Gold

Some investors are disappointed as gold only went up 7% in USD in 2012. After having compounded at over 19% p.a. over 11 years, gold certainly should be allowed to just gain 7% without some people calling an end to the bull market.

Egon von Greyerz told that Swiss gold refiners have been overwhelmed with orders for physical gold and buyers are now experiencing major delays in deliveries.

In this interview by Fabrice Drouin Ristori, Egon von Greyerz explains why it's important to own gold outside the banking system and why gold is not in a bubble.

Prices have dropped in the days following the QE4 announcement, and there is normally no more positive news for the precious metals than the announcement of massive money printing.

The aim of this article is to explain the differences between investment solutions offering direct ownership (allocated) and mutualized (non-allocated) ownership of physical gold.

Although gold (and silver) didn’t go up in the last couple of days, it is absolutely guaranteed that the continued destruction of paper money will lead to substantially higher prices in the precious metals

The fundamental and technical picture could not be better for gold and silver. Most governments’ deficits are escalating at a fast rate. Money printing worldwide is likely to accelerate rapidly and could reach exponential rises in the next 1-3 years.

The case for gold as the ultimate wealth preservation investment is irrefutable. Whilst paper money and all assets that were financed by the credit bubble will collapse in real terms, gold will continue to represent stable purchasing power as it has done during 5,000 years.

The prices of gold and silver have dropped severely, November 28th 2012. Such a huge drop in less than a minute, only one day after options have expired, is quite hard to explain in a so-called free market in which no one is interfering.

Egon von Greyerz said that it's not the gold price that is going up, but rather the fiat currencies that are constantly losing their purchasing power