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Banks are definitely no longer the sanctuaries they once were. Following the threats of draining bank accounts (BRRD, Sapin Law 2), cyber threats will make headlines in the years to come.

For $1,260, an investor will get a piece of paper saying he owns 1 ounce of gold. But he is unlikely to ever see that gold.

Time and time again we are seeing fraud taking place in the precious metals’ market. Thousands of tonnes of paper silver and paper gold are being dumped over just a few hours or days.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook are valued at $2.8 trillion. That is twice Russia’s GDP and 42% (71,000 tonnes) of all the gold ever produced.

The bottom line is gold’s sharp pullback in recent weeks was sparked by a series of gold-futures shorting attacks.

Jim Rickards investigates the future of the global monetary system and explores the potential impact of a sovereign debt and global monetary crisis that may emerge as a result of a U.S. dollar default, the future of the Chinese yuan, as well as the new case for gold.

How can ordinary people ever understand the importance of gold when they are continuously fed with false and distorted facts.

The popularity of the GDXJ ETF product has been so overwhelming, VanEck reported they would be changing the index rules to accommodate the increased demand

Over the past few weeks several political and geopolitical factors goaded safe haven assets higher, providing a particularly positive environment for gold and helping to push it past this fairly important resistance.

There are lies, damned lies and news, to paraphrase British Prime Minister Disraeli who said: “There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Today we are fed with lies ubiquitously in the form of news and most people who just follow conventional media are totally unaware of the truth. Because the t...