Financial markets

Even though gold has yielded an excellent return, it is what happens to the Dow/Gold ratio in the future that determines if investors should stay with stocks or hold gold.

Although gold can and will see price surges (and losses), the kind of surges (and losses) made by BTC are far too volatile, up or down, to be considered as a credible store of value.

If president Biden wants to save the US economy, his first measure should not be to print $trillions of worthless new money but instead tell his secretary of the treasury Janet Yellen to withdraw all debased currency from circulation just as Aristophanes suggested in 405BC, Copernicus in 1517 and...

The state of the world necessitates holding gold as life insurance. Whether gold reaches $2,000, $20,000 or $200 trillion has nothing to do with the value of gold but all to do with a bankrupt financial system and worthless fiat currencies.

Gold and silver continue to be in correction mode. What caused the slump last Friday? Deception before the impending chaos in the U.S.? The correction is an opportunity, because the collapse can only be delayed with more trillions. Central banks inflate balance sheets and money supply, risks are...

Ever since Nixon welched on the U.S. dollar in 1971 and took away this global reserve currency’s gold backing, currencies around the world have behaved like teenagers at a keg party without a chaperone.

Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg discuss recent, headline-making swings in the global gold market and political landscape.

We take another deep dive into the lessons of history, math and objective facts as one year replaces another in a global market increasingly on edge.

The smart money understands the difference between staying rich and getting rich. Physical gold, as a timeless (rather than trendy or passẻ) instrument of wealth preservation, serves as the historically-confirmed and surest way to ensure one’s wealth against the ravages of currency debasement.

Egon von Greyerz, Ronnie Stoeferle and Grant Williams discuss debt, inflation, “re-sets,” Bitcoin and thoughts on 2021. Looking forward, each share insights on: continued wealth disparity, the disconnect between rising markets and tanking economic conditions, vaccine hopes, capitalism’s “death” a...