Gold

The topic of gold market manipulation during the London AM fix is not new. Bloomberg has decided to break it down for everyone, as well as summarize all the ways in which just this one facet of gold trading is being manipulated.

Bitcoins : it’s new, it’s in, so to speak, and we keep hearing a lot about this virtual money that was created in 2009 and that is breaking record after record. What should we think about it?

According to Jim Sinclair of JSMineset.com, by 2016, Gold will be $3,200 to $3,500 an ounce. Emancipated gold will be $50,000 per ounce.

The Euro which is a rubbish currency is up 8% against the dollar since July and over 65% since 2000. So even against another weak currency, the dollar is losing ground rapidly. And in real terms which of course is gold, the dollar has lost 98% since the creation of the Fed in 1913.

Central bank gold is a reserve of safety, providing "fairly good protection against fluctuations of the dollar and risk diversification," according to Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB)

Gold price forecast in a new gold standard. The formula used by Nick Laird came from James Rickards. It's based on the rule they had in place in the early 1900's where the monetary base was backed by 40% gold

Interview of James Rickards by Fabrice Drouin Ristori about central bank manipulation of gold and silver markets. The signs that the manipulation is coming to an end will include depletion of warehouses, price spikes and notifications from banks that they will no longer allow the conversion of go...

Gold in your hand eliminates counter-party risks. Gold in hand removes financial agents between you and your assets. Gold ETFs defeat the definition and purpose of gold and are therefore poor choices for the gold investor.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s decision to go ahead with unabated quantitative easing (QE) seems to have taken many by surprise. To such an extent that, from now on, the major market participants are saying they have totally lost faith in Ben Bernanke. True, Ben Bernanke has been saying constantly,...

As one might have expected, on a total return basis (all in $ terms), Silver (100%) and Gold (73%) were the top two performers since the collapse of Lehman Brothers