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I did have every intention of offering some type of yearend review today and I will try to fulfill that intent, but I must confess to being absorbed in the matter of the new OCC report which I wrote about...

The holiday-delayed Commitments of Traders (COT) report published a short while ago, for positions held as of Dec 21, was, in a word, great. After four straight reporting weeks in which gold and silver prices got crushed to the tune...

(Since there was some new information, in the form of the new OCC quarterly derivatives report, that I felt was worthy of timely dissemination, I am publishing this review today rather than tomorrow as planned. I do plan on...

Hard as it is for me to believe, it’s been nearly 50 years since the introduction of that tongue-in-cheek advertising campaign for Miller Light beer, which featured a variety of skits in which characters argued what was better about the...

After three weeks of declines, gold and silver prices finished higher this week, gold by $16 (0.9%) and with silver up by 15 cents (0.7%). As a result of gold’s continued relative outperformance (or silver’s underperformance), the silver/gold price ratio...

I’m indebted to Mark Mead Baillie for the title of his recent article, in which he proclaimed that silver was a steal that had skidded in price senselessly, a word I wished I had come up with. And if “senseless”...