# What's driving the price of gold Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-experts-5798955/what-s-driving-the-price-of-gold Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-experts-5798955/what-s-driving-the-price-of-gold.md Podcast: [Investing Experts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-experts-5798955) Published: 2026-06-16T20:39:30+00:00 Episode link: https://seekingalpha.com/author/investing-experts-podcast?source=ie_podcast:whats_driving_price_gold Audio file: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72554894/axel_merk_ie_6_16_6_16_26_1_34_pm.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/investing-experts-5798955/episodes/what-s-driving-the-price-of-gold Duration seconds: 2589 ## Resource Axel Merk, who manages ~$4 billion in the precious metal space, explains how the market pushed him back into gold (0:30) Why price of gold has been so sensitive (3:45) Investing in gold and the miners (6:00) ETFs not well suited for miners (9:20) Silver is challenging (14:30) Gold price hostage to what's happening in Iran (16:00) If inflation goes up, why currency at times moves higher (19:55) Polarized FOMC, Kevin Warsh's first statement (28:05) Episode transcripts For full access to analyst ratings, stock and ETF quant scores, and dividend grades, subscribe to Seeking Alpha Premium at seekingalpha.com/subscriptions ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/investing-experts-5798955/episodes/what-s-driving-the-price-of-gold/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-experts-5798955/what-s-driving-the-price-of-gold.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.