Supply & Demand

The volume of Swiss gold exports to Hong Kong was multiplied five-fold this year

Are gold benchmarks being manipulated? The price-setting processes for gold and silver in the spot market are the latest to come under review from global regulators, with authorities in Europe investigating the mechanisms for both precious metals.

In this excellent interview Dimitri Speck explains in detail why central banks and bullion banks coordinated their efforts to suppress the gold price. He also explains the entire and very important post WWII role of gold and rigging of the silver market.

The topic of gold market manipulation during the London AM fix is not new. Bloomberg has decided to break it down for everyone, as well as summarize all the ways in which just this one facet of gold trading is being manipulated.

According to Jim Sinclair of JSMineset.com, by 2016, Gold will be $3,200 to $3,500 an ounce. Emancipated gold will be $50,000 per ounce.

Gold price forecast in a new gold standard. The formula used by Nick Laird came from James Rickards. It's based on the rule they had in place in the early 1900's where the monetary base was backed by 40% gold

Interview of James Rickards by Fabrice Drouin Ristori about central bank manipulation of gold and silver markets. The signs that the manipulation is coming to an end will include depletion of warehouses, price spikes and notifications from banks that they will no longer allow the conversion of go...

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s decision to go ahead with unabated quantitative easing (QE) seems to have taken many by surprise. To such an extent that, from now on, the major market participants are saying they have totally lost faith in Ben Bernanke. True, Ben Bernanke has been saying constantly,...

As one might have expected, on a total return basis (all in $ terms), Silver (100%) and Gold (73%) were the top two performers since the collapse of Lehman Brothers

On the heels of Eric King’s interview with Andrew Maguire about JP Morgan’s manipulation of the gold market, Egon von Greyerz gives readers a snapshot of what to expect in the aftermath of such an extraordinary development.