In the latest episode of Money Metals Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey delivers an insightful breakdown of global gold demand trends in Q1 2025, highlighting a striking divide between Eastern and Western investors.

Flows of gold into Asian ETFs exploded in April, driving global ETF gold holdings higher for the fifth straight month. Last month, 115.3 tonnes of gold poured into gold-backed funds globally. It was the strongest month since August 2022. 

On Wednesday, the Federal reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee left the target federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25-4.5 percent. The FOMC statement on the current policy, released on Wednesday, reads (my emphases in bold):

Disclaimer of bias: I have viewed Bitcoin and Crypto in general as a speculation to varying degrees from day 1. NFT? Well as soon as NFT/Crypto drones started liking, following and glad-handing me due to the NFTrh (@NFTRHgt) on what was thenTwitter simply because of...

Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most successful investors, has never been shy when it comes to expressing his opinions. He is famous for sharing his financial wisdom and wit over the years.

Yes, it’s different this time. I know that’s about the most dangerous phrase in all of investing, and virtually everyone who has ever uttered it was ultimately made a fool by the markets.

VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins the prolific Ivor Cummings to bring needed perspective to gold in a world over its skis in debt and marching full speed into a credit/debt crisis for which the evidence is literally everywhere – from market volatility...

Markets aren’t machines for distribution; they’re dynamic processes of entrepreneurial discovery. Tariffs dim the signals that reveal what no planner ever could.

In the wake of the Trumpian tariffs, any number of fallacies in economic theory have resurfaced to justify and advance Trump’s agenda. Most are more egregious than optimal tariffs, but this particular fallacy needs especially to be exposed. Not primarily because it...

We've seen a lot of unusual activity in the gold market over the past few months. And a fund manager named Michael McNair is looking at some of the footprints, and believes the US treasury may have already begun implementing chairman of the Council of Economic...

Gold is closely watching what’s going on in the USD Index, so that’s what we’ll focus on today.

Demand for physical gold surged in the first quarter. But not in the United States. Asian investors primarily drove demand for gold bars and coins as American investors continued to sit on the sidelines.

Gold! Supreme money gold! It looks awesome and it even feels awesome to hold.  It’s the money of kings, the money of most of Asian citizens, and (more and more) it’s becoming the righteous money of most hardcore gold bugs in the West.

We see a correction in the precious metals sector today (just as the USD Index is somewhat lower), but this doesn’t change anything. Let’s start with gold.

New Gold’s shares surged as much as 19% this week after completion of the $300 million acquisition of the remaining 19.9% free cash flow interest in its New Afton mine, consolidating 100% ownership and eliminating dilution risk. The move came alongside solid first...

With gold setting record after record, people are scrambling to cash in by selling scrap gold and jewelry. Selling gold tucked away in a jewelry box or gathering dust on a shelf can certainly put extra cash in your wallet, but you should manage your expectations. ...

Gold has outperformed most asset classes for the last 25 years. If you think about it, that is a pretty remarkable run.

In a revealing episode of the Paydirt Podcast, host Peter Krauth of Silver Stock Investor sits down with Stefan Gleason, President and CEO of Money Metals Exchange, to explore the company’s rapid growth, its commitment to ethical practices, and where gold and silver...

The key future breakouts coming in precious metals.

Many, from Elliot Wave experts to the dollar-hugging faithful, are asking if we are now reaching a moment of “peak gold”? The evidence, and answer, is: No.