Financial markets

The multitude of macro drivers supporting the onset of another gold cycle is truly remarkable. Amplified by the prevailing skepticism surrounding the metal, we are arguably experiencing the most important time in gold's history.

While banks are not in the same situation as in 2008, certain sectors of the economy are beginning to feel the adverse effects of higher rates, and could contribute in the very short term to triggering a credit crunch and a drop in consumption.

Investing in gold is the way to safeguard yourself, and your family, from a broken financial system. Egon emphasizes that banks in the E.U. are no better off than those in the United States. He explains how the West’s debt is being increased exponentially, and that it’s only a matter of time befo...

The charts compare the price of gold to the Producer Price Index of Lumber and Wood Products, but also to palladium and to the price of Microsoft stock. To figure out whether an asset is in a bull market, you don't just want to see the nominal value increase, you also want to see that asset outpe...

The fall in oil prices and the dollar's significant rebound have not led to a significant correction in gold. This came as a surprise to many analysts, who were expecting gold to fall sharply in the face of declining inflation figures. Gold may be telling us that this fall in inflation is only te...

Investors' infatuation with tangible assets and the gradual abandonment of growth stocks is likely to be the theme of late 2023.

Tectonic shifts lie ahead. These will involve a US and European debt crisis ending in a debt collapse, a precipitous fall of the dollar and the Euro with Gold emerging as a reserve asset but at multiples of the current price.

It is as if gold and silver are waiting for the resolution of the US debt ceiling talks. In addition to debt risk, the other risk of blowout is now in the U.S. housing market.

In this discussion between Egon von Greyerz and Alasdair Macleod, on the state of the current banking system and the importance of gold, the speakers express concerns about the system’s eventual collapse due to the excessive creation of “funny money.”

Dow/Gold currently finds itself testing the lower rail of what may be a large Bear Flag. If it is a halfway flag, similar to that of the 1970s, the resulting measured move from a breakdown would be below 3. 30,000 Dow/$10,000 Gold? 6,000 Dow/$2,000 Gold? 90,000 Dow/$30,000 Gold? The answer will b...