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In a decision based on the expectation of a new banking or financial crisis, the Federal Reserve on Monday chose to end the doctrine of 'too big to fail', and allow banks to succumb to bankruptcy without the ability to borrow money from the central bank in case of an emergency.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed Monday to add the Chinese yuan, or renminbi, to its reserve currency basket.

Exclusive interview with Gordon T Long on financial repression, currency wars, gold and the Dollar

Today when gold in US dollars is making a new correction low, the paper shorts are elated. They believe they can win this game of frightening every gold investor to sell their holding. But this elation is likely to soon turn to desperation. Supply tight in gold and silver As I have discussed m...

Is there an alternative to the dollar? The world existed before the British pound and before the US dollar, and it has survived the British pound and will survive also the US dollar when it collapses.

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 l...

China likely added about 14 tonnes of gold to its reserves in October, according to Reuters calculations from central bank data on Saturday.

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

  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...

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.