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Gold is testing all-time highs in many currencies. Gold in yen is achieving this performance at a time when the Japanese bond market is going through an unprecedented crisis of confidence.

It is becoming clearer an clearer that China will not be the leading power in tomorrow's world. Since the pandemic, China's economy and banking sector have been in dire straits. The country is looking for new sources of growth. At the BRICS summit, held in Johannesburg from August 22 to 24, Xi Ji...

For years Matthew Piepenburg and Egon von Greyerz have warned investors about the consequences of a system based on unlimited money printing, debt creation and money debasement. The world economy and the financial system is now on the cusp of a precipice. No one can forecast when the coming viole...

With the recent rise in interest rates, demand for credit is collapsing in many sectors of the economy.

Against an already tense liquidity backdrop, a new banking stress story emerged this week. The threat of a credit event is likely to support the gold physical demand in the short term.

Bitcoin is often presented as "digital gold", but the question immediately arises: competition or complementarity? Gold benefits from a centuries-old history and unrivalled trust, while crypto-currencies bring the innovation of blockchain, and it is here that synergies can occur.

Will the world experience a catastrophic debt implosion? Just like the Titan Submersible that recently imploded, the global debt bubble can implode “within just a fraction of a millisecond”.

The US economy continues to send very mixed signals. The number of bankruptcies in the US has risen sharply in recent weeks. Gold prices should have fallen further with weakening Chinese demand and the dollar's Olympic form.

The time has now come for the 99.5% of financial assets which are not invested in gold, silver or precious metals mining stocks to grab both the investment and wealth preservation opportunity of a life time.

According to Zoltan Pozsar, we are facing a multipolar world in which the dollar's status as reserve currency will be challenged by the renminbi and the euro. Gold is likely to play a major role in the new world monetary order.