on giving themselves more power to manipulate economic outcomes.

The metals markets are being pulled in multiple directions simultaneously like never before. The global virus-triggered economic freeze has caused industrial demand for all commodities to crater.

All medical projection models are being proven wrong. And investors should be skeptical of any particular projection models for the economy or financial markets. They will all be wrong to some extent.

Before investors jump on the deflation bandwagon, they should carefully consider the monetary and political forces that could be deployed to reverse a whiff of deflation.

We appear to be entering the sort of scenario that doomsday preppers have been warning about for years. A pandemic is spreading death and panic around the world. Markets are crashing. Store shelves are emptying…

During turbulent times like these, markets can be melting down one day… and zooming higher the next. Gold may serve as a fantastic safe-haven asset one day… but get hammered by futures traders the next.

The Dollar Index is now facing some significant resistance in the 99-100 zone. If the buck turns lower from here, that should help hard asset prices continue to recover

Put simply, available inventories are failing to keep up with demand largely from the automotive industry. According to Refnitiv GFMS, the palladium market will be under-supplied by 883,000 ounces this year.

The emerging coronavirus pandemic is already crimping global commerce. In response, the S&P 500 has put in two weeks’ worth of declines since making new highs to start the year.

Precious metals got off to an explosive early start to 2020 as tensions between the U.S. and Iran drove safe-haven buying. The question for investors is whether the fundamental picture now looks promising or fleeting.

The U.S. Treasury announced Monday that China is no longer on a list of countries deemed to be “currency manipulators.” The timing was awfully convenient and besides, nobody actually believes China has stopped manipulating the value of its yuan versus the U.S. dollar.

Precious metals markets enter the New Year with some impressive upside momentum. Are gold and silver poised to deliver big gains in 2020?

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged as expected last week. However, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell made news with some of his most dovish remarks to date – stating flatly that he won’t hike rates again until inflation moves up significantly

The Fed’s “weak dollar” policy looks like it may come back to bite, as the Federal Reserve Note steadily loses credibility as world reserve currency.

There is good reason to be skeptical of whether all these “gold” vehicles actually hold physical metal sufficient to back their market capitalizations on a 1:1 basis. Some of them very well might; others almost certainly don’t.

Silver miners forced to adapt and shift focus and capital into adding gold production rather than boosting silver output

Monetary Madness Puts U.S. Dollar Holders in Jeopardy Bullion.Directory precious metals analysis 12 Novemberber, 2019 By Stefan Gleason President of Money Metals Exchange Why? Because the banking system may not […]

They may not call it “Quantitative Easing,” but in September Federal Reserve officials launched a massive new campaign of liquidity injections that will expand their balance sheet by hundreds of billions of dollars. This was all prompted by trouble in the overnight lending “repo” market, where a lack of liquidity caused interest rates to spike to multiples of the Fed funds rate.

One of Warren’s signature campaign promises is to impose a “wealth tax.” It would introduce a dangerous new concept into the tax code – namely that the government gets to tax not just capital gains on investments, but also the market value of investments and other household assets taken together.

Few investors are positioned to cope with the rising risk of war in the Middle East. Few are prepared for the prospect of persistently higher energy prices and higher inflation. Even fewer are taking steps to insulate their portfolios from future black swan events

It’s the most widely anticipated recession in history. The recession hasn’t arrived yet – and may not do so anytime soon – but the mainstream media still can’t stop talking […]

Just a few weeks ago, silver naysayers told us we’d have to wait months, or even years, before the market made a big move. Now they are eating their words! The white-hot metal surged past $18.50/oz this morning to reach its highest level in more than two years.

Last Monday, the Treasury Department labeled China a “currency manipulator” for depressing the yuan’s exchange rate. It isn’t clear whether that designation will have anything more than a symbolic effect.

The world is in the midst of one of the strangest asset bubbles of all time. Instead of being fueled by the hope of bigger and bigger gains, it is being driven by a resignation to incurring lower and lower… and ultimately negative, yields on capital.