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Last year after Russia was kicked out of the SWIFT payments system, they responded by adopting a temporary #gold backing to the Ruble, and have hinted at a commodity-backed currency arrangement in the months since.
China has been accumulating a large amount of gold over the past decade, and according to many experts, far more gold than they publicly acknowledge.
After the stock market euphoria of the past few years under the Federal Reserve's 0% interest rate policy, investors are again looking at gold and silver as stocks are down and the economy heads into recession.
Throughout 2022 there's been a theme of protecting assets against geopolitical risk. Central banks have been buying gold at a record pace, while others have been repatriating their gold holdings to keep them safe from jurisdictional risk....
Gold and silver sold off sharply for much of the summer as the Fed was aggressively raising interest rates. Yet the metals have reversed that trend and rallied while the Fed has kept hiking, suggesting that the equation is not as...
The Federal Reserve is getting ready for its latest policy statement on Wednesday, with another rate hike on the way, and only the size and commentary still in question.
After a volatile year for the gold and silver prices in 2022, we're still left in the position where we're headed towards recession (and by some measures already in one now), which doesn't leave any easy answers for the central banks in...
Gold and silver have a history of being used as money for thousands of years. Yet we now live in a digital world where commerce is done globally, and through the internet, which raises the issue of how gold and silver could actually be...
The Federal Reserve has been hiking interest rates at an unprecedented clip throughout the year in an effort to bring inflation back under control. Yet is hasn't been a smooth path, with pressure building in the foreign markets, while the...
The latest CPI report was released this morning, which showed lower inflation than was expected by Wall Street. Which sent the stock, bond, and precious metals markets higher, as traders priced in a higher probability that the Federal...
