Central banks

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 :   "Goo...

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.

Moments ago, as if to deter further speculation that Russia is indeed converting hard money earned from real resources for fiat paper, the Russian monetary authority made it quite clear, that at least in November, Russia not only did not sell any gold, but in fact bought another 600K ounces in th...

Kudos to Shinzo Abe who just got brilliantly re-elected despite a largely negative balance sheet! His party took two-thirds of the seats of the House of Representatives, a clear victory. The moniker “Abenomics”, a contraction of his name and economics, is known all around the world. Wow, what a t...

I wanted to do a review of the Swiss gold referendum on Monday just after the referendum but I decided to wait a week and analyze its impact better. I think I was right.