Apr 14 Gold Suddenly Gets Real-ly Interesting Craig Hemke
As you'd expect, COMEX gold and silver prices are up a bit on Tuesday, and the "market" may be just now beginning to realize that the COMEX gold price is about $300 lower than it was last August when real rates were this sharply negative. Once gold traders and investors figured all of this out last summer, the COMEX gold price moved from $1673 on June 5 to $2080 on August 5. If bond prices remain firm in the weeks ahead and 10-year yields remain steady in the 1.60-1.75% range, the market will once again rapidly come to its senses and prices will surge. Can price move as quickly this summer as it did last summer? Again, that is almost entirely dependent upon how the bond market trades in the weeks ahead...

Apr 14 Many Sectors Are Primed For Another Breakout Rally – Are You? Chris Vermeulen
As we start moving into the Q1:2021 earnings season, we need to be aware of the risks associated with the volatility often associated with earnings data and unknowns. Nonetheless, there are other factors that appear to be present in current trends which suggest earnings may prompt a moderately strong upside breakout rally – again. One key factor is that the US markets are already starting to price in forwarding expectations related to a reflation economy – a post-COVID acceleration in activity, consumer participation, and manufacturing. Secondarily, we must also consider the continued stimulus efforts, easy monetary policy from the US Fed, and the continued trending related to the 12+ month long COVID-19 recovery rally...

Apr 14 A New Piece of the Puzzle Ted Butler
Suddenly, out of nowhere BankAmerica has emerged as a major participant in precious metals OTC derivatives. This new fact is contained in the latest release of the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Quarterly Derivatives Report for U.S. banks. The report covers derivatives contracts in the over the counter (OTC) market as opposed to exchange-traded options and COMEX gold and silver futures. The OCC quarterly report is delayed by 3 months, so the new report released on March 23, covers positions held as of Dec 31, 2020...

Apr 14 $50 Silver Will Just Be a Pit-Stop for Higher Prices, Here's Why GoldSilverTeam
"$50 will just be a pit-stop for silver on the way to higher prices” - Jeff Clark. Join Mike Maloney and Jeff Clark in today’s video to find out why they both whole-heartedly believe the above statement...

Apr 14 Does Gold Need A Fiat Mask? Stewart Thomson
22.) $1700 gold (and $1500 gold for that matter!) is a great price for lean and mean mining companies. Many of them sport AISC numbers that are under $1000/ounce. 23.) The stock market will continue to get a boost from fresh government debt and central bank QE. The government calls their abhorrent debt “Economic stimulus for the American people!” and the Fed says their ongoing fiat printing operations are about “doing hard work and good deeds for the little guy.” 24.) The United States emperor has clothes, but they are clothes of debt and photocopied fiat. Gold mining companies have clothes, in the form of sub $1000 AISC soldier of fortune uniforms. Investors should decide which set of clothes to wear. Inflation is the catalyst that puts the soldiers into action, and the GDX versus gold ratio chart suggests … action time is almost here!...

Apr 13 Latest Price Targets for Gold, Silver, and Platinum Chris Vermeulen
Join Chris Vermeulen as he provides an overview, chart patterns, and projected trends for the gold, silver, and platinum markets for the upcoming quarter. Patterns always repeat; sometimes they take months or years but they always repeat. Gold’s 8 months consolidation is nothing new when we look at 2008 where we lost 34% before bouncing off the .382 and .5 Fibonacci retracement area between $741-650. We then found its next resistance at the .618 ext around $1153 before it began to scream higher to the 1 ext at over $1900 an ounce. As Rick Rule President and CEO of Sprott says, “if past is prologue” and we pull back to the same fib level as 2008, we are there right now or could go as low as $1560. But how high will it go?...

Apr 13 A Hundred Days of Joe James Howard Kunstler
The executive regime, whatever it actually consists of, has rolled out an impressive first hundred days agenda of orders and acts designed to obliterate whatever remains of an American common culture and a US economy based on the transactions of free individuals. The easiest, and most readily damaging, was to simply reverse the previous administration’s policy of controlling our border with Mexico. All you had to do was order the border agents to do nothing — and let the restless folk to the south hear that the welcome mat was laid out. Voila! An out-of-control border! Just what you want! It worked so well, it almost became an embarrassment, except that news media which used to function as the nation’s conscience, has turned sociopathic and is incapable of embarrassment or shame as...

Apr 13 The "Helicopter Parent" Fed and the Fatal Crash of Risk Charles Hugh Smith
Nobody's ever had a more generous and godlike Helicopter Parent than the Fed. But alas, just as actions have consequences (first-order effects), those consequences have consequences (second-order effects): in the case of the Fed, credit and markets, the second-order effects are as catastrophic as the drunken teen's there's no risk I can't handle last race down Mulholland: all the risk that the Fed has supposedly dissipated into nothingness has been transferred to the entire financial system. All the risks generated by gambling with trillions of borrowed and leveraged dollars didn't actually vanish; they were transferred by the Fed to the entire system, which is itself now too fragile and brittle to withstand even the slightest intrusion of consequence...

Apr 13 We’re In Uncharted Territory Adam Taggart
In today’s market update, our friend Adam Taggart, speaks to investigative journalist Bethany McLean, an expert on crisis. She has written New York Times best-selling books on the collapse of Enron (The Smartest Guys In The Room) as well as the mortgage industry and Wall Street abuses that led to the 2008 Great Financial Crisis (All The Devils Are Here and Shaky Ground). So when she says she’s deeply worried about today’s macro environment, we’d better take notice...

Apr 12 The SPY Is Nearing Resistance @ $410 Chris Vermeulen
My shorter-term analysis for the markets continues to stay Bullish and suggests the US reflation trade, the strengthening of the US and the global economy, and recovery from the COVID-19 restrictions will likely prompt a moderately strong upside price trend leading into at least mid Q2:2021. The recent strength of the US Dollar is helping to push capital into the US markets as foreign investors attempt to shift capital away from Emerging Market and currency weakness and the Treasury Yield rallies seem to have indicated a moderate warning related to global central banks attempting to front-run inflation concerns...

Apr 12 The Early Stage Of Breakouts In Gold, Silver And Mining Stocks Dave Kranzler
“Management withheld metal [silver] from sale during the price correction over last two weeks of March and plans to sell the withheld metal inventory in anticipation of a precious metal prices rebound in Q2, 2021” – Endeavor Silver ($EXK) management, Q1 earnings report. It’s rare to find a stronger statement of conviction for the price potential of gold and silver than for a company to withhold production from the market in the anticipation of higher prices for the precious metals. I would argue that implicit in that view from EXK is the acknowledgement that the prices of gold and silver are actively manipulated. Craig “Turd Ferguson” Hempke – TF Metals Report and Sprott Money – invited me back onto his TFMR Thursday podcast to discuss mining stocks and the precious metals sector and to have some fun...

Apr 12 America’s Suez Rick Mills
Could Taiwan be America’s comeuppance in Asia? In the current era of ascendant China and descendant US, it is the most likely candidate for a conflict the US military appears destined to lose. (Russia is too weak to be much of a threat; an incursion into Ukraine would likely be repelled by NATO) It may not happen as expected. Rather than an amphibious assault, a Chinese move on Taiwan could instead take the form of an occupation of the other two islands Taiwan seized from China — Quemoy and Matsu. Beijing could take the islands then force Taipei and Washington into a discussion over what happens next. The big question is, would the US retaliate? I agree with Ferguson that it’s unlikely. China has gone to great lengths to fortify the Chinese mainland against a foreign attack. Their military has been sowing...

Apr 12 Will America Survive Joe Biden? James Howard Kunstler
If you want to understand the complete failure of moral authority in America, seek no further than the gothic doings of the Biden family, especially now that the President’s degenerate son, Hunter, has been rewarded with a $2-million advance-against royalties (i.e., money up-front) from Simon & Schuster, and a gala publicity tour of the national news media designed to conceal his criminal culpability in evidence contained on the “laptop from hell” that he stupidly abandoned in a Delaware repair shop while lurching through his daily doings on one of countless drug jags he’s enjoyed between rehabs since his dad stepped back into national politics...

Apr 12 Gold Miners: The Upside Breakouts Begin Morris Hubbartt
Here are today's videos and charts. The videos are viewable on mobile phones as well as computers. Double-click to enlarge the charts. SGS Key Charts, Signals, & Video Analysis; SG60 Key Charts, Signals, & Video Analysis; SGT Key Charts, Signals, & Video Analysis; SGJ Key Charts, Signals, & Video Analysis...