Gold and silver prices are skyrocketing. Why?

So we are in 2026, an era marked by technology indistinguishable from magic: self-driving cars, pop songs emerging from neural networks, chatting robots, etc. So what’s the big investment trend?

They are shiny rocks. Still.

This year’s hottest investment class is the same one that sparked the frenzied migration to Australia in 1851: gold. The same thing that sent Spanish conquistadors deep into the Amazon.