The CGR is a great way to track global growth. Why? Because copper is primarily an industrial metal, whereas gold is a store of value with limited industrial uses. During times of expansion, copper does well.

The Big 3 tend to run the corporate bond marker. I say it’s time to take back the shrewdness and counter research from the Big 3 with our own due diligence.

On this episode, I simplify what a lot of analysts are seeing the the gold price. They forecast gold prices being neutral in the short term, but bullish in the long term.

Yes, it looks like moving averages are pointing towards much lower levels than we have been experiencing this week. Expect silver prices to drop a little in the short term.

Gold bullion prices react positively to news of economic contraction and monetary easing. Why? Because people are flocking to safety. The market is so small, it pushes prices upward easily.

In this episode, black bullion denounces the slump in demand for physical bullion as being a strong enough metric to bring down the gold price by 22%. He offers another metric that is stronger and is one of the main reasons why gold is performing well right now: weak (negative) real interest rates.