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Is there an alternative to the dollar? The world existed before the British pound and before the US dollar, and it has survived the British pound and will survive also the US dollar when it collapses.

It seems that a bull fed on paper money has eternal life. Whatever the news is, stock markets worldwide react positively. It takes a long time to kill off a secular bull even if it has the wrong diet. Central banks have no policy This last week stock markets surged on the news more QE is like...

Everyone must now be made aware that if a bank goes bankrupt, it will have the legal right to bail itself out by taking money out of your account, whether it’s in France or, very soon, in all European countries.

A junior employee in Deutsche Bank (DB) paid $6 billion to a hedge fund which was the gross value of a position. He should have paid the net. That in a nutshell shows the uncontrollable exposure of the banking system which will lead to its downfall.

A crisis is not limited to a stock market decline because in such a case, an evaluation of the absorption capacity can be made and a return to normalcy is possible. It is also caused by a major default of an entity with no hope for recovery that may trigger a destructive domino effect. In short,...

In my most recent article, A Stock Market Collapse and Surge in Gold is Imminent, I discuss the excesses in the world and the effects that will have on the financial system and the stock market as well as on the gold and silver prices. Yes, some readers might find that a forecast of $10,000 gold...

  In this article I want to approach the idea of a gold standard from a more “regular people” perspective rather than from a “high academic” economic/finance and, sometimes, legalistic perspective. I constantly read books and articles full of mathematics written by the economic academia,...

From now on, when a European bank goes bankrupt, the shareholders shall be the first to foot the bill (makes sense), then the holders of bonds issued by the bank (also makes sense) will be next in line, and if this isn’t enough, the bank will be allowed to use the money in their clients’ accounts...

Today’s decision by the Fed to leave interest rates unchanged comes as no surprise. It did send gold and silver rallying along with stocks and bonds, while the dollar fell about 1 percent.

Dan Popescu's exclusive interview with John Butler on the gold standard, a gold-backed ruble, and the chinese gold reserves