When you ask people what they’d rather give someone right now, cash or gold, 55% say gold is the better gift. Which sounds like a conversation you’d expect to overhear in 1910, not 2025.
The WGC has also noted that “diversification” with “a reduction of U.S. assets” is one of the factors driving central bank gold buying. In other words, de-dollarization.
While what is left of the DOGE website currently claims that the number has grown to a little over $210-billion saved, numerous audits claim otherwise.
From a libertarian standpoint, the question of banning so-called “hate speech” is a no-brainer. Banning any kind of speech, whether it is good or bad, is incompatible with a free society.
Gold has risen during most recessionary periods — sometimes dramatically — and has shown a tendency to “hold steady or rise” when other assets decline.
As this week’s budget conversations fade from the headlines, it is worth observing that the deeper story is not about any one country’s fiscal position. It is about a global population that increasingly senses a widening gap between what they put in and what they get back.
