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This news should have made the front page but it was hardly mentioned at all: Italy’s public debt is just a notch away from the speculative category!

According to VTM Nieuws, Belgium is contemplating the repatriation of its gold reserves. It only has a limited amount of gold stored at the Belgium National Bank (BNB); the bulk of Belgium’s reserves is held at the Bank of England, a portion is held at the Bank of Canada, and another portion at t...

Gold is breaking out in many currencies as gold rises at the same time as the US Dollar

A YES vote would have acted like a thunder strike and brought about a complete turnaround of the lax monetary policies of Switzerland, Europe (ECB), the United States and Japan. But, sadly, this won’t be the case. Let’s try to understand why.

Gold is in backwardation, sentiment is historically negative, but this process of gold price destruction on the paper markets goes on... How much gold do the central banks have to recuperate still? What is behind those never-ending attacks? For how long will there be physical gold available?

Interview of Fabrice Drouin Ristori (CEO GoldBroker) on paper gold, stock markets and US Dollar

Swiss bank accounts are not absolutely safe anymore, as several clients of the Portuguese group Banco Espirito Santo are finding out at their own expense.

The Dutch central bank has secretly brought a large part of the national gold reserves being held in a secure depot in New York back to Amsterdam.

Exclusive interview with Marc Faber on gold, the US dollar, China and the Swiss gold Referendum

In Luxembourg and Germany, some banks have started to apply negative interest rates on deposits: In other words, they are charging interest on deposits!