Rosland Capital on Gold and Other Precious Metals

A note from history. Back in 1980 with US inflation heading into double digit territory, the then Fed chairman, Paul Volcker, effectively raised the Federal Funds rate to an unprecedented 20% to bring it under control. Volcker was a veritable gian...

Rosland CEO Marin Aleksov talks about the many uses of platinum.The Perth Mint releases a “Year of the Tiger” silver coin for 2022 celebrating Lunar New Year.The first silver dollar coin struck by the United States was recently acquired for $12 milli...

Gold vs. Bitcoin It’s time to talk about gold vs. Bitcoin. The rising popularity of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has many people pitting gold and Bitcoin against each other. A host of unfamiliar terms come along when discussing Bitcoin. New te...

The latest addition to Rosland’s coin collection created in collaboration with the British Museum is this gold Queen - one of the famous Lewis Chess Pieces, and one of the most characterful, with her troubled look and drinking horn.On the obverse si...

A 400-pound, 24-karat gold cube has been erected in New York’s Central Park by the artist Niclas Castello who also plans to launch a new cryptocurrency.A recent survey found that automakers are switching from palladium to platinum for catalytic conve...

It’s not only this writer who is distinctly nervous about the US Federal Reserve Bank’s more aggressive approach to attempt to control inflation. This approach has come after numerous suggestions over a period of months that the problem did not ex...

Over the past few weeks and months the gold price has seen several rallies taking it back above the $1,800 level. Each time, to date, it has been unable to hold on to this price improvement. Likewise, silver has hovered above and below the $23 level...

Many observers have stated that the seemingly non-ending rise in the value of Bitcoin has diverted a significant amount of investment dollars away from gold as a perhaps better form of wealth protection and accumulation. This is despite gold’s r...

Just when I’d felt that gold and silver prices were due for a nice upwards surge, they were hit by a double, or even triple, whammy and lost their recent gains. That was until they saw a pick-up in Europe over the US Thanksgiving holiday due to the ...

Whether the current higher inflation levels in the US have been the Federal Reserve Bank’s intended policy all along is perhaps a moot point. We have to assume that although the central bank may have been working towards higher inflation levels, t...