Central banks

On April 5, 1933, FDR signed Executive order 6102 which made illegal "the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States" in the process criminalizing the possession of monetary gold by any individual or corporation. This was de facto gold confisca...

Dan Popescu's interview with Philippe Herlin on the necessity of owning physical in the actual context.

The veil is being ripped... the Shanghai stock market crash reveals what the global financial markets would not dare admit: Chinese growth has vanished. Everyone was trying to believe that the official rate of 7% was real, that we could pin our hopes on it, that it would be the engine of the global...

Carli Blankenship summarizes some of the most significant news that happened in the gold and silver market during the last two weeks.

China's gold reserves rose by nearly 19 tonnes in July from June, the central bank said on Friday, disclosing its holdings for the second time in two months in a move seen as a Beijing bid to increase transparency.

The world is now at tipping point and this coming autumn we are likely to see the beginning of what I in an 2009 article described as “The Dark Years Are Here”. We are not just going to experience another correction, giving investors yet a chance to buy the dips in a never ending bullma...

On July 17, 2015, China updated its official gold reserves as being 1,658.1 tonnes. Surprised?

Carli Blankenship summarizes the most recent and significant stories that happened in the gold and silver market during the last 2 weeks.

Back in April we wrote that "The Mystery Of China's Gold Holdings Is Coming To An End" as a result of China willingness to add the Yuan to the IMF's SDR currency basket which would require the disclosure of China's gold holding ahead of an IMF meeting on SDR composition which may be held in October....

Dan Popescu's exclusive interview with Gerald Celente (Trends Journal - Trendsresearch.com) on gold and geopolitics :     - Greece, Puerto Rico defaults, geopolitics and their relation to gold - Gold price manipulation; China, US and EU - Does China control the price of...