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This crash on the gold and silver markets is orchestrated, and it doesn’t reflect the extremely tense situation on the physical gold and silver markets

Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, saluted the restructuration of Japan’s monetary policy, which constitutes a welcome support to world growth

There is no reason for investors in gold and silver to be nervous. The current price action is absolutely nothing to be concerned about. The fundamentals are there for continued and accelerated deficit spending and money printing

As the Troika’s (IMF, ECB, EU) decision to tax Cypriot depositors has started a generalised panic movement among European savers, the Fed is, at the same time, orchestrating a downward manipulation of gold and silver spot prices in order to maintain trust in the dollar and, more globally, in the...

In Cyprus, confusion is growing, and there is talk of a 60% tax on bank accounts exceding 100,000 euros! Actually, no one knows, and we have to wait

So Cyprus has been bailed out, for the time being, but we must ask the question : Isn’t the new plan worse than the first one? Given, of course, that both plans are nothing short of theft of private and company savings by incompetent political leaders, it’s like comparing pestilence with malaria.

Risks are increasing everywhere and the situation is becoming more and more confusing. We need to get back to the fundamentals : ideally we need to get out of paper currencies and into gold, get out of the banking system to avoid all confiscation, and get out of the Eurozone toward a country that...

Gold rose above $1,600 for the first time in more than two weeks, as concern that Europe’s debt crisis will escalate increased the appeal of the metal as a haven.

A great amount of money is being created by the central banks (FED, BCE, BoJ) but, for now, we’re not seeing a strong inflation

The european banking system remains entirely dependant on the ECB for its daily operations, and this is not good news