Gold cracked below $4,100 and silver fell even harder today. The real driver wasn’t the Fed, it was oil. Here’s the mechanism, and what it means if you’re holding for the long run.

Peter Grandich, founder of The Grandich Letter, sold his gold during this year’s rally. Now he is buying again. He is doing ...

Central bank gold buying reached 39 tonnes in August. See why long-term reserve strategies matter for physical gold ownership and vaulting!

Gold priced in oil: on Oct. 20 an ounce bought about 38 barrels of Brent, down from about 67 a year ago, still about double the median.

Treasury yields fell amid AI fears. See why government bonds and physical bullion carry different types of risk.

Higher silver prices should encourage recycling. So why can they strain refiners instead? Discover how cash-flow pressures, processing bottlenecks, and settlement delays affect silver supply.

The gold correction of 2026 took gold 26.6% below its record close at its low. So say an owner held 10% of a portfolio in gold at the January peak. That fall then cost the whole portfolio about 2.7%.

Social Security COLA (Cost-of-Living Adjustment) vs inflation comes down to timing. The 3.6% raise for 2027 was built from prices measured in July, August and September 2026. The Social Security ...