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 giant...
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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...
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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...
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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 sid...
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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...
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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 exi...
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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 ...
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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 re...
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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 e...
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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, th...
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