What if the investments you make to achieve financial freedom end up becoming another job?
Building wealth takes time, but managing that wealth can demand even more of it; rental properties need maintenance, businesses require oversight.
Even investments marketed as passive income...
Gold is valuable because people have found uses for it for thousands of years, many of which have little to do with what it can produce.
The precious metal still has its share of critics.
Unlike a business, a bar of gold...
Whether it’s better to own gold or invest in gold depends on the individual, their circumstances, and their goals.
Owning physical gold suits those who want an asset with no counterparty risk, but it pays nothing and costs money to store.
Investing...
Retirement changes what you need from your portfolio.
During your working years you might focus primarily on accumulating assets. Over time those assets must help to support your spending.
Traditionally, gold has presented a challenge in that transition. Investors may own it...
Do you own gold? If so, you're not alone.
Private investors hold roughly 45,000 metric tons in bars and coins. That's almost a quarter of all the gold ever mined![1]
But what’s your gold doing right now? Sitting in a vault, producing no...
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...
