3/20/2026
Gold Just Had Its Worst Week Since 1980 — Here’s the Uncomfortable Reason Why
For decades, the playbook has been simple: when war breaks out, buy gold. But the ongoing U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran is rewriting that script in real time, and investors are scrambling to make sense of a metal that is behaving more like a speculative trade than the world’s oldest store of value.
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