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Gareth
Washington is fighting across military, energy and financial fronts. The cost is beginning to appear where it matters most. In February 2022, Russia discovered that a foreign-exchange reserve is only as sovereign as the system holding it. For years, Moscow had accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars in reserves, partly
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Gareth
How movements in one of the oldest ratios in finance can potentially turn the same capital into more gold. Imagine two investors beginning with exactly the same thing: ten ounces of gold. The first puts his gold away and forgets about it. Twenty years later, he still owns ten ounces.
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Goldwise
Rising Japanese yields are pulling at the cheap capital that flowed through global markets for decades. On the morning of 5 August 2024, one of the calmest assumptions in global finance suddenly became expensive. Japan’s Nikkei fell more than 12 per cent in a single session, its worst day since
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Goldwise
The Dollar’s Long Goodbye. Gold needs no dollar collapse, only a world that trusts American promises a little less. In August 1971, Richard Nixon appeared on American television on a Sunday evening and told the country he was temporarily suspending the dollar’s convertibility into gold. The language was deliberately reassuring.
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Goldwise
Technology has transformed the way we buy, store and trade gold. Ownership remains the part investors value most. For most of financial history, buying gold required almost as much trust as buying a house. An investor telephoned a broker, accepted whatever price was available, signed paperwork that arrived days later
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Goldwise
Modern warfare is fought on the battlefield, but it is won in the factory. Gold and silver reveal why. When historians write about wars, they usually begin with armies. Battles, generals and political decisions dominate the narrative. Maps fill with arrows. Casualties are counted. Victories and defeats become fixed points
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Gareth
The market is focused on who will build the future. It is paying far less attention to what the future will be built from. In March 2021, the Ever Given became lodged across the Suez Canal, blocking one of the world’s most important shipping routes. For six days, hundreds of
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Goldwise
Silver's recent sell-off suggested demand was fading. China's behaviour suggests something very different. There is an old survival story sailors used to tell about lifeboats in the North Atlantic. When a ship started taking on water, panic never began when passengers noticed the damage. It began when crew members quietly
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Goldwise
Governments can rewrite Budgets and replace Prime Ministers. They cannot negotiate with the bond market. David Cameron walked away after losing the Brexit referendum. Theresa May became trapped by negotiations she could never fully control. Boris Johnson won one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern history before political capital
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Goldwise
The Rocket, The Bubble, and The Metal Nobody Wants to Talk About On a humid evening in South Texas, thousands of people stood watching a stainless-steel rocket tower over the launch pad like something pulled from a science-fiction novel. Cameras pointed skyward. Livestreams counted down. Engineers, investors and enthusiasts waited
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Goldwise
One jobs report was enough to shake precious metals. It was not enough to change the arithmetic underneath the system. After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, investors did something peculiar. Shares in several fire insurance companies were dumped before the damage had even been properly assessed. The logic seemed
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Goldwise
Gold still speaks London, but the next chapter may be written closer to China There is an old joke in commodity markets that gold never really moves. It merely changes whose vault it sits in. For decades, that joke contained an uncomfortable truth. The world could mine gold in Australia,
