With virtually empty gold vaults, the central banks and bullion banks are now becoming desperate. The action we are seeing in the paper gold market with the recent $50 takedown is yet more proof of the corner that the gold manipulators have put themselves into by having virtually no physical gol...

Max Keiser interviews Egon von Greyerz about Fed policy, dollar devaluation, gold price manipulation and wealth preservation.

The Fed was created by private bankers for the benefit of private bankers and today, 100 years later, they have been more successful than they could ever have imagined in 1913.

Egon von Greyerz discusses the demise of the dollar and other currencies as well as the coming 90% fall of stock markets versus gold

Egon von Greyerz about the coming failure of the gold paper market, the importance of owning physical gold as insurance against a failure of the financial system and to protect against counterparty risk.

The Euro which is a rubbish currency is up 8% against the dollar since July and over 65% since 2000. So even against another weak currency, the dollar is losing ground rapidly. And in real terms which of course is gold, the dollar has lost 98% since the creation of the Fed in 1913.

How can the Fed taper when the real US economy is in a terrible state. Add to that the massive problems in the Eurozone. And Japan, the world’s third largest economy, is a guaranteed basket case.

On the heels of Eric King’s interview with Andrew Maguire about JP Morgan’s manipulation of the gold market, Egon von Greyerz gives readers a snapshot of what to expect in the aftermath of such an extraordinary development.

We are now back to the “green shoots” era of false hope and total misunderstanding of the real state of the world economy. There are minor tidbits of good news that combined with manipulated and seasonally adjusted economic figures are giving politicians worldwide reason for spreading their optim...

The bullion banks are still massively short of physical gold. All of these physical shortage problems are likely to put enormous upward pressure on gold in coming months. And remember that this factor is in addition to the destruction of paper money we will see which will also put upward pressure...

On Sunday it was incorrectly reported that the JP Morgan Gold vault on Broad Street had caught fire. Let me categorically state that even the world's best pyromaniac would most likely fail burning down a Gold vault. And let me explain why it is virtually impossible....

It is absolutely imperative for investors not to worry about the short term irrational moves of markets and not to listen to government figures or central bankers who make political statements that bear no resemblance to their actions

Investors should simply ignore the paper smash and continue to accumulate physical gold and silver because in the end the physical market will prevail.

Paper money hides the truth, and the truth is that most of the increase we have seen in paper wealth is illusory both for individuals and for the world. But it suits the governments to fool their people. This gives them the best chance of being reelected and they also engage in theft through inf...

Physical trading is at the same level where it was when gold was at its peak at $1,900. That’s extraordinary. The level of physical gold trading is incredible.

In his 7 years as Chairman of the Fed Ben Bernanke has printed more money than during the whole history of the USA

We are experiencing now is a real shortage in physical gold. You can just imagine what will happen when the next crisis starts in earnest

The paper market in gold is not a real market, and at some point in the near future paper gold holders will wake up and realize they are holding are worthless pieces of paper. This is when the world will witness one of the greatest short squeezes in history as investors panic in to physical and t...

There is no reason for investors in gold and silver to be nervous. The current price action is absolutely nothing to be concerned about. The fundamentals are there for continued and accelerated deficit spending and money printing

What is happening in Cyprus will not be the reason for a collapse but just the trigger for what has always been inevitable