Financial markets

Since February, the gold market has been in short-squeeze mode. This is a process by which excessive speculation on the declining gold price is being eliminated. The more the price goes up, the more of those speculators are forced to buy back their short positions.

The debt crisis is a direct consequence of exiling gold from the international monetary system. It cannot be replaced by the dollar or any other irredeemable currency. Under the dollar system debt simply cannot be extinguished.

BlackRock's Gold ETF (IAU) has seen fund inflows every day in 2016 (no outflows at all) and with the stock trading above its NAV for most of the year, the world's largest asset manager has made a significant decision: *BLACKROCK SAYS ISSUANCE OF GOLD TRUST SHARES SUSPENDED *BLACKROCK SAYS SUS...

Central Bank heads believe they are magicians who can wave their magic wand to create whatever economic conditions they desire. But the problem is that they are consistently wrong in their assessment of the economy so they don’t know what to do with the wand.

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 &nb...

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...

A junior employee in Deutsche Bank (DB) paid $6 billion to a hedge fund which was the gross value of a position. He should have paid the net. That in a nutshell shows the uncontrollable exposure of the banking system which will lead to its downfall.

A crisis is not limited to a stock market decline because in such a case, an evaluation of the absorption capacity can be made and a return to normalcy is possible. It is also caused by a major default of an entity with no hope for recovery that may trigger a destructive domino effect. In short,...

The financial markets are “officially” and “with benevolence” manipulated by the central banks (zero rates, QE...) and illegally, in secret, by the largest banks... How can one trust the prices on those markets?

Dan Popescu's interview with Philippe Herlin on the necessity of owning physical in the actual context.