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So the reason for me to buy gold but also silver in 2016 remains the same as last year and that is as money in extremis.

What will American banks do if their own existence is in jeopardy, due to major losses? Well, as a matter of fact, there is only one possibility left: draw from their clients’ accounts.

  To answer the question of which of the SDRs or gold will replace the US dollar we need first to know what each is. For gold it’s very simple. One gram of gold is just a yellow metal that weights one gram. Its physical characteristics make it quite easy to identify and measure and they n...

“Gold is like a canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets”. It doesn’t signal problems just with the US dollar but with the whole international monetary system based on fiat.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed Monday to add the Chinese yuan, or renminbi, to its reserve currency basket.

Exclusive interview with Gordon T Long on financial repression, currency wars, gold and the Dollar

Today when gold in US dollars is making a new correction low, the paper shorts are elated. They believe they can win this game of frightening every gold investor to sell their holding. But this elation is likely to soon turn to desperation. Supply tight in gold and silver As I have discussed ma...

Is there an alternative to the dollar? The world existed before the British pound and before the US dollar, and it has survived the British pound and will survive also the US dollar when it collapses.

An example of an occurrence that is entirely disconnected from reality is the 300:1 paper gold to deliverable gold ratio on the Comex. The only explanation for that is that entities operating the Comex are implementing extreme measures to limit the upward movement of the price of gold.

It seems that a bull fed on paper money has eternal life. Whatever the news is, stock markets worldwide react positively. It takes a long time to kill off a secular bull even if it has the wrong diet. Central banks have no policy This last week stock markets surged on the news more QE is like...

China likely added about 14 tonnes of gold to its reserves in October, according to Reuters calculations from central bank data on Saturday.

Dan Popescu's exclusive interview with Bill Holter on the Fed, the dollar, China and gold

  Thanks to a set of excellent charts on gold imports vs exports by Nick Laird (www.sharelynx.com), I would like to give you a brief outlook of where is gold going. We heard for some time that gold is moving to the Far East but is it really only moving there? Well if we start with the US,...

What has happened in the last four years in the world economy has confirmed the importance of capital preservation. But for precious metals investors who came in nearer the top, it has clearly been a nerve racking time.

The financial markets are “officially” and “with benevolence” manipulated by the central banks (zero rates, QE...) and illegally, in secret, by the largest banks... How can one trust the prices on those markets?

The Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) announced Monday the opening of an investigation on the price fixing in the precious metals market. Seven banks with international reputations are being targeted by the authorities: UBS, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Mitsui and Julius Baer.