Back in 2006, as the Federal Reserve was cheerfully hiking interest rates like a personal trainer on commission, something peculiar happened — gold prices didn’t roll over and play dead like every Wall Street talking head predicted.
No, gold surged.
You see, the Fed pushed rates 17 times during that two-year hiking cycle to 5.25%, and gold shot from a low of $374 an ounce in 2004 to hitting a high of around $721 an ounce in 2006. You’d think the dollar getting “stronger” would break gold’s back. Instead, it proved gold doesn't read central bank memos.
Now fast forward to today. Gold just notched a sharp rally this week, climbing back above $3,400 an ounce, and that’s even after Fed governor Chris Waller waggled his eyebrows about possible future rate cuts.
The textbook says gold hates higher rates — but the real world keeps throwing that textbook into the shredder.
Why? Because gold isn’t a yield-chasing stock or a tech bro’s fever dream. It’s a barometer of fear, mistrust, and global economic indigestion.
And right now, we’re dealing with all three — in spades.
The last time the Fed tightened this aggressively into a softening economy, they called it “policy normalization.” What they got was a banking panic, a crypto wipeout, and a political climate so unstable you’d think it was drawn by a drunk cartoonist… sound familiar?
You see, gold thrives in confusion. And confusion is the one thing the Fed has guaranteed in perpetuity.
This week’s headlines were a masterclass in financial schizophrenia.
On one hand, the Fed’s tone is hawkish — always is. But underneath the posturing, the data tells a different story. Bond yields dropped sharply, the U.S. dollar index took a swan dive, and gold responded like a cat hearing a can opener — fast, loud, and upward.
However, Monday's surge wasn’t an anomaly: It was confirmation of a trend, with both gold and silver rallying sharply as the dollar slumped and bond yields continued their decline.
What’s the backdrop? Well, you know the seemingly endless merry-go-round of volatility as well as I do — trade tensions heating up again, Japan’s elections throwing a wrench into Asian market confidence, and another Fed rate decision looming large on everyone’s radar.
In normal times, this kind of volatility might lead investors to rotate into cash or bonds.
But these aren’t normal times, and the market’s tug-of-war over Fed policy is pushing gold sentiment higher — particularly among Main Street investors, who smell something burning under the hood of this economic jalopy.
Even Wall Street is starting to come around, with a growing number of analysts becoming bullish over gold’s short-term outlook — a sentiment swing you don’t see unless something real is changing underneath the noise.
Now add to that the global side of the equation, like the new tariffs being floated in U.S.-China trade talks, fresh uncertainty in the Eurozone, and India’s gold-buying season kicking off with a vengeance.
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Recently, the CME Group laid it out plainly — we’ve got six major forces putting tailwinds behind gold prices this year: geopolitical risk, currency instability, central bank buying, fiscal mismanagement, inflation concerns, and rising demand for alternative stores of value.
Translation: the world is wobbling, and gold is once again being asked to wear the crown.
So why lug around a safe when you can carry the key in your pocket?
Now let’s be honest — owning physical gold has always been a little like buying a horse: romantic in theory, but high-maintenance in practice.
As we’ve talked about before, the headaches can be serious for individual investors like us. You’ve got storage fees, insurance, counterfeit worries, transport headaches, and that’s not to mention that god forbid you ever try to sell it in a pinch, then good luck finding a buyer who isn’t offering pennies on the dollar unless you're a metals dealer or have a pawn shop on speed dial.
That’s where natgold enters the picture.
This isn’t the “trust me bro” crypto kind.
I’m talking about NatGold — a blockchain-based gold token backed by real, in-ground, verified gold assets. It’s not a promise of future value, it’s proof of existing value, recorded immutably and transparently.
NatGold isn’t here to replace gold, it’s here to rescue it from the vault.
And while the world races closer toward tokenized assets, the average investor is still stuffing Krugerrands into a safe deposit box like it’s 1978.
Meanwhile, Wall Street insiders are already preparing for tokenized gold ETFs, central banks are experimenting with backing a digital currency backed by precious metals, and a tidal wave of blockchain adoption is changing how ownership is tracked, transferred, and secured.
If you’ve ever wanted the security of gold with the flexibility of Bitcoin — but without the volatility or the crypto cult energy — NatGold is your moment.
Think of it this way: If physical gold is a Swiss vault, NatGold is a Swiss vault you can send from your phone while sitting in traffic… except it never gets scratched, stolen, or lost in a boating accident.
And here's the real kicker: institutions aren’t in it yet, which means the window is still open for individual investors — but not for long, because when BlackRock and Fidelity decide to back the truck up, you won’t be the one naming the price.
Look, you know as well as I do that gold isn’t a fad. It’s not an app. It’s not a startup with a roadmap and a “tokenomics” whitepaper written in Comic Sans.
Gold has been money for 5,000 years, and it’s not going anywhere.
What IS changing is how you own it.
The Fed may raise rates again. Tariffs may rattle markets. But gold will keep doing what gold does best: remind the world that sound money still exists, and always has.
The only question is: do you want to hold it like it’s 1925 — or like it’s 2025?
If you’re tired of babysitting your bullion, then this is your next move.
Because when the next shoe drops — and it will — gold won't just be a safe haven.
It’ll be a launchpad.
Until next time,
Keith Kohl
Check us out on YouTube!A true insider in the technology and energy markets, Keith’s research has helped everyday investors capitalize from the rapid adoption of new technology trends and energy transitions. Keith connects with hundreds of thousands of readers as the Managing Editor of Energy & Capital, as well as the investment director of Angel Publishing’s Energy Investor and Technology and Opportunity.
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