Central banks

During a recent panel discussion hosted by CNBC, IMF Director Kristalina Georgieva conceded that central banks globally “printed too much money and didn’t think of unintended consequences.”

As the USD and UST emerges as less of safe-haven and de-dollarization accelerates, gold will re-emerge as the more trusted asset and a greater allocation in future portfolios.

At the start of this week, gold is correcting, but the pullback is very measured when you look at the pace of the rise in the U.S. ten-year. The fact that gold is not correcting under these conditions is evidence of the significant level of demand for the precious metal.

Investors who ignore the importance of gold will see their paper assets decline by up to 98% in real terms.

Gold rising as global bonds collapse. Ultimately, central banks will be forced to improve the quality of international reserves in attempt to restore the credibility of fiat currencies.

How the future global monetary system will be designed is still completely open. Will centralized central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) set the tone, or will the money supply be (partially) privatized as private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are used as a means of payment in everyday life? What...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released a statement: inflation rose to 8.5% in March over the last twelve months. A figure not reached since the records of the 1970s, and an increase that nothing seems to be able to stop.

In this period of high demand for physical gold, the pressure on allocated accounts increases. This makes sense, as it is especially during these periods of high demand that owners of physical gold want to verify the accuracy and veracity of the inventories they hold.

The price of gold could then rise to $3000 an ounce while the gold/silver ratio collapses at the same time. For silver, this would mean significantly higher price gains in percentage terms; a doubling of the price within a few quarters is quite conceivable, says Newmeyer. For a time horizon of th...

Russia's central bank said that due to a "significant change in market conditions" it would buy gold from commercial banks at a negotiated price from April 8.