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According to Morgan Stanley, in the week starting August 14, $760 million have been withdrawn from emerging countries funds, $590 million of which in Asia, for both stock shares and debt obligations. And this is the third consecutive week of withdrawals

There is no recovery. But, since the mainstream media and the governments keep repeating it over and over again and since we prefer believing good news than bad news, a majority of people believe in this so-called recovery. This is why the stock market is up and gold is down.

The bullion banks are still massively short of physical gold. All of these physical shortage problems are likely to put enormous upward pressure on gold in coming months. And remember that this factor is in addition to the destruction of paper money we will see which will also put upward pressure on...

The situation is untenable in Japan and can only be contained in the States and the Eurozone if rates go just slightly up.

It is absolutely imperative for investors not to worry about the short term irrational moves of markets and not to listen to government figures or central bankers who make political statements that bear no resemblance to their actions

Gold has played a central and positive role in human history since the dawn of civilization. Speech given by Ferdinand Lips at the University of St. Gallen on 24 June 2004 as part of the International Finance & Security lecture series.

Think Your Money is Safe in an Insured Bank Account? A trend to shift responsibility for bank losses onto blameless depositors lets banks gamble away your money.

What’s happening in China? The interbank market succumbed to two panic attacks, on June 7th and last week, immediately doused by monetary injections from the central bank, the People's Bank of China, but tensions remain.

A reassessment of economic prospects should be supportive of precious-metals prices in this year’s second half

Paper money hides the truth, and the truth is that most of the increase we have seen in paper wealth is illusory both for individuals and for the world. But it suits the governments to fool their people. This gives them the best chance of being reelected and they also engage in theft through inflat...