Precious metals are increasingly becoming the subject of necessity rather than debate in the backdrop of the great “taper debate.”

Gold price manipulation is back, as was gold’s flash crash; below we skate through its details and ask: “Why now”

Below we unpack the implications behind central bank gold purchases (rising), negative real yields (falling) and Stanley Fischer’s Fed-speak (cringing).

Earlier in July, President Biden came away from a meeting with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and calmly announced that in