Supply & Demand

The bottom line is gold’s sharp pullback in recent weeks was sparked by a series of gold-futures shorting attacks.

Jim Rickards investigates the future of the global monetary system and explores the potential impact of a sovereign debt and global monetary crisis that may emerge as a result of a U.S. dollar default, the future of the Chinese yuan, as well as the new case for gold.

How can ordinary people ever understand the importance of gold when they are continuously fed with false and distorted facts.

The “Japanisation” of banks is the new illness of contemporary finance. Stemming from Japan, it is expanding progressively, especially in Europe. How does this disorder translate?

The popularity of the GDXJ ETF product has been so overwhelming, VanEck reported they would be changing the index rules to accommodate the increased demand

Over the past few weeks several political and geopolitical factors goaded safe haven assets higher, providing a particularly positive environment for gold and helping to push it past this fairly important resistance.

Gold is being powered higher by excellent demand in India (the world’s biggest wedding season is in play), institutional investor concerns about the US debt ceiling (the next deadline is April 28), strong growth in China, and by the populism wave that is sweeping through most of the Western world.

Several “black swans” are looming which could inflict a financial nuclear accident on the U.S. markets and financial system.

Recent progress made in streamlining trade in local currencies has brought Moscow and Beijing closer to creating a financial architecture that could facilitate transactions in gold.

For the third consecutive time since the tightening cycle began in December 2015, gold rallied on the back of a Fed hike.