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American Gold Eagle coin and a gold bullion bar, the two product types eligible for a gold IRA

What Is a Gold IRA? The Purity Rule the IRS Never Wrote

A gold IRA is a self-directed retirement account holding physical bullion. This guide covers where the 99.5% purity standard genuinely comes from, why the American Gold Eagle qualifies at 91.67%, where the metal must legally be stored, and the 2026 contribution limits....
A 1 oz fine gold bar resting on the flat section of a chart where the interest rate line has stepped down to zero, representing the zero interest rate policy years.

What Is ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) and How It Changed Gold Forever

A zero interest rate policy holds the central bank's short-term target at or near zero. The Federal Reserve did it twice, for nine of fourteen years. But zero rates alone never moved gold. The real policy rate did, and it explains today's market better than the headline number does....
A plain metal coin balanced on its edge on dark stone, representing the coin-flip odds in the Waller rate hike gold price debate.

The Fed Just Priced Out Half a Rate Hike. Gold Barely Noticed.

September rate hike odds fell to roughly 50.3% after Fed Governor Christopher Waller signalled he could support a hold. Gold barely responded. It had already banked a 2.4% gain before he spoke, then slipped. Here is which channel is actually driving the metal, and what August CPI decides....
Stacked gold and silver bars on a dark wood desk with a glowing upward price chart line trailing behind them, illustrating gold futures net long positioning and today's rally in gold and silver

Gold Up, Silver Up. The Five Reasons Behind It Don’t All Agree.

Speculators are still adding to gold and silver, an Indian tariff quirk is quietly redirecting demand toward Dubai, and three desks cannot agree on September rate-hike odds. Even the exchange running the trades has its own read on why any of this holds into fall....
Split image contrasting an empty boardroom chair with a solid gold bar, illustrating the Barrick IPO delay and the governance risk that comes with owning mining equity instead of physical gold.

Barrick Just Delayed Its Biggest Move in Years. Gold Isn’t Why.

Barrick is pushing its North American gold IPO from 2026 into 2027. The real cause is a shareholder revolt against Chairman John Thornton, not the price of gold, and it says a lot about equity risk....
Gold ETF Outflows Came From One Region. The Buying Came From Everywhere Else.

Gold ETF Outflows Came From One Region. The Buying Came From Everywhere Else.

Gold ETF outflows in 2026 were not a market-wide verdict on gold. They came from one region. North America was the only region in net outflow across the first half, while Asia recorded its strongest first half on record. Here is what the regional split says about owning gold in paper form versus physical....
Cast gold bars racked in rows on steel vault shelving, the sovereign holdings at the center of who is selling gold

Gold’s Sellers Are Trading Weeks. Its Buyers Are Counting Decades.

Five developments inside 48 hours split the gold market in two. A sovereign relocated 86 tonnes, two banks read one positioning dataset to opposite conclusions, and a soft payrolls print moved the premise the sellers were trading on. The cohorts are not the same people....
Christopher Whalen beside a storm-lit, crumbling Federal Reserve building, captioned The Fed Is Just A Facade, from the interview on why bank loss rates are so low

$1 Trillion in New Loans. $0 in New Reserves. Here’s What Banks Are Betting On.

US banks added $1.04 trillion in loans since July 2025 and set aside nothing extra to cover them. Christopher Whalen argues the spotless loss rates measure house price inflation rather than health, and that the risk quietly moved elsewhere. We checked his numbers, and three did not survive....
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....
Trading desk monitor showing a nearly flat gold price chart, illustrating gold not reacting to the Iran war despite this week's escalation.

The Iran War Just Got Worse. Gold Barely Noticed.

Gold and silver crashed when the U.S.-Iran conflict escalated Tuesday, then barely moved when it got worse Wednesday. The real driver isn't the war — it's Fed rate-hike odds, already elevated before the strikes began, and what they mean for holding non-yielding metals....

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