Central banks

Central Bank Gold Agreements (CBGA), total gold sales, all signatories

We can’t speak about the manipulation of the gold price today without understanding the derivatives market. Right after the crash of 2000 in the stock market I became alarmed by the exponential increase of derivative products but especially by the complexity of those products.

Chris Powell has covered many aspects of the Western gold price suppression scheme last week on "The Larry Parks Show," broadcast on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in New York.

Central banks have kept silent about this but it’s hard to believe that manipulating the foreign exchange market isn’t part of their policies; it’s probably also part of their new strategy.

An unexpected precipitating event like a black swan event in this uncertain environment will push gold and silver up with a quantum leap with gold leading. The geopolitical and economic environment in the last few months was in my view the calm before the storm.

On 30 November 2014 the Swiss People has the opportunity to determine not just the fate of their own financial system but also to be the catalyst for the return to sound money in the Western World.

Tensions are rising between Germany and the European Central Bank and, this time, concerns are raised openly through an intervention by Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble before the German parliament, the Bundestag. Angela Merkel’s strong man has been in charge of this key ministry since 2...

Chinese SGE Gold Withdrawals: 50 tonnes for the latest week up from 40 tonnes the prior week.

Dan Popescu exclusive interview with Gary Christenson about the gold prices in 3 waves, silver is inexpensive, the USA gold & the role of china in the market

Russia adds another 300,000 oz. (9.3 tonnes) of gold to its reserves in August.