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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

Very few people in the world understand that the last hundred years have been totally exceptional in world history. Most people never study history and therefore they believe that whatever happened in their and their parents’ lifetime is normal. An abnormal century But let me categorically stat...

On April 5, 1933, FDR signed Executive order 6102 which made illegal "the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States" in the process criminalizing the possession of monetary gold by any individual or corporation. This was de facto gold confisc...

Dan Popescu's interview with Philippe Herlin on the necessity of owning physical in the actual context.

In the conflictual environment we are now in, it looks more and more to me that gold will impose itself as the de facto money .

The veil is being ripped... the Shanghai stock market crash reveals what the global financial markets would not dare admit: Chinese growth has vanished. Everyone was trying to believe that the official rate of 7% was real, that we could pin our hopes on it, that it would be the engine of the glob...

Carli Blankenship summarizes some of the most significant news that happened in the gold and silver market during the last two weeks.

Most people are blissfully ignorant of the fact that 2007-8 was just a mild rehearsal of what we soon are going to experience. The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-9 will now transcend into the Great Financial Catastrophe