Publications

We’ve already talked about what happened in Cyprus last April : the confiscation of bank accounts over 100,000 euros to shore up local failing banks. We also explained that it was but a rehearsal for future settlement of banking crises : directly looting depositors’ accounts. And, case in point, the...

The French central bank trades gold for its own account "nearly on a daily basis" and is "active in the gold market for central banks and official institutions," a bank official told a conference of the London Bullion Market Association in Rome on September 30.

The Volcker Rule, forbidding the largest U.S. banks from trading with their proprietary accounts, has just been approved and will take effect on April 1st, 2014. What impact will it have on the gold and silver markets?

Gold Goes from West to East through Switzerland, China Prepares For Financial Warfare, A Gold Backed Renminbi (Yuan) Looms On The Horizon, 2nd Largest Month Ever For Chinese HK Gold Imports, The Eastern Lust for Gold, What’s Happening to All the Gold?, Volcker Rule Impacts: Gold, Silver & Precious M...

Amidst these geopolitical and monetary secular changes happening, gold will shine again in its historical role of debt extender and stable monetary haven. However this secular monetary crisis unfolds, gold will obviously be priced much higher than today in relation to fiat currencies.

All the hooplah around bitcoin, the banking lobby maneuvers (central banks and large banks), are quite reminiscent of what is happening around gold.

The volume of Swiss gold exports to Hong Kong was multiplied five-fold this year

Financial journalist Lars Schall talked with German academic Tom Fischer, a financial mathematician, about the phenomenon why gold’s usual state of contango suggests central bank interference. Moreover, they took a look at the issue of the paper vs the physical gold market, and discussed other issue...

Tom Fischer about Paper vs Physical Gold Market & The Gold-Silver Ratio, Germany's Regulators Investigate Manipulation in the Gold Market, The Complete And Unabridged History Of Gold Manipulation, Twisted (By The Pool), The Frightening Black Swan That Will Shock The World, Jim Rogers: Eventually the...

We are pleased to announce that Dan Popescu has joined Goldbroker.com’s editorial team. Mr. Dan Popescu is an independent investment analyst and studies the gold and silver market and their future role in the international monetary system.

According to the Bank of Italy, of the 255 billion euros borrowed from the ECB through the LTRO, italian banks only reimbursed 15%, or 38 billion euros. So, there still remains 217 billion euros to be paid in 2014... and for Spain, the amounts are just about the same.

In this excellent interview Dimitri Speck explains in detail why central banks and bullion banks coordinated their efforts to suppress the gold price. He also explains the entire and very important post WWII role of gold and rigging of the silver market.

Are gold benchmarks being manipulated? The price-setting processes for gold and silver in the spot market are the latest to come under review from global regulators, with authorities in Europe investigating the mechanisms for both precious metals.

Gold Market Manipulation During the London AM Fix, Are Gold Benchmarks Being Manipulated? UK and German Regulators Scrutinize Gold and Silver Price-Fixing, The Coordinated Effort to Suppress the Gold Price and the Rising Role of Gold in the Monetary System, When Money is Corrupted, Says Bernanke : Q...

Don’t laugh, but Ben Bernanke refutes the fact that easy monetary policy from the Fed has favored Wall Street... he even goes as far as saying it has helped the middle class! Quote : « Even though this may come as a shock, I don’t agree. Our monetary policy has helped american households to improve...