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08/06/2026

07/31/2026

Congratulations to Daniel Hollingsworth, you are the lucky winner of this month's free drawing conducted by Everlasting Estates One's. You have won a one gram .999 gold Pamp bar. Call us at 256-443-2439 to arrange picking up your gold bar. Thank you for being a follower of our Everlasting Estates One FB page.

07/30/2026

We will soon be having our July free drawing giveaway. Only our Everlasting Estates One followers are eligible to win. There have been many happy winners since we started this last year. As stated earlier when we reach the milestone of 250 followers, that month the winner will receive a gold prize. IT'S TIME!! THIS MONTH THE WINNER WILL RECEIVE A ONE GRAM GOLD BAR. Good luck, one of our followers is going to win. Remember to come visit us at 220 West Tennessee Street in Florence Alabama. Call us at 256-443-2439 for an appointment, bring any gold/silver coins, gold jewelry and sterling silver flatware and we can help you leave with cash in your pocket.

07/09/2026

The Bank of Russia's latest balance sheet drop highlights a massive monthly valuation shift, heavily driven by the sharp macro moves in gold prices rather than outright physical liquidations.
While headline reports point to a sliding total asset base, looking directly at the components reveals exactly where the variance lies.
# # # The Macro Breakdown (End of June)
* **Monetary Gold:** Fell **8.25%** in a single month to **$298.99 billion**, down from $325.87 billion in May. This single component accounted for nearly the entire drop in the overall balance sheet.
* **Foreign Exchange Reserves:** Remained virtually flat, coming in at **$392.4 billion** (or roughly $421.46 billion when counting total liquid FX assets, SDRs, and IMF positions), showing a negligible 0.02% shift from May.
* **Total Official Reserve Assets:** Slipped 3.61% during the month, closing at **$720.45 billion**, down from $747.40 billion.
# # # What's Driving the Revaluation?
The context behind this slide lies in global asset repricing. June saw a significant contraction in global spot gold prices—dropping roughly 12% from near the $4,500/oz mark down toward $4,000/oz.
This macro "gold crash" was fueled by two major catalysts:
1. **A Broadly Strengthening US Dollar**, which added immediate structural pressure across commodities.
2. **Geopolitical De-escalation**, specifically the opening of the Strait of Hormuz following a truce in Iran, which quickly unwound the premium previously priced into safe-haven assets and oil.
Because the Bank of Russia marks its massive monetary gold holdings to market every month, the paper value of their reserves took a direct hit from the global price correction, even as their foreign currency footprint held steady.

07/07/2026

The world’s biggest gold hoarder just cut its own citizens off from gold.

This week, China’s largest banks moved almost in lockstep. ICBC, the largest bank on the planet by assets, confirmed it will stop retail precious metals trading by July 24. Postal Savings Bank, Ping An, and Guangfa are shutting the same door.

Strange, until you look at what they’re actually banning.

Not real gold. Paper gold.

Real gold sits in your hand or your safe. Paper gold sits in a bank’s ledger. A number that says you own gold, with no metal ever changing hands.

That’s the piece being shut down.

The official reason is volatility. Gold spiked near $5,600 an ounce earlier this year, then crashed below $4,000, a near 30% drop in months. Margin requirements on some contracts have been pushed as high as 140%, meaning traders now post more collateral than the trade is worth. On paper, this is risk management.

But there’s a bigger number underneath it. Paper gold claims outstanding, by most estimates, run many multiples of the real gold that exists to back them.

Picture a jeweler who sells far more receipts than the gold sitting in his vault. Everyone feels secure holding a receipt, until enough people show up asking for the metal at once. Then the vault comes up short, and most receipts turn out to be worth nothing.

That’s the accusation that’s followed paper gold for years: it manufactures the illusion of abundant supply, and abundant supply keeps a price down. China is now the one acting on it, not just talking about it.

And it’s doing two things at once. Pulling its own citizens out of leveraged paper exposure, while as a state, quietly trading dollar reserves for gold bars year after year.

My read: China isn’t reacting to volatility. It’s positioning for the day the paper market gets tested, the day everyone demands real metal at the same time and the receipts stop paying out.

If that’s right, the price on your screen isn’t gold’s real price. It’s a suppressed one. And China is buying the real thing at exactly that discount, while the rest of the market watches the number fall and loses conviction.

Watching this closely. More as it develops.

07/06/2026

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07/01/2026

The number of followers on our FB page continues to grow. Remember the month we reach 300 followers we will have a drawing for gold, that’s right GOLD. It is now time to announce the winner of June's monthly free drawing. The winner is Greg Sharp. Greg will be receiving one 90% silver 1964 Kennedy half dollar. Greg please contact me so you can receive your prize. I want to wish all of our followers good luck for the upcoming July drawing. Someone will be the winner. It might be you. To be eligible you must be a follower. Join now it's free.

06/25/2026

Everlasting Estates One's free monthly drawing is coming up soon. All you have to do is be a follower of their FB page. Join today you could be the next winner of a 90% silver coin.