Last week we talked about how a fund manager named Michael McNair has been seeing signs that chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Stephen Miran's 'User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System' is already being enacted in the gold market.

As a silver investor and analyst, I closely track copper because of its strong correlation with—and influence on—silver. Silver is unique in that it’s both a precious metal and an industrial one, with industrial demand making up about 55% of total usage. This gives...

Copper, silver and gold are a chain of metals progressively working from highly cyclical to counter-cyclical.

The Silver Institute recently released its highly anticipated annual World Silver Survey 2025 (WSS). It’s one of the few deep reviews of the silver markets, and it’s compiled by Metals Focus for the Silver Institute.

The federal government ran a big budget surplus in April, but don’t get too excited. Uncle Sam hasn’t solved its spending problem. In fact, it’s getting worse.

After crashing in February, consumer borrowing remained tepid in March, a worrying sign for an economy that runs on credit cards. Borrowing has been slowing for the past several months, raising the prospect that Americans may finally be edging close to their credit...

Having laid out what a bad deal looked like, I now have to lay out what a terrible deal Trump just managed to pound out of China.

A word of advice if you’re looking for bankable information on the direction of the economy:  tune out the mainstream media’s cavalcade of Trump-deranged bozos and focus on the 4820 target in the SPX chart above.

Our guest today is Chris Galizio, the executive producer of Money Game. Chris is an experienced institutional portfolio manager with a long track record of success and joins us to discuss everything that's happening in the markets right now.

There is one assumption about tariffs mentioned by most observers that is incorrect. That particular assumption has to do with the effect of tariffs on inflation.

Our long term stocks/bond model remains in favor of equities over bonds. Trend is up. Cycle is up. A recovery rally is in progress.

Tariff news out of Trump’s mouth was not what stocks wanted to hear, so their nonsense rally ended today. Stocks slipped Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s shaky commentary on global trade deals, dashing hopes that progress will soon be made on the tariff front...

Gold and silver prices are selling off this morning after yesterday's latest rally. But with the gold price still at historic levels, Citi just put out a report talking about how the miners have become a 'once in a 40 year gift' whose time has come.

In another sign that things aren’t so great on Main Street, bankruptcy inquiries hit pandemic-level highs in Q1. More and more people are worried about a looming recession. The mainstream blames these economic worries on tariffs, but it’s pretty clear Americans...

Silver demand outstripped new supply for the fourth straight year as industrial demand set another record. This was one of several stories featured in the new edition of Silver News published by the Silver Institute.