The dollar is losing its force while the price of gold is going ballistic. A week ago ... Scarred stockholders are piling into the precious metal, pushing up the value of the safe haven asset to over ...

With gold at historic highs, investors should understand what could trigger price drops before deciding to buy.

"Gold isn’t really going up—the dollar is just losing value." I used to brush that off as a cliché or a semantics game, and honestly, it annoyed me. But eventually, I decided to dig deeper.

Why is the price of gold going up? A lot of it boils down to uncertainty. Interest in buying gold typically spikes when investors become anxious — and there’s been a lot of economic turmoil in ...