Gold

Today’s infographic from Kalo Gold outlines the economic case for gold and highlights some of the main reasons why investors are attracted to it.

Gold has almost doubled from its 2015 low but history says that the real action is still to come.

The Federal Reserve wrapped up another meeting without making any changes to its current extraordinary, loose, inflationary monetary policy but the central bank did hint that it may start tapering its quantitative easing program “soon” and that was enough for the markets. They continue to expect the Fed will tighten monetary policy and successfully fight surging inflation. Gold sold off after the FOMC statement came out, dropping about $10 but gold will explode and the dollar will implode when the markets figure out the Fed is crying wolf when it comes to monetary tightening...

This article looks at the severity, duration, and recoveries of physical gold and silver in three periods that seem to most resemble what’s happening today: the Great Recession, the 1970s, and the Great Depression to see what we can learn.

If you want to know and understand what is happening to gold’s price, then you need to know and understand what is happening to the U.S. dollar. The value of gold is constant: its price changes according to changes in actual purchasing power of the US dollar. 

The Tokyo gold medals are composed of 92.5% silver with approximately 6g of pure gold making up the plating on the outside and are valued at $820.

The US dollar, as the world reserve currency, is still the driver of silver, gold, and inflation pricing and the charts below show that they should now be ready to run based on the USD topping and then dropping in "price".

Gold investors are right to wonder what effect, if any, Basel III will have on the gold price. Our take is that...

Such high inflation expectations could very well see Gold bust up through that red downtrend line pretty easily to perhaps as high as $2,100/ozt.

Any talk of “a return to normalcy” is nonsense. We are emphatically not headed in a normal direction.