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On his latest appearance with Glenn Diesen, Peter lays out a sober case for why investors should consider gold as a primary hedge against a coming dollar and sovereign debt crisis. He walks through what he sees as the consequences of prolonged credit expansion, a bloated housing market, misdirected trade and military policies, and the […]

Earlier this week, Peter appeared on The Competent Investor podcast with host Tom Bodrovics. They focus on last week’s metal sell-off, and Peter explains why investors still misunderstand precious metals and the miners that produce them. Throughout, he argues that sound money remains the sane hedge in a world of inflationary policy and fragile crypto […]

The bull market in gold is being driven by many forces, and it isn’t just speculative fervor that caused the latest drop. Macro factors like monetary expansion, interest rates that are still far too low, broad global uncertainty, and de-dollarization are going to push gold higher. In the meantime, corrections will occur, but this isn’t […]

Pre-Fed recessions, like the Panic of 1857, are often invoked to counter the Austrian School’s theory of the business cycle, which stipulates that monetary expansion causes recessions. On the surface, the Panic of 1857 seems like a strong counterexample, but the full details of its origins– and resolution– vindicate the Austrians yet again. The following […]

In his Wednesday podcast, Peter walks listeners through the frantic moves in precious metals, the unraveling Bitcoin narrative, and recent weak jobs data. He argues the gold and silver sell-off was a technical flush rather than a change in fundamentals, warns that Bitcoin’s long-promised outperformance has failed, and calls out tariffs and government spin for […]

Peter recently debated longtime Bitcoin proponent Saifedean Ammous to turn the usual Bitcoin-vs.-gold argument on its head. Rather than rehashing the old debate, he focuses on tokenized gold—specifically Tether Gold— and explains why a claim on real metal is a far better monetary proposition than a claim on nothing. He argues tokenized gold brings convenience […]

The dollar is in free fall as gold and silver continue climbing to new records. As the global economy loses confidence in its main reserve asset, it’s simultaneously losing confidence in fiat currencies and the central banks that manage them. The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The opinions expressed do not […]

Earlier this week, Peter appeared on the Sanchez Effect for an interview with Rick Sanchez. Together they sift through the international fallout from America’s fiscal and monetary choices and explains why other countries are actively trying to reduce their exposure to the dollar. Peter connects that trend to production, trade balances, the enormous off-balance-sheet liabilities […]

A very strong start to the week for gold, as you might expect, following the US strike on Venezuela / capture of President Maduro on Sunday.  What’s perhaps a little more surprising is the blistering outperformance of copper, silver, platinum, palladium…but to be fair global stock and oil markets aren’t bothered at all, and so […]

A very poor rest of the day for gold.  It got whacked back below the October high by algos at the S&P cash open, couldn’t benefit at all from silver’s +4% rally from 10amET into the COMEX close, and overreacted to the downside with a modest US yield uptick following a mixed set of FOMC […]

More strength than I expected for the precious metals overnight; thanks to more demand at the China open, but perhaps more importantly due to the Chinese government announcing subsidies for electronic vehicles, phones, tablets, smartwatches and smart glasses…all of which consume silver.  Past rounds of similar subsidies have led to immediate sales surges, and so we’re […]

An unsurprisingly challenging rest of the day for the precious metals.  We saw modest bounces with the stock market since the COMEX closes, but neither metal came anywhere close to re-attacking its overnight range.  This hints that there’s a lot of trapped bulls out there who fell for this bogus “bank failure / forced silver […]

Some absolutely wild post-Christmas trading activity for the precious metals.  First, silver and platinum’s incredible +10% rallies on Friday, fueled by an odd rehashing of the China silver export restriction story from October and rumors that a bullion bank was blown out of its silver short position; and now scary -16% & -18% crashes off […]

Indeed an upside breakout attempt for gold above yesterday’s highs in early Asian trade last night, but this technical achievement was ruined by an obnoxious 4k contract, -1%, bashing off session highs in the final five minutes of the 9pmET hour.  There wasn’t a headline catalyst or abrupt negative shift in the broader risk mood.  […]

An impressive rebound for gold & silver to round out this Tuesday, thanks in large part to a calming down in bond markets / strong stock market rally following the much weaker-than-expected Present Situation reading in the December US Consumer Confidence report.  Silver and PGM markets naturally outperformed amid the risk-on environment, with platinum astonishingly […]

More strength for the precious metals as expected overnight, with Asian demand once again leading the way.  Europe was hesitant to chase gold higher though, despite a pronounced decline for US yields and the USD…and this turned out to be the correct move in retrospect because yields and dollar are now shooting higher following the […]