Financial Markets

Rising wages, falling productivity: inflation is not transitory and is becoming uncontrollable for the Fed, because it is linked to a problem in the supply of raw materials.

Gold is a cheap today relative to US money supply as in 1971 when the price was $35 and in 2000 when gold was $290.

Monetary policies are often analyzed in terms of their impacts or correlations with macroeconomic indicators, such as GDP, unemployment or the balance of payments. They are more rarely analyzed according to the consequences they generate at the individual level.

Christine Lagarde's denial, its refusal to raise the key rate, and its apathy towards inflation, will prolong the weakening of the euro against the dollar, thus creating an additional cause of inflation (raw materials being paid in dollars, the fall of the euro mechanically increases their price). B...

Inflation figures will probably still be very high in Europe and the United States, especially because of record high fuel prices. But it is the Japanese inflation numbers that now need to be scrutinized.

Clay Finck chats with Tavi Costa about why he believes that now is the time to have exposure to hard assets like gold, silver, & commodities, what the potential catalysts are for gold and silver, how investors can think about the value of gold, the one leading metric that’s most helpful to see where...

The market correction did not benefit US bonds and despite the fall in commodities and especially mining stocks, gold did not deviate and even held its support at $1900.

As the USD and UST emerges as less of safe-haven and de-dollarization accelerates, gold will re-emerge as the more trusted asset and a greater allocation in future portfolios.

At the start of this week, gold is correcting, but the pullback is very measured when you look at the pace of the rise in the U.S. ten-year. The fact that gold is not correcting under these conditions is evidence of the significant level of demand for the precious metal.

Investors who ignore the importance of gold will see their paper assets decline by up to 98% in real terms.