Why Everyone Is Talking About Gold Gold has returned to the center of financial conversations, and not without reason.

Whether it's Egyptian pharaohs collecting it, gold rushers of the 1800s tracking it, the Chinese Han dynasty using it to trade along the Silk Road or Eric B. & Rakim wearing it on an album cover, gold ...

This exposes a blind spot in traditional value investing, which prides itself on conservatism, capital preservation, and margins of safety. Yet in practice, it often optimizes returns inside a system ...

Gold serves as structural portfolio insurance, not a wealth generator, preserving purchasing power as fiat currencies erode. Central banks, notably China and Russia, are accumulating gold to reduce ...

Most first place medals are silver under gold plating; what makes them valuable is the story attached to every athlete and ...

With gold prices at an all-time high, illegal gold mining is again rising— a recurring pattern between gold prices and illegal gold mining. Earlier this month, several top-tier news reports covered ...

Sabrina Karl has over two decades of experience writing about savings, CDs, and other banking topics. She is currently a full-time staff writer at Investopedia and one of the country's top experts on ...