What Is Purchasing Power — and Why Every Dollar You Save Is Slowly Being Taxed Away

The dollar has lost 87% of its purchasing power since 1971. Learn what purchasing power actually is, why fiat currency erodes it, and why gold doesn’t.

Gold Holds as CPI and PPI Both Miss. Here’s Why.

June CPI and PPI both came in below consensus. Gold still isn’t rallying. The reason is oil repricing forward inflation faster than the Fed can act on last month’s data — and what that means for the months ahead.

Gold and Fed Policy: When the System Picks Winners

The Fed chair told Congress today that rate policy gave one generation a once-in-a-lifetime shot at homeownership and priced the next one out. That admission — made under oath — is the clearest official statement yet of what sound money holders have long understood: the dollar system picks winners and losers based on timing. Gold doesn’t.

Warsh Testified. Gold Jumped $90. The Signal Everybody Missed Was in His Report.

Gold jumped $90 this morning after June CPI printed its biggest monthly drop since April 2020. But the more important signal came from a 57-page document almost nobody read — and it has direct implications for long-term gold holders.

Why the 10-5-3 Rule Fails Gold and Silver Investors

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The 10-5-3 rule helps investors set return expectations for stocks, bonds, and cash. But gold and silver aren’t paper assets — and measuring them with a framework built for yield and earnings leads to the wrong conclusions every time. Here’s what precious metals investors use instead.

Gold Jumped $90 This Morning. June CPI Just Explained Why.

Gold jumped $90 and silver rose 3% after June CPI printed −0.4% — its largest monthly drop since April 2020. Here’s the real-yield mechanism behind the move, and why the headline relief is already reversing.

Trump’s Hormuz Toll Is an Inflation Tax. Here’s Why Gold Fell.

Trump’s 20% Hormuz toll sent oil higher and gold to $4,005. Here’s the exact four-step mechanism connecting a shipping levy to a falling gold price — and why the same inflation it creates is the long-term case for owning physical metal.

The Fed Just Named AI as Its Top Inflation Threat. Gold Noticed.

NY Fed President John Williams says AI-driven demand is now his biggest inflation concern — and that the Fed would “need to respond” if it persists. Here’s why that’s a gold story, not just a tech story, and what to watch before July 14.

China Just Bought Its Most Gold Since 2023. It Did It During the Quarter Gold Fell 16%.

The People’s Bank of China added 14.93 tonnes of gold in June 2026, its largest single-month purchase since 2023 and its 20th consecutive month of buying. It happened during gold’s worst quarterly decline in thirteen years. Here is why the world’s most sophisticated reserve managers keep buying regardless of what the price does.

How the Jobs Report Moves Gold and Silver: The Five-Step Chain Behind Every Move

When the U.S. jobs report misses expectations, gold and silver prices typically rise. When payrolls beat, they fall. The relationship runs through a specific five-step chain — and once you understand it, the monthly reaction stops being a mystery.