If we want to understand currency and its value, we only need to peer back in history to understand the role that precious metals have played in trade. Precious metals have built and destroyed empires, depending on how these resources were managed. Historically, a nation’s treasury was its wealth and power. If the treasury didn’t…

All over the world, government debts are rising, due to the global pandemic. Money is being borrowed to pump up the economy, causing many investors to worry that the stock market is artificially high, and therefore unstable. When events like this happen, investors start to become reactionary and buy more gold. They do so because…