Currencies and Gold

Costco Gold Bars Selling Out

Sabrina Escobar of Barron's reports that shoppers are snapping up gold bars sold by Costco Wholesale. Escobar writes: Gold has never been more expensive. That...

A Gold Standard Would Provide Discipline to Government

Your Survival Guy doesn’t want you to be in the interest rate prediction business because the talking heads just might end up being wrong. Sure,...

America Can Save the Dollar with a Gold Standard

You know that for the last few years of the Biden administration, Americans have been hammered by the inflation tax. Biden and his friends...

America Needs a Gold Standard

The Fed is in the inflation business. Look at the value of your dollars in gold today. In 1942, a dollar was worth 1/35th of...

The Wolf of Vanguard Dressed Like a Sheep

The full-court press for higher-fee management is on at the big money managers, and former BlackRock executive turned Vanguard CEO has been in on...

July RAGE Gauge: Gold, Interest Rates, and You

You don’t want to get caught in the fog without some know-how. That’s how Your Survival Guy feels about this market. You want to...

The Rusted Dollar

You know from Your Survival Guy's recent story about what I saw in Europe that the dollar is strong compared to other currencies. But...

A Return to Gold Standard Would Work Wonders

Are you heading abroad this summer? Good timing. As Your Survival Guy discovered before his recent trip across the pond, the US dollar carries...

Dip a Toe into Gold

In June of 1993, Bloomberg’s Pam Black asked me how to stay ahead of the inflation curve. I told her to “dip a toe”...

Trump on Digital Currency

You have read about the dangers of a central bank digital currency on YourSurvivalGuy.com: Do You Know the Worst Part about a CBDC? The...