When prices creep upward, each unit of currency you hold loses purchasing power. If your investments don’t at least keep pace with inflation, you’re effectively losing ground. That’s why many ...

Inflation is now a major concern in the financial environment of today. It controls headlines and affects the economy at every level. Although the most obvious sign is increasing prices, the wider ...

We own real assets for their diversification benefits generally, and for their inflation-hedging properties specifically. In this blog, I review the performance of three indexes representative of ...

Isn’t a “higher for longer” interest rate environment bearish for gold? The short answer is no, because real interest rates are falling with price inflation on the upswing. With price inflation ...

Households can lose spending power if they suffer job losses during recessions or when the cost of living rises at times of high inflation. One way to assess the historical roles these two factors ...