A rising index can leave investors overlooking the assumptions holding their portfolios together. A market does not become sound simply because investors keep bidding it higher. The more important question is what those prices require us to believe about future profits, borrowing costs and the willingness of policymakers to intervene when expectations disappoint. Our concern…
RPMEX • Ounces of Perspective • Editorial Weimar Was Only a Century Ago: When Money Stops Holding Its Value The collapse of Germany’s currency in 1923 belongs to the modern world. Its lesson still reaches directly into the lives of people who work, save and plan for the future. October 9, 2026 • RPMEX Editorial…
Quoted prices change every day. The monetary, fiscal and economic conditions that led many people to own physical gold and silver do not disappear with the latest market swing.
RPMEX “Ounces of Perspective” A 26-year comparison of physical gold and the S&P 500 asks a different question: not simply which investment finished ahead, but what might remain resilient if the market balloon meets gravity. RPMEX original commentary · October 2026 When prices are rising, altitude can feel like safety. The two are not the…
Ounces of Perspective | A 2026 reassessment Eleven years after RPMEX examined what might happen if the dollar lost its reserve-currency role, the dollar remains dominant. Yet reserve managers, central banks and trading blocs are steadily building alternatives—and accumulating gold. In 2015, RPMEX published “When the Dollar Is No Longer the World’s Reserve Currency.” The…
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