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Savers are often quite confused about gold and real estate.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook are valued at $2.8 trillion. That is twice Russia’s GDP and 42% (71,000 tonnes) of all the gold ever produced.

The best time to enter is when an investment is unloved and undervalued but few have the courage to do that.

Jim Rickards investigates the future of the global monetary system and explores the potential impact of a sovereign debt and global monetary crisis that may emerge as a result of a U.S. dollar default, the future of the Chinese yuan, as well as the new case for gold.

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...