Silver Round-Tripped a 6.8% Shock in Nine Days. Real Yields Did It, Not Inflation.

Silver closed at $67.28 on September 9, before a drone strike shut Saudi Arabia’s largest oil pipeline. Nine days and one Fed hike later, it is almost back. Most coverage credits fading inflation fear. The Federal Reserve’s own data disagrees: breakevens fell while real yields rose 22 basis points.

How Much Silver Should You Own? A Portfolio Allocation Guide by Age and Goal

There is no Dalio-style institutional rule for silver the way there is for gold. This piece derives one using the live gold-silver ratio, silver’s dual monetary-and-industrial risk profile, and an age-and-goal framework that extends GoldSilver’s own gold-allocation guide.

The Fed Hiked. The Bank of England Held. They Landed on the Same Rate.

The Fed raised rates for the first time since 2023. The Bank of England held. By the end of the week, both central banks had landed on exactly the same number, for very different reasons, and gold and silver noticed.

Who Owns US Debt? Central Banks Own Less Than You Think

Foreign central banks’ share of foreign-held US Treasuries has fallen from two-thirds in 2014 to 41% today. But their dollar holdings barely dropped. The market around them tripled instead, and the gap was filled by leveraged private trades, not other governments. Here’s the mechanism, and where the real reserve money went.

$603 Million Left the World’s Biggest Gold ETF. It Didn’t Leave Gold.

Investors pulled $603 million out of the world’s biggest gold ETF this week. Almost none of it left gold. It rotated into three cheaper funds tracking the identical trade, exposing the fee math behind the move and the ownership question every ETF holder should be able to answer.

Why Is Silver Demand Tied to AI Data Centers?

Most coverage of silver’s 2026 rally blames the Fed and the dollar. A quieter demand story has been building for less than two years: AI data centers now need silver for their power systems, layering onto an already six-year supply deficit.

The Copper Mine That Isn’t Trying to Mine Silver Just Explained the Whole Deficit

August’s mine disruptions in Chile, Mexico, and Peru barely dented the 2026 silver deficit — but they expose a deeper problem: most silver supply is a byproduct nobody optimizes for, and that won’t change no matter where the price goes.

The Cantillon Effect: Why Money Printing Makes Some People Rich First

New money doesn’t reach everyone at once: banks and asset holders get it first, wage earners get it last, after prices have already moved. Using Fed balance-sheet data and its own Distributional Financial Accounts, this piece traces exactly how that sequence played out from 2008 to 2022, and why physical gold and silver sit outside the mechanism entirely.

Gold Is About to Face Its First Rate Hike of the Cycle. Here’s Why It Isn’t Scared.

A rate hike is supposed to hurt gold. It hasn’t for three years, and September 16 is the cleanest test yet. The reason traces back to who is actually setting gold’s price now, and it isn’t who the old models assume.

Gold Fell 1.62% Today. Gold Miners Didn’t. Here’s the Math.

Gold mining stocks didn’t fall as fast as bullion today. The reason is operating leverage, and its limits: miners carry reserve depletion, debt and equity risk that physical gold never does. Here’s the mechanism, and what it means for how you hold your metal.