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  In this article I want to approach the idea of a gold standard from a more “regular people” perspective rather than from a “high academic” economic/finance and, sometimes, legalistic perspective. I constantly read books and articles full of mathematics written by the economic academia,...

From now on, when a European bank goes bankrupt, the shareholders shall be the first to foot the bill (makes sense), then the holders of bonds issued by the bank (also makes sense) will be next in line, and if this isn’t enough, the bank will be allowed to use the money in their clients’ accounts di...

Today’s decision by the Fed to leave interest rates unchanged comes as no surprise. It did send gold and silver rallying along with stocks and bonds, while the dollar fell about 1 percent.

Is there a worsening shortage of monetary metal in the financial markets? The argument is heating up in the Internet section of the metals netherworld. Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics elaborates today in commentary headlined "The Comex Is One Big Lie": http://investmentresearc...

Dan Popescu's exclusive interview with John Butler on the gold standard, a gold-backed ruble, and the chinese gold reserves

Very few people in the world understand that the last hundred years have been totally exceptional in world history. Most people never study history and therefore they believe that whatever happened in their and their parents’ lifetime is normal. An abnormal century But let me categorically sta...

On April 5, 1933, FDR signed Executive order 6102 which made illegal "the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States" in the process criminalizing the possession of monetary gold by any individual or corporation. This was de facto gold confisca...

Update: Earlier today, we said that we would "keep a close eye on today's Comex update to see if JPM reverses this "adjustment" and adds at least a few more tons of deliverable gold to its vault." Moments ago we got the daily update form the Comex and not only did JPM not reverse...

Comex Gold registered stocks fall to new lows causing the Owners Per Ounce metric to rise to new extreme highs.

Dan Popescu's interview with Philippe Herlin on the necessity of owning physical in the actual context.

In the conflictual environment we are now in, it looks more and more to me that gold will impose itself as the de facto money .

The veil is being ripped... the Shanghai stock market crash reveals what the global financial markets would not dare admit: Chinese growth has vanished. Everyone was trying to believe that the official rate of 7% was real, that we could pin our hopes on it, that it would be the engine of the global...

Carli Blankenship summarizes some of the most significant news that happened in the gold and silver market during the last two weeks.

It is my contention that the Dow/Gold Ratio has just topped out in its uptrend & is soon to head down to new lows (perhaps down to 2:1 or 1:1)

Most people are blissfully ignorant of the fact that 2007-8 was just a mild rehearsal of what we soon are going to experience. The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-9 will now transcend into the Great Financial Catastrophe

China's gold reserves rose by nearly 19 tonnes in July from June, the central bank said on Friday, disclosing its holdings for the second time in two months in a move seen as a Beijing bid to increase transparency.

The world is now at tipping point and this coming autumn we are likely to see the beginning of what I in an 2009 article described as “The Dark Years Are Here”. We are not just going to experience another correction, giving investors yet a chance to buy the dips in a never ending bullma...

On July 17, 2015, China updated its official gold reserves as being 1,658.1 tonnes. Surprised?

On July 29, New York gold price closed at $1,097.20 up $1.60. The dollar was a cent stronger at $1.0963, with the Dollar Index stronger at 97.31 up from 96.64. This morning, July 30, the London LBMA gold price was set at $1,085.65, down $1.10. The euro equivalent was €989.43, down €1.80 on yeste...

There is not much risk in betting that this number is cooked, largely under-estimated, and that the financial media will be out of superlatives when the next official announcement is closer to reality.