Augusta Precious Metals Blog and Updates on Gold IRAs

Weekly Touchpoint: Will Quantitative Easing Be a Standard Fed Tool?

The Federal Reserve began an unprecedented campaign of quantitative easing (QE) shortly after the onset of 2008’s Great Recession. Few would...

Central banks are funny places. On the one hand, as the overseers of fiat currency, they enact the monetary policies and other currency manipu...

It may seem as though the world chooses to remain blissfully ignorant of stunning global debt. However, those responsible for guiding billio...

A growing chorus of voices is saying we’re on the cusp of another stock market “lost decade.” I wrote previously about earlier predictions of ...

Households, companies and even governments continue to pile on debt as though it’s free. Now, a stunning new report reveals that governments a...

Are you one of those investors who can’t let go of the stock market? It’s understandable, in a way. On a superficial level, the stock market c...

The recent flurry of gold-buying activity makes it seem as though investors are only now discovering the metal. But the truth is that gold h...

In the movies, zombies are the scariest creatures of all. In the financial world, zombie companies can bring a similar level of terror and tur...

The volatility recently rocking the stock market seems to have abated just a bit. Hopeful investors already are looking toward a better 2019...

The big stock market news, of course, is the volatility plaguing it. However, the bigger stock market news may be precious metals’ performance...

The volatility that plagued the stock market for most of 2018 went into overdrive in December. The U.S. dollar’s role in the global economy ...

Is 2019 going to be a year to remember for silver? Over the past month, the price of silver jumped nearly 10%, from $14.38/oz to $15.78/oz. Ma...

The stock market is definitely showing some wear, and to be honest equities investors have little to be hopeful about going into 2019. The i...

Investors are wondering if the beginning of what some have called a possible “lost decade” in stocks actually has arrived. And if it has, they...

Wall Street’s rocky ride is getting a little hairier – as expected, considering we’ve seen the longest bull run ever. The Dow Jones Industri...

Are things back to normal now that the latest round of market volatility seems to have passed? That depends. Most would agree there’s nothing...

The U.S. equities markets have been showing signs of weakening for some time now. Even investors who’ve been dedicated to investment exclusive...

Gold sometimes has been dismissed as “outdated” or “obsolete” in recent years, but plenty of people certainly are working very hard right no...

If you look closely, you’ll find plenty of numbers that reveal the economy is not all it’s cracked up to be. One jarring statistic is the fa...

A recent item in our weekly Touchpoint series suggested one of the best ways to know it might be time to give serious consideration to physica...

The 2018 midterm elections may have passed, but the political tenor in America today remains as hostile as ever. Investors in particular wou...

There has been a growing effort on the part of foreign powers to topple the U.S. dollar from its perch as the world’s reserve currency. The la...

Is the long-running bull market finally over? Although professional investors have been saying for years the end is near, equities still hav...

Despite a recent flurry of volatility, the stock market has managed to continue its record bull run. In some ways this makes the situation eve...