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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.

Thanks to the latest NY Fed data released yesterday, we now know that beginning in 2014 and continuing through yesterday, the gold "bleeding" from the vault located 90 feet below street level at 33 Liberty Street is not only continuing but accelerating.

Everyone must now be made aware that if a bank goes bankrupt, it will have the legal right to bail itself out by taking money out of your account, whether it’s in France or, very soon, in all European countries.

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

A junior employee in Deutsche Bank (DB) paid $6 billion to a hedge fund which was the gross value of a position. He should have paid the net. That in a nutshell shows the uncontrollable exposure of the banking system which will lead to its downfall.

A crisis is not limited to a stock market decline because in such a case, an evaluation of the absorption capacity can be made and a return to normalcy is possible. It is also caused by a major default of an entity with no hope for recovery that may trigger a destructive domino effect. In short,...

  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,...

In my most recent article, A Stock Market Collapse and Surge in Gold is Imminent, I discuss the excesses in the world and the effects that will have on the financial system and the stock market as well as on the gold and silver prices. Yes, some readers might find that a forecast of $10,000 gold...

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.

Dogged by theories that it has been lying about the amount of gold it holds, Germany‘s Bundesbank moved Wednesday to publicize full details on every bar of gold it possesses. Over the course of more than 2,300 pages, the central bank document lists the status and location of every bar of gold in...

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.

Mozhaiskov states to his audience that the gold market has been and is manipulated by the elite powers-that-be. He states how the current reserve currency of the World is fatally flawed and that gold will and must play a role in our system.

  In this article I want to approach the idea of a gold standard from a more “regular people” perspective rather than from a “high academic” economic/finance and, sometimes, legalistic perspective. I constantly read books and articles full of mathematics written by the economic academia,...

From now on, when a European bank goes bankrupt, the shareholders shall be the first to foot the bill (makes sense), then the holders of bonds issued by the bank (also makes sense) will be next in line, and if this isn’t enough, the bank will be allowed to use the money in their clients’ accounts...