---
title: "Plaza is the New Home For Financial Publishers"
url: "https://www.readplaza.com/articles/plaza-is-the-new-home-for-financial-publishers"
type: "article"
publisher: "Fiat's Funeral"
category: "Market Commentary"
published: "2026-06-03T12:50:00+00:00"
updated: "2026-06-23T05:07:53.386211+00:00"
reading_time_minutes: 3
tags: ["Gold", "Silver"]
---

# Plaza is the New Home For Financial Publishers
_... and why I am making the switch_

Fiat's Funeral Has a New Home

If you've been reading along, you already know the drill. Gold, silver, fiat slowly falling apart, the occasional junior that actually has rock in the ground instead of just a good logo.

Thanks for sticking around. Today I'm moving to Plaza. Same brain, same obsession, new setup.

Why move?

The newsletter worked fine for long essays. But markets don't move on a weekly email schedule.

Gold is sitting at $4,451 this morning, silver at $74, both sliding as oil pushes higher and the US-Iran situation stays messy. When that's happening in real time, I want to say something that isn't a 2,000-word essay.

Plaza lets me do that. Watchlists, quick notes, deep dives, all in one place. So here we are.

What isn't changing: I won't spam you. If I'm writing, it's worth your time. Still metals, real assets, and how to think straight when the noise gets loud.

The world we're actually investing in

Gold peaked near $5,000 in January, silver broke above $100 for the first time ever and ran to $116, and both have sold off hard since.

The crowd that called it a bubble at $3,000 is feeling vindicated right now. They're wrong, but that's how this always goes.

Gold is still up 32% year over year even after the pullback. Silver is up 116% over the same period. The people who bought the thesis and held are still sitting on life-changing returns. The people watching the day-to-day are exhausted and confused. That gap is the whole game.

The macro backdrop hasn't changed. Governments spending money they don't have. The Fed now has markets pricing in a rate hike before year-end because inflation is running hot, driven largely by the Middle East conflict. Central banks bought 863 tonnes of gold in 2025 and aren't slowing down. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. An AI buildout that needs copper and power at a scale that doesn't exist yet.

None of that is noise. All of it points the same direction.

How I think this plays out

The waking up phase is behind us. Central banks already moved. The first wave of smart money already moved.

We're deep in the denial and volatility phase now, which means analysts calling the Fed "trapped" with no good options, hot CPI prints, and comparisons to the stagflation of the 70s and 80s. That era was one of the best periods for gold on record.

The pattern isn't new. What's new is that most people watching these markets today weren't alive for it.

Eventually comes acceptance. Institutions admit this is structural. Real money rotates into hard assets. Valuations go stupid. Retail arrives late.

We're not there yet. My job is to stay positioned and stay sane until we are.

What I'll be writing here

Fiat's Funeral essays when I need to zoom out.

The Uppy Playbook for the practical stuff, how I size, how I think about corrections, what separates a junior worth owning from one worth avoiding.

Watchlists and idea flow when names deserve attention.

Quick in the trenches posts when markets get chaotic and you need to know what I'm actually doing, not just thinking.

What I'm not going to do

No crystal ball. No "next 10x" parade. No pretending drawdowns don't hurt.

I'll be wrong sometimes and I'll say so.

If you've looked at a Moody's US downgrade, a closed strait, a Fed that can't cut, and thought "this can't be how it ends," we're aligned.

Plaza is the new home base for that conversation. Fiat fails slowly, then all at once. Gold survives every cycle. Silver moves faster than you want when you're trying to buy it.

Thanks for coming with me.

Mr. Uppy