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Investment Strategies
The strategies Merk offers include gold and gold mining.
Insights & Reports
Gold Miners: Bargains or Peaking Out?
CIO Axel Merk with Portfolio Managers Peter Maletis & Jamie Holman
Replay Now Available
Webinar held Nov 13, 2025
Tweets
That $35,000 a month income on the rental application for a 2 bedroom apartment is not a typo. Welcome to San Francisco where “K-shaped” takes on an entirely new meaning, getting the well offs pissed at the really well offs
wsj.com/tech/ai/fear-a…
The other day, the WSJ compared cry baby millennials to baby boomers.
Okay, so now someone comes in and says generation X had it tough, too. Okay, I'm gen X, so glad someone's remembering us...
wsj.com/personal-finan… x.com/AxelMerk/statu…
Context as to why WTI-Brent spreads haven't come down more wsj.com/livecoverage/i… x.com/AxelMerk/statu…
FWIW, intra-day euro off its highs. Not major moves, but it appears there was an overshooting on the Iran news.
Also now only 1.6 hikes expected by year-end in the eurozone, down from 2.6 on Monday
src: BBG
Australia's PM: we've secured 100 million litres of diesel.
okay, it's not gallons, not even liters, it's litres. But, um, more relevant, that's only ~1 day's worth of Australia's consumption... 🤔 x.com/AlboMP/status/…
Justice Thomas: "..numerical majorities frequently seek to control government,..use the state to violate the rights of the minority...If angels were to govern men, [no] controls on government would be necessary...
But men are not angels."
wsj.com/opinion/justic…
For Fed nerds, an important analysis - and history lesson - on what happens when the Fed Chair's term ends and no successor named.
Including a quirk that in 1983, a young White House lawyer named John Roberts - now chief justice of the Supreme Court - wrote a memo on the topic. x.com/NickTimiraos/s…
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