America’s national debt topped $40 trillion on Tuesday, August 18. It had reached $39 trillion only five months earlier and $38 trillion five months before that. In the days following, a prominent Wall Street strategy note highlighted that accelerating debt trajectory and adopted a more bullish stance on gold. As of Friday morning, gold is … Read more

Key Takeaways The Australian Gold Kangaroo coin is struck by The Perth Mint to 99.99% purity. A one-ounce coin carries an AUD 100 legal tender face value and the bullion program has no mintage limit. Perth Mint bullion is backed by a statutory guarantee: Section 22 of the Gold Corporation Act 1987 commits the Treasurer … Read more

Gold’s speculative crowd is the largest it has been in 60 weeks — but that increase did not come from fresh buyers. In the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Commitments of Traders report for positions as of August 11, non-commercial net long positions in gold reached 54.44% of open interest. At the same time, gross long … Read more

Gold climbed to its highest level since May on Friday, while silver rose to a fresh two-month peak. Both metals are set for a third consecutive weekly advance in spot terms. What’s driving the move is unusual: Washington spent the week attempting to push long-term interest rates lower. That effort failed, yields returned to recent … Read more

Key Takeaways Sound money is a form of currency whose supply cannot be expanded by government decree, so it preserves purchasing power over time instead of steadily losing it. The idea guided 19th-century monetary policy and typically meant a metallic standard: coins defined by weight and paper money redeemable on demand in that metal. Since … Read more

The Federal Reserve published the minutes from its July 28–29 meeting on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. ET. The record shows the committee voted 9–3 to hold the federal funds rate at 3.50%–3.75%. But the minutes also included a new detail that markets had not previously seen in the Fed’s official materials: Chair Kevin Warsh proposed … Read more

Key Takeaways An inverted yield curve occurs when short-term Treasury yields exceed long-term Treasury yields — the opposite of the typical upward-sloping curve. The yield curve has preceded every U.S. recession since 1955, making it among the most reliable single recession predictors economists track, with only a small number of disputed exceptions. An inverted curve … Read more

Two of gold’s traditional headwinds were very active today: an AI-driven equity selloff and a surge in Treasury yields to near two-decade highs. Yet gold and silver moved higher despite those pressures. Several clear developments help explain this apparent disconnect: the actual intraday price action, a policy intervention by the U.S. Treasury in the long-end … Read more

Data note: Market prices and intraday figures in this article reflect conditions as of approximately 9:30 AM ET on August 20, 2026. Prices may have changed. Last verified: August 20, 2026. Gold is trading around $4,473 today, down roughly 1.1% from this morning’s open. Silver is near $66.76, off about 0.4%. Both metals eased after … Read more

Key Takeaways Silver trades near $63.81 an ounce, roughly 47.5% below its January 29, 2026 record of $121.62. Speculative positioning has largely unwound: net long contracts equal about 20.5% of open interest, near the 20th percentile of the past 60 weekly reports. Gross short positions increased roughly 40% since mid-July, which creates a potential buying … Read more