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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed Monday to add the Chinese yuan, or renminbi, to its reserve currency basket.

Exclusive interview with Gordon T Long on financial repression, currency wars, gold and the Dollar

Is there an alternative to the dollar? The world existed before the British pound and before the US dollar, and it has survived the British pound and will survive also the US dollar when it collapses.

It seems that a bull fed on paper money has eternal life. Whatever the news is, stock markets worldwide react positively. It takes a long time to kill off a secular bull even if it has the wrong diet. Central banks have no policy This last week stock markets surged on the news more QE is like...

China likely added about 14 tonnes of gold to its reserves in October, according to Reuters calculations from central bank data on Saturday.

Thanks to the latest NY Fed data released yesterday, we now know that beginning in 2014 and continuing through yesterday, the gold "bleeding" from the vault located 90 feet below street level at 33 Liberty Street is not only continuing but accelerating.

Everyone must now be made aware that if a bank goes bankrupt, it will have the legal right to bail itself out by taking money out of your account, whether it’s in France or, very soon, in all European countries.

Dan Popescu's exclusive interview with Bill Holter on the Fed, the dollar, China and gold

A junior employee in Deutsche Bank (DB) paid $6 billion to a hedge fund which was the gross value of a position. He should have paid the net. That in a nutshell shows the uncontrollable exposure of the banking system which will lead to its downfall.

  Thanks to a set of excellent charts on gold imports vs exports by Nick Laird (www.sharelynx.com), I would like to give you a brief outlook of where is gold going. We heard for some time that gold is moving to the Far East but is it really only moving there? Well if we start with the US,...