Gold

Charts by Nick Laird. Chinese Gold Imports From Hong Kong

I am going to try to explain the backwardation, a very technical aspect of the gold and silver market, albeit a very important one, if one wants to understand their price evolution.

The gold price is driven down in the paper futures market by naked short selling by the Fed’s dependent bullion banks.

There is no doubt that our actual international monetary standard based on the US dollar, in place since the breaking of the Bretton Woods accords in 1971, is living its last days. What will replace it?

Max Keiser interviews Egon von Greyerz about Fed policy, dollar devaluation, gold price manipulation and wealth preservation.

US Mint coin sales. For the 2nd month in a row investors have purchased more $ value of silver than gold.

The breakout observed on the CCI commodities index should correspond to another leg in the bear market for the dollar and to another leg in the bull market for commodities that started in 2001 and that can be qualified as a « supercycle ».

On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management, Zurich, Lars Schall talked with the young Dutchman Koos Jansen about Chinese gold policy. Koos Jansen, born 1981, worked as a sound engineer in Amsterdam, before he became disabled in 2013. During that year, he started his financial blog "In Gold We Trust...

I think we are getting to a very important test for gold, around $1,300, without a doubt the most important test of the year.

The Foreign Exchange (FOREX) manipulation scandal is growing in scope. In 2013 many large banks (Barclays, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC) set aside 16.4 billion euros to cover « legal expenses », e.g. the probable amount of fines they will have to pay after their t...