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McAlvany Weekly Commentary
by McAlvany Financial Group
WEEKLY MONETARY, ECONOMIC, GEOPOLITICAL NEWS AND EVENTS
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Markets Say Sweet, But Mood Sour At Home
Financial Conditions Have Not Been This Loose In 5 Years Mag 7 Now Being Called The “Lag 7” Dutch Government Wants Its Gold Repatriated From U.S. To London Financial conditions are the loosest they have been in five years, risk markets remain
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The AI Bubble’s Circular Financing Problem with Jack Gamble
Jack Gamble of @NobodySpecialFinance joins David McAlvany to follow the money behind the AI boom. Jack examines the circular financing connecting Nvidia, CoreWeave, OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, along with massive data center spending, GPU depreciation,
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Inflation Is The Plan, Gold Is The Answer
This week we look at Scott Bessent’s efforts to keep foreign buyers like Japan invested in U.S. Treasuries, the growing likelihood of financial repression, and why investors like Stanley Druckenmiller are pushing back on the direction of fiscal and
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James Rickards: Gold, AI, and the Fault Lines Beneath Global Markets
James Rickards joins David McAlvany to discuss the growing fault lines beneath global markets, including the yen carry trade, pressure in the Treasury market, geopolitical risk, and why he believes gold’s bull market is far from over. They also explore Ri
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Fort Knox, Dollar Devaluation, and the Future of Gold
This weeks show is built entirely around questions from our audience. David McAlvany discusses Fort Knox, the possibility of a deliberate dollar devaluation, and how Washington may ultimately deal with the national debt. He also examines why gold has con
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Can the Fed Make Inflation Disappear?
If the Federal Reserve cannot bring inflation back to 2%, could it simply change how inflation is defined? This week, David McAlvany explains why a new inflation framework might improve the official numbers without changing the prices people actually pay.
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The Debt Shot Clock Is Ticking For AI
This week, David returns to several of the unanswered questions submitted during our June 17 webinar, covering inflation, the dollar, gold, and how investors should think about positioning in a changing market. They also examine the massive debt burden bu
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The Old Market Order Is Breaking—What It Means for Gold
In this special edition of the McAlvany Weekly Commentary, we revisit highlights from our June 17, 2026 McAlvany Wealth Mangement webinar, When Old Assumptions Fray: Positioning for the New Market Order. David McAlvany examines why the assumptions that sh
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When Inflation Leads To Decapitation
The French Revolution offers a profound lesson in what happens when monetary disorder becomes a political crisis. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is “transforming” the economy, but many households are still struggling with the cost of every
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Summer Quiet Is the Best Time to Accumulate Metals
Quiet summer markets may offer one of the best opportunities to steadily accumulate gold and silver. China imported 692 tonnes of gold during the first five months of the year, a 76% increase over last year. Meanwhile, Samsung shares are taking a hit as m
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Increasing Use Of Chinese Yuan Is Bullish For Gold
This week on the McAlvany Weekly Commentary, David McAlvany looks at the growing use of the Chinese yuan in world trade and why that trend may be bullish for gold. As more countries look for alternatives to the dollar, gold recycling may begin to matter m
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Dave Allman on Wall Street Uncut: Lessons from Market Giants
Dave Allman joins the McAlvany Weekly Commentary to discuss the technical analysts who helped shape his market thinking, including Joseph Granville and Robert Prechter, two influential figures in the history of technical analysis. This week’s highlights:
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Going to “Warsh” That Debt Right Out of Our Hair
This week, David McAlvany looks at new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and what his leadership may mean for rates, inflation, the Feds balance sheet, and Americas growing debt problem. He also asks whether a new Fed regime can really Warsh away years of monetar
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Central Banks Offloading Treasuries & Buying Gold
Hot Money (Fickle Money) Absent From Gold Market Central Banks Providing A Structural Bid In Gold Register For The June 17 Webinar “Under the surface of the markets, there’s a lot happening. If you’re looking at where the Dow, the S&
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Buy Hard Assets To Profit On AI
In this weeks commentary, David McAlvany looks at the massive spending behind AI and asks where the more durable opportunity may actually be. Goldman Sachs is calling it HALO: heavy assets, low obsolescence. Rather than chasing the front end of the AI tr
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Inflection Point In The Gold & Silver Market
Gold and silver appear to be reaching a major inflection point as central banks continue their aggressive accumulation of gold. While general investors have been slow to follow, that may be changing as confidence in paper assets begins to weaken. This wee
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Sovereign Debt Stress Points To Higher Gold
J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs Call For Gold To Be Between $5400-$6300 By Year End Inflation (Not-Transitory) Now Above Target For More Than 5 Years Bank Of America Predicts Silver/Gold Ratio Possibly In The 30s
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The New, Unofficial, Global Gold Standard
A New Global Reality Is Appearing In Commodities Putin Feeling The Pressure To End War With Ukraine Government Policy, Not Investor Speculation, Gobbling Up The Gold This week, David McAlvany looks at the forces reshaping commodities, the growing pressure
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Central Banks Gobble Up Gold, Retail Buyers Yawn
Iranian Drones Say Nope To UAE De-Dollarization, De-Globalization, & Destabilization Deutsche Bank Analyst Calls For $8,000 Gold “A Treasury refunding announcement is not as dramatic as warships smoking Iranian speedboats, but sometimes the mund
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Super Bubble Stock Market: Fire Storm Dynamics
  This week, David McAlvany looks at the extreme valuations driving todays stock market and why history suggests caution when markets get this expensive. The conversation covers the migration from Mag 7 momentum into blue chips, the warning signs th
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Avoid Wall Street Consensus At All Costs
Private Equity & Private Credit: The Doomed Darlings Of Wall Street Wall Street Losing Appetite For Gold – Smart Investors Buying Watch Dow/Gold Ratio For Best Timing “I am bullish. And as agnostics in the markets, we can be bullish on jus
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Being Set Up For The Next “Big Short” Moment
David looks at why private credit may be setting the stage for the next major financial break. They walk through the growing risks in insurance portfolios, private equity, and commercial banking, and why more of that exposure may be finding its way toward
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Gold Is Key Player In New Monetary Regime
Iranian Oil Toll System Accelerates Petroyuan We Are Handing Monetary Transition To Chinese On A Silver Platter U.S. Is Having A Hard Time Selling Enough U.S. Treasuries “We’re handing this monetary transition to the Chinese on a silver platte
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Could Hormuz Be the U.S.’s Suez?
This week, David looks at how past oil shocks reshaped markets and why those lessons still matter today. They discuss the long tail of energy disruption, what happens when supply shocks work their way through the economy, and why real assets tend to come
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Liquidity Squeeze Forces Quick Temporary Gold Drop
This weeks McAlvany Weekly Commentary covers a sharp temporary drop in gold as tightening liquidity pressures force selling across the system. David also looks at the energy shock now hitting Asia and Europe, with prices rising 35% to 140% in key areas.
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Why Many Elite Athletes End Up In Debt: Calling For A New Gold Standard
Lauryn Williams joins David McAlvany to discuss the financial realities behind elite athletic success. A four-time Olympic medalist and Certified Financial Planner, Lauryn shares why many athletes take on debt to compete, how short the earning window can
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War, Debt, & Ammo: Duration Is Key
Every $10 In Oil Price Increase Boosts Inflation 20 Basis Points The War Is Costing $900 Million Per Day Watch Oil Futures To See Expectations Of The Duration Of The Iranian Conflict “The markets are concerned with duration of the engagements, which
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The Scramble For Liquidity Is On
Liquidity Flow Means Life Or Death For Equities War In Middle East: Oil Up Now + Long Term Bullish Thesis Unchanged Gold Drop Is A Short Term Rush To Raise Cash “You go back to margin debt being at all time highs, $1.28 trillion. Investors are as bu
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U.S. Athletes Win Gold, Big Money Is Buying It
The Haven Status Of U.S. Treasuries Is Eroding Olympic Medal Gold & Gold Investment Similarities to 1980 Blue Owl (Canary) Suspends Payments Indefinitely JohnExter’sInvertedLiquidPyramid   “It’s telling us a lot in recent ye
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The Next Move Up in Gold Will Be Motivated by Fear
Hedge Funds, Highly Leveraged, Own More Treasuries Than China or Japan AI Narrative Dangerously Fading The Cayman Islands Are Our Number One Creditor! “It just suggests to me that we have troubled waters ahead, and the last up-cycle, the last up-cyc
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The Market Narrative For AI Is Changing
Google, Amazon, & Tech Spending Way More Than Expected Gold Resilient Through This Volatility Watch The MWM Webinar From Oct 2025 The McAlvany Weekly Commentary February 11, 2026 “Maybe the remainder of 2026 is boring in the physical metals. I t
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Gold & Silver: Turbulent Reversals & Ratio Opportunities
Gold & Silver Bull Market Intact After Violent Volatility 6 Years Of Silver Deficit Point To Higher Price Central Banks Are Net Buyers Of Gold “The experience of this last week, people think volatility is their enemy. It’s not. Volatility
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The Metals Are Pricey, But Not Overbought
Silver 56% Up, Gold 18% Month To Date When To Start Swapping Silver To Gold A “Run” On Japanese Bonds Is Cascading To The Rest Of The World “You can see the importance of defense. And when we look at the perspective triangle, we categori
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“They’re Manipulating Precious Metals!”… Who Cares? – Bill King
If You Own Metals Without Leverage, You Don’t Care If The Paper Rules Change Bill King Advice: Stay Liquid & Hedge Liquidity With Gold Money Coming In Is Overwhelming The “Silver Rig”
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When Do We Start Selling Ounces? Not Yet!
Gold & Silver Set Up Could Lead To Much Higher Prices From Here Is Trump Overplaying His Hand With Powell? Will Loss Of “FED Independence” Scare Off The Foreign Investors? The McAlvany Weekly Commentary January 14, 2026 “We’re
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Trump To Maduro: “You’re Fired”!
Venezuela Has the Largest Proven Oil Reserve In The World A Major Blow To China’s Influence In The Caribbean Gold In 2026: A Bullish Forward Look “Yeah, I think the extraction capturing or extricating Maduro communicates to a broader audience
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Q&A: Your Questions Answered #2
Silver to Gold Ratio Trade: How & When? Silver Is Designated “Strategic” Will Premiums Return To Pre-1933 Graded Coins? “I wouldn’t count on better entry points for bullion or for the miners till the end of the cycle. You’
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Q&A: Your Questions Answered #1
Silver to Gold Ratio Trade: How & When? Silver Is Designated “Strategic” Will Premiums Return To Pre-1933 Graded Coins? “The question on global monetary reset. I think we’re in the middle of a global monetary reset. The move aw
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Which Is Rising Faster: Gold Or McDonalds Fries?
Concerned FED Is Back To Quantitative Easing Buffett Ratio Blowing out All Past Peaks Send Questions To [email protected] “We have it on good authoritythis is directly from the president of the Federal Reservethis is not QE. This is not even monet
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Is Silver Too Expensive?
Evidence Shows Silver’s Move To Be Just Beginning China Doesn’t Need U.S. – Who Will Loan The U.S. Money? Send Your Q&A Questions To [email protected] “If you’ve got a trillion-dollar year-to-date trade surplus, the large
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The Markets’ Stratospheric Tsunami (with Steven Hochberg & Peter Kendall)
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Michael Oliver: The Most Important Chart in Markets Is Breaking Right Now
This week on the McAlvany Weekly Commentary, David McAlvany interviews technical analyst Michael Oliver, founder of Momentum Structural Analysis (MSA), about what he describes as the most important chart in global markets today: the long-term gold vs. S&#
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Best Risk Hedge: Gold Or Crypto?
Bitcoin Behaving As A Stock Market Mirror & Not A Hedge Are Annuities Becoming The Bag Holders? Watch The Webinar – The Next Regime Playbook “Silver is a different animal. No central bank buying eats it up. Investor demand in competition w
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“Sure Bet” AI Now Not So Sure
AI Providers Begging For Money & Energy Wall Street Chief Strategists Recommending Gold In Place of Bonds Register For Our Webinar – Click Here “The revolution in AI is unlimited by the imagination, but very limited in the physical world.
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Late Cycle Dynamics With Doug Noland: Risk Takers In Charge
Cayman Island Hedge Funds Hold Most Of U.S. Treasuries Precious Metals Move Another Late Cycle Signal Risk Taking Can Turn To Panic Within Hours “What makes me worried today is I don’t know where the next bubble is because when this bubble bur
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Shadow Banking Time Bomb
First Brands & Tricolor Failures Signal Future Disaster Financing Government Debt Now More Important Than Price Stability Register For The Next Regime Playbook Webinar “Certainly, we are dealing with what economists describe as a K-shaped econom
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Finally! Gold Takes A Breath
Gold & Silver’s Gains Correcting Down This Week Long Term Monetary Regime Change Points To Much Higher Gold The Case for a New Price Reality – Latest Hard Asset Insights “The nature of gold being the anti-fragile asset for every inve
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Hundreds Of Tons Of Silver Scrambles To London
Silver Demand In Form Of ETFs Spikes Causing Market Mayhem Golden Opportunity To Accumulate 90% Silver Coins Silver Lease Rate Soars To 200% “Just count the stuff that’s coming from the US. 180 tons of silver suggests that this is now more nor
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Gold: $40 to $400 to $4,000 To…?
A Currency On Its Way To Zero Reprices Assets To Infinity Citadel’s Ken Griffin: Investors View Gold Safer Than The Dollar Debt Trap: The Only Way Out Is To Inflate “Only once in world history have we had a unified fiat system in which investo
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Bill King On Gold: “Where Else Can You Go?”
They Will Run It Hot Until It Blows Up Welcome Back To The 1970s: Inflation + Gold Explosion The Chinese Are Buying Gold Like Crazy “So, yeah. Biden did that enormous package and you got inflation. And Trump, doing pretty much the same thing. Then w
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