Gold is going to become increasingly important as the deglobalization and de-dollarization trend that took off last year continues to gain steam, according to a recent report published by Sprott. So what do we mean by “deglobalization?”
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How do you know that you’ll actually have enough funds in your golden years to pay for even the most basic of necessities, much less pay for a comfortable retirement with those little perks that make life sweet (like being able to get that slice of cheesecake after dinner instead of pinching pennies and wishing)?
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They say money doesn’t grow on trees. I guess that’s true, but you can dig money out of the ground. And a lot of people are trying to do that right now, with gold prices hovering around $5,000 an ounce. USA Today ran a story about the renewed interest in gold prospecting. The article featured Kevin Singel, a “longtime prospector and guidebook author.”
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Global debt is at record high levels. This is a stick of dynamite just waiting for something to light the fuse. UBS warns that the match could be the AI bubble. The Swiss bank recently published its worst-case scenario for defaults in the private credit sector, estimating that default rates could surge to 15 percent if AI triggers aggressive disruption
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Silver price was down over 6% earlier today, and it moved slightly higher since that time. But that’s not really important. The important thing is that it’s not soaring right now – and it should be soaring if tomorrow’s delivery notice was to break COMEX. That’s what’s usually taking place before key events…
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Five or six years ago, that number was mostly confined to the fringes. Mentions were usually tied to apocalyptic predictions about total dollar collapse. Today, the conversation is much more clinical. The very same price forecasts that would’ve been laughed at just a few years ago are everywhere today.
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The current economic environment has a lot of eerie parallels to 2007 – extremely high asset valuations, the economy is loaded up with debt, and monetary policy has easy money blowing up these bubbles. And characters like Larry Kudlow are talking up the economy just like in 2007.
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What we are witnessing is not a short-term anomaly, but a broad asset-class rotation away from highly financialised paper markets and toward tangible, real-world assets, led squarely by precious metals, which is in effect a full cycle period leading into early next decade.
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Another big bank has raised its gold forecast. This time, it’s JPMorgan expressing more bullish sentiment despite the recent correction. The big bank raised its 2026 gold forecast from $5,055 per ounce to $6,300 noting that the 11 percent correction late last month ranks alongside some of the largest down days in gold’s history
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Imagine watching a championship game where, halfway through, the referees adjust the rulebook. The scoreboard doesn’t change immediately. The crowd may not even notice. But every coach on the field suddenly recalculates their strategy. That’s essentially what happened in global banking after the 2008 financial crisis.
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The Federal Reserve’s January 27-28 meeting minutes reveal a central bank divided on its next move. While members vote near-unanimously to hold the interest rate target range at 3.50%-3.75%, the consensus quickly breaks down when discussion turns to future direction.
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Yes, the move higher in the USD Index helped as well, but the fact that silver and miners declined much more than gold perfectly fits the narrative that I described yesterday – namely, that stocks’ decline is likely to impact those two markets more than gold.
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Paper silver has driven the market for years, but with metal in short supply, physical demand is beginning to exert control. After briefly skyrocketing to $120 an ounce, the silver price has corrected, retreating to the $75 range. However, one of the fundamentals driving silver to that record high remains in place.
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Gold surged sharply before pulling back last week, triggering headlines about “crashes” and “billions wiped out.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested Chinese speculators played a role in this all-but-unprecedented gold price volatility. He’s not alone. Bloomberg made similar claims a couple of weeks back.
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Based on preliminary data compiled by the Silver Institute, silver demand outstripped supply by about 95 million ounces last year, leading to the fifth straight market deficit. Including the projected 2025 shortfall, the 5-year market deficit will climb above 800 million ounces, an entire year of mining output.
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Gold’s rebound has revived $6,000 forecasts, but silver remains oddly stuck. Meanwhile, global financial heavyweights are urging Indian savers to part with their gold. This week’s headlines reveal who still trusts real money, and who doesn’t…
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Despite the recent selloff, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) remains bullish, forecasting $6,000 gold and $100 silver in 2026. The Canadian bank significantly upped its gold price forecast from $4,500 in October. CIBC analysts extended their bullish forecast into 2027, projecting an average price of $6,500 next year.
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The Debt Black Hole grew as U.S. consumer debt unexpectedly surged in December. Americans apparently put a Christmas spending spree on Visa and Mastercard. Consumer debt climbed by $24 billion, a 5.7 percent increase – and Americans are now buried under $5.11 trillion in consumer debt.
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(Clue: It Isn’t What You Think…) Government overspending has an unintended consequence that rarely gets mentioned: It quietly strips away our options. As debt grows, interest costs crowd out options – leaving fewer ways to meet obligations. This is what happens next…
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After rising to an all-time high of 4,025 tonnes in 2025, ETF gold holdings continued to climb in January, growing by another 120.1 tonnes. The flow of new metal, coupled with a 14 percent price increase, pushed assets under management (AUM) by gold funds up 20 percent month-on-month to a record $669 billion.
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Are you worried that the big sell-off in gold and silver is the end of the bull market? I’m not, for reasons I have already articulated. And many mainstream analysts don’t seem to be concerned either. Reuters recently published an article headlined, “Gold’s bull run seen intact despite steep pullback.”
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When the price of gold plunged on Friday, Chinese investors lined up at the only Singapore bank selling gold products to retail customers to take advantage of the dip. The underscores a fundamental dynamic in this gold bull market – regular people want the yellow metal, no matter what the big bankers are doing.
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Gold and silver slumped again today following Friday’s historic sell-off, as sellers continue to pummel the beleaguered metals complex. Gold and silver have both wiped out this year’s parabolic rally despite the fundamentally positive backdrop remaining unchanged.
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Who Is Kevin Warsh, and Is He Good for Gold? Kevin Warsh’s Fed nomination points to reform and discipline – not upheaval. Markets reacted with cautious relief, even as gold suffered a sharp one-day sell-off. Here’s why that move says more about leverage clearing than about gold’s long-term role…
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With demand for gold and silver at a fevered pitch, speculative mania has driven premiums in China to extremely high levels, creating tension in the marketplace. As Bloomberg reported, the precious metals frenzy created by rapidly rising prices has increasingly exposed Chinese investors to high levels of risk…
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The intraday reversal in silver just below my $120 target (at $117.75) might have marked the final top for the time being, or we might see another attempt that takes silver to $120 or even a bit above it before a bigger decline (that is then followed by an even more epic silver rally)
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You might think that this gold bull rally is quite young. However, Rick Rule argues that this bull market has really been going on since 2000. The Rule Investment Media CEO told Kitco News rising price of gold reflects a long-term erosion in purchasing power driven by negative real interest rates and ever-expanding government debt.
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Gold rocketed past $5,000, silver just crossed $100 and the headlines are grasping for explanations – from tariffs to politics. When the narratives stop making sense, it’s usually a sign of something deeper. This week, let’s look at the signals…
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