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An article in the Swiss newspaper Bilan published last week states that the weight of gold in the global economy amounts to $172 billion. This is a relatively modest number, slightly lower than Apple’s annual turnaround, for example. Is that all that gold weighs?

Imports = 119 tonnes  Exports = 108 tonnes      

Summary On June 1, 2015, JPMorgan added almost exactly enough ounces of physical gold to patch the deficiency between supply and delivery demand at COMEX, avoiding widespread dealer default. Declassified documents, along with strong circumstantial evidence indicate that it was not JPMorgan, b...

GoldBroker TV Launch, Gold & Silver Newscast - Episode 1, ‘’Goldbug’’ Analysts Capitulation, Bank of China Joins Auction Setting Gold Prices in London, There’s a Pile of Gold in Manhattan. Texas Wants It Back, Russia Adds 100,000 Ounces of Gold To Its Reserves in May, Go Out And Buy as Much Physi...

Bank of China Ltd. will become the first Chinese bank to join the auction process that sets gold prices in the London market.

  Transcript: 1) Gold broke last week a downtrend started in mid-May while silver remains within the downtrend with no indication as of now it intends to follow gold and break out to the upside. Gold stopped short of $1,195 resistance level and silver dropped from $16.2 and is approachin...

Harry Dent (the one predicting gold at $700) is now being joined by many long-time bugs who are seeing gold plummet toward $1,000-$900... before it takes off to $5,000! I call this the final capitulation of the analysts. They are throwing the towel on this frustrating sector and their short- and...

Silver: Commodity or Money?, DOJ Probes Banks for Silver, Gold Price Manipulation, First Majestic Silver CEO Dings CFTC On Silver Market Manipulation, Did COMEX Just Receive A Physical Gold Bailout From The Feds?, EU Regulators Order 11 Countries To Adopt Bail-In Rules, MUST SEE CHART: Major Bank...

New charts added in covering the new CME Futures Contract for Hong Kong Kilobars.

The bail-ins are coming. Reuters reported today that European Commission today gave France, Italy and nine other EU countries two months to adopt bank bail-in regulations or face legal action.

Silver: Commodity or Money?, First Majestic Silver CEO complains to CFTC About Market Manipulation, You Cannot Stop Coming Financial Bust, China's Gold Imports On Track For A New Record, Who's Next? China Finally Starts Snapping Up Gold Miners, China's 10,000 Tons of Gold Will Destroy the Dollar,...

So many articles and books have been written about gold as money, but so few about silver. However, a lot more silver has been used as money than gold, mostly because of its lower value and therefore being easier to transact for day-to-day needs.

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Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrial nations agreed on Friday that including China's renminbi in the International Monetary Fund's currency basket is desirable, but a technical review must be completed first.

According to central bank data, Russia's gold reserves rose to 40.1 million troy ounces as of May 1 compared with 39.8 million ounces a month earlier.

Russia and China are setting the stage for a gold-backed currency, in preparation for the day the Dollar reserve hegemony finally ends.