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A reassessment of economic prospects should be supportive of precious-metals prices in this year’s second half

There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the fundamentals for world gold supply and demand have changed dramatically over the past ten years at least.

The only protection as I see it that investors have to offset the long-term effects of these policies is to own precious metals and to own the physical precious metals because paper gold can’t be trusted.

Along with its public deficits going the wrong way, as we wrote about last week, France has now to contend with its banking sector. According to Euromoney, a study from the Lausanne Center for Risk Management shows that french banks represent the most important systemic risk of Europe!

Physical demand for gold & silver coins remains strong. For the 3 months thru June, gold coin sales are 120k oz’s (46%) higher than for the 3 months leading up to the $1900 gold peak in 2011

France is losing its footing. It just fell to the other side of the Laffer Curve : tax increases not only did not produce any revenue, but we’re witnessing a decline in fiscal revenue.

Paper money hides the truth, and the truth is that most of the increase we have seen in paper wealth is illusory both for individuals and for the world. But it suits the governments to fool their people. This gives them the best chance of being reelected and they also engage in theft through inf...

The european economy’s landscape looks sad... The Eurozone saw its GDP lose 0.2% in the first quarter, and the OECD revised to the downside its forecast for 2013 and sees a 0.6% recession ahead

Physical trading is at the same level where it was when gold was at its peak at $1,900. That’s extraordinary. The level of physical gold trading is incredible.

Nikkei’s 7% plunge, last Thursday, and the way it happened, gives us a glimpse into how the next crisis will play.

When using shadowstats inflation statistics we'll see that the 1980 peak of $850 equals $9000+ today. The gold bull market still has a long way to go

In his 7 years as Chairman of the Fed Ben Bernanke has printed more money than during the whole history of the USA

China knows it has created a credit bubble. But its effects are subsiding and, contrary to the Western governments who keep printing and printing, China has put in place an emergency strategy that is the exact opposite of the actual bubble-creating policies.

How long can the manipulation of the precious metal markets last ? Chris Powell (GATA) speaks about the rather obvious price manipulation occurring in the gold and silver markets

You know that gold bear market that the financial press keeps touting? The one George Soros keeps proclaiming? Well, it is not there. The gold bear market is disinformation that is helping elites acquire the gold.

The tactic by the Fed and Central Banks is to inflate the stock markets while manipulating the price of gold and silver lower.