May 2026 - Week 1 Edition
U.S. Public Debt-to-GDP Ratio Now Surpasses 100% or Is It 125%?
The financial press is making a big deal about the fact that the U.S. Treasury’s “public debt,” which is the debt owed to the public, surpassed the nation’s annual GDP (Gross Domestic Product) at the end of the first quarter.
April - May 1, 2026 - Week 5 Edition
Major Investment Banks Predict Higher Gold Prices by Year-End 2026
Currently, the major European and U.S. investment banks have issued forecasts of healthy gold price gains in 2026 and now they have begun issuing price forecasts for 2027, with one $8,000 forecast.
April 2026 - Week 4 Edition
President Donald J. Trump’s Image and Signature Likely to be Put on Paper Money
Perhaps one of the greatest fears of democrats is transitioning from a nightmare to reality, as conservative House representative Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, has filed legislation to create a $250 bank note with President Trump’s photo emblazoned on the front. Appropriately titled, “The Donald J. Trump $250 Bill Act – H.R. 1761, would change a century-old portion of legislation that bans living people from being commemorated on U.S. currency, thus allowing Trump to be immortalized on a new $250 bill.
April 2026 - Week 3 Edition
Gold Rose, Then Settled Back Down, After Last Week’s Inflation Releases
Wall Street always likes to cite “reasons” for the rise or fall of stocks or gold without any history or context but that has become a fairly useless exercise. Why? Because the real motivation for most investors is that when they like or don’t like an investment, they use some surface “reason” (excuse) for buying or selling it … on any given day.
April 2026 - Week 1 Edition
The Official 2025 Gold Statistics Focus on Rising ETF Demand
Overall, total gold demand in 2025 surpassed 5,000 metric tons* for the first time in history. Gold enjoyed a record year of price gains in 2025, its best year since 1979, setting 53 new all-time highs during the year, while rising 65% year over year. The biggest story was the rise in gold ETF buying around the world, with spectacular new gold ETF demand in India and a belated recovery in ETF buying in the U.S.
March 2026 - Week 4 Edition
Why Gold Has Soared Since 2000 – and Especially Since 2020
Gold was flat, trading $250 to $300 per ounce, from 1998 to 2001, mostly because the federal government balanced the budget and the dollar was strong. In early 2001, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted we’d see budget surpluses forever and would pay off the entire national debt within a decade. The cumulative public debt was $5 trillion then and the CBO predicted $5.6 trillion in surpluses by 2011.
March 2026 - Week 2 Edition
Gold has stayed above its $5,000 support level since February 20
After a small decline in early March, gold surged $100 on Monday, March 9, opening at $5,075 and closing $100 higher, at $5,175. Silver replicated that move with an even stronger surge, from a Monday opening of $83 to a close at $89.
March 2026 - Week 1 Edition
February and Year-to-Date Market Summary
February was another great month for precious metals – especially compared with a flat stock market – as the late January correction in precious metals prices caused enough gold bugs and new gold investors to buy on dips, as we have long counseled here.
February 2026 - Week 4 Edition
Gold and Silver Prices Revive … While Stocks Sink Further
On Monday, February 23, precious metals soared while the stock market stumbled. On the futures market, the April Gold contract on COMEX rose $145 per ounce (+2.9%), from $5,059 to $5,204 per ounce and the March Silver contract rose by $4.25 (+5.2%) to $86.52. Meanwhile, each of the major stock indexes fell by over 1%, including a daily decline of 821 points in the Dow.
February 2026 - Week 2 Edition
A Capsule Market Summary for January 2026
We’re a little later than usual with our one-month market summary but that gives us time and space to point out that – once again – the metals have rallied strongly after their sharp decline on Friday, January 30, and once again, our advice to “buy on dips” paid off, just as it did last October and last December.
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