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Dan Popescu exclusive interview with Chris Powell (Secretary/Treasurer of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee - GATA) on the rigging of the gold market

The massive deluge of liquidity from central banks in Europe, Japan and the United States (more QE, albeit with zero interest rate) is provoking a general crash in the risk premiums, which renders the markets practically blind.

Before I go into the five reasons to buy gold in 2015, let me go through four hypotheses for the future price of gold and silver.

On January 15, the Euro lost 30% against the Swiss Franc and the Dollar lost 25% in a few seconds. Although this event was not major enough to shake the world it will be another nail in the coffin of the vulnerable financial system, as well as a sign of the exponential rise we will see in volatil...

As can be seen in the following charts gold is finishing off the bottoming phase & beginning to break out in many currencies.

The sudden burst of panic provoked last week by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) reveals that we have all become so addicted to the central banks’ doings that it is turning pathological.

I will try, in this short review, to analyze the gold and silver market in 2014. In my next article, I will look at what could happen in 2015 for gold and silver.

The German central bank or Bundesbank said on Monday that it stepped up the repatriation of its gold reserves from overseas storage last year.

Swiss National Bank discontinues minimum exchange rate and lowers interest rate to –0.75%

On January 5th I sent an email to the head of market operations at the Banque de France, Mr Gautier. You can read the questions I asked him about the activity of the French Central Bank in the gold market here. On January 12th I received the following answer from Mr Gautier :   "Goo...