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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!

Help your enemies underestimate your capabilities”. This military strategy is perfectly applicable today to the gold market. The Western press and pundits for the current financial status quo are doing all they can to divert investors from physical gold

Download ebook for free. The goal of these economics detox chronicles is to propose another view and, first of all, counter the main discourse which permanently paints a rosy picture of the situation.

Even as the SNB has been scrambling to make the referendum seem like a non-event, with very little chance of passing, Deutsche Bank released a piece that roundly refuted everything the Swiss Central Bank has been peddling.

There is a new alert out for banks and this time, it’s coming from a regulating agency worried of their capacity to weather an eventual next crisis. The alert was sounded by the FSB (Financial Stability Board), the G20’s organism in charge of financial regulation.

Alan Greenspan said gold is currently a good investment given the potential for turmoil: "Gold is a currency. It is still by all evidences the premier currency where no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it."

UBS is to settle allegations of misconduct at its precious metals trading business alongside a planned agreement between UK and US authorities and seven banks over accusations of foreign exchange market rigging.