Financial crisis

Here are the key points raised in this interview with Nomi Prins: International codependency of countries  Have central banks reached their limit? Are central banks in panic mode? Too big to fail banks Gold and the potential ban of cash Gold vs the US dollar...

2016 is off to a very bad start for the stock markets worldwide: they have lost approximately 10% of their value since January 1st, one of the worst starts of a year in stock market history. Since their peak of last June, stock markets worldwide have declined by 20%, according to Bloomberg, which co...

Gold's rise in foreign currencies since the year 2000 - by majors & by region

Most investors had been hoping that the investment Shangri-La would continue for another year? Little do they realise that current values in no way reflects real values or risk. As we know, markets can remain irrational for a very long time.

So the reason for me to buy gold but also silver in 2016 remains the same as last year and that is as money in extremis.

What will American banks do if their own existence is in jeopardy, due to major losses? Well, as a matter of fact, there is only one possibility left: draw from their clients’ accounts.

While the mainstream media focus on ISIS extremists, a threat that has gone virtually unreported is that your life savings could be wiped out in a massive derivatives collapse. Bank bail-ins have begun in Europe, and the infrastructure is in place in the US. Poverty also kills.  At the end o...

  To answer the question of which of the SDRs or gold will replace the US dollar we need first to know what each is. For gold it’s very simple. One gram of gold is just a yellow metal that weights one gram. Its physical characteristics make it quite easy to identify and measure and they...

In a decision based on the expectation of a new banking or financial crisis, the Federal Reserve on Monday chose to end the doctrine of 'too big to fail', and allow banks to succumb to bankruptcy without the ability to borrow money from the central bank in case of an emergency.

Exclusive interview with Gordon T Long on financial repression, currency wars, gold and the Dollar