Comparing Ancient Babylonian Prices to Today
This article uses gold as a stable benchmark to translate wages and prices from Hammurabi’s Code into modern terms.
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100 Years of Silver Price History
We’ll explore the silver price history from 1925 to today and zoom in on recent decades (30-year and 10-year price trends).
Why is Silver Valuable?
Silver is one of the most attractive investment opportunities today. Despite its growing applications in technology, silver remains extremely undervalued.
What Does the Gold/Oil Ratio Tell Us?
Gold and oil are the two most important commodities in the world. Tracking the gold/oil ratio is like watching the tug-of-war between Wall Street and Main Street.
100 Years of Gold Price History
We’ll explore the gold price history from 1925 to today and zoom in on recent decades (30-year and 10-year price trends).
How Do Tariffs Impact Gold?
Trump’s tariffs have sent gold to an all-time high. Markets expect tariffs to cause some combination of higher inflation, a declining U.S. dollar, geopolitical tensions, and more foreign gold demand.
Would a BRICS Currency Challenge the U.S. Dollar?
Discussions of a new “BRICS currency” are gaining widespread attention. This article explores why an increasing number of foreign nations are attempting to “de-dollarize,” and why gold has emerged as a viable alternative to the USD as the global reserve currency.
Awaiting Elections With Bated Breath
We’re in a world of seemingly stark inconsistencies – confounding incongruences.
Treasury Yields and Gold Rise in Tandem
Typically, we expect the price of gold to fall when yields rise. But over the last two months, Treasury yields and gold have surged together.
Interest Rates vs. Gold: 3 ways the Fed impacts gold
Gold and interest rates have an inverse relationship. When interest rates fall, the price of gold tends to rise, and vice versa.
What Makes the Gold Price Rise and Fall?
The price of gold rises when some event encourages marginal buyers to buy, or discourages marginal sellers from selling. This article discusses the top 10 factors that drive gold prices.
Gold steady as the dollar fights for credibility
Gold is hovering around $2,320/ounce, down from its all-time high of $2,450 on May 20th. Silver has taken a bigger hit; down 11% from its May peak.
10 Key Factors That Determine the Price of Silver
The price of silver is determined by supply and demand on major exchanges, as traders react to inflation expectations, interest rates, industrial demand, and geopolitical events.
The Top 5 Benefits of Investing in Gold
Gold is immune to inflation, valued across every culture, and independent of banks, governments, and corporations. Today, gold's greatest benefit for investors is its ability to improve risk-adjusted returns in a portfolio.
Gold surges in the face of rising yields
Typically, rising yields are bad for gold. Not this year. Rising yields represent an increasing risk of a public debt crisis, for which gold may be the only remedy.
Investors turn to gold as rate cuts loom
When the Fed cuts interest rates this summer, gold and silver stand to absorb billions of dollars as investors redeploy their mountain of cash.