Category Archive: 6a) Gold and its Price

Main Author Keith Weiner
Keith Weiner
Keith Weiner is president of the Gold Standard Institute USA in Phoenix, Arizona, and CEO of the precious metals fund manager Monetary Metals.

Tether has quietly become one of the largest gold buyers in the world



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The Real Cost of Not Holding Gold as 2025 Ends

For years, the mainstream insisted that gold’s flaw was its lack of yield. But as 2025 ends, the financial environment that made that argument sound reasonable has vanished. Government debt no longer looks safe. Central banks improvise policy in real time. Equity markets are driven by a narrow cluster of firms. Bonds no longer offer ballast. The once-celebrated 60/40 portfolio has lost the conditions that allowed it to function. In this...

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Will This Private Company Move the Gold Price?



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Does Tether introduce fragility into a market prized for its independence?



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Most people buy gold for the price. The smartest people buy it for the sovereignty.



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Crypto is technology. Gold is money. One depends on a network. One depends on nothing.



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Gold’s Price Is Not Natural – Someone Is Steering It

Gold’s price is no longer behaving the way investors were taught. The old model jewellery demand, Western investor flows, ETF speculation, and real yields have broken down. Something far bigger has taken its place. For the first time in modern history, the largest buyers of gold are the ones who do not care what it costs. Special thanks to VBL on the GoldFix Substack, whose deep analysis of SocGen’s and Deutsched Bank’s research notes both...

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The AI Cycle Everyone Is Ignoring



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Stability is not an accident; it’s a choice.



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Will This Private Company Move the Gold Price?

A private crypto company has become one of the largest gold buyers on earth, bigger than many central banks. Not a government. Not a sovereign wealth fund. A stablecoin issuer: Tether. In this video, we break down how a privately issued digital IOU has accumulated more than 116 tonnes of physical gold, influencing nearly 2% of global demand and up to 14% of central bank buying in a single quarter. This raises two critical questions: What does it...

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How circular finance makes the AI trade vulnerable to a sudden shock.



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When a metal becomes “critical,” it stops being invisible.



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Silver’s greatest strength has always been its independence global, decentralised, and accessible.



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Why Washington added silver to the 2025 Critical Minerals List



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This isn’t a fear trade it’s arithmetic. Debt up, deficits up, trust down. Metals do the rest.



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Why Do People Forget This About The Gold Price?

In this episode, Jan sits down with GoldCore Director Stephen Flood to dig into one of the most important financial themes of our time: personal sovereignty, de-dollarisation, and the rediscovery of gold as the world’s ultimate form of financial insurance. Stephen has been a director at GoldCore since 2003 and has seen the full arc of how public perception toward gold has shifted from a fringe idea to a necessity for long-term financial security....

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What volatility really means and why it’s a feature, not a flaw.



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Every time gold and silver rise, we’re told it’s a fluke a reaction to headlines or fear.



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The AI Cycle Everyone Is Ignoring

Trillions of dollars are flowing into an interconnected circle of firms, creating "closed-loop spending" that inflates valuations. Financial historian Niall Ferguson argues we are deep in the "mania phase" where enthusiasm always outruns economic reality. When correlations are this high, your portfolio is more fragile than you think. Jan Skoyles breaks down: How circular finance makes the AI trade vulnerable to a sudden...

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When policymakers lose control, they buy gold. That tells you everything you need to know.



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