CEF News and Press, Sprott Physical Gold and Silver Trust Units From 07/22/19

The value of gold is best understood in the big picture. Since 1971, gold has been the measure by which we can measure the health of the worldwide U.S. dollar payment system. After the U.S. suspended its dollar convertibility obligations in 1971, the price of gold rose from $35 per ounce to ...

Following up on my article “US Dollar to Rain on Gold’s Parade” of March 20, 2019: Fed continues QT by reducing Balance Sheet Excess Reserves also falling Excess bank reserves held at the Fed are moving out into the real economy and pushing up the Actual Workin...

I must be a glutton for punishment because I continue to believe that platinum offers the most compelling value proposition of all of the metals in the precious metals sector of the commodities market . Platinum has been a real dog when it comes to price performance, but as a dog-lover, it ma...

Significant nominal peaks in the price of silver tend to come after significant nominal peaks in the Dow as well as Dow/Gold ratio peaks. This has been the case for the last 90 years at least. This is mainly due to the special relationship between silver, the stock markets and debt. These st...

Deutsche Bank (DB) had a big restructure over the weekend, leaving many concerned that a potential failure could be the spark to crash the markets. Given their massive derivative position, a Deutsche Bank failure could also potentially be the break point in the precious metals manipulation. ...

I would not underestimate how quickly the treasury market can reprice the path of monetary policy and I expect yields to move higher as the Fed undershoots market expectations for a 50bp-75bp lower Federal Funds rate. A July rate cut of at least 25 basis points is completely priced in at 100% ...

Gold vs. Other Assets The prices of the metals went up +$15 and +$0.23. We will be brief this week, as Keith just got off a 17-hour flight from Perth to London. Stocks continue their march upwards. And hence the gold price seems stalled - or is it? It may seem like gold goes up when st...

Originally published July 5, 2019 Gold has dipped back below $1,400 this morning, as investors believe the strong employment report reduces the odds of a rate cut this year. I believe they are weighing the significance of this one highly-manicured preliminary data point too heavily and the...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on July 28, 2019. [This post is an excerpt from a recent TSI commentary] Gold tends to perform well relative to commodities in general when inflation expectations are falling. The evidence is presented below in chart form. The fir...

Investments vs. Money Last week the price of gold went up another $11, but the price of silver dropped 4 cents. The gold-silver ratio hit another new high, up another point, though down from Tuesday's high water mark. This obviously was not the week that wage-earners increased their mone...