Oil Jumps 4% on Hurricane and Tanker Squeeze. Why Didn’t Gold Follow? 

Brent and WTI both jumped more than 4% on a Gulf of Mexico hurricane and a record Hormuz tanker slowdown. Gold rose just 0.28% and silver fell 1.81% anyway. Real yields, not oil, are setting the price today.

Washington Sold $70 Billion in Debt. Wall Street Only Wanted Part of It.

A weak $70 billion Treasury auction, not the Fed, sent yields to their highest level since 2007 this week. Here’s the mechanism connecting Wall Street’s bond demand shortfall to gold and silver’s pullback, and why it’s a fiscal problem wearing a monetary costume.