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Jim Rickards: Washington Needs Inflation, Here's Who Pays

Jim Rickards says Washington benefits from inflation. For people trying to protect their savings, that creates a very different problem. In this Kitco News interview, Je

China Added Gold 22 Months Straight, the Dark Logic Behind It | Cory Klippsten

China has added gold to its reserves 22 months in a row, while Beijing keeps Bitcoin trading banned. Cory Klippsten, founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin, says there's da

The Fed Is Squeezing Borrowers but Washington Keeps Spending | Lyn Alden

Lyn Alden says Washington is on track to run roughly $10 trillion in deficits over the next five years, and she sees no appetite among voters, Congress or the president t

The Rare Earth Card China Brings To The Trump Xi Meeting | This Week In Focus

As Trump and Xi meet at the White House, rare earths are one of the biggest issues on the table. China's one-year pause on its toughest rare earth export controls ru

Central Banks No Longer Trust Each Other: The Global Rush To Gold | Mark Thornton

Mark Thornton called the housing bubble in 2004. For four years, he was told he was wrong. He now says every paper-dollar asset you own is facing a very difficult future,

Credit Stress Is Here And The Only Place Left To Hide Is Precious Metals | Danielle DiMartino Booth

Bank of Dallas, argues the opposite. She says US small business bankruptcies are up 64% year over year through August, that more than 200 companies have closed every mont

One Fed Hike Isn't The Mistake, Five Could Break The Economy | David Rosenberg

The 10-year Treasury yield touched 5% as markets priced a greater than 90% chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike. David Rosenberg says the market may be making a much big

Rate-Hike Odds Went From 48% to 88% in One Month | This WeeK

The Federal Reserve decides Wednesday. On Friday the market put a rate hike at roughly 88%, and a cut at zero. It would be the first increase since July 2023. Over nine

Gold Must Hold This Level Before the Fed, or $4,000 Comes Back Into Play | Gary Wagner

Gold is sitting on a technical fault line ahead of the Federal Reserve’s September decision. Gary Wagner, editor of TheGoldForecast.com and Kitco News technical analyst,

Ron Paul: The People Ought To Own The Gold, Not The Government

Former Congressman Ron Paul joins Jeremy Szafron on Kitco News to discuss the Treasury's expanded bond buybacks, who should actually own the gold in Fort Knox, and w

Gold Drops Every Time Warsh Speaks, Then Buyers Bring It Back | Brien Lundin

At $4,400 gold, almost every mining project looks better. Brien Lundin says that may be exactly what makes this market dangerous. Lundin joins Kitco News anchor Jeremy S

Gold Stopped Following The Rules | This Week In Focus

The market now puts the odds of a Fed rate cut this month at zero, with a hike and a hold running roughly even. Gold came off its best month since January anyway, up more

Gold Runs First, Then Silver, Then Copper | Ran Neuner

Gold has stopped taking its orders from interest rates. It should have fallen about 55% between March 2022 and October 2023 as real yields rose more than four points. It

No ETF, No Futures Market: Why 17% Of His Money Is In This Metal

Newmont generated a record $2.2 billion in free cash flow last quarter. Barrick generated $515 million, and just $141 million of that was attributable to its own sharehol

Gold Has Rallied Into October in 13 of the Last 15 Years | Phil Streible

Gold fell more than 3% after Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech and kept falling Monday, even as American forces struck Iranian rocket launchers near the Strait of Ho

Foreign Central Banks Chose Physical Gold Over Bitcoin | Former Fed President Jim Bullard

Gold, the Fed and a September rate hike: former Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Jim Bullard on Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech, why foreign central ban

Gold Dealers Can’t Afford to Hold the Metal Coming Back | Jeffrey Christian

Gold is near $4,600 after its strongest month in decades, and investors around the world are selling into the rally. Jeffrey Christian of CPM Group says the coin sellers

You Bought Gold for Protection But Your 401k Owns the Same AI Trade Twice | Felix Prehn

Gold has had five straight up weeks and is heading for its best month since 1999. But former investment banker Felix Prehn ( @FelixFriends ) says most people who bought p

Why Gold Can Fall When the Next Crisis Begins | Steve Keen

Professor Steve Keen says the AI bubble has less than a year to run, with revenue from serious users running at roughly one fifth of what these companies are spending. Sp

Why Gold Can't Replace The Dollar | The Man Who Wrote The Book

Gold, the dollar and de-dollarization, with the historian central banks actually read. Barry Eichengreen says the dollar is losing ground, and that gold is not what repla