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McAlvany Weekly Commentary

WEEKLY MONETARY, ECONOMIC, GEOPOLITICAL NEWS AND EVENTS

  1. 225

    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

  2. 224

    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

  3. 223

    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

  4. 222

    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

  5. 221

    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

  6. 220

    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

  7. 219

    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

  8. 218

    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.

  9. 217

    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

  10. 216

    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

  11. 215

    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

  12. 214

    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

  13. 213

    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

  14. 212

    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

  15. 211

    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

  16. 210

    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

  17. 209

    “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”

  18. 208

    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

  19. 207

    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

  20. 206

    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&#8217

  21. 205

    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

  22. 204

    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

  23. 203

    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

  24. 202

    The Markets’ Stratospheric Tsunami (with Steven Hochberg & Peter Kendall)

    SPECIAL OFFER FOR MWC LISTENERSElliott Wave International is offering McAlvany Weekly Commentary listeners one month of access to the Financial Forecast, Theorist, and Short-Term Update for just $11.Claim the offer here: https://www.elliottwave.com/david

  25. 201

    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&#

  26. 200

    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

  27. 199

    “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.

  28. 198

    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

  29. 197

    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

  30. 196

    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

  31. 195

    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

  32. 194

    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

  33. 193

    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

  34. 192

    Unforgettable Moment “I Forgive You”

    Charlie Kirk’s Death Likely The Foundation Of A First Turning Gold Is Being Re-monetized Worldwide Foreign Investors: “Buy U.S. But Hedge The Dollar” “We go back in time to gold priced in yen, and it was not that many years ago tha

  35. 191

    Momentum Shifts To Gold

    Silver Mining Stocks, Gold ETF’s Now Confirming Higher Gold Prices MAG 7 Mania Consumes 31% Of Total U.S. Stock Market Verbal Debate Shouldn’t End With A Bullet David: “Margin debt rose 3.6% in August to a new record high of 1.06 trillio

  36. 190

    How Gold Will Multiply Your Stock Gains

    Dow/Gold Ratio Is The Key Gold Reduces Investment Complexity Unemployment Shock Puts Fed In A Corner “Your most reliable hedge is something that doesn’t do a lot of different things. It’s not like a Swiss Army knifedoes a little bit of

  37. 189

    Can Trump “Stack” The Federal Reserve?

    Gold & Silver Break Above Historic Numbers Lisa Cook & World Perception Of Fed Independence All Eyes On September 17th “You meet the expectations with a 25 basis point cut. You beat the expectations with a 50 basis point cut. You completely

  38. 188

    Don’t Miss the Silver Streak

    Silver breaks $34, $36, $38soon $40 More U.S. Equities owned by foreigners than U.S. Bonds Historic first time If FED has to turn to Yield Curve Control, Gold will have no ceiling “When you’re thinking about the big picture and how all thes

  39. 187

    Gold & Gold Miners Outperform Stocks & Bitcoin YTD

    Could A Breakdown In Bonds Break The Stock Market? Bessent Pressures Bank Of Japan For A Stronger Yen Would Trump Sue The Fed? “We are spending around 600 billion a month, and the US political class has been unwilling to meaningfully cut spending to

  40. 186

    No Tariffs On Gold “What Would’ve Happened If?”

    A Look At The World Wide Bullion Market Why Gold Tariffs Would Ultimately Be Ineffective How The “Big Boys” Always Win In The End * * * Kevin: Welcome to the McAlvany Weekly Commentary. Im Kevin Orrick, along with David McAlvany. Davi

  41. 185

    All Time Stock Highs & Liquidity Addiction

    Inflation (Devaluation) Chosen As Best Political Answer Gold Purchases (Bar & Coin) Up 250% In Germany, 91% In China What Is A “Crack-Up-Boom”? “If you have too little money in credit and growth does not as easily materialize, you ri

  42. 184

    Sizzling Markets: No Acrophobiacs Allowed

    Are markets really on fire andhow high is too high?This week David and Kevin dig into the dizzying climb in valuations, with the Buffett Ratio screaming to a recordbreaking 210%. We explore what that number really means, why Chinas debt machine is run

  43. 183

    Cyber-Intrusion, Banking Fragility, & Petro-Dollar Replacement

    If It’s Free To You Online, Realize That “You Are The Product” Banking Crises Are Actually Designed Ahead Of Time Dollar Recycling Being Replaced By Gold “And it just goes to show how vulnerable a lot of this infrastructure is, par

  44. 182

    Dr. Peter Zhao: The Importance Of Virtue In Economics

    Former Communist Atheist Explains Why A Market Economy With Churches Works China Is In Need Of Spiritual Reform To Save Economy When A Country Lacks Faith In God, The Nation Becomes Its God “I think there are four flash points of global geopolitical

  45. 181

    Germany & Italy Want Their Gold Back

    Devaluation? Dollar Loses 10% In Six Months Can Powell Lower Interest Rates Without A Dollar Crash? “90 Deals In 90 Days” – Only 2 So Far “Germans and Italians asking to repatriate their gold holdings from the US. This is not an in

  46. 180

    The Power of Economic Warfare: Edward Fishman on Chokepoints, Sanctions & Strategy

    Former State Dept. official Edward Fishman breaks down the rise of economic statecraft How modern warfare is waged by guerrillas in gray suits not soldiers on battlefields Why controlling chokepoints and financial systems may prevent military escalati

  47. 179

    What Type Of War, Banks or Bunker Busters?

    Central Banks Now Have More In Gold Than In Euros 95% of Central Bankers See Their Gold Reserves Rising Over Next 12 Months Breakout In Silver & Mining Shares “When I talk about the investor coming into competition for ounces with a price-insens

  48. 178

    War, Nukes, & Regime Change

    Would Regime Change In Iran Effectively Solve The Nuclear Deal? Will The Middle East War Spread? Gold Replacing T-Bills As Flight Captial Preference “We talked about the breakout in silver, and I think silver more than even the gold market is your t

  49. 177

    “Sound Money” Actually Makes A Sound

    Did Anyone In Government Read The Big Beautiful Bill? “Genius Act”: A Crypto Version Of Fiat Dollar Tomahawk 6 By Broadcom Threatens NVIDIA Share Value “The gold market has been driven by central bank demand, and one of the reasons why I

  50. 176

    The Big Beautiful Bill’s Hidden Bomb

    Jamie Dimon Says Bond Market Will Cause Panic In Future Section 899 Of Bill Could Scare Money Out Of Dollar Is Private Equity The New Money Trap “We go back to the 30,000-foot perspective and see that interest rates are the issue for the Treasury De

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