Inflation

Insiders are selling and the number of new margin accounts is skyrocketing, at a time when the markets have never been so expensive and fragile. Fear is well and truly present here...but so too is confidence. And it is this confidence that is dominating the sentiment of the markets. The central bank...

Since every currency system in history has collapsed, it is quite a certain bet that this one will too. For the few who have savings, wealth preservation in physical gold and silver is essential as insurance against yet another failed currency and financial system.

Egon von Greyerz and Ronni Stoeferle conclude their two-part Zurich discussion by addressing gold’s role in the context of current rate, currency and bond market forces.

The next stage of the inflationary cycle that we are currently traversing will involve efforts to control the prices by the authorities, which will logically trigger even more pronounced shortages in a production chain that is already greatly weakened by the sanitary crisis and by the rise in transp...

Kevin Smith & Tavi Costa make the very compelling case that gold, silver and the precious metals mining companies are poised for tremendous upside ahead, as part of the Great Rotation they see coming.

Singapore increased its gold reserves by about 20% earlier this year in a largely under-the-radar move that saw holdings expand for the first time in decades.

Egon and Ronnie discuss their individual journeys toward recognizing the timeless, paramount, yet oft ignored, role that gold plays in intelligent wealth preservation and risk hedging in a market landscape that is becoming increasingly centralized. As Ronnie observes, real capitalism requires failur...

Our economic and political elites want the world to equip itself with "clean energy". This will involve a lot of upstream and downstream photovoltaics, changing a very large number of equipments and products that will have to adapt to new technologies. As a result, the industrial demand for silver w...

The ECB is making a mockery of the world: it is shirking its responsibilities (printing money, zero interest rate), it is being lax with the banking system (insufficient capital), it refuses to recognize the damage it is causing (bubbles in equities, bonds and real estate), it refrains from lecturin...

In Part II of Egon von Greyerz’ two-part conversation with Cambridge House’s Jay Martin, Egon candidly digs deeper into the realism rather than sensationalism of the current macro headwinds and the inevitable implosion of the global financial/monetary system.