Articles by Lawrie Williams

The latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting has come and gone, so what have we learnt from it regarding the state of the U.S. economy, bond purchase tapering, and timing for raising interest rates?

Read more about the Gold and Silver ratio in an analysis of the precious metal.

We cover U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s much-anticipated presentation. Read more here.

The answer to the question posed by the title of this article is “Undoubtedly.”

The World Gold Council (WGC)’s latest “Gold Demand Trends” report was published at the end of July and now that we’ve had a little time to digest the statistical data, we’ve drawn our own conclusions from it

Inflation pressures may actually surge higher and last longer than these central banks had been anticipating.

Another meeting of the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is now behind us. Learn more about the outcome here.

My view is that the cryptocurrency has no substance behind it and that at least some of the Bitcoin sales and marketing sector is run by individuals with, to say the least, unsavory backgrounds that would imply they are attracted to get-rich-quick schemes. 

In an article published Christmas last year, I took a stab at precious metals price predictions for 2021. Here is the update.

What the impact is likely to be on the gold price is a matter of some dissension among observers – most are either bullish on the gold price (some hugely bullish), or consider that things won’t change at all and the principal price driver will remain rising inflation and potential moves to control it.