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Why Gold Is Rallying While Inflation Cools
In this episode of Inflation Explained, Lucas and Luna unpack a curious market moment: inflation is cooling — CPI dipped to 332.6 in June — yet gold just surged over nine percent in a single week, hitting $4,400 an ounce. They explore what's driving the divergence: real yields, central bank buying, and a softening labor market that saw 23,000 jobs lost in July. Why do investors pile into gold when price pressures ease? Is it a hedge against the next shock, or a signal that the bond market knows something CPI doesn't? With gold miners up seventeen percent and silver climbing ten…
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