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There is now too much debt in the economy, everywhere and at too high a level. The room for maneuver of central banks is considerably narrower...

Prudence tells us to get out of bubble assets like stocks, bonds and speculative property. Once the fall starts, these assets are likely to lose 90% or more in real terms which means against gold. Own physical gold and some silver (much more volatile). That will be your insurance against a rotten...

Never has the proof of inflation been so tangible, and yet increasing numbers of fund managers are betting on this rise in prices being transitory, encouraged, admittedly, by the reassuring narrative coming from the monetary authorities. It is not the first time that the Fed has bet on its moneta...

In this year-end chat, Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg, round up 2021 by discussing the critical issues leading us into the new year.

This chart tells us that either stocks are too expensive or commodities are very cheap despite the recent rise.

Each passing week now brings a new figure on inflation which shows us that the price rise movement initiated this fall is becoming increasingly out of control.

Given the counterparty risk in grossly bloated risk assets, derivative markets, banking systems, currency markets and sovereign balance sheets, gold is no longer a debate but a necessity. Fortunately, gold is currently priced at valuation levels which have never been more opportune. Toward this e...

The Danish bank, Saxo Bank, has become famous for publishing every year a series of ten "outrageous predictions" that are supposed to profoundly change our societies in the coming year. The exercise is difficult and these predictions rarely come true. But they have the merit of pointing out probl...

Insiders are selling and the number of new margin accounts is skyrocketing, at a time when the markets have never been so expensive and fragile. Fear is well and truly present here...but so too is confidence. And it is this confidence that is dominating the sentiment of the markets. The central b...

Egon von Greyerz and Ronni Stoeferle conclude their two-part Zurich discussion by addressing gold’s role in the context of current rate, currency and bond market forces.