Daily Dispatches

By Matthew Piepenburg
Von Greyerz / Gold Switzerland, Zurich
Sunday, March 22, 2026

If you are new to gold, or if you are a speculator in gold (or even worse, a levered speculator in gold), you are likely asking yourselves what in the "H. E. double toothpicks" just happened to gold?

It lost over 9% in the futures market in a single session and saw its worst week of price declines since February 1983.

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By Lance Roberts
Real Investment Advice, Houston
Friday, March 20, 2026

Every few months a headline appears declaring that the U.S. dollar's reign as the world's reserve currency is over. China is dumping Treasuries. Central banks are hoarding gold. The BRICS are building a new monetary order. The sanctions that froze $300 billion of Russia's reserves in 2022 proved, the argument goes, that dollar-denominated assets are no longer safe. The "risk-free" asset has become a weapon.

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From Money Metals News Service
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Two members of Congress have introduced the System Integrity through Licensed Vault Expansion and Resilience Act (SILVER Act), a measure aimed at modernizing the nation's precious metals storage framework and reducing systemic risks within U.S. financial markets.

The legislation, filed today by Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, and Rep. Mark Harris, R-North Carolina, seeks to address longstanding geographic limitations on approved depositories for precious metals tied to regulated futures markets.

By Robert Lambourne
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

In its quarterly report, published this week --

https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt2603.pdf

-- the Bank for International Settlements refers to the sharp decline in silver prices at the end of January. The report suggests that the price decline was caused by over-leveraged retail investors who held long positions in silver exchange-traded funds ETF and long positions on futures exchanges. 

See Box C of the report on Page 15.