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December 2, 2025
By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist The U.S. dollar has steadily lost value over […]
November 16, 2025
By Dorothy Neufeld – Visual Capitalist While global public debt is lower than pandemic […]
October 27, 2025
By John Walter – JohnWalter25.substack The fall of the Western Roman Empire in […]
October 26, 2025
By Adam Clark – Barron’s The boom in companies holding large stocks of cryptos […]
October 23, 2025
By Jamie McGeever – Reuters Even though the $4 trillion global crypto market […]
October 7, 2025
By Nouriel Roubini – interest.co.nz What does the future hold for money and […]
October 4, 2025
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The dollar’s status as dominant global reserve currency just took […]
October 4, 2025
By William Pesek – Asia Times TOKYO — Depending on your vantage point, the […]
August 28, 2025
By Ken Fisher – New York Post President Trump recently said, “Well, you know, […]
July 16, 2025
From YouTube U.S. debt is sitting at more than $36 trillion US — […]
July 14, 2025
By Wolf Richter – WOLF STREET The dollar’s status as dominant foreign exchange-reserve currency has […]
June 30, 2025
From Yahoo!finance A measure of demand in the $7.5-trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market is catching […]
May 30, 2025
From Interchange Financial The Canadian dollar has been quietly gathering momentum—and on Friday, […]
May 27, 2025
By MN Gordon – Economic Prisim The Federal Reserve is up to its old […]
May 19, 2025
2025.05.14 Donald Trump has boldly imposed a new era of US economic policy […]
April 28, 2025
From The Speculative Investor Think back to how bullish almost everyone was about […]
April 23, 2025
From Kitco The U.S. dollar has entered a period of sustained longer-term decline, […]
April 7, 2025
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The status of the US dollar as the dominant global […]
January 25, 2025
From Ancient Origins Theories about the origins of money, one of the most […]
January 23, 2025
By Katharina Buchholz – Statista Looking at trade and transaction data for the […]
December 28, 2024
From Yahoo Finance The dollar is headed for its best year in almost […]
November 24, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The Dollar Index [DXY] which tracks the USD against a […]
November 22, 2024
By Bruno Venditti – Visual Capitalist The Canadian dollar has fallen to its […]
November 21, 2024
By FXStreet “That said, given two main drivers we outline below, we now […]
November 17, 2024
By Joshua Gibson – FXStreet The Canadian Dollar (CAD) found fresh lows on Friday […]
November 12, 2024
From The Economist In 1971 John Connally, then the American treasury secretary, told his European counterparts […]
November 2, 2024
By Adam Button – Forexlive The US dollar rose 15 pips against the […]
October 9, 2024
October 8, 2024
2024.10.02 US stocks ripped higher on Monday, with all three indexes closing at […]
September 30, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The US dollar, still the #1 reserve currency held by […]
September 2, 2024
By Alun John and Karin Strohecker – Reuters The dollar fell more than 2% against other […]
August 7, 2024
By MN Gordon – Econimic Prisim If there’s one thing to understand about […]
July 28, 2024
By Marc Chandler – Barrons The dollar’s long-anticipated downturn has begun, but don’t confuse […]
July 27, 2024
By Julia Wendling – Visual Capitalist Monetary policy, geopolitical events, and economic conditions—among […]
May 27, 2024
By Charles Hugh Smith – of two minds Money in all its forms […]
March 14, 2024
By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist Have you ever wondered how much U.S. […]
December 20, 2023
By Wolf Richter – WOLF STREET Foreign holders have not kept up buying the the incredibly […]
December 19, 2023
By Niccolo Conte – Visual Capitalist Global government debt is projected to hit $97.1 […]
December 19, 2023
By Daniel Lacalle Although the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank’s message regarding interest rate cuts […]
December 19, 2023
By Yahoo Finance (Bloomberg) — OPEC’s one-time nemesis — US shale — is […]
December 13, 2023
By Marcus Lu According to the IMF, the most indebted poor countries in […]
December 12, 2023
By Willem H. Buiter – Project Syndicate While proponents of central bank digital […]
December 6, 2023
By James Eagle As the world’s reserve currency, the U.S. dollar made up 58.4% of […]
December 4, 2023
By James K. Galbraith – Project Syndicate Once again, larger deficits and higher […]
November 30, 2023
November 29, 2023
By Gary Wagner – Kitco A major component of today’s strong upside move […]
November 3, 2023
By Alasdair Macleod The day of reckoning for unproductive credit is in sight. […]
November 3, 2023
By Daniel Lacalle According to the U.S. Treasury, year-end data from September 2023 […]
September 15, 2023
By Katharina Buchholz The de-dollarization of the world economy has been thrust back into […]
September 15, 2023
Russia and the Saudis are driving up oil and diesel prices. But these […]
September 12, 2023
By Barry Eichengreen Whether the dollar retains its global role will depend not […]
September 1, 2023
By Goehring & Rozencwajg Gold is no different than any other asset class: […]
August 30, 2023
2023.08.30 The US officially has a debt problem, in the present and in […]
August 30, 2023
2023.08.30 美国目前以及未来都正式存在债务问题。截止到目前，美国的国债总额略低于 33 万亿美元，占国内生产总值（GDP）的 122％！然而，更大的问题在于其增长速度，导致利息支付不断膨胀。 根据国会预算办公室（CBO）的预测，未来 30 年的利息支付将达到约 71 万亿美元，并在 2053 年占据所有联邦收入的 35％。 […]
August 28, 2023
By Daniel Lacalle The summit of the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and […]
August 27, 2023
By JIM O’NEILL Now that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South […]
August 16, 2023
2023.08.16 Faced with the grim prospect of falling short of our climate targets, […]
August 16, 2023
2023.08.16 面对达不到气候目标的严峻前景，寻找更多实现电气化和脱碳所需的矿物的竞赛变得越来越重要。 提供整个全球能源行业分析和数据的国际能源署 (IEA) 预测，到 2040 年，用于电动汽车和电池存储的矿物需求将增长至少 30 倍。 锂的增长应该是最快的，在可持续发展情景中，需求增长超过 40 倍，其次是石墨、钴和镍（约 20-25 […]
July 24, 2023
By Goehring & Rozencwajg Incredibly, by 2016 commodity prices had sold off to […]
July 20, 2023
By Egon von Greyerz In spite of unprecedented risks in investment markets, for the […]
July 9, 2023
2023.07.09 We are moving into a multipolar reserve-currency world where the dollar will […]
May 25, 2023
By Naomi Rovnick and Libby George Rivalry with China, fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine and […]
May 24, 2023
2023.05.24 The US national debt is again in the spotlight, as congressional leaders […]
April 22, 2023
By Julie R. Peasley Can you picture what $31.4 trillion looks like? The […]
April 18, 2023
2023.04.18 The days of paying for something with cold, hard cash may be […]
April 18, 2023
用现金支付的时代即将结束了。疫情加速了我们向无现金经济的过渡，如今消费者更喜欢手机银行或数字钱包的便利性。 皮尤研究中心的一项新调查显示，如今，大约 41% 的美国人表示他们在一周内的购物都不是用现金支付的，高于 2018 年的 29% 和 2015 年的 24%。 据加拿大领先的信用卡和借记卡处理公司 Moneris […]
April 13, 2023
By Alasdair Macleod Increasing numbers of national governments are abandoning the US sphere […]
April 10, 2023
By Patrick Barron The American empire is not enforced by walls with armed […]
April 7, 2023
By Wolf Richter The share of the US-dollar as global reserve currency dropped […]
April 6, 2023
By Katharina Buchholz Bailout amounts provided by China remained quite low in the 2000s […]
April 5, 2023
By Michael Snyder For decades, the U.S. dollar was the undisputed king of […]
March 31, 2023
By Anna Golubova Former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill is calling on […]
March 28, 2023
By Bruno Venditti The U.S. dollar has dominated global trade and capital flows […]
March 26, 2023
By DAVID P. GOLDMAN The US banking system is broken. That doesn’t portend more […]
February 21, 2023
By The Economist After a calm 2010s, in which interest rates hardly budged, inflation is putting […]
February 7, 2023
By Daniel Lacalle 2023.02.07 The monster inflation we’ve endured these past years first […]
January 28, 2023
By Egon von Greyerz 2023.01.28 “The risk of over-tightening by the European Central Bank […]
January 21, 2023
By Pepe Escobar 2023.01.21 When Bretton Woods was created the US possessed most of […]
December 31, 2022
It seems fitting that the year we are expecting to see an unprecedented rise in US government spending and money-printing to spur an economic recovery, marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the gold standard.
Done at the time to fight an economic crisis, we are still feeling the effects of this disastrous decision, five decades on.
In this article, we explain why President Nixon did what he did, and why every promise that unshackling the US government from the requirement of maintaining the dollar's value in terms of gold would mean for the United States, has been broken.
Done at the time to fight an economic crisis, we are still feeling the effects of this disastrous decision, five decades on.
In this article, we explain why President Nixon did what he did, and why every promise that unshackling the US government from the requirement of maintaining the dollar's value in terms of gold would mean for the United States, has been broken.
October 19, 2022
2022.10.19 For more than a year, the US dollar has been gaining strength […]
September 2, 2022
2022.09.02 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may have the unforeseen consequence of weakening the […]
August 8, 2022
2022.08.08 The US dollar is the most important unit of account for international […]
June 18, 2022
2022.06.18 The dollar is the most important unit of account for international trade, […]
May 4, 2022
2022.05.04 The allure of gold goes back thousands of years. Due to its […]
April 29, 2022
2022.04.29 In our last article, we discussed a proposed new economic model for […]
April 27, 2022
2022.04.27 Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT, posits that rather than obsessing about how […]
February 7, 2022
2022.02.07 The United States reached a new milestone this week, but it’s nothing […]
October 15, 2021
2021.10.15 The balance of trade is an important barometer of a country’s economic […]
September 12, 2021
2021.09.12 Inflation is one of the best determinants of gold price movements, because […]
September 8, 2021
2021.09.08 Lower interest rates and massive asset purchases by central banks are the […]
July 16, 2021
2021.07.16 At AOTH we are invested in commodities we expect are going to […]
June 10, 2021
Our research shows that most retail investors, who are the main drivers of gold’s price, trust gold more than fiat (paper) currencies to preserve their purchasing power. When debt soars, when real interest rates go negative, when cash becomes trash, gold shines brightest.
May 25, 2021
According to Sprott Insights, the three areas of growing demand — solar, 5G and automotive — potentially account for greater than 125 million ounces, annually, in 10 years. Where is this new silver supply going to come from?
Their conclusion? “We do not see enough supply growth to offset the demand growth,” with mine supply falling since 2016 and “we do not see enough projects in development to generate the kind of production levels in question, at least not at current silver prices.”
Their conclusion? “We do not see enough supply growth to offset the demand growth,” with mine supply falling since 2016 and “we do not see enough projects in development to generate the kind of production levels in question, at least not at current silver prices.”
May 24, 2021
Energy and precious metals explorer Max Resource Corp. (TSX.V: MXR; OTC: MXROF; Frankfurt: M1D2) continues to make significant progress at its flagship CESAR project in northeastern Colombia, along what is considered to be the world’s largest copper-producing belt in the Andean.
May 17, 2021
According to the World Gold Council, gold is the third most consistently bought investment (46%), behind savings accounts (78%) and life insurance (56%).
According to the World Gold Council, gold is the third most consistently bought investment (46%), behind savings accounts (78%) and life insurance (56%).
Precious metals are among the best places to park your money in times of economic or political distress.
According to the World Gold Council, gold is the third most consistently bought investment (46%), behind savings accounts (78%) and life insurance (56%).
Precious metals are among the best places to park your money in times of economic or political distress.
May 15, 2021
Shareholders in Exploits Development Corp (CSE:NFLD, FSE:634-FF) were rewarded this week with an explosive move in the stock price following an announced $8 million financing.
May 15, 2021
One company that aims to address the common problems faced by blockchain networks is Arcology, a blockchain company 30% owned by Codebase Ventures Inc. (CSE: CODE) (FSE: C5B) (OTCQB: BKLLF).
Inspired by the challenges associated with ethereum's mass adoption, the Arcology team is developing a radically new blockchain ecosystem designed to scale at unprecedented speed by reducing costs and increasing enterprise capabilities.
Inspired by the challenges associated with ethereum's mass adoption, the Arcology team is developing a radically new blockchain ecosystem designed to scale at unprecedented speed by reducing costs and increasing enterprise capabilities.
May 3, 2021
Climbing yields, as investors rotate funds out of bonds into stocks, on increasing confidence in the economy, is the primary reason why the prices of precious metals gold and silver have pulled back in recent weeks. For now.
April 29, 2021
While precious metals have somewhat been subdued over recent weeks, there’s a storm brewing that could set gold, and by extension silver, on an upward trajectory once again.
April 29, 2021
According to the Silver Institute, global demand for silver will rise to 1.025 billion ounces in 2021, the highest in eight years, led by investments in industrial and investment-grade physical silver, ie., bars and coins.
“The outlook for the silver price in 2021 remains exceptionally encouraging, with the annual average price projected to rise by 46 percent to … $30,” it said in a statement.
“The outlook for the silver price in 2021 remains exceptionally encouraging, with the annual average price projected to rise by 46 percent to … $30,” it said in a statement.