The New York Fed’s vault remains the largest sovereign gold repository in the world, but recent withdrawals suggest that geopolitical considerations are increasingly tilting the balance toward domestic storage, even among longstanding US allies.

Kazakhstan is grappling with the same fiscal and capital pressures as other recent ex-members of OPEC and OPEC+. Will Astana arrive at the same decision to leave the cartel?

Indium is the one critical mineral that remains restricted in the wake of the November 2025 US-China trade deal, throttling global supply of a key input in data centers. This article explores indium’s geopolitical importance and Washington’s slow but steady progress toward supply diversification.

The UAE’s exit from OPEC marks the third member in seven years to leave the cartel. Given looming peak oil demand and OPEC’s dwindling share of global production: it won’t be the last.

Gallium is a soft, silvery metal used in semiconductor production, and with China producing 99% of the world’s supply – it has become one of the most geopolitically contested commodities of the decade. This article examines gallium supply and demand dynamics, as well as recent progress toward self-sufficiency in Western supply chains.

Reforms advancing through the Diet signal that the political consensus treating centralized intelligence as incompatible with Japanese democracy has been retired, opening up new avenues for intelligence cooperation with the West.

President Trump’s ‘Project Vault’ echoes strategic concerns that gave rise to the National Defense Stockpile during the Cold War era, but this new US critical mineral stockpiling effort must navigate a profoundly different policy context and global market.

Examining the cycle of accumulation, complacency, and disposal that characterized US strategic mineral stockpiling through the 20th century.

Despite its role as an essential input in ammunition manufacturing, antimony has not been mined in the United States since the mid-1990s. It is among the critical minerals earmarked for domestic procurement and stockpiling by the US government – but it will take years to close the gap with external producers like China.

The RSF has leveraged a combination of territorial control and family-based corporate networks to create one of the richest statelets in existence, with geopolitical weight that extends far beyond Sudan’s borders.