Supply & Demand

So, how do you hold gold ? In a mutualized account ? Do you really have access to your gold ? Can you touch it ? Do you know the exact serial number of your ingots ?

A currency system must be based on an indisputable money base that doesn’t bear the mark of one country. There is only one standard that meets those criteria and that must be gold.

Japan just crossed another hurdle in its escape ahead by monetization of its debt in what can be called a show of strength by the new Prime Minister, Shinto Abe, against Japan’s central bank.

The fundamental and technical picture could not be better for gold and silver. Most governments’ deficits are escalating at a fast rate. Money printing worldwide is likely to accelerate rapidly and could reach exponential rises in the next 1-3 years.

The prices of gold and silver have dropped severely, November 28th 2012. Such a huge drop in less than a minute, only one day after options have expired, is quite hard to explain in a so-called free market in which no one is interfering.

The CME announced today a case of "force majeure" regarding one of its physical gold storage facilities, managed for the COMEX, located in the southern part of New York City, in an area that was inundated during the storm known as Sandy.

Egon von Greyerz published a commentary headlined "Disregard current manipulation of precious metals"

Fabrice Drouin Ristori, founder of Goldbroker.com, interviews Peter Cooper, Arabianmoney.net editor and publisher

Fabrice Drouin Ristori interviews Paul Craig Roberts (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration) about gold and the current monetary system.

Gold hit $1,700 an ounce before closing at $1,696 on Tuesday in a continuation of a sharp three-day climb and a significant move from May's low of $1,540