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The stock market whiplashed after a hawkish 9-3 Federal Reserve hold, but the real story is the massive unwinding in the semiconductor sector. Recorded midday Pacific, July 29, during the post-Fed reversal. Markets sold off into the close, with the Nasdaq 100 ending in correction territory. South Korea's KOSPI has crashed 33% this month, and memory chip giants like SanDisk are down 57% in just 30 days. Is the AI CapEx bubble bursting?

In this episode, Gareth Soloway, Chief Market Strategist at Verified Investing, breaks down exactly why the tech unwind is spreading and shares the exact trendline where he is contrarian-buying the chip crash. Gareth also maps out the S&P 500's critical "line in the sand," explains why the New York Fed is flashing a credit market warning, and details the structural global forces driving his long-term $13,000 gold target.

Recorded July 29 2026

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Fed Hold Market Whiplash
01:02 Hawkish Hold Breakdown
01:57 Markets React Dollar Slides
03:46 Gold Reversal Key Level
05:39 Breakout Confirmation Checklist
06:27 Dollar Oil Jobs Drivers
08:43 Gold 13,000 Cycle Thesis
10:28 Calculator Inputs Scenarios
15:24 Buying Plan Physical Vs Trade
16:43 Miners Setup GDX Newmont
17:36 Silver Surge Chart Warning
19:00 Silver Lag Risk
19:31 Gold Over Silver
20:34 AI CapEx Doubts
21:54 KOSPI Support Setup
22:14 Leverage ETF Unwind
23:38 Semi Cycle Snapback
24:50 NASDAQ Bear Signals
26:16 S&P Line In Sand
27:30 Yields Inflation Doubts
28:35 Rotation To Defensives
29:51 Credit Stress Warning
30:46 Oil Topping Pattern
32:58 Key Levels Tomorrow
34:21 SanDisk Bounce Trade
35:42 Wrap Up And Question 

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Willem Middelkoop says the monetary reset isn't coming. It's already underway, quietly, in the accounting. He also argues China is now the dominant force in the gold market, buying on every dip while the West still trades paper.

Kitco's Jeremy Szafron sits down with Willem Middelkoop, author of "The Big Reset" and founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund, for a wide-ranging hour on why both Washington and Beijing may want a cheaper gold price, the state gold buyers that don't show up in official numbers, gold overtaking US Treasuries as the world's top reserve asset, the move of price discovery to Shanghai, China's shift from paper to physical, silver's path to a possible $500, and where the gold miners go from here.

This interview was recorded July 27, 2026.

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Gold spent the week whipsawing around $4,000, and four very different experts gave Kitco four very different reads on why, and what happens next. They don't agree on the path. They do agree it's about something bigger than gold.

In this week's This Week in Focus, Kitco's Jeremy Szafron pulls the threads together: technical analyst Gary Wagner on the two levels that now define the range and why he walked back his $6,000 call; veteran trader Clem Chambers on why he thinks the bottom isn't in and why "gold is for war"; former BlackRock portfolio manager Ed Dowd on the road to $10,000 gold and how a private-credit crisis could reach ordinary pensions; and constitutional scholar William Watkins on the 1933 gold call-in, the "shell game" behind the dollar, and why sound money was meant to make war expensive.

This episode was recorded July 23, 2026. Market levels move fast, check live prices at (https://www.kitco.com)

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The U.S. national debt has reached nearly $40 trillion, and the interest alone now rivals the entire military budget. Constitutional scholar William Watkins argues the dollar today is backed by little more than the coercive power of the government, and that the drift from the founders' hard-money design is why the debt keeps compounding.

Kitco's Jeremy Szafron talks with William J. Watkins, Jr. of the Independent Institute about how the spending guardrails came off (from the founders' "few and defined" powers to the New Deal-era Butler decision), why he calls the 1933 gold call-in unconstitutional, how Civil War greenbacks began the shift to fiat, what the arc from $35 gold in 1971 to $4,100 today says about the dollar, why he believes sound money was meant to make war expensive, and where the risk sits as foreign investors hold nearly a quarter of the debt.

This interview was recorded on July 22, 2026

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Edward Dowd, Founding Partner of Phinance Technologies, joins Kitco News Senior Anchor Jeremy Szafron to break down why the real estate market is completely frozen and why private credit funds are beginning to gate withdrawals. Dowd outlines the exact macro sequence that he believes will drive gold prices to $10,000 by 2030.

Dowd details that the U.S. housing market is currently experiencing a "buyer strike," with 75% of real estate agents failing to make a sale in the past year. He argues that home prices are roughly 30% overvalued and will need to reset lower. Turning to the stock market, Dowd warns that the S&P 500 is dangerously concentrated, with 45% of its market cap in AI and AI-adjacent tech, projecting zero forward returns for the index over the next decade. He also exposes the growing risks in private credit, noting that flows have paused and Wall Street is currently bundling these funds into insurance wrappers—a move he compares to the credit alchemy of the Great Financial Crisis. Finally, Dowd shares why he is completely out of equities and holding a portfolio of cash, long-dated treasuries, and physical gold to protect against a deflationary slowdown.

Recorded July 21 2026

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Gold has fallen below $4,000 and silver is down more than half from its January high. Clem Chambers, who warned Kitco viewers in May the decline had another leg down, now calls the bottom, roughly $3,500 gold and $50 silver, and the level that finally puts him back in as a buyer.

Kitco's Jeremy Szafron talks with Clem Chambers about why he thinks this was a bubble unwind, the real reason gold fell (the collapse of the China-Taiwan war premium, not just the Fed), the silver liquidity trap that left sellers 70% below the screen price, what Moonshot's AI shock means for the "money that left gold," the UK tech takeover trade under new PM Andy Burnham, and when he starts dollar-cost-averaging back into gold, silver, platinum and palladium.

This interview was recorded on July 20, 2026

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Gold dropped below $4,000 for the first time in months. Kitco technical analyst Gary Wagner breaks down where gold's new support levels sit, why this has become a Federal Reserve and interest-rate story more than a geopolitical one, and the two lines that decide gold's next move.
 
Kitco News anchor Jeremy Szafron speaks with Gary Wagner of The Gold Forecast about gold's break below $4,000, his revised downside support near $3,900, the $4,200 level that would flip the chart back to the bulls, why silver is falling faster than gold, whether a rate hike is now more likely than a rate cut, and if the multi-year gold bull market is rolling over or simply correcting.
 
This interview was recorded on July 16, 2026.

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The story this week wasn't a price target. It was discipline. Gold ran to the moon, then corrected hard, and split the room down the middle. From the Rule Symposium in Boca Raton, Jeremy Szafron sits down with six of the biggest voices in metals and macro: Rick Rule, Adrian Day, Keith Neumeyer, Lynette Zang, Bob Quartermain, and Dr. Nomi Prins.

Greed, fear, a $3,600 warning, silver, copper, and the Fed. Tested, not just repeated. Not investment advice, you decide.

Recorded July 9, 2026.

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Gold's brutal 40% miner selloff was a "classic washout," not a breakdown, says Brien Lundin, and what comes next could leave Wall Street watching from the sidelines.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026, the Gold Newsletter editor and New Orleans Investment Conference host said the June 24 plunge to $4,000 "really felt like capitulation," and that level has held as a floor since. He likens today's sentiment to 1999 and 2000, the bottom that launched the entire 2000s bull. And he argues the market has changed hands: no longer driven purely by central banks, "the Western market is making the price and the central banks and China are taking the price," he said, concluding they were glad to do it because gold was on sale, a shift that turned the moves violent.

Lundin expects easy money regardless of hawkish Fed minutes, arguing "the math is the math" and that Chair Warsh was installed "for one specific purpose, and that's to lower rates." He even reads Warsh's tough-on-inflation messaging as "rehearsed," with Trump's silence the tell. And he warns the pros, "on the beach drinking their pina coladas," may return after Labor Day to find gold up 5 to 10% and mining stocks up 20 to 30%, gains "missed through sheer inattention."

Recorded July 09, 2026.

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Everyone says the West dumped gold this quarter. The World Gold Council's data says that's wrong, the selling was narrow, American, and almost entirely paper.

Speaking with Kitco News at the Rule Symposium 2026 in Boca Raton, WGC senior market strategist Joseph Cavatoni said North American investors fled gold ETFs on rate fears while Asia bought "at a record pace." Gold's worst quarter in 13 years, he argued, was the work of short-term traders, not a broken thesis, as a safe haven, gold "cuts both ways," sold for cash and margin calls after a 160% run to January's record.

The real buyers never left. Cavatoni said central banks kept accumulating well above their long-run average, with nearly 90% of those surveyed planning to hold or add gold, and confirmed it is "probably fair to say" gold has now overtaken US Treasuries as a reserve asset. He also unpacked gold's quiet shift into Tier 1 collateral, now accepted by clearing houses, central banks, and even crypto lenders.

Recorded July 09, 2026.

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