Commentaries

What Drove the Strong Performance of Platinum Group Metals in 2025?

PGMs began the year with range-bound trading, continuing a multi-year trend. As Metals Focus described it, platinum, palladium, and their cousins traded in “narrow, orderly ranges.”

Platinum’s 80% Surge: 3 Hidden Forces Driving It

By MoneyMetals

Maharrey welcomed Edward Sterck, Director of Research at the World Platinum Investment Council, to help investors understand why platinum and palladium are suddenly demanding attention.

China Reaffirms Tight Grip on Gold Market, Ushering in a New Monetary Era

By Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Money Metals

Due to the actions of the PBoC in increasing prices, monetary gold now accounts for almost 28 percent of global international reserves. This is a truly monumental increase...

Something Wicked this Way Creeps

By David Haggith, The Daily Doom

And now the Fed is back to doing QE—something that now seems to be its standard answer to every economic crash, even though the Fed never used to do QE prior to the Great Recession.

Inflation Alert! Money Supply Increasing at Fastest Rate Since 2022

By Mike Maharrey, Money Metals

A higher interest rate environment will eventually crack the debt-riddled economy and pop the bubbles. The economy needs its easy money drug.

Has UK Gold Account’s Belated Report Told the Whole Story?

By Robert Lambourne

Publicized problems with gold deliveries from the Bank of England shortly after Trump returned to the U.S. presidency were followed by reports that the bank was using a strange mechanism...

The Deeper Dive: Shoppers Feel the Pinch of the Grinch, Farmers Feel the Folly

By David Haggith, The Daily Doom

Under a chaotic government where real data just isn’t available, even the Fed no longer trusts what little data is coming out.

Conviction, Guts Finally Paying Off in Bullion

By Rick Ackerman, Rick's Picks

All the excitement was in gold and silver, which have been rising since early 2024 in a steepening trajectory. The uptrend is practically vertical now...

Unrigged—The Jig is Up

By Stuart Englert

Record Bullion Prices Signal Undoing of Derivative-Driven Markets. With strong demand for silver and gold now exposing the treacherous fraud of trading leveraged derivatives and imaginary metal, efforts to control bullion prices are waning amid production limitations, growing supply deficits and silver tightness at the LBMA.

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