Basic Reports

Monetary Metals Gold to Hit $64,000 Report: 24 May, 2015

The Bloomberg headline thunders, “Chinese Gold Standard Would Need a Rate 50 Times Bullion’s Price”! The text of the article follows up on this assertion with a price of $64,000 an ounce. Since it’s common Internet Knowledge that China is moving to a gold standard, it’s a fact that gold is going to $64,000. Everyone […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 15 Mar, 2015

Last week, we talked about currencies. This week, let’s look at what the dollar is worth. No, we don’t mean purchasing power, which is just the inverse of consumer prices. Every day, every business that wants to remain alive is busy cutting costs. Real prices are in free fall, and some dollar prices too. For […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 8 Mar, 2015

Last week, we borrowed a phrase from Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings.  We said it felt like, “the deep breath before the plunge”. We added, “We don’t necessarily mean a plunge in the price of gold measured in dollars. It could be a plunge in the price of the dollar. And there are […]

Supply and Demand Update 2 Dec

This is a brief follow up on the Supply and Demand Report of 30 November. In that report, we observed an extraordinary development in the gold market. We made several predictions, which came true almost immediately. We don’t always expect this to happen, but today we think it’s worth looking at what we said and […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 5 Oct, 2014

How much higher can the dollar go? Betting on the Fed’s paper has been one helluva speculation. No doubt the Fed’s credit quality has been falling, but powerful forces are driving it up, such as desperate debtors clutching for cash to calm their creditors (sorry, couldn’t resist). The dollar was up this week, from 25.5 […]

Monetary Metals Silver Headfake Report: 22 June, 2014

Something extraordinary occurred this week. On Wednesday, the Fed made a routine announcement. That day, the price of silver was rising, but not out of the normal. Fireworks began on Thursday, and in 6 hours, the price of silver skyrocketed by 5%. We have never before changed the headline or format of the Supply and […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 11 May, 2014

This was another short week, with Monday a bank holiday in the UK. Through Tuesday, the prices of the metals seemed to want to hold onto the increase that was sparked by an unemployment report. It wasn’t until Wednesday that the prices began to sag, almost but not quite to the pre-unemployment report levels again […]

Introduction to the Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report

Supply and Demand Report

The Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report is the only accurate picture of the fundamentals of the gold and silver markets. We released a video that presents some of these ideas in an engaging format. We provide a weekly letter based on data and analysis of the monetary metals: gold and silver. This article is […]

What is Pushing Down the Gold Price: Part II

This is a continuation of What is Pushing Down the Gold Price: Part I. One factor is the lack of rapidly rising consumer prices. If consumer prices aren’t rising, then this eliminates the need to buy gold as a hedge. Gold speculators are like everyone else. They get frustrated waiting for a rapid price gain […]

February 23, 2013

The Last Contango Basis Report The downdraft in the dollar prices of the metals began in late January, with gold just under $1700 and silver over $32. This is not likely news to readers of the Last Contango Basis Report.  Gold and Silver Price The purpose of this Report is to shed some light onto […]