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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 platter. And Trump may have had a plan in Iran when he started, but I doubt he […]
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 back into focus during periods like this. The conversation also touches […]
This week’s 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. He explains why this dramatic counter-trend move in the metals may actually reinforce […]
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 be, and the biggest misconceptions about what Olympians actually make. She and David also explore the mindset […]
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 ends up being a defining factor for costs. How much will this add […]
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 bullish as they’ve ever been, and this is […]
The Haven Status Of U.S. Treasuries Is Eroding Olympic Medal Gold & Gold Investment Similarities to 1980 Blue Owl (Canary) Suspends Payments Indefinitely John Exter’s Inverted Liquid Pyramid “It’s telling us a lot in recent years, the price of gold. Geopolitics is in the frame, and with a disruption in relationships—not just trade relationships—there’s a signal there in […]
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-cycle in precious metals, 2025, driven by central banks and then some late comers to […]
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 tend to think not. And a part of that is because we’re dealing with a […]
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 is your friend. This is the nature of ratios. It is a measure of volatility […]
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 categorize gold and silver not as a high growth asset, even […]
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” “What was really going on here is this whole fight. It’s been going on since the ’80s, deflation and inflation. What’s the fight? […]
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 missing upside. That’s what they’re thinking. Cash is trash. We’re missing upside. And yet missing upside— There’s […]
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
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’ve got the major trends and then the minor pullbacks around the major trends. Bullion has broken […]
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 away from invoice settlement in dollars and reserving by central banks in gold ounces rather than Treasuries […]
Concerned FED Is Back To Quantitative Easing Buffett Ratio Blowing out All Past Peaks Send Questions To info@mcalvany.com “We have it on good authority—this is directly from the president of the Federal Reserve—this is not QE. This is not even monetary policy. I don’t know what it is if he’s doing it and it’s not […]
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 info@mcalvany.com “If you’ve got a trillion-dollar year-to-date trade surplus, the largest on record for the Chinese, and we haven’t even finished out the year, we have another month and we’re already […]
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 SHOW NOTES This week on the McAlvany Weekly Commentary, we continue our two-week exploration of technical analysis. Today, David welcomes Steven Hochberg and […]
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&P 500 spread. According to Oliver, this relationship has now broken decisively, signaling a major structural shift that […]



