By Allen Mendenhall
1819 News, Hoover, Alabama
Monday, January 12, 2026
The year 2025 proved to be consequential for those who maintain that gold remains relevant in an age of algorithmic trading and central bank digital currencies. Gold climbed more than 60% in 2025, marking its strongest annual performance since 1979. North American gold-backed exchange-traded funds attracted approximately $21 billion in inflows through July, according to the World Gold Council, while central banks continue purchasing the metal at rates double their historical averages.
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The doubters -- and there are legions in the faculty lounges and trading floors of our great nation -- might wish to reconsider their contempt for this ancient store of value. Into this fevered atmosphere arrives Peter C. Earle's slender volume, "Gold in Uncertain Times."
Earle serves as director of economics and economic freedom and senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He has produced what might best be described as a primer: mercifully concise, refreshingly substantive, and admirably free of the mystical nonsense often attending discussions of precious metals.
This is not a text for those seeking get-rich-quick schemes or apocalyptic prophecies, but rather for the serious investor who recognizes, as Earle notes, that "certain economic truths, like sound money and the enduring benefits of fiscal restraint, were as inexorable as the laws of physics." ...
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