Craig Hemke
Craig Hemke began his career in financial services in 1990 but retired in 2008 to focus on family and entrepreneurial opportunities. Since 2010, he has been the editor and publisher of the TF Metals Report found at TFMetalsReport.com, an online community for precious metal investors.
Articles by Craig Hemke
It's only late March and yet this is already the third time this year I've felt compelled to write about copper. Why? Because as physical copper supplies begin to dwindle, there will very likely be a secondary impact in other metals like...
What a curious start to the year in COMEX Digital Gold and COMEX Digital Silver. The pair usually trade in tandem but, so far in 2023, prices have been moving in opposite directions. And it's not just price. As you'll see in this post, it'...
An interesting dichotomy has developed in the "silver market". What does it mean? Does it mean anything at all? We'll know soon enough, I guess.What an interesting year this has been, and the last six months have been positively brutal....
Recent data from the CFTC suggests that COMEX silver positioning is the most favorable since June of 2019. While this does not preclude more downside, it certainly suggests that any further price drops will be shallow.So, what we're...
Two weeks ago, we wrote a post that warned against a pending drop in the stock market. Two weeks later, it's probably a good idea to update that theme.The post from two weeks ago mainly focused upon remarks from Fed Goons Dudley and...
Last week, a former high-ranking Fed official disclosed that the Fed is determined to "break" the stock market. If they succeed in this, the impacts will be felt across all markets, so maybe we should take him seriously?Let's begin with...
To paraphrase Lenin, decades will go by with not much happening and then a decade's worth of change will happen in a matter of weeks. Well, here we are.It was just last week that we wrote about COMEX precious metal prices breaking out...
The global trend toward de-dollarization has been ongoing for over a decade, and it stands to get a massive push forward if the Ukraine Crisis boils over into hot war and, consequently, the United States attempts to remove and exclude...
You may recall that we caught an interesting new wrinkle in the COMEX gold trade late last year and again late last month. And now we're seeing the same thing in COMEX silver. Uh-oh.OK, so we first wrote about this back in November. A...
That is the question. Oh sure, The Fed may attempt to hike the fed funds rate as soon as next month. They may even attempt another hike in April or May. But what happens after that? Answer that question and you'll find a timetable for gold...
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