Currencies and Gold

Gold Today, Gold Tomorrow

In the last five years the price of an ounce of gold has increased 93%. Easy monetary policies and the downgrade of many sovereign...

Who is Buying Gold?

In 2012 there were stunning trends in gold buying. Perhaps the most stunning was who was buying gold to lower risk from economic turmoil. The...

Time to Buy Gold?

It’s the question most frequently asked by customers over the last week: Is now a good time to buy gold? My answer is that...

India: BRIC Broken

India, one of the much hyped BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) has seen its currency plunge in recent months. Over the last...

Currencies in Crisis, Oil Spiking: Time to Buy?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 have staged impressive rallies to begin 2012. As of this morning, the Dow was up more...

Coordinated Currency Devaluation: Time to Buy Gold

Not to be outdone by Europe or the U.S., the Bank of Japan announced yesterday that it would print an additional 10 trillion yen...

Gold King as Currencies Debased

Yesterday the Bank of England announced another round of quantitative easing, this time spending $79.1 billion on government bonds. On the chart below you...

What the Franc!

Julia Child made cooking look easy. The same cannot be said about U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and monetary policy. He makes it...

Gold Surges to Record High

Gold is up more than 6.5% since the first of the month. The precious metal is rallying on fears that the euro-area financial crisis...

The World’s Most Profitable Currency

Can you guess which of the world’s currencies has appreciated the most this year? If you guessed the Paraguayan guarani, you’re right. A close...