Policies such as tariffs have consequences – both good and bad. It’s easy to focus on a policy decision's perceived benefits, but it’s crucial to consider potential negative ramifications.

I ran across a story the other day that can serve as a cautionary tale. I'll tell you up front that there are a lot of unanswered questions in this story, but with a little speculation, I think I can squeeze out a lesson.

The major gold miners are finishing reporting their best quarter ever!  Lofty record gold prices combined with production growth and decent cost control to catapult unit profits to their highest levels ever witnessed.  These wildly-bullish dynamics also fueled...

We have written about the importance of Gold outperforming the stock market for nearly a decade. In addition, we expanded this concept by including Bonds to construct a 60/40 Portfolio.

The financial markets have been all over the place this week, with stocks swinging back and forth without a clear direction. The session opened on a positive note after a benign U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) report showed core inflation rising just 3.1% in...

VON GREYERZ, Partner Matthew Piepenburg, joins Jesse Day at Commodity Culture to discuss the ever-changing shifts in markets, geopolitics, the economy, and the rising role of precious metals against a surreal backdrop of extreme headlines.

In a recent column, Paul Craig Roberts wrote that tariffs not only made international trade possible, but that they were merely a tax on consumption and were neutral elsewhere—and should be much-preferred to income taxes.

With the gold futures now above $2,950, it's almost as if last week's selloff is a distant memory. And with PPI wholesale prices rising in line with expectations this morning, we may not be far off from seeing the gold price crack the $3,000 level.

In this week’s episode of the Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey went into a deep discussion on the weaponization of the U.S. dollar, the global response to financial sanctions, and the ongoing trend of de-dollarization.

Price inflation moderated in February, setting the stage for more inflation. The CPI data for last month wasn’t bad. It broke a four-month upward trend, and the numbers all came in lower than forecast.

On March 6, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a strategic Bitcoin reserve and digital asset stockpile for the United States government. Within this executive order, Trump refers to the notion that Bitcoin is akin to “digital...

Mises Wire recently ran a story entitled “The Gold at Fort Knox Was Stolen From Americans,” written by Mises Institute‘s executive editor Ryan McMaken. His essay‘s apt title reiterates the facts of the events that occurred in the early days of Franklin Delano...

Gold and silver have been rallying for over a year now. Although with the recent stock market selloff, we're starting to see gold now break out against the stock market too.

Almost exactly one year ago, on March 2, 2024, we had been following many charts for the PM complex, which were at critical inflection points and could have broken either way. Many of the chart patterns we had been following for six months or longer, waiting for a...

An end to the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency would mean disaster for the U.S. economy. The United States depends on global demand for dollars to facilitate its borrowing and spending. The greenback’s status helps support America’s economic and...

In a recent episode of the Soar Financially podcast, host Kai Hoffmann sat down with Stefan Gleason, the President and CEO of Money Metals Exchange, to discuss shocking irregularities during decades-old Fort Knox gold audits, secret global gold flows, investor...

The Dow, S&P 500, and the Nasdaq all sold off viciously yesterday, with the Nasdaq having its worst day since 2022. This brings overall stock market losses to $4 trillion since last month's highs.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s GDPNow model projection for real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2025 (Q1 2025) is now showing a slump to -1.5 percent. This marks a significant downward revision from the previous estimate of 2.3 percent on February 19, 2025...

The BRICS bloc — originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — has undergone significant transformation over the last twelve months. In August 2023, the group extended invitations to six nations: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi...

The US stock market bears eerie similarity to the market of 1929. The government’s macabre tariff tax tantrum could be the catalyst that sends this outrageously overvalued market into the abyss.