After the gold price closed below $1300 per troy ounce earlier last week, the gold price broke through the $1300/ounce barrier on Friday. The reason was clear: after peace between North and South Korea seemed a matter of time, peace negotiations went sour yet again. After weeks of peace talks between north and south, which should have resulted in a meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump on June 12^th in Singapore, Trump decided to cancel the Singapore summit due to “open hostility”

While the dollar was struggling overall in 2017, non-dollar countries took full advantage of last year´s dollar weakness. According to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the total amount of credit to foreign (nonbank) borrowers increased dramatically as a result of the weaker dollar. By the way, feel free to interpret “nonbank borrowers” as emerging market economies. In the second half of 2017, a staggering 22% was issued in dollar-denominated debt. Issuing dollar-denominated

Recently, author and former trader Nassim Taleb published his latest book Skin in the Game. He is widely praised for his previous bestsellers, The Black Swan and Antifragility. Nassim Taleb has a decades-long track record as a pit trader (as early as in the 1980s). Two months ago, I had the pleasure to spend an entire week with this controversial and no-nonsense thinker. What are some of the lessons that we can draw from Taleb’s work as gold investors and what did he have to say about gold? (The answer to the latter question is not something you will find in his books or elsewhere.)