Inflation

The Irish central bank added 78 million euros ($88 million) to its gold reserves in November, data published this week showed. The purchases mean the institution has increased its holdings of the precious metal by more than three tons in three months, a 60% increase from the level maintained for...

The leaders of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) have long promised us that their lax monetary policy would not lead to inflation, and that we should not worry, that it would be "transitory". They now concede that the transitional period could be prolonged, but co...

2022 is beginning in a very different environment than that of last year. This is the time of year when it is necessary to consult the major institutions’ forecasts regarding the evolution of the gold price in 2022.

Ronnie Stoeferle joins Wall Street Silver to discuss the changing of an era. We had 40 years of low inflation. But that is coming to an end. The new economic system has higher inflation built into it. The time of gold and silver is coming.

If the awareness of the reality of the physical market kicks in at the same time as a change in sentiment among the institutional investors on inflation, 2022 risks being an explosive year in the precious metals sector.

There is now too much debt in the economy, everywhere and at too high a level. The room for maneuver of central banks is considerably narrower...

Prudence tells us to get out of bubble assets like stocks, bonds and speculative property. Once the fall starts, these assets are likely to lose 90% or more in real terms which means against gold. Own physical gold and some silver (much more volatile). That will be your insurance against a rotten...

Never has the proof of inflation been so tangible, and yet increasing numbers of fund managers are betting on this rise in prices being transitory, encouraged, admittedly, by the reassuring narrative coming from the monetary authorities. It is not the first time that the Fed has bet on its moneta...

In this year-end chat, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, round up 2021 by discussing the critical issues leading us into the new year.

The relatively sizable historic decline of the gold price makes it possible to draw detailed conclusions about the regular phases of evolution of the price of gold. In this article, we take a look at an exclusive approach to the cyclical nature of gold, the major phases of growth since the 1970s,...