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The other night, one of the "Austin Powers" movies was on the tube. Mike Meyers is a comedic genius, and the highly successful sophomoric comedy trilogy grossed almost $1 billion at the box office. Austin Powers is a parody of the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s. In the final movie, Go...

By Ed Moya The start of the New Year has seen a drastic switch in focus from trade wars to possibly a US-Iran war. The focus for the week ahead was supposed to be the leaking of the details of the phase-one trade deal, but that will not be the case. Financial markets will now closely follo...

The precious metals sector of the commodities market was the best-performing sector in 2019 with double-digit percentage gains in all four of the metals that trade on the COMEX and NYMEX. The composite of the four precious metals that trade on the COMEX and NYMEX divisions of the CME dropped...

This article is an overview of the economic conditions that will drive the gold price in 2020 and beyond. The turn of the credit cycle, the effect on government deficits and how they are to be financed are addressed. In the absence of foreign demand for new US Treasuries and of a rise in the...

Junior miners still have some mojo. At year's end, gold bugs were pretty happy. They had every right to be. Bullion, proxied by the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) , gained more than 18 percent over the past year. Gold mining stocks did even better. The VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) , ...

When I was younger, I had the thought that "a standard of living" was simply a reflection of how much commodities a person consumed. Simply put, a person with a high standard of living consumed a lot of resources to sustain that living standard. With that same idea in mind, I've been observi...

As a student of market history, I always find it interesting, and even sometimes quite comical, how certain fallacies about markets are continually propagated by investors and analysts alike. Throughout my career in writing about metals, I have tried to bring many of these to light, and explai...

Of the four precious metals that trade on the NYMEX and COMEX divisions of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, palladium is the least liquid. As of December 27, the total number of open long and short positions in the gold futures market stood at 765,653 contracts, a record high representing 76.6...

By Mike Gleason Welcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason. Coming up we'll hear a fascinating and informative interview Money Metals president Stefan Gleason gave for the Sustainable Money podcast. Stefan shares some of the history behind sound money, when and where th...

Gold has finally caught the wave of rising momentum that has lately propelled other commodities higher. A strengthening currency component is a major reason for this development, although there are other reasons for being bullish on gold in the months ahead. In this report, we’ll examin...