How Gold Imports Blew up Atlanta Fed GDPNow: The Old Model is Dead, Long Live the “New GDPNow Model” Starting Apr 30 by Wolf Richter • Apr 28, 2025 • 66 Comments The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow could be all over the place, but nothing compares to how gold imports blew it up this time.
Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify into Other Currencies and Gold by Wolf Richter • Mar 31, 2025 • 114 Comments The surge of the “nontraditional reserve currencies.”
Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Hits 30-Year Low as Central Banks Pile on Other Currencies & Gold by Wolf Richter • Jan 5, 2025 • 109 Comments If the rate of decline over the past 10 years continues, the dollar’s share will sink below 50% by 2034.
Status of the US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Share Drops to Lowest since 1995. Central Banks Diversify to “Nontraditional” Currencies and Gold by Wolf Richter • Sep 28, 2024 • 146 Comments But China’s renminbi keeps losing ground.
Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify from USD-Assets to Other Currencies and to Gold by Wolf Richter • Jun 29, 2024 • 132 Comments Long, slow erosion of the US dollar’s dominance. China’s renminbi keeps losing ground, many other currencies gain, as does gold.
Lithium “Shortage” Bubble Implodes (Again), Price Collapsed 77% in a Year, as Demand and Production Both Surged by Wolf Richter • Nov 23, 2023 • 75 Comments Investors smell the money, billions are flowing, even in the US, which could become major lithium producer.
Treasury Market, Gold Go Haywire as Fed Struggles to Contain What’s Turning into Financial Crisis 2 by Wolf Richter • Mar 18, 2020 • 205 Comments If the Fed hadn’t spent a decade inflating such a mind-blowing Everything Bubble (that had already begun to wobble), the financial reactions wouldn’t be nearly as chaotic.
My Theory About Gold as Diversification to the Busted “Everything Bubble” by Wolf Richter • Dec 25, 2018 • 138 Comments And over the long term? It gets complicated, as they say.
France Chases London’s Gold Market Amid Soft-Brexit Hopes by Don Quijones • Nov 15, 2018 • 19 Comments In the feverish reshuffling of financial services for a post-Brexit world, London still comes out ahead, but less so.
Palladium Spikes to All-Time High: The Long View by Wolf Richter • Oct 23, 2018 • 33 Comments And it sure took a looong time.
