Sam Taube
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407 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2d ago
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So I think that that's kind of the most dynamic part of this.
That's the part that could change most quickly and potentially kind of reverse the course of all this.
I'm not an expert on the situation over there.
The latest I've heard, the US has started bombing Iran again this week.
So it does seem like the conflict is continuing for the time being.
But if it were to come to some kind of resolution in the near future, that would be good for a number of reasons, one of which being that it might reduce the price of oil and that might reduce some of these inflationary pressures.
And that could take some pressure off of bond yields.
Always great to be here, Ana.
So the fundamental reason why gold and silver appeal to investors is that they're intrinsically valuable, meaning they're rare and they look pretty and they're traditional symbols of wealth in cultures around the world.
This is an important distinction.
When people say that gold and silver are safe haven investments, they don't mean that their price stays level over time.
And as we're going to discuss later on, both can have some pretty dramatic price swings.
But precious metals are safe havens because their prices are supposed to move independently of most other things in financial markets and the economy, especially money.
When currencies lose their value, precious metals have a very long track record of holding their value by increasing in price in that declining currency.
Over the long term, even if we're talking about thousands of years, gold is remarkably consistent in how much stuff an ounce of it can buy, even though its money price can vary wildly over time.
A lot of it is large institutions like central banks and hedge funds and also just really, really wealthy families and individuals buying gold to hedge against geopolitical uncertainty.
Things like tariffs and the market volatility that comes with them, as well as hedging against a decline in the value of the dollar.
As we talked about before, gold tends to hold its value really well against a declining currency.
Silver is a precious metal, so it's subject to the same kinds of precious metal trends we were just talking about.
But the thing about silver is that it's also an industrial metal.
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