Gold’s biggest one-day crashes, ranked: 1997 to 2026
Gold’s biggest one-day crashes since the early 1980s came on April 15, 2013 and January…
Gold under each Fed chair: Burns to Powell, 1970 to 2026
Measured in dollars, gold under each Fed chair from Arthur Burns to Jerome Powell ended higher…
The cost to mine an ounce of gold in 2026, and the margin over it
The cost to mine an ounce of gold reached a record $1,785 in the first quarter of 2026,…
Does gold beat inflation? What every holding period since 1971 shows
Does gold beat inflation? Over 30 years, usually: in about 85% of periods. Over 1 to 10 years…
Gold after record highs: what happened next, from 1971 to 2026
After most of its record highs, gold kept climbing. The worst damage came after the record that…
Is there a best month to buy gold? What 55 years of data show
There is no best month to buy gold that reliably beats the others, but there is a small tilt.…
What happens to gold after midterm elections? What history actually shows
Gold after midterm elections has usually risen: it was higher six months later after 11 of the…
The gold brick scam: the con that gave English the word “goldbricking”
In October 1879, five miners in Leadville, Colorado, ran the gold brick scam on N. D. Clark.…
E-gold: the gold-backed digital money the feds prosecuted before Bitcoin
E-gold was one of the internet’s first digital currencies, and the company said every…
The Bre-X scandal: the $6 billion gold mine that never existed
On May 4, 1997, Bre-X Minerals of Calgary released a letter from its own auditor that turned…