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Investors who ignore the importance of gold will see their paper assets decline by up to 98% in real terms.

How the future global monetary system will be designed is still completely open. Will centralized central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) set the tone, or will the money supply be (partially) privatized as private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are used as a means of payment in everyday life? What is...

The price of gold could then rise to $3000 an ounce while the gold/silver ratio collapses at the same time. For silver, this would mean significantly higher price gains in percentage terms; a doubling of the price within a few quarters is quite conceivable, says Newmeyer. For a time horizon of three...

Russia's central bank said that due to a "significant change in market conditions" it would buy gold from commercial banks at a negotiated price from April 8.

Faced with the blocking of its reserves at the Fed and the ECB, the Central Bank of Russia has decided that all countries hostile to Russia should not only pay for their imports in rubles, but also that it would buy all gold presented to it at a fixed price of 5,000 rubles per gram.

In a context of a health crisis, geopolitical tensions, and weakening of American democracy, a risk has been added to Biden's mandate: inflation.

In case Russia wanted to truly extricate itself from the current "dollar reserve" world, it should unveil a gold-backed currency, one which is co-sponsored by the Chinese yuan, which would then also announce unveil it is becoming gold-backed.

These few days of conflict have already transformed what we have known since the end of the Soviet era, economically, financially and geopolitically. Let's leave the geopolitical analysis to others more competent than me and try to focus on the impact of this war on our favorite subject, namely the...

We would therefore be in a much faster dynamic than in 2016, with uncontrollable inflation and a corporate credit market already in free fall: a configuration that increases the risks of a major monetary policy error. At such a level, it is perhaps this risk that gold is highlighting.

Even if the price of silver were to increase tenfold, it would not be enough to bring it back to a normal price, given the monetary creation of recent years and the loss of purchasing power induced in the main currencies.