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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...

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://investmentresearchdy...

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 stat...

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 confisc...

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 reve...

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

Philippe Herlin: Owning Physical Gold Is A Necessity, Exorbitant Privilege: "The Dollar Is Our Currency But Your Problem", Central Bank Precious Metals Supply Evaporates, Gold 'Claims per Ounce' Spikes Back up to 126:1, Gold in Fed-Rate-Hike Cycles, Why are Foreign Countries Repatriating Gold Fro...

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 Shanghai Crash Signals More Turmoil Ahead, Jim Sinclair: Silver Will Be Gold On Steroids In Coming Rally, JPM Customer Delivers 500 Gold Contracts of Bullion, When The Global Silver Shortage Arrives... It Will Be Too Late, 81 Gold Quotes Every Precious Metals Investor Should Know, China Confi...

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 glob...

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

Newscast E5, Gold: One World Two Markets, China's Gold Reserves Updated: Surprised?, China's Gold Reserves Rose by 19 tonnes in July in 2nd Monthly Update, The Great Financial Catastrophe, Stunning One-Day Decline In Shanghai Futures Exchange Silver Inventories, A New Multi-Year High in Buying by...