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Dollar Swap Lines Are Now A Political Tool – Gold & Silver Markets Are Responding

Dollar Swap Lines Are Now A Political Tool – Gold & Silver Markets Are Responding

You may have seen the news yesterday that gold has now overtaken US Treasuries as the world’s top reserve asset. According to the European Central Bank, gold now accounts for 27% of global central bank reserves, compared with 22% for US Treasuries. Central banks have been net buyers of physical gold for many years now, […]
The Science Behind Why Gold Still Shines

The Science Behind Why Gold Still Shines

This week, The New Scientist reported that scientists may finally know why gold stays so shiny, which is the sort of discovery that feels almost comically late given how long human beings have been obsessing over the stuff. After several thousand years of digging it out of the ground, melting it down, hoarding it, fighting […]
The World Is Running Out of Its “Shock Absorber”

The World Is Running Out of Its “Shock Absorber”

Earlier this week my colleagues and I spent some time discussing a pretty worrying JP Morgan chart, published as part of a wider Bloomberg article. It shows total visible oil inventories, measured in billions of barrels, but the picture it paints is one of an uncomfortable truth.  As the Bloomberg article recalls, oil inventories surged […]
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