Things are looking very bubbly: stock market, property. The chart shows the different phases of a bubble. It’s typical of bubbles to have a euphoria and even delusion phase, before the collapse. But there isn’t…
When people turn cautious liquidity starts disappearing. People are happy to throw money around when things are on the upside, but will hunker down and hoard money when they turn less confident about the future…
The monetary system is broken. It will take a huge leap of faith to keep this going. Our whole monetary system is based on confidence. There are monetary experiments from central bankers designed to ‘fix’…
The more the money supply expands, the less your money is worth. In Australia, the RBA has in place an inflation target of around 2–3%. In other words, they have a mandate to devalue the…
I touch the screen and it lights up. It gives me two clear choices: ‘Buy Gold’ or ‘Buy Crypto’.I press ‘Buy Gold’, swipe my card, insert my phone number and select the amount: 1 gram.…
Ainslie Bullion has recently launched a cryptocurrency token backed by physical gold and silver bullion. The idea of the crypto is to make investing in precious metals a lot simpler. We discuss digital gold, what…
GAIC is one of the few places you can hold about $900,000 of gold in your hands. Yep, the gold bar is roughly the value of a home. Gold has been a wealth protector for…
Without much fuss or fanfare, the US Federal Reserve — and the Reserve Bank of Australia — have done a U-turn on policy. It was only a few months back that the Fed was decreasing…
Plenty of people can’t afford a home. And at the end of the day that reality will hit because property has become detached from salaries and the economy. Would housing affordability be a problem if…
Gold miners Saracen Mineral Holdings Ltd [ASX:SAR] an Northern Star Resources Ltd [ASX:NST] are up 4.05% and 1.38% respectively today at time of writing. While gold prices have only edged slightly higher, remember, gold is…