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How much is a gold bar worth: a gold bar on a precision scale showing its weight in grams, the figure that sets its metal value.

How Much Is a Gold Bar Worth? Every Size, From 1 Gram to 400 Ounces

A gold bar is worth its troy ounces multiplied by the current gold price. This guide gives the exact troy ounce content and metal value of every size from 1 gram to 400 ounces, shows what a fixed budget buys, and explains why size decides storage....
Serial-numbered gold bar on a vault inventory sheet, the documentation that decides a gold storage bankruptcy.

What Happens to Your Gold If Your Storage Company Goes Bankrupt?

Allocated storage makes specific bars your legal property. Unallocated storage makes you an unsecured creditor. Two real bankruptcies and a 1994 court ruling show why that one distinction decides who keeps the gold....
Grouped bar chart comparing J.P. Morgan's May 2026 and August 2026 silver price forecasts across Q2, Q3 and Q4 2026 plus 2026 and 2027 full-year averages, showing cuts of 7 to 30 percent, with silver's 1 September 2026 spot price of $64.44 marked as a reference line.

Silver Price Prediction: One Bank Cut Its Target 30%, and the Reason Wasn’t the Fed

J.P. Morgan cut its Q4 silver forecast from $90 to $63, and silver already trades above it. The driver was solar demand, not the Fed. Gregory Shearer sizes the decline at roughly 60 million ounces, which is larger than 2026's 46.3 million ounce deficit....
Bar chart comparing first published and latest 2026 gold price figures from six banks against the August 28 close, relevant to whether gold price will go down in 2026.

Will Gold Go Down for the Rest of 2026? Six Banks Cut Their Targets, and the Cuts Trailed the Price

Six banks revised a 2026 gold price target between June and late August. Every revision moved down, and not one moved up. Gold still trades below four of the six reduced figures, which means the cuts chased the price and did not catch it. Here is the revision record, the rate mechanism behind it, and what a dated price target commits anyone to....
Serialized silver bar placed in a numbered vault box — allocated silver vs SLV custody

SLV Holds Your Silver. It Just Can’t Give It Back to You.

Institutions are quietly rotating silver exposure from SLV toward allocated vehicles like PSLV. The real driver is redemption rights, not the leasing myth....
What Are the IRS Rules for a Precious Metals IRA in 2026?

What Are the IRS Rules for a Precious Metals IRA in 2026?

Two tests decide whether a retirement account can hold bullion, and the industry quotes only one of them. The purity figures everyone cites are not in the tax code. The condition that is there cost one couple $411,000 when they kept eligible coins in a home safe....
Split image of two matching bank vault doors — one open revealing stacked gold bars inside, the other closed — illustrating why some retirement accounts can hold gold in your 401k and others still can't

Why Your Pension Can Own Gold and Your 401(k) Still Can’t

Pension funds have owned gold for decades. 401(k) plans almost never do, and it isn't because gold is a bad idea. A new federal rule is trying to close that gap. Here's what it changes, and what it doesn't....
Ten Percent Sent Gold Abroad. Nine Percent Brought It Home.

Ten Percent Sent Gold Abroad. Nine Percent Brought It Home.

The financial press says central banks are bringing their gold home. The World Gold Council asked 76 of them, and the numbers run the other way: more spread gold into additional foreign jurisdictions last year than repatriated it. What that says about custody, and about how you hold your own metal....
Four-quadrant flat lay of gold coins, a bond certificate, cash, and a bronze bull statue on a wooden desk, representing the permanent portfolio gold allocation strategy's four equal asset classes

What Is the Permanent Portfolio? Harry Browne’s 25% Gold Allocation Explained

Most advisors cap gold at 5–15% of a portfolio. Harry Browne's Permanent Portfolio puts it at a full 25%. This piece unpacks why he drew the line there, how the strategy held up in 2008, the 1970s, and 2022, and what the honest case against it looks like....
Australian Gold Kangaroo coin standing on edge against an open legal volume, representing Perth Mint's statutory guarantee

Australian Gold Kangaroo: The Bullion Coin Backed by an Act of Parliament

Perth Mint's flagship bullion coin changes its reverse almost every year, which is the least interesting thing about it. At 99.99% purity with an uncapped mintage, the Australian Gold Kangaroo coin sits behind a guarantee written into Western Australian statute in 1987. Here is what that actually means for what you own....

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