Financial crisis

Last week featured two unusual stories on gold — one strange and the other truly weird. These stories explain why gold is not just money but is the most politicized form of money.

The risk of a major war is now very high. The dilemma is that this is just one of many problems with potentially catastrophic consequences that the world is currently facing.

A 1988 edition of The Economist magazine predicted a world currency by the year 2018.

A new nail should be driven in the savers’ coffins, according to the very serious Reuters press agency: the freezing of bank accounts in order to avoid any bank run.

The Bundesbank today announced it had "completed its gold transfer process earlier than originally planned."

Totally irresponsible policies by Governments and Central Banks have created the most dangerous situation that the world has ever experienced. Risk doesn’t arise quickly as the result of a single action or event. No, risk of the magnitude that the world is experiencing today is the result of many...

Fake money has created a totally uneven playing field for most ordinary people.

To understand why the somewhat cliche 10% gold investment allocation mantra may be somewhat misleading today, some historical context is required.

Over the last 150 years, the West has gone from human slavery to debt slavery.

The trillions of dollars, euro, yens, Yuan etc. created by the central banks since the 2008 crisis haven’t triggered any wave of inflation, contrary to what history has been teaching thus far. But should we underestimate the risk? Of course not.