Budget 2025 marks Canada’s boldest resource strategy in decades. With billions in new funding for critical minerals, infrastructure, and productivity, Ottawa is betting on mining and industrial investment to drive long-term growth. Expanded tax credits, a sovereign fund for critical minerals, and the removal of key regulatory barriers signal a decisive pivot toward real assets, national competitiveness, and economic resilience.

Gold’s explosive rise in 1979–1980 was fueled by panic and inflation. Today’s surge is different - driven by record central-bank buying, massive debt, and the global shift away from the dollar. As the Fed faces limits that Volcker never did, this bull market may just be getting started.

Market technician Michael Oliver says U.S. equity momentum has already broken — setting the stage for a historic rotation into gold, silver, and the commodity complex. His data-driven warning: when the silver-gold spread breaks out, investors will witness a rapid repricing unlike anything since the 1980 bull market.

This article breaks down the unprecedented divergence between gold’s record momentum and a strong U.S. dollar, revealing how market psychology, debt, and central-bank behavior are rewriting the rules of global finance.

The 60/40 portfolio thrived for 40 years, but its assumptions — low inflation, falling rates, reliable bond hedges — are gone. Morgan Stanley’s new 60/20/20 framework signals a seismic shift: stocks for growth, short Treasuries for stability, and gold as the hedge of last resort. Investors must now ask if this marks the end of an era, and the beginning of a golden one.

Global gold demand hit US $132 billion in Q2 2025, while mine supply barely grew and production costs soared. Despite this imbalance, gold equities remain under-owned and undervalued - an echo of past cycles where miners eventually outpaced bullion. Whispers in the Vault explores why scarcity may become miners’ greatest hidden asset.