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China raised its gold reserves for a ninth straight month in July. Bullion held by the People’s Bank of China rose by 740,000 troy ounces, the central bank said on Monday.

The financial system should have been allowed to collapse 15 years ago when the problem was 1/3 of today. But governments and central bankers prefer to postpone the inevitable and thus passing the batten to their successors thereby exacerbating the problem.

The global economy is currently going through a long period of transition. This situation could prove favourable for gold, but unfavourable for equities, which are also suffering from high valuations and have never been so unattractive compared to US government bonds.

Bitcoin is often presented as "digital gold", but the question immediately arises: competition or complementarity? Gold benefits from a centuries-old history and unrivalled trust, while crypto-currencies bring the innovation of blockchain, and it is here that synergies can occur.

In the United States, public finances continue to deteriorate. Faced with a weak currency, Japan's central bank is forced to let rates rise. The price of gold in yen broke an all-time record, amid complete media indifference.

Since the resolution of the recent debt ceiling "crisis", the US national debt has soared by $1.8 trillion. A situation that raises concerns about its long-term sustainability.

The price of gold has rallied in recent days. Not only is the battle against inflation far from won, but the risk of a monetary policy error is also increasing.

A quarterly line chart often helps eliminate short-term trading noise and makes it easier to see major trends, consolidations and turning points. If you follow these charts closely, you can use them as an early warning system to spot significant breakouts before they show up on weekly or monthly...

One major phenomenon is often overlooked: the role of debt in the birth of the Revolution of 1789 and the bloody decade that followed. This period marked the end of a long economic cycle. Today's world has many similarities with the French situation at the end of the 18th century.

Since the introduction of measures enabling banks not to bear bond losses on their balance sheets, the markets have not recorded the slightest correction. We have just witnessed six months of spectacular gains. It's as if the Fed had assured the markets that it would not hesitate to intervene at...

When we compare the performance of different investments (gold, real estate, stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.), we often forget an essential element: are we talking about a homogeneous asset or a category? It's not the same thing: "You can't compare apples and oranges", as the saying goes.

Will the world experience a catastrophic debt implosion? Just like the Titan Submersible that recently imploded, the global debt bubble can implode “within just a fraction of a millisecond”.

Not only does the US government have to cope with higher loan repayments due to rising rates, but it also has to support an economy that has been amputated by a growing number of consumers who no longer have access to credit due to prohibitive rates.

This article focuses on a complex property of the gold market: timing. The price of gold can sometimes stagnate for more than a decade, while at other times it can rise dramatically. Even so, gold remains an asset that is more difficult to determine by precise financial cycles.

The charts show the Gold's performance relative to US Government Debt and the ratio of Gold price to the US Money Supply.

On Friday, the Russian state-controlled channel RT confirmed that Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, also known as the BRICS countries, will introduce a new trading currency backed by gold.

The US economy continues to send very mixed signals. The number of bankruptcies in the US has risen sharply in recent weeks. Gold prices should have fallen further with weakening Chinese demand and the dollar's Olympic form.

The time has now come for the 99.5% of financial assets which are not invested in gold, silver or precious metals mining stocks to grab both the investment and wealth preservation opportunity of a life time.

According to Zoltan Pozsar, we are facing a multipolar world in which the dollar's status as reserve currency will be challenged by the renminbi and the euro. Gold is likely to play a major role in the new world monetary order.

Contrary to what many economists believed, the eurozone has finally entered into a recession. Rising interest rates and inflation are weighing on households. Consumption is falling. Demand for new loans is contracting sharply, particularly in France. The economic cycle is coming to an end. Like d...