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Your weekly pulse on precious metals markets. From gold price swings and mining shakeups to silver trends and smart investment plays, The Gold Standard cuts through the noise to deliver the insights that matter.
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Gold Slides, Fed Flexes: The $1.05 Trillion Metals Reset (opens the original)
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Marcus Blackwell and Sasha Reyes break down a brutal Monday for precious metals, where gold, silver, platinum, and palladium combined lost over $1.05 trillion in market value in a single session. The episode traces gold's slide from $4,275.20 to roughly $4,188.90, connects the drop to US-Iran tensions and rising oil prices, and unpacks how tightening Fed rate-hike odds — including CME data showing over 70% odds of an October hike and comments from Beth Hammack supporting a longer hiking cycle —
Gold Holds the Line as the Fed Hikes and Silver's Deficit Deepens (opens the original)
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Sasha Reyes and Marcus Blackwell break down the metals market's reaction to the Fed's first rate hike since 2023, and why gold held steady at $4,375 an ounce in the immediate aftermath. The episode tracks gold's post-hike divergence between spot and futures prices, silver's ongoing structural squeeze, and how both metals handled a sharp yield stress test. Listeners will get a clear framework for separating short-term noise from meaningful market signals, including what a one-off hike versus a hi
Gold's Fed Countdown: Record ETF Inflows Meet Rate-Hike Fear (opens the original)
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Gold slipped below $4,300 just days before the Federal Reserve's September 15-16 meeting, and Sasha Reyes and Marcus Blackwell break down why the selloff might not tell the whole story. The episode opens with rising Fed hike odds, a hot CPI print, Brent crude above $107, and Kevin Warsh's now-famous "good family fight" comment, before pivoting to a surprising data point that complicates the simple rate-fear narrative. Listeners will learn why record ETF inflows are propping up gold even as hike
Gold Cracks $4,400 as Fed Chair Warsh Flexes Hawkish Muscle (opens the original)
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Gold broke below $4,400 an ounce in a fast, jobs-data-driven selloff, and Marcus Blackwell and Sasha Reyes dig into whether this move is a short-term Fed reaction or part of a longer structural shift in the gold market. The episode traces the drop back to a hot August jobs report that revived Fed rate-hike expectations, erasing gains from earlier dovish comments by Fed Governor Waller, and explains why climbing bond yields, not inflation, are driving the pressure. Listeners will learn how Fed Ch
Gold's August Surge Meets a Hawkish Fed (opens the original)
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Marcus and Sasha unpack gold's volatile week, tracing the metal's roughly 15% August rally toward $4,600/oz, Goldman Sachs' updated forecast of $4,900/oz by end of 2026, and the sharp pullback that followed a hawkish Fed tone at Jackson Hole. They separate confirmed rate-driven selling from an unconfirmed Iran-strike report, weighing the evidence behind each before turning to the broader metals picture and a roundup of same-day junior mining news. Listeners will get a clear read on what's actual
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