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With signs of economic stagnation hard to ignore, politicians, economists, and even central bankers talk about the necessity for economic growth. Not only are they displaying economic ignorance, but b...

Alasdair Macleod / December 3, 2025

Markets are many things, but in simplest terms, they are a paradox. From the Complex… By this, I mean they are incredibly and intentionally complex, which makes them a kind of exclusive environment ma...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 24, 2025

I often close public interviews with the recommendation that investors facing an increasingly complex, distorted and landmine-rich economic setting need to focus on being informed rather than emotiona...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 12, 2025

A topic which keeps on cropping up is that the US Government might confiscate its citizens’ gold. This article discusses the likelihood and practical difficulties behind such a move. The importance of...

Alasdair Macleod / October 31, 2025

When talking about the gold supply, the focus is usually on mine production. Unsurprisingly, this has not yet responded to the sharp rally in gold prices. Apart from the decline caused by the COVID-19...

Ronnie Stoeferle / October 14, 2025

As gold continues to rocket north with continuous all-time highs, some investors are still wondering, well… why? The answer has less to do with gold’s consistent physical and monetary properties, and...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 8, 2025

An examination of the Bitcoin phenomenon is timely, given that last Monday there was a widespread cryptocurrency $1.5bn crash, with Bitcoin losing nearly 3% in one day. Tellingly, this shake-out occur...

Alasdair Macleod / September 24, 2025

For centuries, philosophers have compared the great questions (and mysteries) of life to a circle. That is: To fully understand the circle, you must also recognize its arcs, and to fully understand th...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 21, 2025

Whatever one thinks of the United States (economically, morally, militarily or politically), we can all agree that its dollar exerts tremendous influence (and controversy) over a rapidly changing worl...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 14, 2025

With a NASDAQ and S&P 500 (narrowly driven by seven, mega-cap monopoly powers) enjoying a seemingly immortal ride North, all feels eerily normalized in the land of Wall Street Oz. Surfing the S&am...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 31, 2025

Keep big purchases off-market and control the price to which those transactions refer. That has been China’s strategy: No longer! In recent decades, China, which ranks fifth in global silver reserves,...

Alasdair Macleod / August 29, 2025

Fifty-four years ago (August 15, 1971), Nixon took the USD off its gold standard, thereby officially putting the final nail in the Constitutionally mandated concept of US money. But hey, at least the...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 17, 2025