Gold

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.

In this interview with Jesse, we discuss the issues at the very centre of the gold market today : COMEX/LBMA manipulation, default event and how investors should react to the long correction in precious metals.

The French central bank trades gold for its own account "nearly on a daily basis" and is "active in the gold market for central banks and official institutions," a bank official told a conference of the London Bullion Market Association in Rome on September 30.

The Volcker Rule, forbidding the largest U.S. banks from trading with their proprietary accounts, has just been approved and will take effect on April 1st, 2014. What impact will it have on the gold and silver markets?

Amidst these geopolitical and monetary secular changes happening, gold will shine again in its historical role of debt extender and stable monetary haven. However this secular monetary crisis unfolds, gold will obviously be priced much higher than today in relation to fiat currencies.

All the hooplah around bitcoin, the banking lobby maneuvers (central banks and large banks), are quite reminiscent of what is happening around gold.

The volume of Swiss gold exports to Hong Kong was multiplied five-fold this year

Financial journalist Lars Schall talked with German academic Tom Fischer, a financial mathematician, about the phenomenon why gold’s usual state of contango suggests central bank interference. Moreover, they took a look at the issue of the paper vs the physical gold market, and discussed other is...

Are gold benchmarks being manipulated? The price-setting processes for gold and silver in the spot market are the latest to come under review from global regulators, with authorities in Europe investigating the mechanisms for both precious metals.

In this excellent interview Dimitri Speck explains in detail why central banks and bullion banks coordinated their efforts to suppress the gold price. He also explains the entire and very important post WWII role of gold and rigging of the silver market.