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Market Snapshot: May 1, 2023 The past few years have been anything but stable for the economy. Perhaps the spring season’s slow and boring stability, then, comes as welcome news for alternative investors.  Although we were spared any major rallies…

The last time the banking sector was in crisis, the price of gold surged over 25%. That was between October 2007 and March 2009, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers precipitated a global financial crisis and recession that defined a…

All around the world, central banks are adding physical gold bullion to their reserves. In fact, this past January saw over 30 tons of the yellow metal added to the Treasuries of countries such as Turkey and China.  This continues…

For alternative investors, the new year started off on the right foot as gold and Bitcoin both saw large gains that coincided with strong growth for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones. Although platinum and silver dipped in value, most…

Gold investors were ushered into the New Year well into the green, with the price of gold above $1,861 per troy ounce, up from a low of $1,769 in early December.  The yellow metal’s rally came on the heels of…

November saw a variety of economic data releases, and many weren’t that positive. Fears of inflation coupled with recession continue to bounce around the media outlets. Bloomberg Economics’ latest article warns there is going to be a global recession, led…

It seems that every bear market has at least one winner that manages to vastly outperform virtually all other assets. This past month, silver and palladium were the top standouts, managing to gain over 5% and 7% respectively while we…

Amid topsy-turvy jobs reports, unpredictable inflation numbers, and off-and-on recession fears, the markets have waxed and waned with investor sentiment. Let’s take a look back at how the financial markets performed over the last 30 days, do our best to…

It has quietly been an excellent month for alternative asset investors. Although, of course, you wouldn’t know from CNBC headlines or Jim Cramer soundbites.  Let’s take a quick lay of the land in the alternative assets market as of August…

Inflation shot up to 8.6% last month, the highest the CPI has been in over 40 years. As consumers and wage earners, our purchasing and earning power is eroding by the day—and the markets have certainly noticed.  It’s a bloodbath…

Another month, another bloodbath in the alternative assets market. While the S&P 500 Index held relatively steady with a (-0.04%) return over the 30-day period ending June 6th, U.S. equities saw considerable volatility and the SPX saw periods of erratic…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced interest rate hikes by 50 basis points in light of generationally high inflation levels. In response, the stock market spiked briefly while the alternative asset market declined by a considerable margin—likely because a steeper…

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has disrupted global markets, and gold has once again found itself at the center of the story.  In response to Western sanctions, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation has effectively created a price floor…

Global markets have been deeply affected by recent events.  Amid senseless turmoil and violence, our primary concern is usually not our pocketbooks or account balances. However, it’s only natural to not make a bad situation worse by having your wealth…

What a year it was for alternative investors. Silver took a loss following an erratic year marked by a Reddit-led pump on the news of a “short squeeze” in February. Its price fell from about $27 to $23.25 per ounce…

Black Friday sales have stuck around a little longer this year.  Right now, it’s a buyer’s market for alternative investors. As we roll into December, gold, silver, and Bitcoin are all currently priced at a discount.  Gold is trading at…

September proved that the stock market is no longer on stable ground. Even worse, there’s no telling when the market will stabilize again. The Buffett Indicator, named after Warren Buffett, is a ratio of the entire U.S. stock market’s valuation…

Yet again, August proved to be another month of strong stability for gold.  The price of gold opened at $1,813 per troy ounce on August 1st and closed at approximately $1,816 on August 31st. While stocks and riskier assets have…

Inflation is coming.  A recent survey of the nation’s top economists found that inflation is here to stay, and that it’ll reach levels unseen since the early 1990s. Rising prices and fewer jobs are going to not only take its…