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Here is a further illustration of the damage that zero rates cause to retail banking, in France and around the world. In 2000, when the Sino-British banking mastodon HSBC wanted to buy Crédit Commercial de France (CCF), it was in competition with the Dutch ING and had to put 11 billion euros on t...

The Gold/Silver ratio is doing exactly what you would want it to do if we're about to see a meaningful bull move at this stage.

On November 1, Christine Lagarde took over from Mario Draghi at the ECB, i.e. where the destruction of our currency is being implemented. What kind of policy can we expect from her, and what conclusions can we draw from it in terms of personal finances?

There are no safe assets. In 2002 we recommended our investors to hold up to 50% of their financial assets in physical gold. Today in 2020, I consider that up to 100% is the right figure since there are no safe assets except for physical precious metals.

The Chinese economy had been almost at a standstill for 3 weeks. What impact on precious metals?

In this interview with Shae Russell of Rock Stock Insider, Egon explains why he already back in 2002 considered that to hold up to 50% of financial assets in physical gold was motivated.

This is probably the most important article I have penned. It is about the destiny of three individuals who all followed different tides. We are today at the point when the consequences of taking the wrong tide will be ruinous whilst the right one will be extremely propitious.

U.S. authorities that accused six JPMorgan Chase & Co. employees of rigging precious-metals futures are building a criminal case against the bank itself, two people familiar with the situation said.

"Where could inflation come from?", we asked ourselves in our previous article on rising energy costs. Let's explore another possible cause, reactivated by current events. When we look around us and throughout history, it doesn't seem that monetary sentiment alone is enough to cause prices to go...

In this important discussion between Egon von Greyerz of Matterhorn Asset Management and Grant Williams of Real Vision TV, they talk about the fake prosperity we live in, facilitated by negative interest rates as well as endless money printing and the dire consequences this will have for the world.

Major banks in Lebanon began tightening banking controls this month, halving the amount of dollars depositors are allowed to withdraw every month, despite growing public anger.

After three decades of massive money printing and credit expansion, “inflate or die” has artificially kept the world economy going. But we are now in the 2020s moving in to the next stage which will be INFLATE AND DIE. Because, as stock and credit bubbles implode and money printing accelerates, t...

Gold has broken ALL the bear market down-trend resistance lines on log and non-log charts.

Many are disappointed with silvers performance. If you look at the gold/silver ratio, it's doing exactly what it did last time. Silvers time to shine will come.

Physical gold is eternal and paper gold ephemeral. Take heed of this before the collapse of the fake gold paper market together with most paper assets. With a paper market in gold that totally dominates gold trading and distorts the price of gold, it is easy for most people to forget what gold is...

The gold/silver ratio is yet to signal 'game on' for the PM bull. Are we nearly there ?