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How can ordinary people ever understand the importance of gold when they are continuously fed with false and distorted facts.

The “Japanisation” of banks is the new illness of contemporary finance. Stemming from Japan, it is expanding progressively, especially in Europe. How does this disorder translate?

Doug Casey recently discussed the French presidential election—and why it matters to US investors.

The big worry for the markets is the fact that anti-Euro candidate Marin Le Pen could potentially win.

Over the past few weeks several political and geopolitical factors goaded safe haven assets higher, providing a particularly positive environment for gold and helping to push it past this fairly important resistance.

There are lies, damned lies and news, to paraphrase British Prime Minister Disraeli who said: “There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Today we are fed with lies ubiquitously in the form of news and most people who just follow conventional media are totally unaware of the truth. Because the t...

The price of gold entered 2017’s Easter long weekend on a five-month high in response to a cascade of geopolitical events and mid-week comments by United States President Donald J. Trump.

For real estate investors, prudence might dictate that they start considering physical gold, in order to avoid serious pitfalls.

Gold is being powered higher by excellent demand in India (the world’s biggest wedding season is in play), institutional investor concerns about the US debt ceiling (the next deadline is April 28), strong growth in China, and by the populism wave that is sweeping through most of the Western world.

The US owes the world 453,000 tonnes of gold which is almost 3 times all the gold ever produced in history.