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The sudden burst of panic provoked last week by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) reveals that we have all become so addicted to the central banks’ doings that it is turning pathological.

I will try, in this short review, to analyze the gold and silver market in 2014. In my next article, I will look at what could happen in 2015 for gold and silver.

The German central bank or Bundesbank said on Monday that it stepped up the repatriation of its gold reserves from overseas storage last year.

Swiss National Bank discontinues minimum exchange rate and lowers interest rate to –0.75%

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 :   "Goo...

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

Greece is, once again, shaking the foundations of the Eurozone, and there is, again, talk of a “Grexit”. Stock markets are tumbling and fear the results of the January 25 anticipated elections.

Dan Popescu exclusive interview with Willem Middelkoop (founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund and author) about the war on gold and the financial endgame.

Gold is in the best of both worlds when rising along with the US Dollar. Gold in Australian Dollars, Euros, British Pounds, Canadian Dollars, Swiss Francs, Russian Rubles

If gold is a relic of the past then why are central banks holding so much gold? Central banks hold, if we believe official statistics, around 20% of the global gold stock.

US Mint Gold and Silver Coin Sales in December 2014

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.

Switzerland Gold Imports & Exports for November. Largest consumer is India

Moments ago, as if to deter further speculation that Russia is indeed converting hard money earned from real resources for fiat paper, the Russian monetary authority made it quite clear, that at least in November, Russia not only did not sell any gold, but in fact bought another 600K ounces in th...

Kudos to Shinzo Abe who just got brilliantly re-elected despite a largely negative balance sheet! His party took two-thirds of the seats of the House of Representatives, a clear victory. The moniker “Abenomics”, a contraction of his name and economics, is known all around the world. Wow, what a t...

I wanted to do a review of the Swiss gold referendum on Monday just after the referendum but I decided to wait a week and analyze its impact better. I think I was right.

And just like that, the list of countries who want to repatriate their gold just increased by one more, because after Venezuela, Germany, the Netherlands, sorry Switzerland, and rumors of Belgium, we now can add Austria to those nations for whom the "6000 year old barbarous relic bubble" is more...

This news should have made the front page but it was hardly mentioned at all: Italy’s public debt is just a notch away from the speculative category!

According to VTM Nieuws, Belgium is contemplating the repatriation of its gold reserves. It only has a limited amount of gold stored at the Belgium National Bank (BNB); the bulk of Belgium’s reserves is held at the Bank of England, a portion is held at the Bank of Canada, and another portion at t...