Savings

India imported 1,421 tons of silver in August, an increase of 641% on the previous year, bringing the year-to-date total to 6,148 tons.

The United States has just set two new world records: one for its debt and the other for its deficit. The announcement of a budgetary slippage has caused the price of gold to soar in recent days.

The price of gold continues to break records, with the symbolic threshold of $2,500 now exceeded. In addition to persistent inflation, the powerful buying drive by countries in the Middle and Far East will continue to push gold prices higher. No, it's not too late to buy.

Discover the first episode of “À l'Orée de l'Éco”, our new podcast presented by Tom Benoit. France's economic situation is worrying. Public debt exceeds €3,1 trillion, and market confidence could be shaken if the ECB explicitly supports France.

The price of gold in euros has just broken an all-time record! An ounce of gold is now worth €2,300, double the price it was five years ago. Gold is soaring while oil is plummeting. Meanwhile, the Chinese economy is slowing at a rate not seen since the last financial crisis.

Gold is world-renowned for its physical properties, but it is also in great demand for its financial qualities. Most of the world's major asset managers and central banks hold gold, while a large proportion of the public remains unaware of the benefits of the golden metal. In financial theory, go...

Against the stagflationary backdrop and the start of a new cycle of defaults in the United States, gold is logically attracting new buyers.

A saver who bought and sold gold at any time between January 1, 1999 and January 1, 2024 would have grown richer on average at an actuarial rate of 8.69% per annum.

It has been more than a year since we last looked at the Dow/Gold ratio, which at the time was threatening to break down from a very large bear flag. This week, we'll update those charts and see that the expected breakdown has indeed occurred as anticipated.

The gold price, with its string of record highs, tells us that we are on the verge of seeing the detonator of this new inflationary phase. Gold is warning us that we are on the brink of another Fed monetary policy error.