Yes, 56% of the U.S. gold reserve is still stored at the United States Bullion Depository in Fort Knox, Kentucky[1].
It's the largest single storage location for the U.S. government’s gold reserves.
Yet the familiar image of Fort Knox leaves plenty unanswered. How much gold is actually inside...
A government can accumulate an enormous amount of debt without reaching a clear breaking point.
Instead, the consequences emerge through what it takes to keep carrying that debt.
More interest. More borrowing. And increasingly difficult choices about taxes, spending, and economic policy.
Understanding these pressures is more useful than...
Gross federal debt has crossed $40 trillion for the first time in 250 years.
Most coverage of that milestone follows a familiar script: more debt means more inflation, and more inflation means higher gold prices.
It's a tidy story, and it isn't wrong so much as incomplete. Debt and...
Warren Buffett’s case against gold has endured because it identifies a genuine weakness: traditional gold ownership generates no income and adds no ounces to an investor’s holdings.
However, a sound argument can become incomplete when one of its underlying assumptions changes. For the past 10 years, gold owners have...
Disclosure up front, because you deserve it: I have served on the board of directors of Monetary Metals since 2018. I am also a shareholder and a client—I earn interest on my own gold through the company’s leasing and lending program. Read...
Saving money doesn’t work like it used to because the monetary system has stopped reliably rewarding it.
In “The End of Monetary Hedonism,” Jeff Deist (Chief Risk Officer at Monetary Metals) describes how his grandfather approached money.
He earned a modest paycheck, spent less...
Diamonds seem like they should make excellent money: they're scarce, durable, portable, and widely recognized as valuable.
In fact, they're among the most desirable objects on Earth.
So why did civilizations throughout history independently choose gold as money instead?
Gold possesses a unique combination of characteristics that make it...
Gold has preserved wealth for thousands of years.
(Which is one of the many reasons why people buy gold.)
Yet many investors discover that owning gold isn't quite as simple as buying a few coins or bars and putting them in a safe.
Traditional gold...
Gold has been valued for thousands of years.
Yet the reasons people buy it today are as varied as the people themselves.
Whether they're seeking growth, protection, or peace of mind, investors often turn to gold for very different reasons.
So, what's the point of buying gold?
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For many people, homes, groceries, gasoline, tuition, and countless other expenses all seem to cost more with each passing year.
It's easy to conclude that everything is becoming less affordable. But are prices alone telling the whole story?
The answer depends on what...
