Central banks

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.

The decline in demand for the US currency is taking place at a time when the risks of the Fed's failure to combat inflation are threatening the intrinsic value of the dollar. Gold is therefore likely to be the winner of this monetary devaluation. This is undoubtedly what American buyers of physic...

We can already hear the leaders of Western countries blaming Putin for the rise in prices... It's very convenient, but it's not true: it's their money printing, to finance their deficits, which has long been feeding the current inflation. The war in Ukraine only reinforces and accelerates this tr...

Even if this is not the path chosen by the Japanese central bank, more and more observers believe that the fight against inflation must be a top priority in order to avoid the predicted disasters of war and famine to which these periods of inflation logically lead.

The Russian central bank will restart buying gold from banks and will pay a fixed price of 5,000 roubles ($52) per gramme between March 28 and June 30, the bank said on Friday.