This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold’s price holding up even though interest rates keep rising, the real story of inflation, and gold remains a key asset for the new global economy.
Full Article →Peter Reagan

Peter Reagan is a financial market strategist at Birch Gold Group, one of America’s leading precious metals dealers, specializing in providing gold IRAs and retirement-focused precious metals portfolios.
Peter’s in-depth analysis and commentary is published across major investment portals, news channels, popular US conservative websites and most frequently on Birch Gold Group’s own website.
At the beginning of the pandemic panic, American households hunkered down, slashed spending and deposited their stimmie checks. Ever since, thanks to a combination of high inflation and “revenge spending,” consumer spending exploded to what Wolf Richter calls “drunken sailors partying hard” levels.
Full Article →The U.S. dollar has enjoyed global reserve currency status for nearly a century now. If BRICS nations have their way, that privileged status won’t last much longer. The weakness of the U.S. dollar is top of mind for all BRICS countries, and plenty outside of BRICS too.
Full Article →With all eyes on BRICS as it prepares for a meeting at the end of August that could see new members joining, the question is looming in the back of future-minded investors: will BRICS develop its own currency in a bid to challenge the U.S. dollar as the world standard?
Full Article →This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: U.S. credit rating and de-dollarization, China boosts official gold reserves for 9th consecutive month, and South Africa’s gold mines are under heavy stress.
Full Article →This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Understanding why gold’s price rises despite higher interest rates, the trouble with “tokenized gold” and platinum might be the diversification asset you need.
Full Article →Looking at every recession since December 1969, the economist David Rosenberg has calculated that, on average, the Leading Economic Index starts to decline 13 months before a recession begins and falls 4.6 percent before the recession begins. By that metric, we’re even deeper into the danger zone than
Full Article →Following the government’s panicked response to the Covid pandemic, the resulting economic devastation and two-plus years of historic inflation thus far… There is finally some good news! According to data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), wages are finally outpacing inflation… Or are they?
Full Article →This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top news stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: The trend of central bank gold repatriation, analyzing gold’s headwinds, and man from Kentucky finds 700 Civil War era coins almost in his backyard.
Full Article →When you’re planning for retirement, one of the many decisions you’ll have to make is whether to contribute “pre-tax” or “after-tax” dollars. Each has its advantages, and here’s a general summary of maximizing your savings using a 401(k) plan…
Full Article →This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Russia announces gold-backed BRICS, Larry Lepard predicts total fiat failure by 2030 and Zoltan Pozsar’s take on the new monetary world order.
Full Article →The speed at which a bank can be deemed insolvent has increased dramatically with improvements in communication and technology, which prompts businesses, institutions, and wealthy individuals to rethink ways to safely store their cash.
Full Article →Time to batten down the hatches, folks. That warning comes from HSBC Asset Management earlier this week. It could be a long recession, too. It’s not that surprising, once you take the highlights of HSBC’s into account. Even worse, chief strategist Joseph Little added a bit of context…
Full Article →If you can see beyond the mainstream media’s attempted glossing over of Biden’s failures, one topic stands out: Historic inflation since June 2021. Of course, Biden doesn’t deserve all the blame for inflation heating up. Powell’s Fed practically ignored it until the “inflation train” had already left the station.
Full Article →This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: John Williams on why inflation is worse than presented, Poland wants more gold, and Korea introduces gold ATMs.
Full Article →This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Five-figure gold in the long-term, the silver supply picture is worse than we know, and prices force Turkish couples to turn to imitation gold for their traditional wedding celebrations.
Full Article →We’ve spent a lot of time discussing financial anxiety and planning for financial security past few years. Today, we’re going to shift gears. Instead, we’re going to discuss affluent Americans who are confident in their financial stability and believe their savings are secure enough to weather any economic storm.
Full Article →This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Central banks could be planning modernize their gold reserves, Wheaton CEO’s gold and silver predictions, and BlackRock’s analysts on gold’s near-term prospects.
Full Article →This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Five reasons gold and silver will rise this year; global central banks still top gold buyers; and forecasts for $3,000 gold and $50 silver in the near-term.
Full Article →All politicians, especially those in the Biden administration, are notoriously bad at anticipating the ripple effects of their “solutions” to problems like pandemics and inflation. Their response to emergencies has left us worse off.
Full Article →George Milling-Stanley, chief gold strategist at State Street Global Advisors, says gold has a real chance to smash its old price records before the end of the year. Now, gold has been above and below $2,000/oz. for more than a decade. Its initial foray into +$2,000 territory was supported by conditions nothing like where we are today…
Full Article →According to Fidelity’s 2022 State of Retirement Planning Study, 71% of Americans say they are very concerned about the impact of inflation on their retirement savings plan. Nearly one-third admit they don’t know how to make sure their retirement savings keep up.
Full Article →Recently we’ve documented a groundswell of popularity in gold as an investment. Google searches for how to buy gold recently hit a new record. Central bank gold buying, already fierce, is poised to grow even more. In short, there’s a “new global gold rush” underway:
Full Article →According to the latest Trustees report, approximately 66 million people receive some form of monetary Social Security benefits. The cost of Social Security programs have exceeded its income since 2021. So they’re underfunded (and falling behind).
Full Article →Central bank gold demand last year was undoubtedly one of the main takeaways in the market. That’s an accomplishment of sorts, since central bank gold demand has been one of the primary drivers of gold prices over the past decade.
Full Article →Ray Dalio doesn’t like the tensions building up between the U.S. and China. It’s a 2016-style flashback, intensifying quarrels with China over global trade. At the same time, 2016 was a while ago! We can no longer call the U.S.-China conflict a “trade war,” because there is a real and ugly war going on in Ukraine
Full Article →It’s worth remembering that the Federal Reserve chair is an appointed, not an elected, position. Powell can survive a period of unpopularity more easily than any member of Congress. And that’s good news for him, because he’s going to be unpopular in the White House (and on Wall Street) for quite some time…
Full Article →Over the weekend, federal regulators seized First Republic and cut a deal with JP Morgan to assume most of the failed bank’s assets. This should come as no surprise to regular readers – I discussed the contagion spreading across the banking sector back in March. So this isn’t a surprise, but is it still worthy of concern?
Full Article →Peter Reagan

Peter Reagan is a financial market strategist at Birch Gold Group, one of America’s leading precious metals dealers, specializing in providing gold IRAs and retirement-focused precious metals portfolios.
Peter’s in-depth analysis and commentary is published across major investment portals, news channels, popular US conservative websites and most frequently on Birch Gold Group’s own website.