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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.

Two JP Morgan whistleblowers have confessed that the bank manipulates the gold and silver markets. This is a truly catastrophic event for JP Morgan, which up to now has denied manipulating these markets.

Grant Williams, one of the most highly respected fund managers in Singapore, said that custodians of the ETF GLD have refused to give people physical gold in exchange for the shares.

If you look at documents from the Fed they state very clearly that it is necessary to manage the price of gold in order to maintain control of the global currency system.

The general feeling, or « sentiment », is leaning toward a tapering of money printing by the large Western central banks, due in part to the official statements of the Fed indicating it might taper its quantitative easing (QE). For now, it’s just an hypothesis invoked by its Chairman, Ben Bernanke,...

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 optimist...

JPMorgan quietly went long commodities and the firm also closed it sell in precious metals. This is not surprising: we had noted the ongoing purchasing of gold by JPM over the past two month

This drop in the price of gold in the first quarter of this year, though significant, will no doubt seem very soon like a glitch, a short pause. The price of gold really started to go up in 2002 when the Fed implemented its laxist policies and now the central banks are stuck with their printing pres...

After breaking $1416, the new gold bull market is underway. So as an obituary for the recently interred bear, here is a look at how it stacked up against others of the recent past.

Goldman Sachs is above the law. On August 20th, this prestigious business bank is stung with a giant computer bug : their program sends out false orders in great quantities on the american options market and on certain quoted index funds. Which de-stabilizes these markets, and just goes to show how...

The manipulation of the price of gold now favors the bullish side of the gold price structure. This gold bull price phase is the one long predicted here that will return the most money to the fewest in the shortest period of time

Mish, you write a lot of commentaries about the European economic crisis, going from bad to worse. For instance Portuguese Bond Yield Spiked to 8%, How do you see the European situation evolve in the coming months Do you expect more bail-ins in the Eurozone?

According to Morgan Stanley, in the week starting August 14, $760 million have been withdrawn from emerging countries funds, $590 million of which in Asia, for both stock shares and debt obligations. And this is the third consecutive week of withdrawals

There is an idea, the 'Great Rotation', that we hear a lot about since the beginning of the year, a great underlying movement that should be happening in the markets: investors moving from bonds to stocks.

Since last Friday the registered gold in the COMEX warehouse has declined by almost 60,000 ounces to a new recent low of 875,710 ounces.

There is no recovery. But, since the mainstream media and the governments keep repeating it over and over again and since we prefer believing good news than bad news, a majority of people believe in this so-called recovery. This is why the stock market is up and gold is down.

Based on recent figures from the Bank of England, it appears as though the Bank of England has directed the leasing of about 1,300 tonnes of central bank gold from their vaults in a four month period from March through June

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...

« Forward Guidance » is the new « in » phrase with central banks. It is supposed to reassure the market a few years in advance so that it can « anticipate » properly.

The Bank of England refuses to explain what appears to be a huge discrepancy in its accounting of the gold it holds in custody, a difference of as much as 1,200 tonnes