Market manipulation

Funny how the Fed and Big Business are not true to their primary function (guarantee the value of the money, invest and increase profits) and would rather manipulate the tools at their disposal, for which they are responsible, that must be used to establish objective measures (dollars, stocks)in...

Oil has earned the nickname of black gold, especially since the crisis of the ‘70s and the explosion of its price. What is the relation between gold and oil? Is there one?

The London gold fix, the benchmark used by miners, jewelers and central banks to value the metal, may have been manipulated for a decade by the banks setting it, researchers say.

  This chart by itself shows how much investors’ sentiment about the gold miners has reached a peak of pessimism not seen since 1943. Miners selling so cheap in relation to gold is a sign of historical capitulation all over the sector. Their valuations, in terms of P/E and business value,...

Paper gold sellers (probably banks like HSBC or JP Morgan) decided (jointly?) to hit the market hard on April 12 and 15, and on June 20 and 26, with so much selling that the effect on the price had to lead to a brutal collapse. On those four days of smashdown, the price of gold fell by $340! It s...

The loss of confidence towards central banks and their gold reserves constitutes the first step of the end game between physical and paper gold. Then investors will lose confidence in certain ETFs like GLD. And the game will end finally with the loss of confidence in the current fiat money syste...

The evidence of gold price manipulation is clear. In this article we present evidence and describe the process. We conclude that ability to manipulate the gold price is disappearing as physical gold moves from New York and London to Asia, leaving the West with paper claims to gold that greatly ex...

Germany’s top financial regulator said possible manipulation of currency rates and prices for precious metals is worse than the Libor-rigging scandal, which has already led to fines of about $6 billion.

In this interview with Jesse, we discuss the issues at the very centre of the gold market today : COMEX/LBMA manipulation, default event and how investors should react to the long correction in precious metals.

Amidst these geopolitical and monetary secular changes happening, gold will shine again in its historical role of debt extender and stable monetary haven. However this secular monetary crisis unfolds, gold will obviously be priced much higher than today in relation to fiat currencies.