Readers’ Gold Questions—Answered. February 7, 2013 will not stand out in anyone’s mind—unless maybe February 7 is your birthday. And if so, Happy Birthday! I know I’m a couple weeks late. Anyway… that date serves as a great example of “better late than never,” which will ultimately bring us ‘round to gold. First, though, we [Read More] …
Trump’s Plan to Make Crypto Tax Free
This Changes Everything…. Tax season—version 2025—is upon us. And it arrives at exactly the same moment Elon Musk and his team of Blue’s Clues detectives are rifling through the federal government… Constitutional crisis aside, Elon’s team has cast a great deal of sunshine onto the dark corners in which federal spending is highly suspect. I’m [Read More] …
Trump’s Pro-Crypto Agenda—Explained
America Has Its First Pro-Crypto President. Ten steps up, half a step back. But damn, those half steps sure do cause a great deal of consternation, handwringing, finger-pointing, whining, and certainty that all is surely lost. You might have missed this last week… but Javier Milei, Argentina’s presidential bad-boy and enthusiastic champion of anarcho-capitalism, lent [Read More] …
Was I Wrong About Tariffs?
Is Trump a Mad Genius? I’ve been thinking a lot about Donald Trump’s tariffs recently… and I might be wrong about what I said before—i.e., that Trump’s tariffs would be inflationary. So keep reading. This is not an anti-Trump screed. This dispatch might be more like a mea culpa, or maybe more like half a [Read More] …
Only 1 Factor Drives Gold Higher…
Gold Is Up 9% in 2025 So Far, Stocks Only 2%. Another day, another record for gold prices. Just sitting here at my desk, whipping up a tweet to comment on gold relative to stocks and bonds, and I look at my trading screen and there’s gold, surpassing a new high above $2,940. Frankly, I [Read More] …