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There was another ban that was quietly proposed last week, and this one has far wider implications: a ban on cash.

All currencies will reach their intrinsic value of ZERO in the next few years. Something that has fallen in value by 87-98% is guaranteed to complete the journey until it has lost 100%.

Currecide represents the most pernicious, expansive and potentially profitable fraud ever committed against the people in history.

Investors in the US would have made $262,000 more by investing in gold than in the S&P. In the UK, an investor would have made £448,000 more by investing in gold instead of the stock market.

Gold bulls wagering the bullion rally has more room to run may have history on their side with the arrival of a new U.S. president.

The financial world is so upended that even Switzerland is starting to slide awkwardly.

2017 has just started but some longer-term trend changes already seem to develop.

Mr. Trump does not know it, but applying a policy of protectionism for American industry through tariffs on imports means the death of the world's monetary system based on the dollar.

At the beginning of a new year it would be totally natural to forecast what the likely events and trends will be for 2017. A lot of experts around the world will predict a number of “new” events as if a lot of things will change just because we are entering a new year.

Gold, futures, global sharemarkets: How markets performed for 2016