Mike Gleason
Director @Money Metals Exchange
Mike Gleason is a Director with Money Metals Exchange, a national precious metals dealer with over 50,000 customers. Gleason is a hard money advocate and a strong proponent of personal liberty, limited government and the Austrian School of Economics. A graduate of the University of Florida, Gleason has extensive experience in management, sales and logistics as well as precious metals investing. He also puts his longtime broadcasting background to good use, hosting a weekly precious metals podcast since 2011, a program listened to by tens of thousands each week.
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It has been another challenging week for precious metals investors, with both gold and silver coming under heavy selling pressure as markets focused less on geopolitical turmoil and more on what that turmoil could mean for inflation and...
Gold and silver spent much of the week on the defensive, although both metals stabilized and recovered some ground late in the week. The selling pressure since late June wasn't driven by a collapse in safe-haven demand. Instead, it...
Although we've seen a bounce in gold and silver over the last couple of days, the biggest driver behind the recent weakness has been the market's sudden shift in expectations surrounding the Federal Reserve.
Gold's recent selloff has certainly tested investors' nerves. On Wednesday, the yellow metal briefly fell below the $4,000-an-ounce mark, leaving prices roughly 28% below the all-time highs reached back in January. That's a painful...
Gold and silver are ending the week under significant pressure after a surprisingly strong U.S. jobs report fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve may keep interest rates elevated for longer than previously anticipated.
Well, it looks like we can add CIA clandestine operations to the list of uses for gold in this day and age. A former senior CIA official was just implicated in a scheme to apparently steal about $40 million in so-called "black budget" gold...
U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Catherine Cortez Masto introduced the bipartisan “System Integrity through Licensed Vault Expansion and Resilience Act”, aka the SILVER Act, this week -- the latest step in the precious metals industry's efforts...
Well, another Federal Reserve meeting came and went this week with no real action. And as usual, the big news centered around what Jerome Powell & Company said and didn’t say.
At yesterday's U.S. House Agriculture Committee oversight hearing, Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig pledged to assist efforts of members of Congress who recently introduced the SILVER Act.
After an initial safe-haven boost at the onset of the Iran war, gold corrected and has behaved more like a risk asset. However, HSBC analysts say the de-dollarization trend still makes the yellow metal a good long-term investment.
