Inflation

Historically, the European and North American economies have been closely linked. The figures show comparable growth rates and standards of living, even if the United States has always kept a lead over "old Europe". The current crisis, with the return of inflation and the war in Ukraine, crystall...

Over the past fifty years, sharp declines in consumer confidence have always coincided with periods of gold buying. It is almost as if gold is anticipating fiscal or monetary intervention in response to this famous engine failure.

Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, swap thoughts on the bearish decline of U.S. risk assets along side an equally painful rise in inflationary forces.

Investors who exited the stock markets early enough will have to re-invest their cash somewhere. However, the stocks are falling and so are the bonds. The safety is certainly to place them in the precious metals, whose charts and fundamentals are extremely reassuring.

The intensity of the bond market's decline is unprecedented. Bloomberg's Aggregate Index, which measures a basket of more than 28,000 bonds, has lost more than 15% since the beginning of the year, a drop not seen since the 1970s.

Gold is known for its rarity and reliability. However, the usefulness of gold has not ceased to evolve over the last few centuries. Both an object of desire and speculation, gold has experienced several panics synonymous with crashes or price explosions. In the 19th century, financial markets wer...

Inflation is here to stay. But the question now is: can it degenerate into hyperinflation?

The recession forecasts is leading many speculators to bet on the coming fall in commodity prices. this strategy of short selling on commodities is coming up against a problem of physical supply. In metals, reserves on the London Metal Exchange have never been so low, and the latest correction ha...

This article will discuss if investors in coming years really have more than the Hobson’s choice of one. Gold has been one of the top performing asset classes in this century and still nobody owns it with only 0.5% of world financial assets invested in gold.

Gold is logically regaining its stable monetary value in an increasingly tense geopolitical context, at a time when the energy future of the European continent poses many questions and when the risks of stagflation have never been so great since the Second World War.