Central banks

The SDR is just a step in the long strategy of China to eliminate the dollar’s “exorbitant privilege” and that gold will play a major role at the negotiating table

The world economy is now at its most dangerous point in history. In virtually every major country or region, there are problems of a magnitude which individually could trigger a collapse of the financial system.

The financial and banking crisis can hit Germany as well – it could even become the epicentre of the crisis, given the size of Deutsche Bank.

The U.S. Federal Reserve Policy Committee tried, but once again failed to act on its December 2015 forecast of four interest rate increases this year.

Several analysts in favour of gold are predicting a spike to come in the precious metal’s price. They base this prediction on several arguments

The national debt is now more than all of the world’s physical cash, gold, silver, and bitcoin combined. That is right. The U.S. national debt is that big.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The financial world loves focusing on some future event that they think will change everything. There is always some economic data, an important meeting like G20, the Fed, the ECB or a speech by Yellen or some other central bank head who hasn’t...

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics released its nonfarm payrolls data heading into the Labor Day weekend, and less than three weeks before the Federal Reserve meets to consider an interest rate hike.

This question might sound preposterous, but this movement is very real and growing in importance: central banks are progressively buying private assets with their unmatched firepower.

You need neither words nor a Ph. D. to see the evident distortion created by government manipulation of the currency.