“Gold is no longer a safe haven.” “Gold isn’t an effective hedge against inflation.” “Gold is dead.” You may have heard and read these comments, and others like it, numerous times over the course of the recent “everything selloff.” This is staggeringly shortsighted to me. Gold is down only around…

Last week marked the official start of autumn — or so we’re told. Here in San Antonio, the daytime high temperatures are still hovering in the mid-90s. The week also felt like a huge pivotal shift in global central banks’ fight against sticky price inflation. Monetary policymakers added 350 basis…

After countless delays, the Ethereum “Merge” finally took place last week, switching the blockchain protocol from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS). What this means, in brief, is that Ethereum’s native coin, Ether (ETH) — the world’s second largest digital asset following Bitcoin (BTC) — can no longer be mined using…

Stocks trading in Turkey were up an impressive 37% for the year as of Friday, September 9, making them the best performing equities market relative to other global markets. Given that most regions are still underwater in 2022 — including North America, Europe and emerging markets as a whole —…

Many Californians right now are no doubt feeling the whipsaws of conflicting government policies. Not a month ago, they learned that the state will ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035, mandating that all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the state must be electric vehicles (EVs). Then…

September has historically been one of the worst months for stocks, with returns averaging -0.34% for the 30-year period, -0.26% for the 15-year period and -0.92% for the five-year period, according to Bloomberg data. As you can see below, September is the only month when the market was down on…

A growing number of prominent financial groups believes the era of low inflation is behind us, and that one investment strategy is to boost exposure to commodities and natural resources. Pacific Investment Management Company, or PIMCO, recently joined Capital Group and Union Investment in raising doubts that global central banks…

The University of Texas at Austin (UT), just a couple of hours up the road from our headquarters in San Antonio, may soon unseat Harvard as the wealthiest school in the U.S. How has it managed to do this? In a word: Oil. At a time when large sovereign wealth…

Winter is coming for Europe, and energy prices are soaring as international sanctions on Russia curb the supply of natural gas, on which many European Union (EU) countries have increasingly become dependent. Continental gas spot prices and futures have already hit record highs, and last week, the massive Russian gas…