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Charts by Nick Laird. Chinese Gold Imports From Hong Kong

Gold Backwardation, The Gold Price is Driven Down by the Fed's Dependent Bullion Banks, Gold and the SDR, Max Keiser Interviews Egon von Greyerz, Gold and Commodities Supercycle, Why Are We Being Told that Deflation Is the Absolute Evil?

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.

The breakout observed on the CCI commodities index should correspond to another leg in the bear market for the dollar and to another leg in the bull market for commodities that started in 2001 and that can be qualified as a « supercycle ».

On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management, Zurich, Lars Schall talked with the young Dutchman Koos Jansen about Chinese gold policy. Koos Jansen, born 1981, worked as a sound engineer in Amsterdam, before he became disabled in 2013. During that year, he started his financial blog "In Gold We Trust...

Interview with Jean-Pierre Chevallier on the banks' situation in France, Testing the 200-day Moving Average for Gold, The Stock Market Priced in Ounces of Gold, Facing an Enormous Public Debt, Japanese Starting to Change Attitude Toward Gold, Keiser Report: Egon von Greyerz about wealth preservat...

Up until now, Japan was the exception among Asian countries that are hungry for gold (China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia), and even seemed odd, because Japanese people would get rid of their gold, to the point that Japan was showing a negative balance. These days seem like they are over and tha...

I think we are getting to a very important test for gold, around $1,300, without a doubt the most important test of the year.

Risk is high, in any case, for any deposit above 100,000 euros. Let’s not forget that, in French law, banks wield much power. In particular, titles owned by their client are not entirely theirs : banks consider themselves to be the real owners of said titles. In case of forced selling, the bank c...

Gold vs Oil, The Stock Market Priced in Ounces of Gold, Top 20 Holders of Gold, FOREX and LIBOR Manipulations, The Run On U.S. Gold Continues, China's Gold Policy Is One of the World's Most Important Developments

The Foreign Exchange (FOREX) manipulation scandal is growing in scope. In 2013 many large banks (Barclays, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC) set aside 16.4 billion euros to cover « legal expenses », e.g. the probable amount of fines they will have to pay after their t...