Financial crisis

Alan Greenspan says the Fed's bond-buying program fell short of its goals and recommends buying gold

Last Sunday, the European Central Bank announced its verdict on the stress tests it has been conducting for several months and, this time around, quite a few banks have failed them.

As you can see I didn’t ask if the U.S. government will confiscate gold, but if world governments will. The exorbitant debt is global and today is so big that the risk of gold confiscation is global, not just in the U.S.

The Fed bankers must be really upset: They haven’t even started to raise their base rate and markets are already in panic mode with the expected end to QE 3, just like junkies being told they might have to go into detox. The truth is that economic recovery is so fragile that it can’t go without m...

An important agreement was signed on Saturday, October 11, between the large global banks “under pressure from regulators” and it relates to derivatives and, more specifically, the CDSs, or credit default swaps.

Central banks have kept silent about this but it’s hard to believe that manipulating the foreign exchange market isn’t part of their policies; it’s probably also part of their new strategy.

An unexpected precipitating event like a black swan event in this uncertain environment will push gold and silver up with a quantum leap with gold leading. The geopolitical and economic environment in the last few months was in my view the calm before the storm.

Wall Street is about to be rocked by secretly recorded audio tapes that purport to show a too-cozy relationship between the New York Federal Reserve Bank and the financial institutions it is supposed to regulate.

Average growth in Europe, Japan and the United States keeps slowing down when compared with previous decades: It is near zero in Europe and Japan, and 2% in the U.S.

Dan Popescu exclusive interview with Gary Christenson about the gold prices in 3 waves, silver is inexpensive, the USA gold & the role of china in the market