How We Traced U.S. Government Gold to a Drug Cartel
Almost three years ago, I became obsessed with gold. I’d been watching the price shoot up for two decades. By December of 2023, gold was an eye-watering $2,000 an ounce, inflated by the anxiety of wealthy investors and governments. They worried about terrorist attacks and wars and financial instability and, lately, disease. Gold, they reasoned,…
