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The Gold That Doesn’t Exist

Gold ETFs, Futures, Options, CFDs, Mining Stocks and Tokenized Gold Explained

Why can gold rise while gold-mining stocks fall? Are gold futures really a bet on tomorrow’s price? What exactly do you own when you buy a gold ETF — or tokenized gold?

And the uncomfortable one: what if everyone asked for their gold tomorrow?

INVESTING · 7 min read

LAW · 7 min read

Who Owns the Gold Under Your Feet?

You own the house. You own the garden. But do you own the gold underneath it?

There is an old legal maxim associated with English property law: The person who owns the soil owns, in the traditional formulation, upwards to heaven and downwards to hell. Is this always the case though?

What If Poland's Gold Train Was Never Lost?

Gold, secret tunnels and the mystery beneath

1945: A train disappears. Around the place where almost anything seems possible. The castle, secret tunnels of Riese, mines, post-wartime chaos.

Where was it actually going?

What if it arrived...

TREASURE · 5 min read

HISTORY · 8 min read

When Winning the War Meant Taking the Gold

For most of history, conquering a country also meant taking its treasure.

Gold moved from Jerusalem to Rome, from Rome to Carthage, from Delhi to Persia; until, eventually, countries learned to move their reserves before the conquerors arrived. In 1939, Poland literally fled with its gold.

Richer Than Elon Musk?

Gaius Caecilius? His fortune included 4,116 enslaved people, 7,200 oxen, 257,000 other animals — and 60 million sesterces in cash.
Caesar? He brought so much gold back from conquered Gaul that he reportedly drove down the price of gold across the Roman world.
Crassus? ... After his death, legend says the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth.

HISTORY · 7 min read

SCIENCE - HISTORY · 8 min read

Alchemy Was Right. Eventually.

For 2,000 years, alchemists tried to turn ordinary metals into gold. And eventually, physics proved they were right.

The only problem? We finally learned how to manufacture gold, only to discover that mining it is considerably easier.

The Country That Can't Stop Buying Gold

Gold became so important to India that it accounted for 8% of the country’s merchandise imports.

In 2026, the government more than doubled the gold import duty, from 6% to 15%, while Prime Minister Modi personally asked Indians to refrain from buying gold for a year. What happens when millions of sensible household decisions become a national economic problem?

ECONOMY · 7 min read

CULTURE · 8 min read

Has Cinema Been Fair to Gold?

What 100 Movies Tell Us About Gold, Greed and Human Nature

People stare at it. Steal it. Hide it. Cross deserts for it. Dig mountains apart looking for it. Betray their friends over it. Kill for it. Occasionally, particularly in fantasy, they even pour it over one another.

When Gold Is the Only Job in Town

In the mountains of Afghanistan, gold is creating something desperately scarce: work.

Perhaps the true measure of a gold rush is not how much gold comes out of the ground, but what remains when the gold is gone.

MINING · 5 min read

HISTORY · 9 min read

The Barbarians Who Brought Gold to Poland

Scythian warriors drank from human skulls and decorated their weapons with gold. 2,500 years they ago left an extraordinary treasure in a field in what is now Poland.

TRADING · 6 min read

When Your Clients Lose, Do You Win?

What spreads, withdrawal disputes and losing traders can tell us about the business behind the dealers in derivatives.

Is internalisation really the evidence of wrongdoing, and is external hedging a proof of good behaviour?

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