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2024 in Review: The Performance of Precious Metals
In a year marked by significant global economic shifts and geopolitical uncertainties, gold has emerged as the standout investment of 2024. Gold outperformed stocks, bonds, and other commodities. After starting the year at $2,050, the precious metal delivered a remarkable 33% return that surpassed both the S&P 500 and traditional fixed-income investments. *As of…
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Central Banks Are Shifting Strategies — Find Out Why
By: Brandon S., Editor Gold prices have traditionally moved inversely to interest rates. However, recent data from Goldman Sachs reveals a compelling shift in this relationship that every savvy investor should note. Historically, gold prices have moved inversely to interest rates. However, since 2022, we’ve witnessed a remarkable divergence from this pattern. Goldman Sachs analyst…
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Gold Maintains Purchasing Power
Written by: Jared Dillian Don’t you think it’s weird that the government can spend as much money as it wants, but you can’t? That the government gets to play by a different set of rules? Regardless of how much money the Fed prints and what it does with its balance sheet, you are faced with the…
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The Scary Truth Behind Gold’s Record Highs
Written by: Steven Feldman, CEO Hard Assets Alliance It’s Halloween, the air is filled with a foreboding chill, and the markets seem to be playing their part in this haunting tale. Concerning signals are emerging across the financial landscape. Bond prices have crashed, the U.S. dollar is surging, and yet, against all odds, gold is…
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Record Gold Prices After Interest Rate Reductions Begin
The gold price, based on the active December Comex gold futures contract, touched a new record of over $2,750 on Wednesday, October 23rd. There are many factors behind the rise in gold prices, both over the past five years and since March of this year. There are multiple perspectives on how gold prices may trend…
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The Chart That’s Worrying Wall Street Insiders
By: Brandon S., Editor While Wall Street celebrates record highs, a deeply concerning chart from the FDIC has caught our attention — one that prudent investors can’t afford to ignore. Hidden in plain sight on the FDIC’s website, this chart on unrealized gains (or losses, in this case) on investment securities reveals a staggering fact:…
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Gold is For War
Written by: The MacroButler Investors who have studied Economics 101 have surely come across the idea of ‘creative destruction,’ developed by Joseph Schumpeter. Around this concept, Schumpeter established that the economy evolves in a business cycle, where economic growth and innovation are driven by cycles of disruption and renewal. Schumpeter believed that the business cycle…