As indicated in my article of September 25, during a bull market, there are systematic corrections of the order of -20% on gold and -30% on silver. Since peaking at just over $2000 per ounce at the end of July, gold has corrected by -14%.

If the IMF does not speak (for the moment) directly about using physical gold in this new system, the institution has however just announced that a new "Bretton Woods" was necessary to manage the post-crisis period and to restructure the debt of the G20 countries.

With gold and silver prices correcting, as they have been doing for several weeks, I like to reread this article by American analyst, Lyn Alden, which explains the four fundamental reasons to continue to own gold in 2020.

In a bull market, there are systematically corrections of around -20% on gold and -30% on silver. The last correction is healthy and offers a new investment opportunity before the next upward phase.

My selection of tweets of the week: paper gold derivatives, stock market, gold as insurance...

Devaluation of major fiat currencies versus gold since 1900. The dollar devalued by 98.4% to gold.

Gold revaluation will be the ultimate margin call (on real money) since you will be asked to put much more paper money to own/keep real money : gold in it's physical form.

What's the point of holding dollars (paper) if you can't buy physical gold ? It's a bit dangerous to think that one will be able to time exactly when to make the move from dollars to physical gold.

Are we witnessing the end of "paper" gold with the blatant disconnect in between futures (paper) and physical market ?

Fabrice Drouin Ristori's exclusive interview with Charles Gave, economist and president of the liberal think tank Institut des Libertes, on gold, European banks and the risks that may have an impact on savers and investors.

Physical gold is about to mark its return at the center of the settlement system for oil transactions – a first step toward a reintroduction at the center of the international monetary system.

The “liberation” of the precious metals spot prices is taking hold day after day

On January 5th I sent an email to the head of market operations at the Banque de France, Mr Gautier. You can read the questions I asked him about the activity of the French Central Bank in the gold market here. On January 12th I received the following answer from Mr Gautier :  ...

Letter to the attention of Mr. Alexandre Gautier, director of market operations at Banque de France, about the french gold reserves

Gold is the most maligned asset, if you listen to the Fed, the ECB, and other central banks. Fabrice Drouin Ristori explains why the heck central banks react toward gold in that bizarre manner.

Is Mario Draghi on the verge of announcing a sovereign QE program? After joining together three recent events, this is the question I’ve been asking myself.

Interview of Fabrice Drouin Ristori (CEO GoldBroker) on paper gold, stock markets and US Dollar

Help your enemies underestimate your capabilities”. This military strategy is perfectly applicable today to the gold market. The Western press and pundits for the current financial status quo are doing all they can to divert investors from physical gold

There are many events to be analysed for these last few weeks. As happens every year, this time of year is, once again, quite fertile. These events, whether geopolitical, economic, financial or historical, all exert influence, more or less on the long term, on the precious metals markets.

The size of the physical silver market is of $20 billion, whereas Bloomberg is mentioning $5 trillion.