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Gold’s First Real All-Time High Since 1980
In nominal terms gold has set records for two years. But in today’s dollars, January’s peak did something it had not managed in forty-four years: pass the real value of the 1980 top. A 28% correction has since tested that record — and it is still standing.
The $4,000 Gold Era: How a Reserve Asset Was Repriced
In barely two years gold has roughly doubled, overtaken first the euro and then US Treasuries in central-bank reserves, and re-entered the heart of the monetary conversation. This is the anatomy of a structural repricing — and what it would take to reverse it.
Gold Corridors: How Sanctions Are Reshaping Physical Gold Trade Routes
From Dubai to Shanghai, the geography of gold flows is being redrawn by geopolitical fault lines. An investigation into the new corridors of physical gold trade — and what they mean for the market's structure.
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