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With the price of gold increasing by over 230% since 2020, central banks around the world have launched one of the largest gold buying waves in modern history.

From US-China Tensions to Conflict in the Middle East, Geopolitical Instability Is on the Rise.

The sharp decline in gold since the end of the past week (and which continues) is directly attributed to changes at the top of US monetary policy:

The price of gold rose by 27% in the first month of 2026 alone, after an advance of over 60% in 2025, and last week it traded at historical highs of over $5,500 per ounce, a context in which central bank gold reserves are worth much more than at...

• December 2 

In a context of global stress, the dollar is strengthening as a safe-haven asset, while the euro remains high not through performance, but through constraint. For those who follow the exchange rate, the stakes are no longer strictly the leu-euro...

The direction is assumed politically, but the data show that the euro is not yet approaching the status of a rival to the dollar. Recent speeches by European Central Bank officials confirm the ambition to strengthen the international role of the...

With unexpected harshness, the US reacted to the EU's attempt to become independent, transforming the old transatlantic alliance into a competition for resources and capital. If Europe thought it could build its fortress quietly, Washington...

The accelerated disorganization of global architecture raises a legitimate question: Are we witnessing a succession of coincidences, or the convergent manifestation of different ways of interpreting the same structural transformation of the...

The global fragmentation accelerated by U.S. policies coincides, paradoxically, with the strategic objectives promoted by China over the last decade. This convergence does not result from direct coordination but from the overlap between the...

Global disorder is entering a phase of accelerated rearrangement. The American pillar no longer ensures stability, and the post-war architecture is fragmenting under the impact of recent decisions from Washington. The withdrawal of the United...

Ben Madadi - an individual investor with a consistent and highly visible presence in the Romanian capital market for more than two decades - reacted to the article "Direct Advice: How to Correctly Read a Dangerous Dollar”, adding...

Do not confuse a "strong dollar” with a "healthy economy.” A dollar that appreciates rapidly amid global fear and liquidity stress can mask serious internal tensions and signal disruptions elsewhere in the financial...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened again in the currency market to support the rupee, in a context marked by persistent capital outflows from portfolios, weak regional signals, and uncertainties stemming from trade relations with the...

Despite the moderate predictability of most global risks, there are also extreme events, difficult to anticipate, but with devastating impact-known as "black swans.” In 2026, a few such hypothetical scenarios deserve consideration...

De la Panama şi Irak până la Venezuela şi Rusia, istoria recentă arată că statele care au încercat să iasă din arhitectura financiară a dolarului au întâlnit rapid fie războiul, fie ameninţarea militară combinată cu sancţiuni, ceea ce a redus...

From Panama and Iraq to Venezuela and Russia, recent history shows that states that have attempted to exit the dollar-based financial architecture have quickly encountered either war or the threat of military force combined with sanctions, which...

The desperation with which Trump plunges into conflicts suggests that the financial and economic situation of the United States is far more serious than we had imagined.

The US economy, at $30.6 trillion, is larger than that of China, Germany and Japan combined, with real US GDP set to grow by 2% this year, according to visualcapitalist.com, which notes that the world economy will reach $117 trillion this year....

• November 3 

From Amazon.com's massive cloud services business to Spotify's streaming audio subscriptions, digital exports totaled $4.8 trillion worldwide last year. What's more, they accounted for more than two-thirds of global services exports,...

The euro-digital currency is having a hard time taking off, and this is displeasing to Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, who pushed it to the forefront of the European agenda, according to a journalistic investigation...

The global cryptocurrency market cap is currently worth nearly $3 trillion, according to visualcapitalist.com, which ranks the world's largest cryptocurrencies in 2025, showing how value is distributed across major networks, stablecoins, and...

BRICS countries now account for half of the world's population, with the group's economic weight growing.

• September 1 

China's state-backed iron ore buyer instructed the country's top steelmakers and traders last week to temporarily halt all dollar purchases of seaborne iron ore from Australian giant BHP, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with...

The European single currency is on track for its biggest gain since 2017 and the upward trend is set to continue, Wall Street banks predict, as global investors hedge their exposure to the US dollar, suggesting the euro could soon hit $1.20,...

Western hegemony - primarily the U.S., but also the EU - is being challenged and besieged by China, backed by the BRICS bloc and part of the Global South, which promote multipolarity as an alternative. Pressure also comes from states hit by the...

August 1

Furtuna geopolitică şi economică ce se conturează în jurul dolarului american ia proporţii neaşteptate după recentul summit al Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (n.red. - Organizaţia de Cooperare de la Shanghai - SCO), care a avut loc săptămâna...

The geopolitical and economic storm that is shaping up around the US dollar is taking on unexpected proportions after the recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (ed. - Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - SCO), which took place...

Chinese investors are driving the country's stock markets to grow strongly in 2025, even as international investors have been discouraged by years of underperformance and persistent deflationary pressures, according to an analysis published...

When it comes to US national security, you'd expect every Pentagon dollar to be directed toward defense, technology, and direct support for soldiers. The reality revealed by a report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), a...

US authorities imposed corporate fines worth more than $ 250 billion between 2020 and 2024, an amount greater than the current GDP of New Zealand, shows an analysis by visualcapitalist.com, which made a ranking of the top 30 companies affected by...

Walmart Inc. din SUA îşi consolidează poziţia de lider global pe piaţa de retail prin creşterea vânzărilor şi extinderea accelerată a comerţului electronic. Compania a ridicat estimările financiare pentru 2025, demonstrând rezilienţa sa în faţa...