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Exclusive interview with Marc Faber on gold, the US dollar, China and the Swiss gold Referendum

In Luxembourg and Germany, some banks have started to apply negative interest rates on deposits: In other words, they are charging interest on deposits!

Help your enemies underestimate your capabilities”. This military strategy is perfectly applicable today to the gold market. The Western press and pundits for the current financial status quo are doing all they can to divert investors from physical gold

Download ebook for free. The goal of these economics detox chronicles is to propose another view and, first of all, counter the main discourse which permanently paints a rosy picture of the situation.

Even as the SNB has been scrambling to make the referendum seem like a non-event, with very little chance of passing, Deutsche Bank released a piece that roundly refuted everything the Swiss Central Bank has been peddling.

There is a new alert out for banks and this time, it’s coming from a regulating agency worried of their capacity to weather an eventual next crisis. The alert was sounded by the FSB (Financial Stability Board), the G20’s organism in charge of financial regulation.

Swiss regulator FINMA said on Wednesday that it found a "clear attempt" to manipulate precious metals benchmarks during its investigation into precious metals and foreign exchange trading at UBS.

Alan Greenspan said gold is currently a good investment given the potential for turmoil: "Gold is a currency. It is still by all evidences the premier currency where no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it."

UBS is to settle allegations of misconduct at its precious metals trading business alongside a planned agreement between UK and US authorities and seven banks over accusations of foreign exchange market rigging.

Some argue that without inflation or hyperinflation gold cannot reach $5,000, but they ignore that, in a deflationary environment, the global banking system collapses and this is as bullish for gold as hyperinflation.

The Dow is now at all time highs & gold looks to have bounced off its low.

Barak Obama and the Democrats just lost the mid-term elections. They were already in minority in Congress and now they are sinking even deeper, losing their majority in the Senate in favour of the Republicans.

The U.S. Mint said on Wednesday it has temporarily sold out of its American Eagle silver bullion coins following "tremendous'' demand in the past several weeks.

The timing of the gold dump is right as Japanese trading breaks for lunch

All of a sudden, with the illusion of the end of QE, there is a strong belief that things have changed for the best for the U.S. and, more specifically, for the US dollar. All of a sudden, the US debt is gone and the deficit problem is almost solved with shale oil.

Exclusive interview with Egon von Greyerz. A Swiss gold referendum YES vote would be a trendsetter for central banks and a shock in the gold market