Russia Is Selling Its Gold, And That’s Good News For Owners 

Reserves at the Bank of Russia just hit their lowest point since 2019 — a sale now ten months running. But the order in which a government liquidates its reserves reveals more about gold than the sale itself, and it’s good news for long-term owners.

Why Gold Ignored the Fed’s Fastest Rate Hikes in 40 Years 

For 50 years, rate hikes meant falling gold. In 2022 that rule broke. Here is the real-rate mechanism and the new force behind it.

Gold’s Share of Central Bank Reserves Nearly Doubled. A Top Banker Just Explained Why.

Three years ago, gold made up about one dollar in seven of the world’s central bank reserves. Today it’s closer to one in four. Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel just told a room of bullion bankers exactly why that shift still has room to run.

Why Are Central Banks Buying So Much Gold in 2026?

Central bank reserve managers are running a decades-old diversification playbook at sovereign scale, and the 2026 data shows it accelerating even through a price correction. Here is the mechanism behind the headlines, and what it means for an individual saver’s own allocation.

Iran Repeated Its Hormuz Demand at the UN. The Market Already Priced It In.

A UN speech repeated a demand Iran’s own negotiators had already made in private the day before. Markets had nothing new to price. This piece explains why the dollar and Fed rate odds, not the Strait of Hormuz, are setting gold and silver’s price today.

Xi Lands in Washington. Gold and Silver Both Retreat, and Silver Falls Harder.

Both metals retreated Wednesday as Xi arrived in Washington and two Fed presidents doubled down on a hawkish rate message. Silver fell more than twice as hard as gold, widening the gold-silver ratio to about 66.2 ahead of Thursday’s formal summit talks.

Iran Hit a Tanker in Hormuz and Trump Threatened Iran. Oil Isn’t Reacting.

Iran hit a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and Trump weighed a big decision on Iran, yet oil barely moved. Here’s the real-yield mechanism behind gold and silver’s muted reaction today.

Five Things Are Moving Gold and Silver Today. They All Point to the Same Argument.

Gold and silver got pulled five different directions today: a fading debasement narrative, a record ETF month, $6 diesel, sanctioned gold flows into Iran, and a new $120 oil call. Here’s how they all connect.

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.

Gold Hits 3-Month High as Oil Falls Ahead of Bessent’s Iran Sanctions Announcement

Gold hit a fresh three-month high and silver turned positive today, both ahead of Treasury Secretary Bessent’s 2 PM ET press conference unveiling new Iran sanctions. But oil is falling into the announcement, the opposite of what a “tougher sanctions” headline usually does to markets. Here’s the mechanism actually driving today’s move, and why it isn’t really about Iran.