Financial crisis

The evidence of gold price manipulation is clear. In this article we present evidence and describe the process. We conclude that ability to manipulate the gold price is disappearing as physical gold moves from New York and London to Asia, leaving the West with paper claims to gold that greatly excee...

Germany’s top financial regulator said possible manipulation of currency rates and prices for precious metals is worse than the Libor-rigging scandal, which has already led to fines of about $6 billion.

What kind of game are the banks and the states playing? Here are four news items that should alert anyone still having faith in the european banking system.

The French government keeps rising taxes of all sorts; one couldn’t hope for gold to escape them.

Quantitative easing causes an artificial wealth effect for the wealthiest, while the middle-class earnings are not improving

Debt burdens in developed nations have become extreme by any historical measure and will require a wave of haircuts, warns IMF paper

Egon von Greyerz about the coming failure of the gold paper market, the importance of owning physical gold as insurance against a failure of the financial system and to protect against counterparty risk.

We’re here at the heart of the conflict of interests that we have denounced in the past, e.g. the central bank being the banking sector’s regulatory organism : the ECB is judge and party.

Deflation fears persist and, with it, the impact it would have on the gold price. Many observers believe the gold price would go down. Let’s try to clarify things a little.

We’ve already talked about what happened in Cyprus last April : the confiscation of bank accounts over 100,000 euros to shore up local failing banks. We also explained that it was but a rehearsal for future settlement of banking crises : directly looting depositors’ accounts. And, case in point, the...