According to the Pew Research Center, despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, the real average wage in 2018 had the same purchasing power it did in 1978 as a result of inflation and the inability of fiat currencies to protect against it.
Read More »Goldrunner: Gold Will Go Ballistic When the USD Goes “Zimbabwe” (+3K Views)
Jim Sinclair has come out with a video and stated that with so many Dollars being printed to uphold the economy that Gold would eventually rise up to his top target of $87,000 an ounce.
Read More »Gold/Monetary Base Ratio Suggests A Significant Monetary Event On the Horizon (9K Views)
We could be close to major financial/monetary crisis and it is most likely that it could happen during a major stock market crash and recession.
Read More »What’s the Best Way to Become Wealthy Today? Buy Real Estate OR Rent and Invest In Gold?
Home ownership is regarded as some sort of Holy Grail of financial planning... based upon the conventional belief that owning real estate is the #1 path to (at least) financial security – if not affluence - but is there really substance to this belief? This article says, "No, not today" and explains why.
Read More »The Economic Case for 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.
Read More »How Much Gold Is There In the World?
Virtually all the gold in the world that has been mined is still around in one form or another and the following infographic visualizes all the gold in the world that’s above ground and the identified reserves that we have yet to mine.
Read More »The Future Price of Gold Is Dependent On the Future Direction of the USD
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.
Read More »What’s the Size, Weight and Value of the Tokyo Olympic Medals?
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.
Read More »Gold Does NOT Work Well As Inflation Protection – Here’s Proof
Our argument is not that gold makes a bad investment or that no one should own gold but, rather, that gold does not work well as inflation protection but, rather, that the price of gold moves based on investor sentiment
Read More »Goldrunner: The US Dollar is the Driver of the Gold & Silver Sectors
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".
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