A prediction of $3400 dollar gold within three years should not be discarded as impossible, although hopefully unlikely.

Nowhere has the jump in demand been more noticeable than in the exchange-traded funds that hold inventories of bullion.

Since 2002, the average US dollar savings account has yielded less than 1%

Precious metals have been one of the top performing asset classes over the past six years, and investors wanting to add a precious metals component to their portfolios are often overwhelmed by the number of investment vehicles available to them today.

Although silver is relatively scarce, it is the most plentiful and least expensive of the precious metals.

There are a lot of factors undermining the attractiveness of the U.S. dollar as a currency holding, not the least of which is its stubborn inclination to lose value over time.

Gold tends to trade opposite to the dollar and with the Fed done raising interest rates the dollar is about to resume its long-term decline

A fiat dollar is merely a claim on resources, and it is a liability of the Fed (while its government bond holdings are its assets). Gold is gold. It is not anyone else's liability.

Gold demand in India has risen by 72% to account for half of world mining output...