When prices creep upward, each unit of currency you hold loses purchasing power. If your investments don’t at least keep pace with inflation, you’re effectively losing ground. That’s why many ...

To define it simply, a hedge against inflation is any investment considered capable of protecting against the declining purchasing power of a currency due to inflationary or macro-economic pressure on ...

This year should prove once and for all that gold is definitely the preferred hedge against inflation and, for global institutional investors, a better way to play against declining dollar values.

Inflation does not have a major impact on Bitcoin’s price, as many believe, but a weakening US dollar does help push up the cryptocurrency alongside gold, according to NYDIG. “The community likes to ...