Gold

What has happened in the last four years in the world economy has confirmed the importance of capital preservation. But for precious metals investors who came in nearer the top, it has clearly been a nerve racking time.

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?

The Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) announced Monday the opening of an investigation on the price fixing in the precious metals market. Seven banks with international reputations are being targeted by the authorities: UBS, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Mitsui and Julius Baer.

Mozhaiskov states to his audience that the gold market has been and is manipulated by the elite powers-that-be. He states how the current reserve currency of the World is fatally flawed and that gold will and must play a role in our system.

  In this article I want to approach the idea of a gold standard from a more “regular people” perspective rather than from a “high academic” economic/finance and, sometimes, legalistic perspective. I constantly read books and articles full of mathematics written by the economic academia,...

Today’s decision by the Fed to leave interest rates unchanged comes as no surprise. It did send gold and silver rallying along with stocks and bonds, while the dollar fell about 1 percent.

Is there a worsening shortage of monetary metal in the financial markets? The argument is heating up in the Internet section of the metals netherworld. Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics elaborates today in commentary headlined "The Comex Is One Big Lie": http://investmentresearchdy...

Dan Popescu's exclusive interview with John Butler on the gold standard, a gold-backed ruble, and the chinese gold reserves

Very few people in the world understand that the last hundred years have been totally exceptional in world history. Most people never study history and therefore they believe that whatever happened in their and their parents’ lifetime is normal. An abnormal century But let me categorically stat...

On April 5, 1933, FDR signed Executive order 6102 which made illegal "the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States" in the process criminalizing the possession of monetary gold by any individual or corporation. This was de facto gold confisc...