Central banks

The sudden burst of panic provoked last week by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) reveals that we have all become so addicted to the central banks’ doings that it is turning pathological.

The German central bank or Bundesbank said on Monday that it stepped up the repatriation of its gold reserves from overseas storage last year.

Swiss National Bank discontinues minimum exchange rate and lowers interest rate to –0.75%

On January 5th I sent an email to the head of market operations at the Banque de France, Mr Gautier. You can read the questions I asked him about the activity of the French Central Bank in the gold market here. On January 12th I received the following answer from Mr Gautier :  ...

Letter to the attention of Mr. Alexandre Gautier, director of market operations at Banque de France, about the french gold reserves

Greece is, once again, shaking the foundations of the Eurozone, and there is, again, talk of a “Grexit”. Stock markets are tumbling and fear the results of the January 25 anticipated elections.

Dan Popescu exclusive interview with Willem Middelkoop (founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund and author) about the war on gold and the financial endgame.

If gold is a relic of the past then why are central banks holding so much gold? Central banks hold, if we believe official statistics, around 20% of the global gold stock.

Gold is the most maligned asset, if you listen to the Fed, the ECB, and other central banks. Fabrice Drouin Ristori explains why the heck central banks react toward gold in that bizarre manner.

Is Mario Draghi on the verge of announcing a sovereign QE program? After joining together three recent events, this is the question I’ve been asking myself.