Mike Maharrey
Mike Maharrey is a journalist and market analyst for MoneyMetals.com with over a decade of experience in precious metals. He holds a BS in accounting from the University of Kentucky and a BA in journalism from the University of South Florida.
Mike Maharrey Articles
Many investors put gold and Bitcoin in the same category. Some people even call Bitcoin "digital gold." Is this a fair comparison?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just zapped 818,000 jobs out of existence. That's one heck of an eraser.
As expected, India's recent gold import tax cut lowered prices and spurred demand for the yellow metal. India ranks as the world's second-largest gold consumer behind China.
For the first time ever, a 400-ounce bar of gold is worth $1 million. No wonder so many central banks and investors are piling up the yellow metal. We hit the $1 million gold bar milestone on Friday when the price of gold topped $2,500 for...
New gold import quotas for Chinese banks could foreshadow another surge in Chinese demand. Demand for gold was white-hot in China last spring, helping drive global prices to record highs. Chinese demand slowed in recent months due to high...
Dollar dominance is slowly ebbing as the world looks to diversify away from the greenback. The share of dollars making up global reserves has dropped by 14 percent since the turn of the century, according to data compiled by the Atlantic...
The push to raise the minimum wage is relentless. For a while, it was "Fight for $15," but with rampant price inflation, a $15 an hour minimum wage isn't sufficient. Now it's "Fight for $20." Heck, it might even be "Fight for $25" at this...
Don’t be fooled when you hear “inflation is coming down.” That's not the plan and it never was. The fact is price inflation was up in July. And it will be up in August.
A couple of weeks ago, the national debt blew past $35 trillion. There were a few articles bemoaning the ballooning debt, but no substantive calls to rein it in. Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to spend America into oblivion.
Many central banks are opting for a “stateless currency” – gold. That’s how a recent article published by Nikkei Asia put it, noting that “central banks are diversifying away from the dollar and yuan.”
