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To understand the price of gold, the relevant supply is the total supply, not the new supply coming to market during the last year, week or month.

With virtually empty gold vaults, the central banks and bullion banks are now becoming desperate. The action we are seeing in the paper gold market with the recent $50 takedown is yet more proof of the corner that the gold manipulators have put themselves into by having virtually no physical gol...

United States is one of the most important players in the gold market. It is, in my opinion, the most anti-gold country of all the major five players.

With such a large quantity of gold, it is evident that the Euro Area will play a major role in any reset of the international monetary system that will involve gold.

This anemic growth, this ever-delayed recovery and this QE tapering should normally be worrisome for the stock market, but things are staying put for now. How is that?

The size of the physical silver market is of $20 billion, whereas Bloomberg is mentioning $5 trillion.

Both Russia and China have decided to put gold at the center of their currency war against the “exorbitant privilege” of the US dollar.

Up another 300,000oz (9.3 tonnes) in the last month. Russia is a solid accumulator - same as China.

We often talk in these pages about the difficult situation facing Europe’s southern countries, but the financial crisis is also affecting countries that are considered sound and that have a good reputation. This is the case with Austria, facing difficulties with its banking sector.

In this article, I will look at the importance of India in the gold market. In India, gold is religion. India's love affair with gold is timeless, spanning centuries even millennia.