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Gold and silver have entered acceleration mode. With gold surging past $4,300 per ounce and silver trading at $54, early sell-offs are being swiftly absorbed – a clear sign of deep underlying st...

Egon von Greyerz / October 17, 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

Since the price of gold was freed by the final separation of sovereign currencies from gold following the closure of the gold window on August 15, 1971, gold has experienced three bull markets: in the...

Ronnie Stoeferle / July 27, 2025

Are stablecoins just CBDC by another name? The answer is essentially: Yes. Below we discuss the recent passage of the Genuis Act, the USA’s first national cryptocurrency legislation and address why th...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 23, 2025

The Western World is Already In Recession Subtract budget deficits from national GDPs, and private sector GDPs are shrinking. While government spending is creating more debt, the tax base to pay inter...

Alasdair Macleod / July 20, 2025