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If the AI boom continues to drive the system toward greater leverage, energy dependence, and credit fragility, gold and precious metals could once again become one of the few assets capable of protecting investors against a downturn in the technology cycle and the credit market.

For decades now, investors have "fattened" their trading accounts on two American bellwether stocks — McDonald's and Coca Cola. This week, we'll look at both in terms of their ratio to Gold to see if it might be now time to rotate out of the stocks and into Gold for the years ahead.

It appears that highly aggressive traders—or insiders betting on confidential information—have taken out around 500,000 call options, wagering on a silver price between $900 and $1,000 by the end of the year. You may consider them reckless traders and dismiss this information…

The market continues to display a price… but fewer and fewer participants are willing to honor it in practice. The link between paper and reality is fraying, revealing an increasingly visible divide.

The government poses a risk that must be factored into the development of one’s investment portfolio. Jeff Park proposes the “radical portfolio,” structured around an “inside/outside the system” approach, where the “system” refers to the government.

It is now clear that the contemporary monetary system is coming to an end. Gold has grasped the stakes of such a collapse.

The latest inflation figures suggest a resurgence of inflationary pressure. Producer prices rose by 0.5% over the month, bringing the annual rate to 4.0%. Against an already tense backdrop in the energy sector, figures like these are enough to fuel the narrative that inflation is on the rise agai...

Does gold signal a return of inflation? Everything points to it. Gold has recently become the world’s most traded asset by volume, surpassing U.S. debt and major currencies.

The war in Iran is not only contributing to a resurgence of inflationary pressures across the Atlantic, thereby destabilizing financial markets, but is also accelerating the global shift away from the dollar.

The Bank of France (BdF) has quietly completed the repatriation of French gold still held in the United States, bringing to an end nearly a century of partial storage abroad. The operation covered 129 tonnes of precious metal — around 5% of the country’s total reserves — previously held at the Fe...