Author name: Thom Calandra

Thom Calandra of thomcalandra.com Thom Calandra of thomcalandra.com and service The Calandra Report is (was) co-founder and was chief commentator and editor-in-chief of CBS MarketWatch.com.

The Calandra Report: Transitioning

This is the 13th year of The Calandra Report. For a few decades prior to that, I was reporting on markets for various venues. As discussed here this year, The Calandra Report will be halted. (The Calandra Report has been a free service since this past summer of 2025.)   In part, my stepping back is because of ongoing health and mobility challenges stemming from my shattered […]

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Gold Outlook: Historian

I asked Chris Powell, gold historian and secretary-treasurer of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (gata.org), what’s next for the gold price, which is reaching new highs. “Where and when does the gold price stop ascending?” Chris, who retired two years ago as managing editor and a political columnist of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut, gave me a multiple-part

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Pooling Gold In London

The World Gold Council is proposing digital gold tokens for investors. See White Paper The proposal would create Pooled Gold Interests that allow investors to own a share of physical gold stored in vaults.  Essentially: tokens with gold values. The mechanism would permit ownership of fractional amounts of gold. The digital gold proposal out of London comes with gold prices

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