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As central banks’ interventions continue to increase, the volatility in all markets is not going to go away! Under these conditions, how can we be surprised to see more and more investors seeking the stability of an investment in physical gold in order to regain some serenity in a financial world...

Gold is a historical bulwark against currency depreciation. Percentage of original value of the US Dollar, British pound and Japanese yen relative to gold in 1900.

Therefore today is not the time for greed, hoping that markets will grow to the sky. Instead, now is the time for wealth preservation and protecting what you have. Otherwise, wealth which has been acquired over several decades could easily evaporate in the next few years.

The rush into physical metal comes at a time when the global margin call is affecting funds that are liquidating their long positions in the futures market. Speculators are increasing their short positions in anticipation of a collapse in demand for metals due to the looming global recession.

As the constraints of rationing, loss of purchasing power and taxation of wealth loom large, this situation is reminiscent of the 1930s and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's confiscation of gold.

In this video, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, discuss a range of current yet undeniably important as well as converging themes. This, of course, includes the significance of the most recent “Lehman moment” at Credit Suisse in the backdrop of falling markets, imploding currencies, steady...

Instead of tackling the two problems of the 2008 crisis, debt and speculation, the zero interest rate policy has aggravated the problem by further inflating the debt bubble and increasing speculation. And since the bursting of the bubble concerns mainly public debt and not private debt, the crisi...

Gold-supplying banks have cut back shipments to India ahead of major festivals in favour of focusing on China, Turkey, and other markets.

The equity market is very bearish, the bond market is in a critical situation and the sovereign debt is no longer a safe haven. Let's not talk about the housing market, which is hurt by rising mortgage rates. Nor cash, which is being devoured by inflation. What is left ? Gold and silver, of course!

For more than a year now, the famous debate about the origins of inflation has resurfaced. Attached to their ideologies and interests, two groups are distinguishing themselves as they did in the past. On the one hand, the more "Keynesian" consider that it is exclusively linked to supply: a combin...

Silver as a distinct asset class should be considered as a strategic investment allocation within a global multi-asset portfolio, according to new research by Oxford Economics, a leading independent economic advisory firm. The firm finds that investors would benefit from an average 4-6 percent si...

Willem Middelkoop joins us to discuss the possibility of another 20-30% drop in the stock market. We also talk about the energy crisis happening in Euro and how this will affect its economy. Furthermore, we talk about physical silver, the US dollar stepping down as the World reserve currency, and...

The dollar's good shape is in stark contrast to other major currencies, but paper currencies are all plagued by the insidious evil of inflation. The dollar is doing well at the moment, but as the saying goes, "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king".

The exponential rise of the dollar combined with the collapse of the sovereign debt bond market has created an unprecedented risk for the entire financial system. It is in this context that the holding of physical gold outside the banking system, the ultimate insurance against these risks, finds...

Before the deflationary implosion, the world will experience the most epic money printing and debt creating bonanza in history. That will mark the last desperate attempt by central banks and governments to solve a debt problem with more worthless debt.

The Fed's first mistake was to miss the start of inflation. We may now be witnessing the second mistake: in trying to create a useful recession to fight inflation, the US central bank is ignoring the unprecedented and irreversible impoverishment that the sudden rise in rates threatens to create.