In the middle of the 15th century, Europe endured a crisis called the Great Bullion Famine. Across the continent, gold and silver coinage dried up, choking trade and fueling social unrest...
Back in 2020, for the first time in history, a pill designed entirely by artificial intelligence entered human trials. Most people didn’t realize it, and I don’t blame them...
California had everything going for it in 1985. But it wasn’t because of a few historical events that took place that made The Golden State so great that year...
Marty Zweig had two golden rules for investors: The trend is your friend, and don’t fight the Fed. If you’re wondering why gold prices are hovering above $3,600 and eyeing new records, it’s...
The story of modern oil has always been about decline, denial, and rediscovery. When Mexico’s Cantarell field peaked in 2004, the drop was so steep it became a global parable of how quickly...
Gold has always played a strange game of tug-of-war with the Fed. Think back to the 1970s, when inflation was raging, rates were climbing, and gold was shooting through the roof...
Russian drones shot down over Poland this week… that’s not just a headline — that’s a NATO red line. Just picture what direction crude would surge if the war in Ukraine spills across borders...
If you’d been alive in 1948, watching the Berlin Blockade unfold, you would have seen how quickly the future of a city could be strangled by supply lines...
Gold existed while men scratched grain into clay tablets, and in its gleam one could always find a bedrock promise: in times of uncertainty, the one thing people still trust...
In October of 1973, a coalition of Arab nations flipped the chessboard on the West, and the interesting part is that they didn’t do it with tanks or bullets, but rather with a spigot...
In 1848, when James Marshall pried a few golden flecks from the tailrace of Sutter’s Mill, he didn’t simply spark a mineral frenzy — he tripped the detonator on a new social order...
Thanks to a weaker-than-expected August jobs report and a likely policy pivot from the Federal Reserve, gold has sprinted past $3,600 per ounce. Gold prices are shattering records...