Financial crisis

During the election campaign, Donald Trump accused the Fed of playing the Democrats’ game by keeping rates low and creating a “horrible financial bubble”.

There is a total misunderstanding of the role of gold and why it is so critical to own physical gold. Gold should not be bought or sold based on rumours or events. In connection with the US election, gold moved for totally the wrong reasons.

Fed Chief Admits Incoming Administration Causes Uncertainty Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee yesterday that stable unemployment, average job gains and an inflation rate nearing 2% could mean an imminent interest rate hike, despite uncertainty sur...

Silver and gold should be far more successful than investments in unpayable debt, paper currencies, and levitated stock and bond markets.

India's government increased the limit on cash withdrawals from bank accounts on Sunday to calm public anger as millions of people clamored for new rupee bills after a shock abolishment of large denomination notes. Large crowds were again gathered at banks across the country trying to change 5...

The earthquake has happened: Donald Trump is president-elect of the United States of America. Quite an enormous “black swan”! What should we expect now? On the one hand, Trump’s victory seems like a formidable denial of the economic lies being spread since the 2008 financial crisis: no, unemploy...

In a rerun of the immediate shock felt when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, gold prices rose nearly 5 percent the day after Donald J. Trump scored his stunning victory in the United States election.

Gold doesn’t fit into a modern monetary system. It restricts the unlimited expansion of money and credit which is the new paradigm for prosperity and growth.

Egypt has devalued its currency by 48% and announced that it will be allowed to float – measures that meet a key demand by the International Monetary Fund in order to secure a $12bn (£9.6bn) loan over three years to overhaul its ailing economy. The devaluation pegged the Egyptian pound at 13 to...

We can’t help but see also the beginning of a flight away from the currencies. And, besides, those countries (China, Middle-East countries) are indeed big buyers of gold, whether through their people or their central banks.