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Incredibly, banks’ wishes have come true in the very first week of 2013 ! Should we rejoice ? Well, not really, because one of the main dispositions of Basel III, where prudential norms of the world banking sector are being discussed, has been emptied of its substance. The crisis of 2008 has sho...

The answer to our actual crisis goes through a return to « sound » money. Not necessarily a gold standard, which would be too brutal, but at least we should let gold circulate as real money alongside the fiat currencies

Prices have dropped in the days following the QE4 announcement, and there is normally no more positive news for the precious metals than the announcement of massive money printing.

The aim of this article is to explain the differences between investment solutions offering direct ownership (allocated) and mutualized (non-allocated) ownership of physical gold.

The Fed has decided, last week, to extend its quantitative easing (QE) policy. The US central bank is back with pure monetary creation

Although gold (and silver) didn’t go up in the last couple of days, it is absolutely guaranteed that the continued destruction of paper money will lead to substantially higher prices in the precious metals

We won’t be cruel by reminding you that François Hollande, recently, and his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, last spring, had declared the Eurozone crisis « over »... All the different bailout plans are only fragile undertakings, and the smallest shock can bring them down, as we know and are witness...

The case for gold as the ultimate wealth preservation investment is irrefutable. Whilst paper money and all assets that were financed by the credit bubble will collapse in real terms, gold will continue to represent stable purchasing power as it has done during 5,000 years.

Egon von Greyerz said that it's not the gold price that is going up, but rather the fiat currencies that are constantly losing their purchasing power

Turkey has admitted that the increase in its gold exportations is related in reality to the payment of gas imported from Iran.