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The Truth About Why Gold Is Surging
For thousands of years, gold (and to a lesser extent silver) have been mediums of exchange and methods of preserving wealth over time. Throughout 2024 and 2025, gold prices have been surging, driven by...
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Gold Rallies on LOWER August Inflation?
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August Inflation report on Wednesday September 11th showing Annual Inflation was down from 2.9% in July to 2.5% in August. (But since we calculate it to...
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Oil vs. Gold- Why Compare Commodity Prices Against Each Other?
When we think of inflation we generally think of “Price Inflation” i.e. how much the price of a good or service has increased in dollars. However, price inflation is not “monolithic” that is, they...
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Gold vs. Dollar vs. BitCoin Revisited
Back in 2016, we compared the properties of three types of currency, i.e. Gold, Dollars (Cash), and Bitcoin. Today we’d like to look at how each has fared since then. Back then, we said that there are...
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3 Factors Causing the Current Gold Rally
A variety of factors affect the price of gold. Currently, many of them are combining to drive the price of gold to all-time record highs. Let’s look at a few of the factors that affect the price of...
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5 Reasons to Invest In Gold
Gold has a long history that goes back to thousands of years. As we said here, “Gold came in common use in 3000 B.C. when Egyptians started making it into jewelry. It wasn’t until years later that gold...
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Gold Price and Its Relationship with Inflation
Inflation is the increase in the price you pay for goods and services, which affects the purchasing power of your money. This is more accurately called “price inflation” as compared to “monetary...
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Gold as an Investment
The main idea behind investment is to grow and preserve wealth, and in many cases, find unique ways to generate more income. Popular wisdom has it that when interest rates rise gold prices fall because...
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How Does Inflation Affect the Price of Gold?
Gold bugs often fear inflation and believe that gold will generally increase in price when inflation is high. But the correlation is not as simple as when inflation increases the price of gold...
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Investing in Gold
Throughout history, people have been attracted to gold. It is considered one of the most precious metals. In ancient times it was primarily used as jewelry or for fabricating religious items. Often...
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Choosing the Right Investment: Gold vs. U.S. Dollar vs. Bitcoin
Rosland Capital recently produced an interesting infographic comparing the ten most important traits of an investment or more precisely of a store of value or currency. They offer physical gold and...
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Should You Invest in Gold?
Almost everyone will agree that making the right investments is one of the best ways to secure your financial future. Unfortunately, figuring out which investments are right for you is easier said than...
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Bank Closures “Could Never Happen Here”
By Jared Dillian I was watching the 6 o’clock news and saw images of closed banks in Greece and people lined up at ATMs. I’m sure you did, too.This must seem surreal to most people because it seems so...
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The Case of the Disappearing Gold
When I was in the 6th grade (many, many years ago) my class took a field trip to New York City and visited the NY FED. The highlight of the trip for me was a ride down the elevator (or more precisely...
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2 Types of Money
From the beginning, productivity improved with specialization. If one person can produce fruit more efficiently while the other was a better hunter, more wealth will be generated if the hunter hunts...
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Buying or Selling Gold and Silver?
Many investors consider the recent drop in gold, silver and platinum prices to be the perfect opportunity to build (or add to) their precious metals position. With the price down, the basic law of...
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Gold Mining Stocks are Down – What’s Up?
For many years now I’ve been saying that Gold is a Crisis Hedge rather than an inflation hedge. But it is also a commodity and a monetary instrument. Thus there are a variety of factors affecting its...
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Where is Gold Headed?
This week has been tumultuous for the markets with steep market drops and subsequent rallies. Over the last month gold has been as high as $1260 subsequently it fell steadily to $1190 for a 5.5% drop....
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Where is Gold Headed?
To get the true measure of anything it is important that you use a standardized measurement. This of course is why a “foot” or “inch” eventually became exactly a certain length and didn’t vary based on...
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Oil, Petrodollars and Gold
For thousands of years gold has been synonymous with money, albeit with periods where governments mandated other mediums of exchange. Therefore, throughout history prices were measured in gold rather...
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