Central banks

There is very significant news that has barely made the headlines : Last week, the Fed has paid $89 Billion in benefits to the U.S. Treasury. It is 18% more than last year’s payment and it wipes out the $79 Billion 2010 record

In this interview by Fabrice Drouin Ristori, Egon von Greyerz explains why it's important to own gold outside the banking system and why gold is not in a bubble.

Incredibly, banks’ wishes have come true in the very first week of 2013 ! Should we rejoice ? Well, not really, because one of the main dispositions of Basel III, where prudential norms of the world banking sector are being discussed, has been emptied of its substance. The crisis of 2008 has sho...

The Fed has decided, last week, to extend its quantitative easing (QE) policy. The US central bank is back with pure monetary creation

Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke stand behind this policy of monetizing the public debt. Money printing contributes to the devaluation of the dollar and this is bullish for gold

The entire German gold hoard was gone because it had been leased into the marketplace. Meaning, the vaults holding German gold were emptied by 2001 because of the Bundesbank leasing activities

A few days only after a new round of quantitative easing (QE3) was announced by Ben Bernanke, the Fed’s president, which was preceded shortly by the European central bank’s Mario Draghi’s own plan, investors and savers alike are asking themselves, as they should, how to protect their assets in th...

Ben Bernanke, FED's president, just announced QE3. Gold and silver didn’t take long to react.

Fabrice Drouin Ristori interviews Paul Craig Roberts (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration) about gold and the current monetary system.

Fabrice Drouin Ristori, founder of Goldbroker.com, interviews Chris Powell, founder of GATA (Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee). Chris Powell explains gold and silver manipulation.