Gold Could Rise by Thousands of Dollars
In this interview with Trey Reich, Mark Thornton explains why gold’s long-run trend is driven less by headlines and more by monetary debasement, and why Middle East conflict can perversely pressure gold in the short run by pushing oil higher and taking Fed rate cuts “off the board.” Mark walks through Austrian business cycle theory, the scale of malinvestment in private equity/credit and the AI boom, and why the Fed’s real priorities are debt-rollover finance and backstopping the banking system. He also discusses why CPI is a flawed policy guide, why the global monetary regime is shifting…
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