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2026 is screaming “Uh-Oh” signals from nearly every sector and asset class with alarming yet eerily ignored clarity. This explains why the longer-term case for gold couldn’t be more obvious, regardles...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 31, 2026

Looking at the world around us, from foggy geopolitics to gyrating financial headlines, one can’t help but think, as the Jedi knights would say, that there seems to be “a disturbance in the force.” Di...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 21, 2026

The United Arab Emirates’ headline departure from OPEC this week has now made the case for precious metals almost too obvious. In fact, the critical USD-Petrodollar-Gold triangle just sent us on...

Matthew Piepenburg / May 1, 2026

Below, we look soberly at the historical case of gold in the backdrop of current headlines and a global financial system nearing an eruption moment.  Although the catalysts of oil, war, bond dysf...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 21, 2026

Iran is doing more to promote the petroyuan at the expense of the petrodollar than China has achieved so far. It is accelerating the dollar’s demise at its worst possible moment. Introduction Unlike A...

Alasdair Macleod / April 7, 2026

If you are new to gold, or if you are a speculator in gold (or even worse, a levered speculator in gold), you are likely asking yourselves what in the “H. E. double tooth-picks” just happened to gold?...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 22, 2026

The case for silver is now almost too obvious. Silver’s Fat Pitch Like many Americans, I grew up playing a fair amount of baseball. Part of this involved trying to hit a little round ball with the equ...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 15, 2026

War, oil and gold are making headlines of late for overlapping and independent reasons. Below, we avoid the guesswork, finger-pointing or sensationalism attendant to current headlines concerning Iran...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 6, 2026

Although I never expected to say this, if you are still wondering about gold’s future price direction, just ask the big banks… Getting Real Emerging from a 2025 in which gold saw 53 all-time-highs and...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 26, 2026

As headlines and pundits squabble about price moves in gold and silver, many “experts,” as usual, are missing the bigger picture of a historically unprecedented convergence of debt, credit, banking an...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 19, 2026

For years, bulls of gold and silver have complained about how derivatives have been used to suppress their prices. Their dreams of the practice ending could be coming true. Introduction If you think a...

Alasdair Macleod / February 17, 2026

On Friday, January 30, 2026, the world learned (or rediscovered) just how grotesquely rigged the paper gold and silver markets truly are. The Great (Yet Familiar) Fall Despite no change whatsoever in...

Matthew Piepenburg / February 2, 2026