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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 inf...

The european economy’s landscape looks sad... The Eurozone saw its GDP lose 0.2% in the first quarter, and the OECD revised to the downside its forecast for 2013 and sees a 0.6% recession ahead

Nikkei’s 7% plunge, last Thursday, and the way it happened, gives us a glimpse into how the next crisis will play.

In his 7 years as Chairman of the Fed Ben Bernanke has printed more money than during the whole history of the USA

Are we witnessing the emergence of bubbles everywhere, or isn’t the whole thing becoming a gigantic bubble? All financial assets are going up at the same time, whether it be stocks, sovereign debts, or corporate bonds!

After the LIBOR scandal, are we witnessing the ISDAfix scandal? This time it’s not about interbank lending rates, but rather about interest rates for swaps.