Contributors
Every story here is owned by a named person with a stated beat, stated sources and a record you can read end to end. No syndicated filler, no anonymous market commentary.
History desk · Vienna
Monetary historian, contributing editor
Marguerite Adler writes about what people actually settled their debts with, and under which rules. She spent eleven years working through mint accounts, treaty annexes and central bank minutes before she wrote a word for a general audience, and the habit stuck: every claim in her reporting is tied to a document a reader could, in principle, request themselves.
2 stories
Industry desk · Zurich
Industry correspondent
Tomas Herrera covers the part of the gold trade that almost nobody photographs: the refineries, assay labs and accredited melters that turn ambiguous material into a bar somebody will accept without arguing. He has walked the floor of refineries in Switzerland, the UAE and Singapore, and he asks the same three questions everywhere — where did the feedstock come from, who verified it, and what happens when the verification is wrong.
7 stories
Markets desk · Copenhagen
Markets editor
Ingrid Sørensen edits the markets desk, which at this magazine means she is responsible for the sentences that are easiest to get wrong. Gold price coverage is saturated with narrative — inflation hedge, fear gauge, dollar mirror — and her editing standard is simple: if a claim about why the price moved cannot be tested against reserve data, flow data or a dated official statement, it does not run.
5 stories
Craft desk · Istanbul
Craft correspondent
Yusuf Demir reports on the bench: the goldsmiths, casters and setters whose skills predate every institution that now prices their raw material. He grew up around the Grand Bazaar workshops and writes about technique with the specificity of somebody who has been shouted at for holding a torch wrong.
3 stories
Mining desk · Accra
Senior reporter
Amara Okonjo covers artisanal and small-scale mining, a sector that produces a meaningful share of global supply and almost none of the paperwork. She reports from pits and processing sites rather than from ministry press rooms, and she is careful to write about miners as workers making rational decisions under constraint rather than as a problem to be solved.
3 stories
