Central banks

As technological developments and markets go parabolic, we observe many market “experts”, even intelligent ones, forecasting that we are now in an exponential economic era. Thus many believe that this will go on forever. This is the typical attitude at market and economic tops and guarantees that...

The US monetary policy is loose, and real interest rates are still in negative territory. The fiscal policy remains very easy, and the public debt is high. Inflation is huge and rising. And there is also an issue of depreciation of the greenback. The Fed’s easy stance, low interest rates and high...

The National Wealth Fund (NWF) has received the green light to diversify assets by investing in gold as the country’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed the relevant order on Friday.

What’s important here is that the economic environment is more inflationary (we have easier monetary and fiscal policies ) while at the same time the Fed is highly tolerant of high inflation – this is a truly dangerous cocktail, but it could be quite tasty for gold.

Gold and silver have not at all reflected the massive creation of money in the last 50 years. That catchup phase is likely to start very soon based on both fundamentals and technicals. The upside potential for gold and silver is multiples of the current prices and that is at today’s price levels....

Inflation fears continue to be a concern in the markets. They are now materializing in the real economy. Speaking to Sputnik, Fabrice Drouin Ristori, founder of Goldbroker.com, says that monetary policies are putting the value of currencies-especially the dollar-at risk.

Gold recovered after a downward response to the surge in inflation. What’s next for the yellow metal?

No, TARGET2 is not a video game. The term is never mentioned in the media, yet it is the crucial point of fragility of the euro. A note from the French Treasury clumsily attempts to defuse this risk. Let's analyze it closely.

Few realise the consequences of the world’s insatiable need of fake money. The super bubble will inflate until it one day it totally implodes. In an investment world which consists primarily of insanely overvalued paper assets, physical gold represents sanity and eternal wealth.

Copper is the thermometer of inflation. Gold is the thermometer of a loss of control by the monetary authorities. Controlled inflation (the phenomenon that made copper rise so high) was manageable, up to a point...but the same cannot be said for uncontrolled inflation, which is starting to have r...