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Gold, Geopolitics, and Volatility: Insights from Joe Cavatoni

Maharrey spoke with Joe Cavatoni, Market Strategist for North America at the World Gold Council, to unpack gold’s behavior amid the Iran–U.S.–Israel conflict and broader macroeconomic uncertainty.

Eggs Are Not Dairy; Crypto Is Not Money (Only Gold Is)

Cryptocurrencies cannot be termed stores of value. There is no history of sufficient length to provide evidence...Gold is the only real money because it is a proven store of value.

Astronauts Looking Through Gold-Colored Visors

Gold has a lot of free and loosely bound electrons. When IR light hits the metal, those electrons absorb the energy and begin oscillating. Instead of letting the light pass through, the metal reflects it.

Whether the AI Tech Bubble Has Found Its Pin—and What Investors Are Overlooking

I’ve been massively long physical gold and silver, as well as gold, silver, copper, uranium, and nickel stocks, among others. Lots of oil and gas stocks. And agricultural ETFs.

Gold, Jobs, and the Story Behind France’s Move

War headlines may come and go, but the long-term drivers remain in place. Debt is still growing, monetary debasement is still ongoing, and geopolitical distrust is still rising. Owning real metal is protection against a system that becomes more fragile the longer it runs.

Ft. Knox Full of Impure Gold UNFIT for International Transactions

Mises Institute Editor in Chief Ryan McMaken called the U.S. gold reserves “a legacy of theft and lies," pointing out the gold reserve was never intended to be a “static, untouchable hoard of the U.S. government.”

The Gold Market Explained (What Most Investors Get Wrong)

The long term case for gold rests on structural conditions that are slower, less visible and increasingly far more persistent.

Mayor Mamdani Has Declared War on Gold

The new attention on taxing gold and silver is financial desperation disguised as financial prudence. Mayor Mamdani and other advocates of this proposal intend to use precious metals investors as a bailout for an increasingly fiscally tenuous government bureaucracy.

Are Capital Controls Coming? Why Your Money May Not Be Safe

Right now in multiple countries, people can't access their money because the government said so. The warning signs were identical, and we're watching the same signals today elsewhere in the world.

Another Great Jobs Report! Or Was It?

The lesson here is that we need to be somewhat skeptical of government data. And we need to pay attention – not just to the headline release, but the revisions as well.

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