Peter's Blog

Gold and oil price are connected uniquely through several different mechanisms. The recent conflict in Iran has created a massive international oil shortage and thrown the FX markets and gold prices around dramatically. While international tensions are often good for the gold market, in this situation, the price of gold experienced some dramatic downward price […]

America’s manufacturing engine kept chugging in February, but it’s clearly running on thinner fuel. The S&P Global U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) dipped to 51.6, the softest reading in seven months and down from January’s 52.4. While any mark above 50 signals expansion, survey respondents pointed to brutal winter storms and fresh tariff levies […]

After a two-month data void caused by Washington’s funding standoff, the Bureau of Labor Statistics finally dropped December’s Consumer Price Index—and the numbers refuse to play along with the “mission-accomplished” narrative on inflation. Headline CPI rose 0.3 percent for the month, lifting the index to 324 and pushing the yearly gain to 2.7 percent—still north […]

Gold closed out 2025 in runaway mode, notching fresh all-time highs on 53 trading days and sprinting to an intraday peak of $4,514 per ounce on the year’s final Friday. The blistering rally ignited a historic rush into physically backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which absorbed a record $89 billion and more than doubled global assets […]

Last week, Peter joined Jennifer Sanasie on the CoinDesk YouTube channel to push back against the crypto crowd and explain why he thinks gold—not Bitcoin—will be the long-term safe haven. He walks through how gold’s breakout in 2024 carried into 2025, why central banks are buying bullion, and what true sound money really means in […]

In his post-Christmas 2025 recap, Peter walks listeners through the latest surge in precious metals and why he thinks now is the moment to act. He lays out a pattern of weekly rallies tied to Asia’s trading hours, contrasts the track record of gold and silver with speculative plays like Bitcoin and MicroStrategy, and warns […]

Everyone from central banks to people saving for retirement are wondering whether now is too late to buy gold or whether the recent price increases will keep going. Gold has beat the market in the last two years, and kept even with it over the last 20 years. The rise in price of the last […]

According to a report from the World Gold Council, global investors poured another US$5.5 billion into physically backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) during August, extending a three-month buying streak and pushing total assets under management (AUM) to a record US$407 billion. Holdings climbed by 53 tonnes to 3,692 tonnes—the highest month-end tally since mid-2022—even as […]

UBS recently increased its March 2026 gold forecast by $100 to $3600. As much as regulatory entities try to make gold take a back seat, everyone else seems to recognize its huge value added to any investment portfolio. The continuing acceleration of the Dollar’s decline is a huge factor in the UBS gold increase projection. […]

As war rages on in Iran and Israel, equities are down overall while defense stocks are surging, and both gold and silver have bounced, followed by volatile corrections. You could take a lot of guesses about how to trade the war and chaos—but the surest chaos bet will always be precious metals, especially in the […]