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The proposal now being put to the Greek government and parliament is a lot worse than the one which was voted down by the Greek people last Sunday. This is really the bankrupt leading the bankrupt to perdition.

Dan Popescu's exclusive interview with Gerald Celente (Trends Journal - Trendsresearch.com) on gold and geopolitics :     - Greece, Puerto Rico defaults, geopolitics and their relation to gold - Gold price manipulation; China, US and EU - Does China control the price of gold? -...

Since 2002 the trend has been to store Registered gold at COMEX - with over 8.5 million ounces have been stockpiled there.

Here's a good example of why gold is not trading freely in today's markets.

  Gold started a short-term down trend within a longer down trend on June 22 and as of July 3, it is testing it to the upside but has not broken it yet, closing the week at $1,168.40. The longer down trend started around May 20 remains intact.     Silver is also in a downtr...

Greece moved to check the growing strains on its crippled financial system on Sunday, closing its banks and imposing capital controls that brought the prospect of being forced out of the euro into plain sight.   After bailout talks between the leftwing government and foreign lenders...

The situation on the paper gold market shows that speculators are massively short on gold currently (even more so since they’re anticipating a friendly settlement for Greece). On the other hand, the commercials have taken the opposite side of the trade. Generally, this is a typical signal of a p...

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...

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...

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.

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.