Financial crisis

The risk is there: "the most fragile countries are not Italy or Spain, but France, Greece and perhaps Portugal." What the Greeks experienced in the 2010s - and they are still paying the bill - could soon happen to the French.

Monetary policies are often analyzed in terms of their impacts or correlations with macroeconomic indicators, such as GDP, unemployment or the balance of payments. They are more rarely analyzed according to the consequences they generate at the individual level.

Christine Lagarde's denial, its refusal to raise the key rate, and its apathy towards inflation, will prolong the weakening of the euro against the dollar, thus creating an additional cause of inflation (raw materials being paid in dollars, the fall of the euro mechanically increases their price)...

Inflation figures will probably still be very high in Europe and the United States, especially because of record high fuel prices. But it is the Japanese inflation numbers that now need to be scrutinized.

Investors who buy physical gold at this price level are buying insurance against the risk of a monetary policy error by the Fed.

Clay Finck chats with Tavi Costa about why he believes that now is the time to have exposure to hard assets like gold, silver, & commodities, what the potential catalysts are for gold and silver, how investors can think about the value of gold, the one leading metric that’s most helpful to see wh...

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.”

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

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...

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...