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These last few days, the media would have us believe that Greece is doing better, that the country is on its way back up, and two irrefutable proofs are brought in for that demonstration : Greece is now experiencing a primary budgetary surplus, and it has regained access to financial markets. Let...

When one thinks of Switzerland, banking comes to mind easily but gold doesn’t as much. After all, the relationship between Switzerland and gold is more ancient than the one with paper bank deposits.

By constantly playing with words and abusing its people, the french government may face some violent consequences. The fall may be more brutal. France is the pivot country between Europe’s south and north, and a crisis surrounding the trust on its debt would spread to all of the Eurozone...

From now on, two more currencies will be accepted by Goldbroker.com for investment transactions : the Pound Sterling (GBP) and the Swiss Franc (CHF).

The best way to avoid this manipulation is to compare real things without using the official virtual currency (dollar, euro, etc.). Gold has always been the medium of exchange that is least likely to create inflation.

Charts by Nick Laird. Silver Open Interest Ballooning Out, Net Positions, Producer Merchant Processor User Positions

IMF says the number of non-performing loans on the european banks’ balance sheets has doubled since 2009, going from 400 to 800 billion euros.

Fabrice Drouin Ristori interviews silver market expert David Morgan about the silver price manipulation, the coming big reset of the international monetary system and the financial markets

We are aware of the problems of « Too Big to Fail » banks : They are so big that, if they were to fail, it would cause such economic havoc that they can rest assured to be bailed out by the State. And they’re taking advantage of this situation by taking on even more risk!

Charts by Nick Laird. Chinese Gold Imports From Hong Kong

I am going to try to explain the backwardation, a very technical aspect of the gold and silver market, albeit a very important one, if one wants to understand their price evolution.

The gold price is driven down in the paper futures market by naked short selling by the Fed’s dependent bullion banks.

Why is deflation depicted as an absolute horror? Journalists, economists, politicians and central bank chairmen are all warning us against a general and durable price deflation, equating it to the Apocalypse, as they explain it. This unanimity is very troubling, so let’s stay on the alert.

There is no doubt that our actual international monetary standard based on the US dollar, in place since the breaking of the Bretton Woods accords in 1971, is living its last days. What will replace it?

Max Keiser interviews Egon von Greyerz about Fed policy, dollar devaluation, gold price manipulation and wealth preservation.

US Mint coin sales. For the 2nd month in a row investors have purchased more $ value of silver than gold.