Inflation isn’t dead. Gold’s not done.
After a rocky two years of monetary tightening, inflation seems to be cooling—but nobody’s breathing easy just yet. In 2025, gold is back in the spotlight. And not just because it’s shiny. Investors big and small are once again turning to the yellow metal for one core reason: uncertainty.
Central banks are still loading up
According to the World Gold Council, central banks bought over 1,000 tonnes of gold in both 2022 and 2023. That pace hasn’t slowed in 2025. Countries like China, Turkey, and India are padding their reserves, aiming to de-dollarize and hedge against future crises.
As one Reddit user put it: *”If central banks are stacking, I’m stacking.”
Interest rates, cuts, and the perfect storm
With rate cuts on the horizon from the Federal Reserve and the ECB, gold is poised to benefit. Lower interest rates typically weaken the U.S. dollar and reduce the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets like gold.
Translation? The macro winds are finally blowing in gold’s favor again.
Retail FOMO is real
From TikTok to trading groups, gold is becoming trendy again. Gold ETFs like GLD and IAU are seeing renewed inflows. Reddit and X (formerly Twitter) are buzzing with memes, DD, and junior miner speculation.
Just like 2020, the average investor is back at the gold table.
Meet Golden Rapture Mining: A Bonanza-Grade Underdog
One junior gold explorer making waves is Golden Rapture Mining (CSE:GLDR). The company recently announced bonanza-grade gold discoveries at its Phillips Township Project in Ontario, with channel samples returning up to 291.35 g/t gold.
In its July 24, 2025 news release, the company confirmed multiple high-grade gold zones from the combined Combined Showing and Trafalgar Mine areas. These are not speculative assays—we’re talking visible gold, quartz veining, and geological continuity in a region known for past-producing mines.
Their strategy? Focus on highly prospective, underexplored gold systems within safe Canadian jurisdictions. Low overhead, tight share structure, and real results. As of late July 2025, Golden Rapture Mining trades at around $0.12 CAD, with approximately 49.2 million shares outstanding. That gives the company a modest market cap that offers significant leverage to any future discovery or upward momentum in gold prices.
Golden Rapture is still under the radar—but not for long.
The macro + micro case
When the big picture aligns with the little picture, it’s time to pay attention. Gold has tailwinds: rates, geopolitical instability, central bank demand, and retail hype. And Golden Rapture offers leverage to that thesis, with explosive upside potential if drilling continues to deliver.
Will 2025 be the year of gold again? Maybe. But if it is, Golden Rapture might just be one of its breakout stars.
Marc has been involved in the Stock Market Media Industry for the last +5 years. After obtaining a college degree in engineering in France, he moved to Canada, where he created Money,eh?, a personal finance website.
